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You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Daily Shoot - Make an interesting photo of a mode of transportation today: car, plane, bicycle, subway, or whatever you like! dailyshoot.com/assignments/65
Didn't have time to get any of the things I pictured for today's assignment so tried capturing anything I could while walking the dogs. This was really a boring photo that came out clear even with the traffic moving at speed.
I opened Pixelmator app on my Mac to see about adding a motion blur but didn't like it so clicked on zoom blur filter and was pleasantly surprised. Adjusted it a bit and got the photo you see.
Always a good day when you can say you learned something new!
At this time of the year, it is not uncommon in the hours of darkness to find a selection of scarab beetles that have been drawn to an outside light. It is tempting to refer to them all as "Christmas Beetles", but this is not strictly true. There are 36 "true" (Australian) Christmas Beetles (i.e., Anoplognathus species), but looking at the broader picture, there are more than 30,000 Scarab Beetle species (i.e., species belonging to the Scarabaeidae family), with more than 2,000 known in Australia. Many of these scarab beetles are quite common in Australia - way too many for me to attempt to identify this example. I will rest by calling it a Scarab Beetle, and can eliminate the Australian Christmas Beetles from the possibilities.
Some interesting bits and pieces ...
- Members of the Coleoptera Order have a hardened forewing.
- Dung, Rhinoceros, and Elephant Beetles are Scarab Beetles.
- The beetle featured here has a black head, distinct darker brown markings on the wing covers (elytras) that are folded up over the abdomen and on the thorax.
- It has small maxillary palps flanked by larger antennae.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Superfamily: Scarabaeoidea
Family: Scarabaeidae
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Links for background information ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarab_beetle
www.ozanimals.com/wildlife/Insect/Scarab%20Beetles.html
www.ento.csiro.au/education/insects/coleoptera_families/s...
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[ Location - Barton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia ]
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Photography notes ...
The photograph was taken using the following hardware ...
- iPhone 7 Plus.
- Kamerar (Ztylus) macro lens.
- Gizmon TLR Bluetooth Remote Shutter.
- Gray Card made by ProCamera.
I acquired the photograph (4032 x 3024 pixels) with an ISO of 20, exposure time of 1/1100 seconds, and an aperture of f/1.8. The iPhone flash was used.
Post-processing ...
- I downloaded the photographs from my iPhone 7 Plus to the MacBook Air 11" using a lightning/USB cable and the iExplorer app (Macroplant).
- Sometimes I do this over WiFi using PhotoSync (touchbyte GmbH). Notably, I have found that iExplorer does not handle properly the images that have been edited using the native Apple iPhone "Photos" app (i.e., it will only transfer the original image, not the edited image).
- I viewed and sorted the photographs that were taken using XnViewMP (Pierre-e-Gougelet) and Lightroom (Adobe Systems Incorporated).
Lightroom - Rotated the image by 90 degrees CCW.
Pixelmator - Used the Repair Tool to remove some distracting elements from the background.
Aurora HDR 2017 - Made various lighting and color adjustments to the image.
Aurora HDR 2017 - Cropped the image to 1:1 aspect ratio (i.e., square format) (2655 x 2655 pixels).
Aurora HDR 2017 - Exported the image to JPEG format with maximum quality.
PhotoSync - Copied the JPEG file to my iPad Mini for any final processing, review, enjoyment, and posting to social media.
Exif Editor - Copied the EXIF data from the original downloaded image to the final image.
(N.B., A second image was prepared for posting by cropping in closer to the head region ...]
Snapseed - Cropped the image to 4:3 aspect ratio (1218 x 913 pixels).
Snapseed - Output the image to JPEG format with maximum quality.
Exif Editor - Copied the EXIF data from the original downloaded image to the final image.
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Approximately a year and a half ago, there was a spattering of native prosumer grade Mac photo editors: Acorn, Iris, Pixelmator, and Gimp.
Gimp is really an Unix, GNU licensed, X11 port, so it's actually kind of well, gimpy and irrelevant to begin with, while both Iris and Acorn, while different, were not really as fully featured as Pixelmator.
Of course, that wasn't saying much. Pixelmator was actually missing a lot of basic features like Rulers, Guidelines, Workspace configs and the ability to constrain selections with the Shift key or many short-cuts at all for that matter.
Of course, much has changed since a year and a half ago.
Pixelmator now has just about every feature mentioned above, save for Workspace configs. (It does have a full screen mode, but I find it kind of useless for streamlining the work flow).
For the entry price of $60, Pixelmator is a good deal if you're looking for something with Photoshop capabilities, but without the Creative Suite price.
In fact, as a self-admitted Photoshop lover, I would go as far as to say that Pixelmator would make a good acquisition for Apple in the near future. Pared with Aperture and an Illustrator clone, Apple could give Adobe a run for its money.
Of course, Pixelmator copies so many layout conventions of Photoshop that I could foresee a "Look and Feel" type copyright infringement lawsuit in Apple's future were this to happen. But this whole scenario brings me to another subject: Why can't any of these developers create a new paradigm for photo editors?
Adobe's products have never had what I would call a Mac-like interface. The Acorn photo editor is the only editor to be really trying to set itself apart, but of course, that's a subject more appropriate for another entry.
If you're looking for a good Photoshop alternative, Pixelmator is a safe bet.
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The magical pre-dawn Blue Hour light never lasts long enough (and definitely doesn't live up to its name in this respect). The silhouettes of St Christopher's Cathedral (Forrest, ACT, Australia) and the light towers at Manuka Oval provided a nice contrast to the colors and growing brightness of the eastern sky. It was a nice touch that the lights were on in the Cathedral as the early morning service was just about to begin.
Forrest, Australian Capital Territory, Australia.
iPhone 6 - Photograph taken with the back-facing camera on an iPhone 6.
PureShot - A bracketed series of 3 images was acquired with different exposure settings for each of the images.
MobileHDR - Combined the 3 images into a single HDR image.
SKRWT - Straightened the image and applied a trapezoidal crop to avoid having vertical lines "fall" in towards the centre of the image.
Pixelmator - Cropped the image to square format.
Resize Image - Resized the image to 2448 x 2448 pixels.
Photoshop Express - Applied the Reduce Noise and Sharpen filters.
Pixlr - Added dark vignettes (Horizon, Soft, Small).
ExifEditor - EXIF data from one of the original photograph transferred to the final image.
(Filed as 201503??_iPadMiniRetina ??? PureShot-MobileHDR-SKRWT-Pixelmator-ResizeImage-PhotoshopExpress-Pixlr-ExifEditor.JPG)
Pixelmator just got released! I love the Opacity features for the windows.... I'm using the Demo for 30 days... =)
I've started creating a few designs based on my botanical photos, for print into greetings cards. All comments welcome!
The derelict West Pier in Brighton, taken on August 8th 2010.
Its full story:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Pier
My first attempt at a large mosaic, there are plenty of mistakes. There's also plenty of detail to be seen on the larger versions.
Aperture3 handled the original RAW files and the picture were put together in Pixelmator v1.6, which handled the large file admirably.
’Ewa view (more or less northwest here) of the waterfront slide at Waikiki’s Fort DeRussy. I spent much of my youth at this stretch of beach and ocean. Vintage but undated white cardboard mount “Kodachrome Transparency Processed By Kodak” slide produced between 1958 and 1959. Severe underexposure corrected pretty well in Pixelmator Pro.
Photo details
- 1955 Duke Kahanamoku beach at the Hawaiian Village Hotel in the distance
- 1955 Beach Lanais at the Hawaiian Village visible thru the slide, center
- 1957 Ocean Tower (14 floors) at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, right
Another chronophotography shot, see also Number 1 & Number 2.
Multiple shots taken with a Nikon D90, and layered together using Pixelmator.
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Pixelmator 3.0 FX brings even more powerful ways to enhance your images. With the new Layer Styles, a complete set of Liquify Tools, and support for the new OS X Mavericks features — creating advanced and polished compositions — is now so much simpler, faster, and more enjoyable. And the new state-of-the-art image editing engine gives you the speed you need to keep the creative process smoothly flowing.
One of the first shots with the Sigma 10-20mm mounted on my new Canon EOS 7D.
The image was edited using Pixelmator for Mac.
Today must have been my lucky day; my one day old 7D slipped out of my camera bag and dropped on a rough stone floor, just leaving some small marks on the bottom of the camera, but it survived! Pfewww...