Steve Crane

GIMP Is Now Available as a Native App for Mac OS X

OS X: GIMP is a fantastic free alternative to Photoshop for all desktop operating systems, but on Mac it was a bit of a pain to set it up, because you needed to install X11. Gimp now, however, comes with a standard DMG installer. Find out how to get it

Is Film Truly Superior to Digital?

Rachael Towne writes Since the dawn of widely available commercial cameras in 1999, long heated discussion has arisen over whether or not digital image quality is equal to what is produced by film. So, is film truly superior to film? The answer is yes… and no. Read the article Image credit: Film by lisbokt, onContinue reading “Is Film Truly Superior to Digital?”

ImageMagick: a simple, scriptable tool to convert, edit and compose Images

There lots of software for customizing image files, but most of them are not simple and user-friendly. So if you’re looking for a simple and free customizing tool for images, check this one out. ImageMagick is a tool that can convert, edit, and even help you create image files, and supports tons of image formatsContinue reading “ImageMagick: a simple, scriptable tool to convert, edit and compose Images”

Wiki Loves Monuments launch event in Cape Town this Saturday

Wiki Loves Monuments (WLM) is a public competition where you can photograph the monuments that symbolise our cultural heritage (buildings, statues, shipwrecks, etc.) and share the photos with the world by uploading them to Wikimedia Commons: a database of freely usable media files to which anyone can contribute and which anyone can use. In 2012,Continue reading “Wiki Loves Monuments launch event in Cape Town this Saturday”

Wedding Crashers

A recent club outing to the Wijnland Auto Museum coincided with a wedding shoot and several of our members managed to find their way into the wedding photographer’s shot.

Faststone Image Viewer

Those of you that attended the Black & White meeting last night will have seen this application in action. Faststone Image Viewer is a free Windows application that is not only a viewer but provides fairly extensive editing features too. It’s perfect for playing around and experimenting with different processing ideas. While the old favouriteContinue reading “Faststone Image Viewer”

2012 July Competition Winners: Projected Images

Here are the projected image winners from the July competition for which the set subject was On Golden Pond. Set Subject Underwater Mirage Kevin Broadley Tree Pool Roger Lee My Own Golden Pond JJ van Heerden Open Art Connoisseur Giorgio Guasco A Day’s Work Noleen Kutash Tapestry Paddy Howes The full list of projected imageContinue reading “2012 July Competition Winners: Projected Images”

Monochrome Through Color

The Seven by Five blog article titled Monochrome Through Color begins; Color… most of us see this everyday and everywhere we look. It’s a very important thing for some us and others just take it for granted. Obviously I deal with color a lot in my photography but I also love my monochrome as anyoneContinue reading “Monochrome Through Color”

How to See in Black and White [and how HDR can be a Powerful Tool for the Monochrome Photographer]

Joseph Eckert says on the Digital Photography School blog; The very first photographs were shot in black and white. Decades later, even after the advent of color, many photographers—especially those concerned with creating works of art—continued to shoot in black and white. The format remains popular even today: nearly every consumer-level digital camera has aContinue reading “How to See in Black and White [and how HDR can be a Powerful Tool for the Monochrome Photographer]”

Hueless, a B&W camera app for iPhone

I follow A Lesser Photographer and an iPhone app mentioned in his latest newsletter caught my interest. If you like shooting black & white you might want to take a look at this app; I would if I had an iPhone. Hueless There’s a reason the best photographers embrace black and white. In the wordsContinue reading “Hueless, a B&W camera app for iPhone”