]]> http://renakatinas.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/still-the-cutest-dog-in-the-world/feed/ 0 artgrrrl http://renakatinas.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/signage/ http://renakatinas.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/signage/#comments Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:29:15 +0000 renakatinas http://renakatinas.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/signage/ ]]>

The first clue that these people are idiots with giant sticks up their asses — wolf plural is wolves, not wolfs.

The only thing these people are interested in, is scamming money from people who sign up. I wonder why the nitwits over at devilwolfs think anyone would give money to a website that looks like it was designed by Ted Kaczynski or a blind person. Their claim that it cost them $500 in utilities a month to keep the site going is ridiculous. Really devilwolfs? $500 a month just in utilities? What are you using power your site, dilithium crystals? Diamonds?

There are plenty of free and well designed bittorrent sites out there, so much so, that devilwolfs should be nearing extinction.

photo ©2009 Rena Katinas

Only weirdos and degenerates don’t love red shoes. On a side note, thank you Moll for being six feet tall and always willing to model for me!

This shot would have been useless if it had not been for Adobe Lightroom and that I switched to shooting in RAW format that day. As I was heading towards the subway, I thought I’d grab a quick shot across Daley Plaza. I metered for the sky, which left everything else black. My second shot, meant to expose for the architecture was ruined by a bus. I was without a tripod, so getting another shot in perfect registration wasn’t going to happen. Plus I was running late and needed to get home so I could get ready to see the new Star Trek movie, so I figured the shot was lost.

I couldn’t toss such a cool sky and imported it into Adobe Lightroom any way. Once it was in my library, I made a second virtual copy and brought out the mid-tones and highlights. I left the original copy with the exposed sky alone. I exported both copies to Photoshop, and opened them separately. It was easiest (laziest) to magic wand the black buildings silhouettes, saving the selection for use with both files. Then it was just a matter of pasting the sky into the second image.

It’s definitely not perfect, an image THAT underexposed, really has no business being corrected to that level in Lightroom, there is some color fringing on the edges that may have been correctable, or not. At least now I know that in a pinch, when I’m caught without my tripod, I can still sandwich “multiple” images, with just one (hopefully better exposed) RAW image and Adobe Lightroom. 

The original image on the left, extremely underexposed for the sky, and the adjusted virtual copy on the right-a real testament to Adobe Lightroom.

I’ve been waiting forever and ever to buy a camera that shoots RAW images. It was worth the wait, I now love Adobe Lightroom even more than ever. Now I can use it to it’s full potential and while away the hours digitally developing film.

Finally a brand new DSLR for me, yay! The menu system is more complex than my Olympus, so I’ve some reading and test shooting to do. My Olympus isn’t going into the dustbin just yet, it still takes great macro shots with the macro convertor lens. Plus it’s pretty sensitive to infrared light for a non-modded camera, so it’ll still come in handy.