Out of my window - Spring-time

Out of my window - Spring-time, originally uploaded by mandus.

Not many interesting shots these days. This is from my "Out of my window" series.

Take care!

17 mai!

17 mai!, originally uploaded by mandus.

Gratulerer med dagen, alle nordmenn!

Another flower

Another flower, originally uploaded by mandus.

Maybe not the greatest - just played around with the 350D. At least, the kit-lens do work quite well close-up. Now I only need to get a diopter or close-up filter/lens, strength around +3 should give more or less true macro (1:1) if my computations are correct. That will be cool to try out :-)

Out of my window!

Out of my window!, originally uploaded by mandus.

I am running a "Out of my window" series over at OutOfWindow and think this one is particular interesting. Not for the looks of it, which is not that interesting, but from the gimp'ing.

Based on a suggestion in a post in the Canon300D/350D forum over at dpReview, I played some tricks to remove haze from the far away parts of the picture, as the kit-lens of the 350D isn't particulary sharp far away. I think this turned out not that bad! The steps are basically:

1. Duplicate layer, add layer mask, make it selected.
   
2. Create a black to white gradient in the layer mask, such that near stuff are blacked out
   
3. Apply layer mask
   
4. Layers->Colors->Curves and play with the curve for the Value-channel (add a couple of control points, drag it down) in order to make the distant stuff more haze-less.
   
5. Merge layers, and do whatever more you want/need. For instance USM.
   

That's about it, judge for your self the result. By the way, don't you think thats a nice place to live - very refreshing view!

The bridge of Leonardo Da Vinci

The bridge of Leonardo Da Vinci, originally uploaded by mandus.

Walked around in the neighbourhood yesterday evening. The bridge of Leonardo Da Vinci was build close to where I live a few years ago. This is it.

Water on my window

Water on my window, originally uploaded by mandus.

I just had to blog this one!

There is water on my window. Greatly captured.

Selfportrait II

Selfportrait II, originally uploaded by mandus.

Took a short stretch and grabbed some images while I was on my way home the other day.

This one conveniently named "Self-portrait II"...

Some fancy clouds

Some fancy clouds, originally uploaded by mandus.

Coffee

Selfportrait, originally uploaded by mandus.

Coffee - that's good for you. Just must have it. By the way, it's a self portrait. If you take a very close look, you can see me there!

Besides that, this was a gimp-exercise as well. Tried to add some vignette, after the usual levels - unshapr mask - sharpen. Had to increase saturation and hue, and make it a bit ligther as well, but I think this turned out quite interesting.

Should anyone see this, comments are welcome!

Todays quote:

Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.
Mar 13:30

Take care.

Hvitveis

Hvitveis, originally uploaded by mandus.

Todays picture :-)

Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts

Wow:

Release update: editorial changes to the testing propagation scripts

Debian sarge in frezze. Man, we have waited for that. Hopefully, this is the start of a new era in the Debian-world, with a bit more frequent releases.

Wow, almost unbelivable!

Not particullary interesting...

Not particullary interesting...
Originally uploaded by mandus.

I am still writing that paper. I think I am approaching something, but there is still a way to go. So I stay in our small cabin, and captured this right out of my door.

As the picture itself was not very interesting, I played a bit with the RAW picture from the 350D. Converted to something readable by Gimp with dcraw, and did some postprocessing there. Most interesting part was to saturate the blues a bit, then doing some gaussian blur and finally apply as a layer mask to the original, which was multiplied with the original.

Point? I tried to boost the blue sky a bit, while not destroying the rest of it. Don't know how sucessfullt that went, but this is the result anyway.

We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak

2Cor, 4:13

Take care!

Boats in the gray

Boats in the gray
Originally uploaded by mandus.

This should be spring-time, the calendar tell me it is may, but I am not so sure...

But the main thing is that I'm testing out the new Canon 350D. I think it doing quite well, although I haven't had time yet to do the most interesting things...

Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.(Gal, 6:2)

Take care!

Got the Canon 350D

Orchid
Originally uploaded by mandus.

Today I got my Canon 350D with the EF-S 18-55 kit-lens, which will do for now, as I need to learn using a SLR anyway.

Just to get started, I tried a closeup of this orchid. Have done a bit post-processing, but I think it is kind of ok. Even though the kit-lens is no macro lens, it can go fairly close, and I can do stuff I never was able to do with my old camera. Guess this will be fun.

Take care!

New camera!

New camera!
Originally uploaded by mandus.

There won't be many more crappy shots with the Sony P52 - a new camera is coming up, and it seems to be the Canon 350D. It will still take a few days before it arrives, though, so I have to relax.

And the Sony will be with me anyway, it is nice to have the point 'n shoot for those occations I can't carry the big dSLR.

Update

New camera - take2
Originally uploaded by mandus.

It is already on its way!

As always, take care!

Flowers!

Flowers!
Originally uploaded by mandus.

It's been a very nice in our area of Norway today, so I have been out most of the day together with my family. Captured these nice flowers in the sun right outside our house.

Days get longer, the sun warmer, and colours fresher - definitely spring-time!

Take care!

Planet Debian - on search Engine Optimization.

Planet Debian:

Others do this, so I do it too:
Hommingberger Gepardenforelle

Let's see whats happend :-)

De kan få sagt det: digi.no - Dobbeltkjernet Pentium

Idag sier Digi.no:


Dobbeltkjernet Pentium offisielt lansert: "Prosessoren, som er basert på 90 nanometers prosessteknologi, består av omtrent 230 millioner prosessorer"

En slik prosesssor, det vil jeg gjerne ha!

Take care,

A tree at Brunstad, by night

brunstadByNight_04_croped
Originally uploaded by mandus.

I captured this tree in a kind of nice light, right outside my cabin at Brunstad. Brunstad is the place the church have the conference center, and there are nice cabins there.

As I stay in the cabin for a few days to work intensively on the paper already mentioned, I captured my PaD late yesterday evening. Unfortunately, the camera I use isn't quite capable for this kind of stuff. Hopefully I can afford something better not to far into the future... ;-)



Take care.

We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that
ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day
dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts (1 Pe, 1:19)

Watch out for new photos

Watch out at my gallery for new pictures. I don't add everything here.


Besides that, there won't be much update here this week, I am to busy writing my paper.