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More on themes
Friday 28th of October 2022
In my previous post I mentioned how I’d added the ability for the user to choose themes to Velum. In its original guise, this was a select box with an auto-generated list of themes, each one derived from a CSS file in the directory. It was quite a powerful system, in that each CSS file had complete control over the look of the page, but it had a big downside: it was a maintenance nightmare whe…
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Afraid of the dark
Thursday 11th of January 2018
The monochrome preset I usually use for my raw files in Capture One has a small amount of shadow boost applied, and I tend to increase it even more when there are large dark areas in an image. As I mentioned in a previous post , though, darkness isn’t really a bad thing in pictures, depending on the feeling one is trying to evoke. Certainly for these pictures, taken on a dull overcast winter afte…
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Fog at Night
Friday 19th of September 2014
Fog has always fascinated me – the way it makes things look is obviously different, but also the way it mutes sounds, and disorients the senses. At night time these effects are amplified further, with large patches of grey that fade out into unknown darkness. lamp post shadow Odd shadow below a lamp post backlit spider web shady alley Fog is great for light rays bright bollards The street lights l…
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