Quickie Note…

Well, this is a quick post and I wasn't sure about typing it really but I thought maybe I should so I won't stay another week without a post.
Things had been a bit busy in my life lately, and with fatigue that leaves napping often, and let's not forget the turbulent sleeping schedule (now that I don't have any work to go to!). Anyway, I thought maybe I should post something now as I might not be able to post for 2 weeks ahead from now, since I'm planning to work a bit on a new Arabic blog post; and such posts require more time than the English ones because I usually include tutorials on how to do things and many pictures and explanations are involved.

Not much has been going on on the camera-front really but I'm trying. I've been mostly busy editing old photos merely for the sake of keeping a strike on YouPic. However, I've been also trying techniques here and there and experimenting with "artistic" ventures in Photoshop. I've also started applying some color-grading techniques to copy colors from one image to another and the results are amazing so far.

Cóipeáil

So, I've learned an old technique in copying or applying the colors of one image onto another, and it involved applying Curve adjustment layer and reversing the curve, and it's a long story. I've made an Arabic blog post about this technique. Now, however, I've learned a new method which, presumably, is easier and quicker to be done and somewhat more accurate. I won't go on with the details here, since Google or any other search engine are full of such tutorials for "copying" colors or applying colors from one image to another. Anyway, here are some results:

In the two examples above, grading was done manually by picking specific colors from one image as I deemed them bright enough to be a "highlight" or dark enough to be a "shadow" beside of course the mid-tone. The results were fine here but it was not always possible to do the manual job, depending on the complexity of the image and other factors. Anyway, I needed something more "systematic" and I've found what I need here by exploring the "Save for web" option in Photoshop, as I've learned from some tutorials online. I won't be going into details here and I'm just posting this here to show what I've been doing lately! Anyway, as for this second method, here are some results:

 

 

So, these 2 examples above were done using the "Save for Web" feature in Photoshop. I thought of doing a blog post in Arabic for this technique and for this I'm going to need some time to do things. 

 

Camera-Wise

 

Camera-wise, I've been trying to work a bit on minor things, and I also have some ideas that I want to work on for February, Retinitis Pigmentosa Awareness month. Winter is passing by already and I didn't get the chance to do any shooting outside like I did back in 2021 in November, mainly because of the fatigue and the turbulent sleep.

Anyway, I've been working with a little macro project which I'm not finished from yet and still trying here and there, but here is an example:

 

 So, in case you didn't realize what the image above is about, it is just a combination of 2 macro shots of the same screw. The left one is at about 3.2X and the left one is at about 6.5X. I've gone extreme here and the images surely needed lot of sharpening. It seems that even at 6.5X, and for such a slender object like this screw, one would need to do focus-stacking. Anyway this is something for the future. I'm still working on this.

Finale

So, this is a quick post just to list what I've been doing lately and to announce that I'll be away for 2 weeks at least to finish my Arabic blog post, hopefully. As of typing this, I didn't even start it!

A lot is cooking in my head right now, and specially for February and my RP project as usual for every year, yet my body is just not cooperating. Now that I'm retired, my mind is more active at night, as if I'm back to my origins as a nocturnal creature. Bad news is, I do have some stuff to do now and then during the day. In addition to that, I'm not driving my car much now (naturally) because of my eyes condition, which kind of leaves me deprived of many things, and I'm reluctant to break the rules of RP right now.