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Experience Poster Project

Posted on 16 March, 2008 at 11:07pm with no comments

Experience Poster

After looking around at this blog for a while, I really got the impression that it had been stuck in a rut for a while. So, after a bit of pondering, I thought it may be fun to push a micro-viral poster project. If you have been reading this blog for a while, you may remember the 1 iPod project I did a couple years ago. The whole idea was to create a downloadable and easily printable poster for the public to distribute in any way they saw fit. I thought it would be fun to do something along those lines for the presidential primary…

If you have not done so already, please download one of the posters. Feel free to modify as you see fit – that goes for Clinton supporters as well. I am much more interested in seeing how people use these posters and how they are distributed than anything else. If you do participate in this project and put these posters up somewhere, make sure to contact me. Also, if you like this idea, make sure to email your friends the link and submit it to your favorite social bookmarking sites. I would be so cool to see this get to the front page of Digg and/or Reddit.


Remember, do not be a jerk with this. That is not what this project is about.

Download the Printable Posters


Digital Lens Filters

Posted on 12 November, 2006 at 11:23pm with 4 comments

I have recently become interested in using colored lens filters for my film camera when using black and white film. Colored lenses can dramatically impact the grey tones and contrast when shooting in black and white – results you would otherwise not get from a “naked” lens. When shooting with film, I like to stay out of Photoshop as much as possible other than basic cleaning. Sure, I could increase the contrast of a photo with curves or levels, but why not do it the old-fashioned way instead. Let me tell you, the latter is much more fulfilling. Nonetheless, for those of you who do not have lens filters and/or would rather simulate it in Photoshop, these digital lens filter Photoshop actions will be the next best thing. Below I write about what colored lens filters do to black and white film and how Photoshop can roughly simulate it.
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