Archive for July 19th, 2009

Fixing a Portrait

Sunday, July 19th, 2009
As you can see in this photo, the subject wasn’t completely ready for the shot. She has some food left on her lower lip. Fortunately, this is quite an easy fix and took all of 5 seconds in Photoshop.

Here’s how:

I saved the photo as an original size PSD file from Aperture.

Then, I opened that in PS and I zoomed in to 100%, making it easier to work on just the spot that needed fixing. Next, I clicked on the Spot Healing Brush Tool. I set the size to 19, mode Normal, and Proximity Match.

Then I just colored over the spot and voila, as you see in the next photo, the food is gone.

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Black & White Film Developing Equipment

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

I just ordered all of the necessary equipment to develop black & white film. I recently bought a Rebel G and have been using it very sparsely just to try out the whole “film thing”. Well I’m now coming to the end of my first roll of film and will have to develop it. I figured that if I’m going to be consistently doing this for any period of time, I will save money in the long run by developing the film myself.

So here’s a list of what I bought:

General Brand 645568 52mm-58mm Step-Up Ring (Lens to Filter)
Used Dept.		 1 $4.95 $4.95
Omega OMTU Universal Developing Tank with 2 Adjustable Reels
 1 $24.95 $24.95
Delta DEMC22 Mix-Up Cup – 20oz (600 ml)
 1 $8.95 $8.95
Kalt KAFCSSZ Stainless Steel Film Clips (Set of 2)
 1 $3.95 $3.95
Delta DEFF Heavy Duty Filter Funnel (16-oz)
 1 $4.95 $4.95
Delta DEDQ Datatainer Storage Bottle with Liquid Level Clear
 1 $3.99 $3.99
Print File PR356625 Archival Storage Page for Negatives, 35mm – 25 Packs
 1 $6.95 $6.95
Edwal EDWALFN.75O LFN Wetting Agent
 1 $7.95 $7.95
Ilford ILRF500ML Rapid Fixer(Liquid)500ml
 1 $6.50 $6.50
Ilford ILI3500ML Ilfosol-3 Film Developer for Black and White Film (500ml)
 1 $7.95 $7.95

If you take out the step-up and the other unnecessary things, or downgrade certain things (the size of the mixing cup) you could probably make out for about $15 less.

Good old B&H. This should arrive at my house in a few days and I will ATTEMPT to develop my first roll.

I’ll keep you posted…

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IMG_0138

Sunday, July 19th, 2009

IMG_0138, originally uploaded by kostyanj.

This the photo that Flickr considers my most “interesting” right now. They use some weird secret algorithm to figure out what they consider interesting. It was a pretty hazy day overlooking NY, so I had to adjust the saturation in the photo to get the colors to show.

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