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pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/29681144@N04/danielP2008/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/29681144@N04/2938197676/ title=LE SABAYON AUX FRUITS ROUGESimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3038/2938197676_3e1b6273c1_m.jpg width=240 height=180 alt=LE SABAYON AUX FRUITS ROUGES //a/p

Mon, 13 Oct 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/ewiget41056/ewiget/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewiget41056/2926379207/ title=The Path that Ends w/ Tutorial fixing blown out skysimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3249/2926379207_56c650ca01_m.jpg width=157 height=240 alt=The Path that Ends w/ Tutorial fixing blown out skys //a/p pOne thing I noticed in the series of shots I took on the first real outing with the Canon 50D is that I kept blowing out the sky. br / br / If you look at the high iso tests shots, they were not pp'd at all other than resized. br / br / I was shooting at iso 100 and I usually meter on the brightest area of a scene on spot metering. But, I played around with some settings and not sure how this was shot without looking at the exif data. br / br / bTutorial - Fixing Blown Out Sky's/bbr / I use gimp for all of my PP. There is a script-fu plugin/script called Darla's Blue Sky with Clouds - she has many nice scripts available at a href=http://www.farcrydesign.com/GIMP/BlueSkyClouds.htmlwww.farcrydesign.com/GIMP/BlueSkyClouds.html/abr / br / The way this is used in gimp is that you first load the image to fix the sky.br / br / You then click Color - Threshold and you keep moving the left hand slider up until everything is black that is not the sky. Look at the number of the left slider value and bthen click cancel/b This value is used to create a layer mask in darla's script.br / br / You need the number of that slider value for use in darla's script to create the layer mask for the sky and clouds. br / br / Then click script-fu - darla - blue sky amp; clouds.br / br / Enter the threshold number you obtained in the threshold box.br / br / Pick a color for the upper sky and one for the lower sky (I usually have a darker shade of blue for the upper and lighter for the lower).br / br / The feather amount is how many pixels out from your threshold / layer mask to feather the effects. I sometimes pick a small number and others a large number depending on the content and also the picture size I am working with. Just play with it until you see how it works. I think I used 7 in this image.br / br / Select the box to add rendered clouds. I always leave the checkbox unselected for flatten image.br / br / Select O.k. and let it do its thing. After a brief while there will be another box that appears where you pick the cloud settings. br / br / I pretty much vary these on each image. I sometimes use a manual seed value and others random. I sometimes use small or large x and y values. Same with the details, sometimes small and sometimes large. You just have to play with these and see the results.br / br / After you apply the results, if you are not happy, you can click on Edit - Undo.br / br / One other tip, if you can not get a high enough threshold value to mask out everything except the sky, you can manually edit the layer masks in the layers property box by simply painting over them with either black or white selected and using a paintbrush.br / br / At this point I usually save the file complete with layers in gimps native xcf format. I resize the photo and save it again with sm or flickr added to the image name. I then flatten the image and save it as a jpg file. I use digikam to tag the image and upload the file to flickr.br / br / The image pp above was done and completed in about 4 minutes. If you pixel peep you will notice and can tell it is pp'd and the sky was fixed because you will see details lost in the blown out limbs and leaves. I could have fixed these too, but I am really strapped for time with school and work. It is not so obvious in flickr sized photos, but I can assure you if this image was printed it would stick out like a broken limb....lol/p

Thu, 9 Oct 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/33063428@N00/HarlanH/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/33063428@N00/2917421572/ title=Fresh Berries with Sabayon, Cream, and Crumblesimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3008/2917421572_56b60653e6_m.jpg width=172 height=240 alt=Fresh Berries with Sabayon, Cream, and Crumbles //a/p pFresh Berries with Sabayon, Cream, and Crumbles/p

Mon, 6 Oct 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/zesmerelda/Zesmerelda/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/zesmerelda/2891039751/ title=Gratin of Oyster Sabayon amp; Irish Stewimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3128/2891039751_c43acecf54_m.jpg width=240 height=160 alt=Gratin of Oyster Sabayon amp; Irish Stew //a/p

Sat, 27 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/ewiget41056/ewiget/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewiget41056/2854258061/ title=Mefford's Fort Washington Kentuckyimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3093/2854258061_cb4f89210a_m.jpg width=240 height=160 alt=Mefford's Fort Washington Kentucky //a/p pMore to come - an entire walk down main streetbr / br / I was really disappointed with this picture. It was taken about 730PM just as the sun was beginning to set. I took two pictures, one metered on the shadows and one metered on the highlights, but both were blown out on the chimney area. My only solution was an over the top HDR./p

Sun, 14 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/santista1982/Santista1982/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/santista1982/2852472627/ title=Sabayon Linux with Fluxboximg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3011/2852472627_ede3a4335d_m.jpg width=240 height=150 alt=Sabayon Linux with Fluxbox //a/p pThis is a screenshot of Sabayon Linux with Fluxbox. The video that was playing is of the singer Gabriella Cilmi./p

Sat, 13 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/ewiget41056/ewiget/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewiget41056/2851725998/ title=Frances amp; Colonel Sanders @ KFC Museumimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3032/2851725998_d70f634845_m.jpg width=192 height=240 alt=Frances amp; Colonel Sanders @ KFC Museum //a/p pThis was from the trip we took for Kentucky History Class on September 6, 2008. One of the stops we made was to the original and first Kentucky Fried Chicken Restaurants, which is now also a museum./p

Fri, 12 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/crispyteriyaki/crispyteriyaki/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/crispyteriyaki/2835765772/ title=Mango Sabayon with Dragonfruit Lime Gelee, Taste of Hawai'i Island, Four Seasons Hualalaiimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3015/2835765772_31ebbc4f2d_m.jpg width=240 height=180 alt=Mango Sabayon with Dragonfruit Lime Gelee, Taste of Hawai'i Island, Four Seasons Hualalai //a/p pThis was deeeelicious. Not that the other desserts weren't, but this one had a quot;wowquot; factor to it.br / br / West Hawai'i Cancer Symposium and Run for Hope Weekend, Four Seasons Hualalai, Kailua-Kona, HI./p

Sun, 7 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/ewiget41056/ewiget/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewiget41056/2826523555/ title=Accidentla Ortonimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3255/2826523555_f3d906e9c6_m.jpg width=240 height=187 alt=Accidentla Orton //a/p pTis was a bad capture.....but it almost looks like orton effect. Anyways, you can see some of it is in focus, some of it is out. I decided to keep it. This was taken at night with a long exposure./p

Thu, 4 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/ewiget41056/ewiget/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewiget41056/2827363744/ title=Red White Flowersimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3074/2827363744_7387ed158e_m.jpg width=240 height=175 alt=Red White Flowers //a/p pTaken outside of Limestone Landing at dark/p

Thu, 4 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/ewiget41056/ewiget/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewiget41056/2826520555/ title=River Barge Blurimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3201/2826520555_e969e7d193_m.jpg width=240 height=175 alt=River Barge Blur //a/p pThe light trails was a river barge passing under the Simon Kenton Bridge and the orange saturated water is from the lights on the bridge, blurred by the waves created by the barge and the long exposure./p

Thu, 4 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/ewiget41056/ewiget/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewiget41056/2826521091/ title=River Stacksimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3284/2826521091_2e2c6541d9_m.jpg width=240 height=155 alt=River Stacks //a/p pThis is a view towards the Stuart station power plant from the Simon Kenton Bridge on the Ohio River. The power plant is about 4 nautical miles away - taken at night with only the distance lighting and reflection lights off the bridge using a long exposure./p

Thu, 4 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/ewiget41056/ewiget/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/ewiget41056/2827360448/ title=Praying Mantisimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3271/2827360448_3a0b4c7a6b_m.jpg width=240 height=204 alt=Praying Mantis //a/p pThis was taken at Limestone Landing - it was on top of a bush that had just been freshly trimmed. I walked right past it...but luckily my wife saw it./p

Thu, 4 Sep 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/defas/defas/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/defas/2794195548/ title=Sabayonimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3214/2794195548_76086234f0_m.jpg width=240 height=53 alt=Sabayon //a/p pSabayon Linux Logo/p

Sun, 24 Aug 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/defas/defas/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/defas/2794164670/ title=sabayon-logo-only_smallimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3024/2794164670_f862603bd1_m.jpg width=240 height=239 alt=sabayon-logo-only_small //a/p pSabayon Linux distribucijos oficialus logo./p

Sun, 24 Aug 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/lynnintokyo/LynnInSingapore/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynnintokyo/2785664475/ title=Forlino lunch 5img src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/2785664475_805af5bfb3_m.jpg width=240 height=161 alt=Forlino lunch 5 //a/p praspberry tart with sabayon saucebr / br / I had a wonderful lunch last week with some friends at a new Italian restaurant on the waterfront. The chef was formerly at Ilido in Sentosa and now has moved his whole family to Singapore from Italy for this restaurant. It is now my new favorite and I'm going back tonight for more =o)/p

Fri, 22 Aug 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/thorsten-photography/Thorsten (TK)/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/thorsten-photography/2733014342/ title=Haddockimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3123/2733014342_ced9fe4dfc_m.jpg width=161 height=240 alt=Haddock //a/p pAn easy to make treat: steamed haddock with a mustard zabaglione and fried potatoes/p

Mon, 4 Aug 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/63822543@N00/MarionIon/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/63822543@N00/2628559737/ title=Jus de rhubarbeimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3264/2628559737_e70c530be2_m.jpg width=240 height=179 alt=Jus de rhubarbe //a/p

Tue, 1 Jul 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/63822543@N00/MarionIon/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/63822543@N00/2629396500/ title=Ingrédientsimg src=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2415/2629396500_9183a3856e_m.jpg width=160 height=240 alt=Ingrédients //a/p

Tue, 1 Jul 2008

pa href=http://www.flickr.com/people/63822543@N00/MarionIon/a posted a photo:/p pa href=http://www.flickr.com/photos/63822543@N00/2628559745/ title=Sabayonimg src=http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3142/2628559745_a484984814_m.jpg width=240 height=179 alt=Sabayon //a/p

Tue, 1 Jul 2008