Pat David

Mairi Troisième Readers who’ve been here for a little while might recognize my friend Mairi, who has modeled for me before.

About a two months ago I was approached by Victor Grigas, a video producer for the Wikimedia Foundation (the non-profit that supports Wikipedia), about using some of the techniques I had previously discussed to create 2.5D parallax video images from single

Some of you may be familiar with G’MIC, the rather extensive image processing language created by David Tschumperlé that has a very popular plug-in for GIMP.

So Jehan Pages contacted me a little while ago about participating in a project to produce a “Libre Calendar”.

Rolf as a woodcut/hedcut I was working on the About page over on PIXLS.US the other night.

I’ve been working on something, and I figured that I should share it with anyone who actually reads the stuff I publish here.

I was thinking about other ways I fiddle with Luminosity Masks recently, and I thought it might be fun to talk about some other ways to use them when looking at your images.

So, the last time I talked about LinuxPro Magazine was about having a simple give-away of the promotional copies I had received of their GIMP Handbook issue.

Yes, more fun things you can do with Wavelet Scales.

I know that I primarily write about photography here, but sometimes something comes along that’s too important to pass up talking about.

In my (apparently) never-ending quest to average all the things, I happened to be surfing around Netflix the other evening looking for something to watch.

I received a few Promo copies of the Linux Pro Magazine GIMP Handbook Special Edition in the mail a couple of weeks ago.

Sarah has been shooting with my friend Brian for a while now.

The world probably needs another DIY ringflash tutorial like they need a hole in the head.

So I was talking with G’MIC creator David Tschumperlé the other day and thought it might be handy to have a way to create a montage of images (similar to the montage command in Imagemagick), but to have more control over the montage layout with automatic…

What an amazing trip!

I had been fiddling with creating these 2.5D parallax animated photos for quite a few years now, but there had recently been a neat post by Joe Fellows that brought it into the light again.

I had written last week about building the latest G’MIC beta to test out the fancy-schmancy new patch-based inpainting algorithm that the team had cooked up.

One of the advantages of hanging around people smarter than me is that I get to see some really neat things as they are being developed.

Ok, I’m sorry I’ve been so quiet!

The team over at GIMP Magazine have released their latest issue, and check out that handsome gentleman on the cover!

So I can’t leave well enough alone, as seen in my last post about mean averaging stuff.

Brorfelde landscape by Stig Nygaard (cb) After adding an aggressive curve along with a mid-tone luminosity mask.

I’ve had a few questions regarding using the Film Emulation presets I put together with the G’MIC team.

Well, I apparently just can’t get enough of averaging things.

So, I’ve had this idea bouncing around in my head for a bit, and figured it might help me to get off my ass and actually try it out if I described my thought process.

Well, it’s been a busy week.

Color toning/grading can be a heck of a rabbit-hole sometimes.

In my previous post I had to do a bit of fiddling to bring my relative exposures back into line with each other (while retaining hair details from being blown out).

I recently had an opportunity to shoot some headshots of a model, Ronni on ModelMayhem.

I needed a new headshot for something recently, and I figured it might be fun to expand a little on something I started playing with while shooting my friend Mairi.

After a recent post I came across on the FOSSPhotography sub on reddit that proposed to list the “Must Have GIMP Plugins for Photographers” I got a bit irked.

Almost a month ago I headed out on a really hot day down here in the deep south* with coworkers for a day on the delta in Mobile, AL.

This is really just a small update.

Hot on the heels of Flickr’s new redesign, and giving its users up to 1TB of free storage, is a real fumble, in my opinion: a Google-esque navigation bar.

I say HDR-ish because there is not a true HDRi being created, but rather a final output image is being blended together from multiple exposures (using a fancy algorithm and what I suspect is some magical kung-fu).

So, here is a view of the most expensive image ever (that doesn’t really exist - except for now because I made it): The $30,429,899 Photograph by Pat David This is an amalgam of 16 (out of 18) of the most expensive photographs ever sold, all at once (based

I’ve been pretty busy lately, and haven’t had a chance to post anything, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been fooling around when I can!

I was absolutely not going to bother covering this topic.

I hesitate to mention G’MIC in a title sometimes because I feel that whatever I write is not going to do it justice.

In my recent experiments and playing around with even more image averaging in Imagemagick, I decided to have a look at some other methods for calculating pixel values.

Way back in November, 2011 I had written a tutorial for PetaPixel that walked through how I created the image of my daughter bouncing out of her crib: Bouncing Baby Beverly by Pat David, on Flickr I realized that the tutorial only existed over on PetaPixe…

In my previous post on postprocessing my Open Source portrait, I had shown a couple of contact sheets that I had generated to help me narrow down which images I liked.

In my previous post for the Open Source Portrait (Postprocessing), I had mentioned during the skin retouching in GIMP section that there was a method that I had used in the past for helping to make skin imperfections visible for healing.

In my previous post I walked through the concept and shoot of my portrait of Mairi.

As promised, I thought it might be fun/helpful to walk through a portrait shooting session from start to finish using only Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS).

This article (possibly updated) is now available on pixls.us: PIXLS.US: Freaky Details German photographer/digital artist/photoshop trainer Calvin Hollywood has a rather unique style to his photography.

I had recently taken some photos of my friend Mairi, and wanted to share them.

I finally got a chance recently to quickly photograph my friend Mairi.

So here we are at the end (not really, but too much more and we’ll be just beating a dead horse).