Seymour Digital Consulting, LLC

Category: Photography

  • A Time I Logged Off the Internet 001

    I wish to dispel a myth…

    For years, folks have accused me of NEVER logging off the internet…

    I DO!

    At LEAST once a week, during the spring, summer and fall!

    You want Proof?

    A Time I Logged Off the Internet 001
    A Time I Logged Off the Internet 001

    How is that?

    I setup my camera in the far corner of my yard, and used my iPod Touch and TriggerTrap to record the “session”…

    Then in Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1, I combined over 30 individual images into a composite, which you see above.

    This was very painful, and required a lot of RAM and numerous files… and ‘Yes”, I’m still 32-bit…

    But the end result, I have ‘proof’ that I have done ‘work’ outside of the internet!

    I am still working on a proposal to ‘off shore’ this task to non-terrestrials…

    Details to follow…

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  • Lost and Found Lens cap!

    I’m a parent with two normal kids…

    And things get lost…

    “Daddy, I can find my [fill in the blank]?”

    A child’s first introduction to “Troubleshooting”…

    “Where did you last see it [insert child’s name]?”

    Then the search starts…

    Earlier this morning, I posted the following…

    “Lost a Lens Cap while walking around Stroud Preserve yesterday… If you find it, please let me know! TIA!”

    I really did not expect to get a reply, but as luck would have it, within 2 minutes, I get

    “What Size?”

    To which I responded

    “58mm… The last I remember seeing it was near (39.947185°, -75.649300°), just before heading into the woods (NE)…”

    A few seconds later…

    “I found a 77mm at 39.947185°, -75.648300° sorry.”

    A minute or so later, this is on my wall…

    Found Lens Cap - Sigma 77mm at 39.947185°, -75.648300°
    Found Lens Cap – Sigma 77mm at 39.947185°, -75.648300°

    It does leave one to wonder, what a conversation in the future might be…

    “Computer, Where did I leave my [fill in the blank]?”

    quickly followed by –

    “You left your [fill in the blank] on the table, you silly human…”

    Do you really know what the computer is thinking?

    FYI – Mine was a Canon…
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  • Stroud Preserve Springtime in B&W

    Some images taken during a recent spring time walk around Stroud Preserve.

    All images were shot in ‘traditional’ HDR bracket fashion, and processed into a ‘raw’ combined HDR file.

    Normally, I use Adobe Photoshop to do my B&W conversion, but since the Google/Nik Software upgrade, I now had a chance to play with Silver Efex Pro 2.

    Trails 01
    Trails 03
    Fields & Clouds
    Which way?
    Hay pillows
    A pond waterfall
    Trails 02

    Photoshop is great for doing a straight conversion via the native B&W menu, but to explore other options, quickly, and then build on them, Silver Efex Pro is the answer.

    I still used Photoshop to tweak the final files, but I ended up in a different place than I originally envisioned.

    So, what do you think?

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  • Coffee Shutdown…

    Coffee Shutdown
    Coffee Shutdown

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