Noise
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Shot at the trainstation in Aarhus, Denmark in January – a train was leaving the station, and as I walked up along the carts, I noticed this guy sitting there. I moved a couple of carts ahead, put the viewfinder to my eye, waited for him to get in the picture – and snap.
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Music is a great unifyer. / These headphones are networked. / Bring on the sound love.
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How I enlarge Images and preserve their quality
by Steven LoveA short time ago Bianca Thomas wrote a journal entry on “Stretching Pixels” and how enlarging an image can degrade it if you stretch the …
A short time ago Bianca Thomas wrote a journal entry on “Stretching Pixels” and how enlarging an image can degrade it if you stretch the pixels too much. / . / In essence she is correct. When you increase the image’s physical print size while leaving the pixel dimensions the same the DPI will have to drop in order to stretch the image to the needed size. These stretching of the existing pixels creates gaps which can show up as distortions called “Artifacts”. / . / There is another method of enlarging an image while reducing the number of artifacts created. It is called “Interpolation”, also known as “Re-sampling”. / . / In Photoshop CS2 and CS3 you can Interpolate the image by using what is called the “Bicubic Method”. This method allows you to enlarge an image but retains the original DPI. / . / The Bicubic Method enlarges an image by using a very complex mathematical calculation similar to Fractal Geometry. The program basically looks at the image and then through Fractal geometry calculations “Predicts” where to add additional pixels so that you can increase the pixel dimensions while retaining the same DPI setting. / . / Photoshop has three Bicubic Methods; / If you are only enlarging the image a small amount, say 10% to 20% above its original size then the default Bicubic setting is good enough. / However, if you plan to increase size more than 20% then you’ll want to select “Bicubic Smoother”, which will help reduce distortions. / . / The third method called “Bicubic Sharper” is what you would use if you were reducing the size of an image. But since most people want to make their images larger the first two settings should be used. / . / There is a limit, however, on how large you can interpolate without distorting the image. For example; if you take a 4 megapixel image, which will measure 2272 by 1704 pixles, and boost it to an 8 megapixel image, which will measure 3264 by 2448 pixels, you will get some distortions. / . / There is a way to prevent these distortions and still be able to double the size of the image. First, do not try to enlarge the image to a huge size in one single step. The best way to enlarge an image and preserve most of its quality is to do it in two or more stages. / . / The following example will be an 8 mega pixel at 3264 by 2448 pixels at 300 dpi. This original size will print to 8.16 by 10.88 inches in Landscape orientation. But the procedure can also be applied to Portrait orientation as well. / . / First I open this image in Photoshop. On a side note, you should be doing this with either a RAW, PNG or TIFF format. JPEGs don’t interpolate well because of it being a lossy format to begin with. / . / Next, run the image through a noise reduction filter to reduce or get rid of any digital noise created by the camera. Then do what ever color, contrast, sharpness and exposure adjustments that are needed. / . / Now, go to the Image Tab and click on Image Size. You should see a display showing the current image size and resolution. Before you change the size make sure that the boxes labeled “Constrain Proportions” and “Re-Sample” are checked. / . / Next, we move on to change the document size. The document size is the size the image will physically print at. Do not alter the Pixel dimensions at this time. / . / As I mentioned earlier it is best to do this in incremental stages rather than one large step. For this example the current document size is 8.16 for height by 10.88 for width. You will now change the height to 12.8. By checking the box “Constrain Proportions” you should see the width size change automatically to 17.067 which is the correct width proportion for the changed height size. You will also see that the Pixel Dimensions also changed accordingly. That is why I told you not to tamper with the pixels. The program will do that for you. / . / Also notice that the resolution of 300 DPI did not change. / . / Before you click “OK” to complete the interpolation change the Method from the default Bicubic to Bicubic Smoother. After clicking “OK” you will notice that the size change will take some time because the mathematical calculations the program has to do are extensive. / . / Once this enlargement is complete you may notice some tiny distortions in area of solid color such as in the sky or in other mono-colored areas. The distortions may look like little grains. Once again use a noise reduction filter to remove or at least reduce the distortions. / . / Once you have reduced the noise again go back to the image size control and using the same procedure as before increase the height from 12.8 to 18.0. The width should automatically change to 24 inches. / . / Now look over the image again for noise and apply the noise reduction filters to remove or reduce the noise. / . / When you have finished save the image as a 16 bit PNG. This will preserve all color depth and clarity. But be warned that the file size will be huge and the saving process will take some time depending up your computer’s RAM capacity. / . / Use this version as your master image copy. If you need to make a copy to upload to the internet simply switch it back to 8 bit and save a JPEG copy of it. / . / On a final note, even though this will enable you to make some large high quality prints there will always be some images that will have a small amount of noise or distortions. The key is to make note of whether the noise is reduceable or not. If the noise gets worse as you enlarge then you know that the prior size was the maximum you can go with the image you have. / . / I’ve been able to successfully enlarge 8 megapixel 8 X 10 images so that they’ll print as big as 18 X 24 posters with little to no distortions. But for those of you with smaller cameras, such as 4 to 6 mega pixels, you may not be able to interpolate as large as I do without some distortions. / . / That’s how I enlarge my photos using Photoshop. / . / If any of you have any additional info on the subject feel free to post in the comments.
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Watch the Video HERE When this began / I had nothing to say / And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me / I was confused / and I let it all out to find / That I’m not the only person with these things in mind / Inside of me / but all the vacancy the words revealed / Is the only real thing that I’ve got left to feel / Nothing to lose, / just stuck hollow and alone / And the fault is my own and the fault is my own I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real / I wanna let go of the pain I’ve held so long / Erase all the pain till it’s gone / I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I’m close to something real / I wanna find something I’ve wanted all along / Somewhere I belong And I’ve got nothing to say / I can’t believe I didn’t fall right down on my face / I was confused, / looking everywhere only to find / That it’s not the way I had imagined it all in my mind / So what am I, / what do I have but negativity / Cause I can’t justify the way everyone is looking at me / Nothing to lose, / nothing to gain, hollow and alone / And the fault is my own and the fault is my own I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real / I wanna let go of the pain I’ve held so long / Erase all the pain till it’s gone / I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I’m close to something real / I wanna find something I’ve wanted all along / Somewhere I belong I will never know myself until I do this on my own / And I will never feel anything else until my wounds are healed / I will never be anything till I break away from me / I will break away, I’ll find myself today I wanna heal, I wanna feel what I thought was never real / I wanna let go of the pain I’ve held so long / Erase all the pain till it’s gone / I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I’m close to something real / I wanna find something I’ve wanted all along / Somewhere I belong I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I´m / Somewhere I belong / I wanna heal, I wanna feel like I´m / Somewhere I belong / Somewhere I belong Linkin Park
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The main streets of Cairo become a hive of activity in anticipation for the celebrations at the end of Ramadan.
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/ trying out some new techniques…..
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Hope u like it!! Enjoy! _
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The only photo of mine that i´ve had framed and hung on my own wall….if you don´t count the ones of my son of course. :-) Thanks for looking. Have a great day! :-) / Andreas Stridsberg © / www.mystic-pic.com
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Redefining comfortable tshirts. As in, you’d have to be REAL comfortable with yourself to pull this finger. I mean, pull this one off. :o)
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/ / / Here are My Ears Tshirt Here are my Ears – White NOise a pen illustration on brown paper over streaks of white gesso / with the addition of wire mesh on her little white tee / and a bit of fun in Photoshop
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Camera – Canon 350D / Lens – 24-85mm USM / Focal length – 85mm / Exposure – Aperture Priority / Aperture – f/8 / Shutter – 1/320 seconds / ISO – 100 Photoshop attempt at a lomo type effect, halftone pattern to create horizotal lines and noise added. / / © Andrew Brown / / Cards / Urban and Architecture / Panorama / Landscape / Portraiture / Macro
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Our Cat having a Snooz, couldnt help taking a pic
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Everywhere around us is sound. The streets. Your house. Your yard. Your mind. Sound is everywhere. Listen.
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Watch the Video here He’s a stranger to some / And a vision to none / He can never get enough / Get enough of the world. For a fortune he’d quit / But it’s hard to admit / How it ends and begins. On his face is a map of the world / (A map of the world) / On his face is a map of the world / (A map of the world). From yesterday, it’s coming / From yesterday, the fear / From yesterday, it calls him / But he doesn’t want to read the message here. On a mountain he sits / Not of gold but of shit / Through the blood he can learn / See the lives that he took. From the council of one / He’ll decide when he’s done with the innocent. On his face is a map of the world / (A map of the world) / On his face is a map of the world / (A map of the world). From yesterday, it’s coming / From yesterday, the fear / From yesterday, it calls him. But he doesn’t want to read the message / He doesn’t want to read the message / He doesn’t want to read the message here. On his face is a map of the world. From yesterday, it’s coming / From yesterday, the fear / From yesterday, it calls him / But he doesn’t want to read the message here. From yesterday, from yesterday / From yesterday, the fear / From yesterday, from yesterday / But he doesn’t want to read the message / He doesn’t want to read the message / He doesn’t want to read the message here 30 Seconds To Mars
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Watercolours on paper. New as of 27th of november. / feel like I am moving through milk with a switch of wine or something more course (vodka gin nicotine steel? – the sting of some deadly chemical) threaded through it. Heavy limbs and tingles in my hands and feet. I am considering, remembering. Hard to see. / One of the unique flaws I have. (Unique? Did I just have the fucking audacity to say that?) My memory seems to work in a slightly different way to the way I understand the rest of the human world’s to. This has been made far worse and far more absolute by the ECT (for those new to this particular acronym it stands for Electro Convulsive Therapy. Shock treatment. ST. ILA. I Love Acronyms.) This in that I have realised how little difference there is between my memory as affected by the treatment and my memory unaffected. Little. None? / Say to me of an experience shared, and I will ask of you for more and more specifics, until I can build an image, or a sound, or a SENSATION of some ilk specific to that point, and then the experience in its entirety will flood back into my mind. This is little different from the way everyone else experiences things, excepting, perhaps, the degree of cues needed to spark the fire of memory, and also the extent and exactitude of my recollection. Like a flaking mirror. Like tigers in tall grass. / Like zebras stacked and wrapped in horizontally striped black and white socks. / The interest lies, perhaps, in this specific shard. I do not believe I have more of a facility. I think I have less. I think that I am in this manner more stupid than the people that I know intimately. Than those that I read about. In some sense I am dumber. / I can’t see memory, anyone’s memory, as being a continual, smooth line of experience. / You can drop a lit match into turpentine and it will sizzle out. Also into petrol and methylated spirits. The flash point is over-ridden by the impact with liquid. Zz-sh. Fire-free. / We are formed by our memory and choice, and so much, oh so much so, by the threads of what we have found to be the most powerful and beautiful. I believe that what I have seen informs others of their beliefs and the tenets of morality that instruct them is in actuality some kind of AESTHETICS. Take me down to my essence, to where I brood in my hind brain animal honesty, and you will find this. I believe that it correlates with how everyone (yes, bathe in the light and beauty of this instinct) forms the core of their beliefs. How we are formed. BY BEAUTY. And then from an extension of one selection after another built partially from each other and extracted and separated each time by aesthetic appreciation every instance. / There is some inseparable connection here between memory and action. We remember in some unconscious manner what we have chosen to believe, what we have found most powerful in the past, what HOLDS MORE MEANING FOR US THAN ANYTHING IN OUR EXPERIENCE – and this informs us how we should ACT. How we answer the phone what we eat who we sleep with what pets we have our reaction to the flies buzzing around our brilliant heads, how we will SPEAK and what we will say. Every choice we make. What we are thinking of as we lie dying and which fucking CEREAL we pick. / These things link hands and tell us whisper to us. Beauty and memory. Instinct and experience. Move my hands over the dirty keys and glance outside into the hot white summer light. I choose. We choose. I am informed as to how to choose. By a process I don’t and perhaps can’t understand. / The way we move and behave is extracted by the shattered lines of our memory. It is NOT a procession of smooth and comprehensible awareness. / I think this is what is dictating what I am writing. / And since I feel that I am in this way DUMBER than others, well, hm, I am left in an ocean of unconnected experience. / Bleh. Maybe I am just being a wanker and reading into everything wayyyyy too much.
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A clear night at the Capricorn Roadhouse, near Newman WA
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Digitally manipulated drawing + photographs / Photoshop CS2, digital photographs, coloured pencils / 2007 Small Canvas – 0/50 sold / Medium Canvas – 0/50 sold / Large Canvas – 0/50 sold / Small Frame – 0/50 sold / Medium Frame – 0/50 sold / Large Frame – 0/50 sold
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About 2 minutes later i was completely drenched… / buckets of rain… I’m not kidding… / (not to mention keeping my dog still on his lead while taking this shot !) I felt like there was almost a war going on amongst those clouds and the sea was chiming in with it’s 2 cents worth…. the noises of white… and I thought it was a peaceful colour! all beautifully set against the colour of that sand…
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