Goodbye Olympus
Olympus has announced it’s selling its 84-year-old camera business to Japanese JIP. It’s unknown if JIP will continue to develop and sell cameras using Olympus technology and brand…
Triggers
“Stop thinking about artworks as objects and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences. What makes a work of art good for you is not something that’s inside it but something that happens inside you.” ― Brian Eno https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2020/06/EBM-20200619082658-1.jpg Confession time, I’m a box hoarder. I’d like to keep original boxes for any substantial…
Topaz Sharpen AI Stabilize Capability
I made this photo of a woman sitting alone at an outdoor café on the streets of Venice, Italy, during a visit in July 2012. It was a quick single shot and I only knew I’d totally blown the focus later when downloading and viewing the images. I’d almost deleted the soft-focused image several times…
Terraformed
https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2020/06/EBM-20200612082240-750×1000.jpg “Terraformed” When something takes a path unintended I always try to understand the moment and look for potential. This photo was made with a totally different expectation for a final product than what you see here. A simple textured photo wash applied by random chance changed my perception and with it the development of…
Crystal Ball
If created correctly it’s not the future which you’ll view. https://meanderingpassage.com//wp-content/uploads/images/2020/06/EBM-20160123141232-3.jpg I have a vast Youtube backlog of Affinity Photo (AP)1 training/how-to videos awaiting my efforts to learn more about the App. Many of the videos are on areas, features, and usages of AP I may not need in day-to-day photo editing, but to my…
Denoise AI, Sharpen AI – Which Graphic Options Are Faster
What this is and is not: These are my test performance numbers for processing a 60Mb TIF photo file in both Topaz Denoise AI and Topaz Sharpen AI on my late 2018 Mac Mini. I tested using the three different settings available in each application: processing with just the CPU; processing using eGPU; and processing…