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  • Namibian Nights: The Best Timelapse Ever

    I’ve looked at a lot of timelapses, and after a certain number of them you just start to want to fast forward through them because they’re spectacular and all, but after awhile everything just sort of starts to look the same.  This one, however, is different.  Not only because I’ve tried to take photos in…

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  • Sunsets: Tonemapping vs Importing from RAW

    I’ve been playing around with tonemapping software – Photomatix – which can both be used to create HDR photos from bracketed JPEGs, and an HDR photo from a single RAW file. These are some photos I took of the same sunset (varying zoom levels), and I tonemapped some and just did a regular RAW-to-PNG conversion…

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  • Film Review: The Himbas are Shooting!

    You may never have heard of what a “Himba” is, but after seeing this film, you’ll never forget. The Himbas are a people living in northern Namibia in the traditional way they have for millennia, distinctive for their long red hair plaits and reddish-tinged skin, colored by otjize, a mixture of butter fat and ochre.…

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  • Joining the Lomography Bandwagon: Agfa Billy

    A few years ago, I picked up a vintage camera in really good shape at a flea market in Europe. I think it cost like 30 bucks and I picked it from a tale with at least a dozen other vintage cameras. And it has sat on a shelf with one of those boxy old…

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  • Documentary: Child Labor in Afghanistan

    I wish I could say I had made this documentary on child labor in Afghanistan.  This is a story that needs to be told; the circumstances in Afghanistan have led many, many children to lose any real childhood whatsoever.  The filmmakers, who work for an Afghan television station, would not have had to look hard…

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