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COVID Self-Portrait, day 74: Unusually Outdoors: Pondering.
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COVID Self-Portraits, Day 75: It’s Getting Serious.
It is getting serious: financially and psychologically, many people will not be able to take much more of this. 75 days and counting, and “social distancing” will be, say many, the “new normal”. Not a...
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COVID Self-Portraits, Day 76: Grim Weather, uncertain future.
Yes, it’s dramatic… but I do not think it is overly dramatic. These are, after all, dramatic times, where everything we hold dear (like enough money to eat; a car to drive; people to be close to) is...
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COVID Self-Portraits, Day 77: More TV…
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COVID Self-Portraits, Day 78: Light At The End…
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COVID Self-Portraits, day 80: Preparing To Re-Open.
The Store is about to re-open: see www.michaelwillemsphoto.com. It will be around this weekend (store preparation depends on supplies). In any case, I am preparing. It feels good. The post COVID...
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COVID Self-Portraits, Day 81: After 9×9 Days, Packing Up For The Store!
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COVID Self-Portrait, Day 82: It’s Over. Now, The New Normal.
It has been an interesting journey. In many way, of course, it is not over, but the main disaster, the physical distancing and social isolation, and the closure of the shop, is now over. I am back in...
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Post-Covid New World, Day 2: Open For Business
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Post COVID Self-Portrait, Day 3: Counting Sales
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Post-Covid Portraits: Livin’ The New Normal.
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“Hand Sanitizing Station”, 30 June 2020
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Wall Art
As you may know, one of the things I sell in the store is Wall Art. Photos in many sizes that look great on walls, in other words. You can see some examples by clicking on...
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Deep Dreaming
Google DeepDream is the neural network technology Google developed to see what a deep neural network is seeing when it is looking in a given image. Now, the algorithm has become a new form of...
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Kai Tak
A few photos I took at Kai Tak airport, Hong Kong, around 1985. These were slides, and they are well preserved. Still, of course after scanning I had to so some touchups and restoration. The famous...
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New Tools
When we fix images, as we do daily in the store (www.michaelwillemsphoto.com) sometimes it is easy – and sometimes we need a lot more effort. Like in this before/after example: White balance isn’t...
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Leading lines
A short note today about leading lines. We use those to lead the viewer into a photo and call attention to the subject. You can use a wide-angle lens, and you can look for lines naturally occurring in...
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Me, yesterday in studio
Yesterday’s selfie. What type of modifier was I used, can you tell? Bonus question: what film am I emulating in the finishing? The post Me, yesterday in studio first appeared on SPEEDLIGHTER.CA.
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Mars Ethics
So NASA released this amazing picture of a spacecraft actually landing on Mars: Fantastic. But the first thing I, as a photographer, think is “Damn. That’s not sharp”. Click to see the image full sized...
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Back with you…!
It has been very busy at the store (http://www.michaelwillemsphoto.com), so as you will have seen, little time to post. And yet, the need to learn does not decrease, so I will post regularly again....
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