Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
Mt. Davis - Pennsylvania’s High Point
This past Saturday, I visited Mt. Davis for a few hours. Mt. Davis is Pennsylvania’s high point. Following is a handful of photos from the top, including a 360 degree panorama shot from the top of a 50 foot tower present at the peak.
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Slow Shutter Photography - Part 1
Sunday night I was bored, and decided to play around with my camera and longer than normal shutter speeds. Most, if not all, of the following photos were taken with a 15 second shutter.
The first one is of the nearby PennDot camera. (It is aimed away from where I was.) The next [...]
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Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
Neighborhood Owl
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
Hail!
Right now, there is a hail storm here. The reason I’m posting this is because it doesn’t happen all that often around here. Anyways, I’m just going to dump some photos below.
Update:
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Sunday, August 10th, 2008
GIMP - What do you want to learn?
So far, I’ve put together two tutorials based on the most common tasks that I perform using GIMP. Now it’s your turn. I want to make more GIMP tutorials, but I’d like to make them for what you, the reader, are interested in learning. I’d also like to know what you think [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in GIMP, Tutorials by Andrew
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
GIMP - Using the Path Tool
In the last tutorial, I covered the basics of cropping an image for the web. This tutorial assumes that you know what was covered in the previous one.
When preparing a picture for the web, often you don’t want to include the background. In the last tutorial, the background of my desk was quite [...]
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Saturday, August 9th, 2008
GIMP - Image Cropping for Web
After talking to some people, I’ve decided to write up some tutorials for using GIMP. At work, I use Ubuntu, so Photoshop isn’t really an option, but I need a way to prepare photos of products for our website. For many products, I not only crop down the photo to show just the [...]
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Wednesday, August 6th, 2008
Most commonly used search term to find ahotw.com? Angel.
This is what would be considered a low traffic blog. Heck, it’s even a low posting blog. Of all the posts that I’ve made, only two have been about Angel Learning (it had annoying problems, and I’m sure it still does). Despite that, over half of the searches that resulted in a [...]