JamesT

I mainly use RawTherapee for raw processing (DarkTable is the main alternative) and "global" processing (colour curves, sharpening, graduated filters ...), and then gimp for anything that needs more localized processing (e.g. dust removal). I don't do a lot of fancy processing with multiple layers or special effects so I don't know what's available there. For panoramas there is Hugin. P.S. all of the above are free software, and are also available on Windows & Mac as well. The only commercial tool I use is VueScan for scanning negatives as Xsane is very bad at colour negatives.

One of many reasons why I use Linux.

Has anybody else noticed that the TIPF icon on browser tags looks a bit like an image of Samuel Beckett, with the lens hood & camera body as the eyes, the pony tail as an ear and the lettering as the hairline.

Like the Vogon constructor ships, it was just hanging in the sky the way that bricks don't.

The mirroring is because they are tintypes rather than wet plate negatives on glass, that is a direct positive on a metal plate. The unevenness is likely the result of the difficulty in getting an even layer of collodion on the plate. Also bear in mind the exposure is probably several seconds, and I don't know whether the photographer used a mid 19th century lens such as a Petzval. Do such techniques still have value today? I'm not sure (that could be a thesis on art theory in itself).

Welcome to the forum, look forward to seeing some of your images.

Those are very beautiful.

I'm sure this will be of interest to @Ryewolf and others: https://www.35mmc.com/24/07/2020/behind-the-scenes-at-the-east-lancashire-railway-by-phil-harrison/

This month's selection are previously posted, the phasing of the 35mm rolls didn't work out this month. 1: Sawfly 2: Duxford Old Meadow 3: Still life 4: Blackcurrants

Olympus are in the process off spinning off their imaging division: https://www.dpreview.com/news/6607157941/olympus-in-agreement-to-sell-imaging-business-by-the-end-of-the-year https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/06/24/1722240/olympus-shutters-camera-business-after-84-years

There's an article on using vintage lenses on35mmc today. https://www.35mmc.com/20/06/2020/a-look-back-at-a-return-to-photography-and-discovering-shooting-legacy-lenses-by-rock/ Not the technical side, but more why the author uses them. P.S. I have two Jupiter-8s one in each mount, on the cameras that they were made for the Kiev-4 and the Zorki-4.

Path in the woods: Old(ish) Barn:

Dandelion Clock Kiev 60, FP4+, 65mm MIR-3B + 20mm extension

Red Kite (about to vanish behind the roof)

Starlings are pretty smart, and they arrive fast. I think that, particularly in winter, there are lookouts on the aerials and when they see me put out the mealworms they descend en-mass.

I'm called little Buttercup: Day's eye Another ladybird larva:

Table manners

I don't know, Lindt's "Chilli Intense" is pretty good. BTW: Our Waitrose has had flour the last two weeks (no yeast this week but there was some last week).

Aphids on the nettles Macro digiscoping with my phone. Taken by holding a 10× hand lens in front of the camera lens. The phone is probably the only way to do that as the phone lens is really small.

Small tortoiseshell I think:

I've mostly used Ag PhotoLabs in Birmingham https://www.ag-photolab.co.uk but I also use SilverPan https://www.silverpan.co.uk/ however he is currently only doing develop + scan.

A couple from over the weekend (same processing batch as the Newton still life). A very old sewing machine: I think it only needs cleaning and lubricating. Selfie with a scythe: (and an air-bulb shutter release).

#2. A matter of some gravity: P.S. Much of Newton's thinking on gravity was done in lockdown during the last major outbreak of the plague.

I think there are quite a few around. There was one on the Kennet & Avon a while back.