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Making “Eclipse Over Long Pine Key”
Our latest image, Eclipse Over Long Pine Key, of the solar eclipse in August in the Everglades was by far our most complicated yet. While spending hours and hours overcoming challenges in post-processing, I wondered if I was wasting my time – would anybody even be interested in the results and was each of these…
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How To Find The Area Of An Object Using Photoshop
Mathematical or drafting programs may do a better job of finding the area of all sorts of seemingly random two-dimensional shapes. And I may have used one or two of these as a student. But I haven’t had any of them on my computer for many moons. So when I recently needed to compare the…
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A Solution To Second Mat(h) Problem
Sadly, we had no winners in this contest. Here is a solution to that math problem: There is more than one way to solve this problem, but we will be exploiting three different relationships. First, in preserving the aspect ratio, the length of the image (we’ll call L) is 11/2 times the width (W). .…
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Our Newest Image – A Gigapan With The Solar Eclipse
When I gave suggestions for shooting the solar eclipse in Miamilink, we didn’t have any plans to shoot it ourselves. But about twenty hours before it started, I got another one of my “brilliant ideas.” Then Nancy & I worked to make it happen. You can read about our newest image, Eclipse Over Long Pine…
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A Second Practical Mat(h) Problem
OK, here’s another problem inspired by matting pictures. Suppose you have an image that you want to put in a standard 16″ by 20″ mat. You can print the image any size but want to keep the original 2:3 aspect ratio (meaning that the length will always be 50% longer than the width…
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Bee Happy Graphics develops, promotes, and sells the photography of Nancy Moreland (as well as processing and printing the work of other people). This blog discusses Nancy’s artwork and photography in general; introduces new photography, printing, and framing techniques; and announces art festivals and other upcoming events we may be a part of. To learn more about Bee Happy Graphics, check out www.BeeHappyGraphics.com.
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