Year: 2004

Once again on digital postprocessing

Sneaky lookIt’s been some time since I’ve decided to postprocess images. During this time I was shooting only ‘Picture of the day’ series which are mostly one or two few images. Processing them was very fast and easy.

Today I was photographing a major event. When I came back home, I found out that I made a total of 403 pictures. That is in the range of what I usually bring home, so no surprises here. The surprise was in how much time and effort it would take me to postprocess them. It took all of my free time and strength for the day to finish them. I ended up with 122 pictures published, each of which had at least some minor changes.

Lesson #1: either I will drop the whole idea of postprocessing, or it will teach me how to photograph smarter, making less pictures but of better quality and up to the point.

Lesson #2: postprocessing a bunch of pictures on a slow machine is no fun. No fun at all. I will have to upgrade my home workstation if I am to do this often.

Lesson #3: postprocessed images do look way better. I will be coming back to the album more often and I feel more proud than ashamed about today’s results.

Now I need few moments off computer. Bye.

Parade at Makarious III avenue

SoldiersToday, as I’ve mentioned before, is a national holiday in Cyprus – “Oxi day” which came from Greece. Limassol was celebrating with a huge parade. Many schools and colleges participated as well as military, police, and other government organizations. The demonstration took place at Makarious III avenue, which is one of the central streets of the city.

The show started at around 11:30. Everything was very well organized, as usual. There were safety zones marked with ropes, and there were lots of guards and policemen who maintained the order. There were plenty of spectators as well. Many of them came with children.

If you missed the event, there will be some television coverage on local news. Additionally, you can see a whole bunch of pictures that I took.

The Hurricane

Watched “The Hurricane” on DVD. I’ve seen it before, but I totally forgot about it. It is an excellent movie where Denzel Washington plays a wrongly convicted boxing champion who is innocent and wants to get out of jail. It takes him 22 years, but succeeds. The film is based on a true story. And a great story that is.

Good acting, attention to details and excellent music push this film as high as 9 out of 10 in my ratings. It is a good one to watch when thinking on the issues of racism and law of justice.

Levity

Watched “Levity” on DVD. It is film which is way way way way too slow and boring. It has an idea, but it is too simple and unfullfilling for the movie of this length.

There are a lot of stars, including Billy Bob Thornton, Morgan Freeman, and Kirsten Dunst (also known as Spiderman’s girlfriend). The movie didn’t require any sort of serious performance from anyone, so the celebrities were kind of wasted.

This film needs a hell of a lot more action or philosophy. Either one a mixture of two could have made it into a something really serios. As it is, I will give it a 5 out of 10. Boring.