Playing around with Darktable 5.4
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Re. the smile in photography
Museum Ludwig in Cologne currently has an exhibition called Smile! How the Smile Came Into Photography, and it can be seen until March 22nd, 2026. For those who understand German, here’s a short teaser video about it.
I usually don’t smile a lot in photos, but with a liitle help from our furry friend Bella the cat I just had to. Heavily cropped:
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Football
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A nice article on Mike Johnston’s old blog…
Mike Johnston wrote that Great Light Makes Great Pictures on what might be one of the last posts on his old Typepad blog which is shutting down – the new one will be here soon (hopefully, we will see something there before the end of this month). For people interested in how to make great photographs, this is recommended reading. Reminds me a bit of John Belushi of the Blues Bothers, who also had seen the light (remember that scene in the church? That was a great one!). Rest in peace, brother…
Two years of Bella
Today is our Bella’s second anniversary – it’s exactly two years since she moved in with us. I took a quick snapshot after she was out and about for something like two and a half hours this morning:
So glad to have her – and I surely hope that she likes it here as well 🙂
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Another portrait of Bella
Just took this with indirect flash (over a wall), plus with natural light from outside:
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White ball of wool on blue blanket
Image taken with Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mk2 with a 17mm/1.8 lens at f/2, developed using RawTherapee with a Fujifilm Provia film simulation
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Bella in black and white
After reading Mike’s post in https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2025/07/15-things-i-like-about-my-camera.html [theonlinephotographer.typepad.com] about his b&w only camera, I decided to become “artsy” – so I set mine to b&w and took a photo of our cat in front of my computer…
The cat’s face has a bit of motion blur, because she was about to turn her head, and I had an aperture of f/4 and as such, the exposure time was 1/60th of a second only. The camera chose ISO2000 for this itself, and I really don’t mind the “grain” – film would have been far worse in that regard (and I only use film with up to 400 ASA). I took that image with the camera held in front of my breast, and the rear display tilted up as some kind of “viewfinder”. Olympus E-M10 Mk2 with the 17mm/1.8 lens by the same maker, and the jpg image is right out of the camera, unaltered.
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Caturday
Last Saturday in May ’25, and I realised that I haven’t published many cat photos lately. So here are two from today:
In the front: Bella
On my computer monitor: Tuna (RIP)
Photo taken with my Google Pixel 6a with GrapheneOS, converted to b&w using The Gimp
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Rest in peace, Mr. Salgado
I was very sad to hear and read that Sebastião Salgado died. He was a good guy, and not only one of the best photographers whose photos I ever saw, but he also planted millions(!) of trees for us all. You can see some of his work in this article, but I know that there is so much more – I have his book “Genesis“:
and that alone is breathtaking. See some more here.
Thank you for everything, and rest in piece, sir.
Update, from Monday the 26th of May, 2025: for more comments and links, see TOP about him.