Category Archives: Photography

These are blogs about things photographic.

An analysis of the Image P3 color space

Posted on November 13, 2021 by Brian Lawler

About four years ago, Apple changed the color space of the iPhone from whatever it was (maybe sRGB?) to a new color space called Image P3. This is the color space used by flat panel TV screens. This was a … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Photography, Printing and Printing Processes, Software | Tagged Apple iPhone color space, Brian Lawler, Chromix, ColorThink Pro, Image P3, iPhone embedded color space, Steve Upton, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

A refined approach
to repositioned panoramas of Munich street art

Posted on October 16, 2021 by Brian Lawler

Four years ago I was teaching in Munich, and during that time I photographed a number of pieces of street art on Tumblingerstraße in the city. You can read that story and its associated comments here. The photos were taken … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Art, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Photoshop techniques | Tagged Brian Lawler, Graffiti, Munich, Photoshop Automerge, Repositioned Panoramic images, Street Art, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

AppleScript solves my grid mask challenge in Adobe Photoshop

Posted on August 21, 2021 by Brian Lawler

I pride myself on being a competent user of Adobe Photoshop. I know how to make my photos look good by sliding sliders and pushing buttons and applying filters and adding Layer Effects and all sorts of visual things. Occasionally I need … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Imposition and Pagination, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software | Tagged Adobe Photoshop, AppleScript, AppleScripting Photoshop, Bishop Peak, Bishop Peak Portrait Project, Brian Lawler, Cal Poly, Image collage technique, O, The Blognosticator | Leave a comment

A tale of Burning Man dust and light

Posted on September 8, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I pulled my bike up to the rack at Center Camp, poking its front wheel into the wooden slats that would hold it there. On the other side of the rack was a man taking his bike out of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Adventures, Art, Panoramic Photography, People, Photography | Tagged Black Rock City, Burning Man, camera cleaning, Playa | Leave a comment

An EOS R follow-up:
two months later

Posted on August 3, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I bought the Canon EOS R camera in May after considerable research and a one-week rental test of the device. I am the Staff Photographer of Festival Mozaic, a classical music festival in San Luis Obispo. Each year I shoot … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, New technology, Panoramic Photography, Photography, Technology | Tagged Blognosticator, Brian Lawler, Canon camera, Canon EOS R, EOS R, Festival Mozaic, Grace Park | Leave a comment

The Laowa Probe macro lens – after a week

Posted on May 25, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I have been shooting with the Laowa lens now for a week. Of course it rained for three days, so I didn’t get out as much as I had hoped. My overall impression of the lens: it’s well-built. It’s beautifully … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Technology | Tagged Bokeh, Brian Lawler, Laowa, Laowa lens, Laowa lens detail, Laowa Probe lens dimensioned drawing, macro photography, Really Right Stuff tripod | Leave a comment

More on the Laowa wide angle macro probe lens

Posted on May 20, 2019 by Brian Lawler

In my blog last week I described how the Laowa lens had arrived, and how I illustrated it so that the world would have access to its dimensions. I have been using it for several days now (though we were … Continue reading →

Posted in New technology, Photography | Tagged Alstroemeria, Brian Lawler, Canon EOS R camera, EOS R, extreme close-up, hands-on with Laowa Probe lens, Laowa hands-on, Laowa lens, Laowa Probe, Really Right Stuff tripod, San Luis Obispo Botanical Garden | Leave a comment

The fascinating Laowa macro probe lens

Posted on May 17, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I’m not sure how I learned about it. One day it showed up on my computer screen, and I jumped. Today it arrived on my front porch. It’s strange and curious and fascinating and some might say useless. I have … Continue reading →

Posted in Photography, Photoshop techniques, Technology | Tagged Brian P. Lawler, Laowa, Laowa dimensions, Laowa lens detailed diagram, Laowa lens dimensioned diagram, Laowa Probe, Laowa specifications, macro photography, Probe lens detail diagram, unique lens, Venus Laowa lens, Venus Lens | Leave a comment

My new Canon EOS R mirrorless camera
and a new world of high ISO shooting

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Brian Lawler

I was excited when Canon and Nikon both announced their mirrorless pro (or semi-pro) cameras last fall. The time had come. Sony has been in the market for three generations now, and Canon had made a few attempts (EOS M, … Continue reading →

Posted in Color Management, Photography, Photoshop techniques, Software, Web | Tagged Adobe Camera Raw, Brian Lawler, Canon EOS R, EOS R, Festival Mozaic, mirrorless camera, noise reduction, Scott Yoo | Leave a comment

300,000 readers!

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Brian Lawler

Greetings, good souls, In late August of this year The Blognosticator reached and exceeded 300,000 readers. I was not tracking it closely at the time, being caught-up in beginning of the school year activities, but it happened, and now that … Continue reading →

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