Happy New Year

Hi Everyone,

Just thought that I would say Happy New Year.

The new year should be bring some interesting times for www.anthonylewisphotography.co.uk with an exhibition in June and more blogging with tips and hints.

Anyway have a good one.

Anthony

Photoshop Tip #3

Adding a vinegrette to a photograph will give you some depth of field, plus can take the attention away from an anoying background thus forcing the viewer to look at what you want them to see.

A few easy steps to do this one really.

1. Create an elipse using the marquee tool around the area you wish to leave sharp.
2. Goto the Select menu and choose feather. Add a value of around 10 but you can play around with this.
3. Goto the Select menu again choose Inverse this will now select the surrounding area.
4. Choose Filter -> Blur -> Gaussian choose a value of around 10 but again this is something that you can play with in order to create the perfect image.

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A Conservative Point of View

A friend of mine Robert Rams is running a great blog in which he writes about his daily life, where he is currently working as the Conservative Councillor For East Barnet and the Cheif of staff (in the house of commons) for the Ribble Valley MP. Check it out for some interesting points of view and current affairs.

Click Here to take a look.

Anthony

Listing on the Website

I was begining to think that no one wanted to list on the website anymore, so started to do some investigation of my own. To my surprise when I sent my self an email using the website I got a "page cannot be displayed error message" which I did not know about. I have now resloved this issue. So all I can say is a big sorry to anyone that has tried to list on the website in the past, I simply have not recieved the email to put the listing in place.

If you would like to particpate in a link exchange please follow the link below and I would of course love to do so.

Anthony Lewis Photography Listing Page

My apologies again.

Anthony

Nikon D70 Upgrade

I found out a whille ago that you could upgrade the firmware on your D70 to that of a D70s which I thought was quite exciting but was also a bit wary of doing this by myself as I did not want to upset the apple cart in terms of hurting my lovely D70. However this weekend i picked up the courage to give him a little makeup over and the results are very interesting. A new menu and some new features. It a pretty simple procedure and only took about 10 minuites in total to do.

Issues addressed in firmware version 2.00-Improved performance for the 5-area autofocus system's Dynamic Area AF and Closest Subject Priority Dynamic Area AF modes.

• Updated menus with a new design similar to that of the D70s, making them easier to view and quicker to recognise.
• Page size and setup support for PictBridge compatible printers has been added to the camera menu.
• The display for number of exposures remaining when using NEF (RAW) or NEF+JPEG Basic image-quality settings has been changed. The number is now calculated based on the average size of a compressed RAW file, instead of the maximum file size.
• Maximum number of exposures displayed using a 256-MB CompactFlash memory card:Version 2.00: NEF (RAW): approx. 44 exposures; NEF+JPEG Basic: approx. 39 exposures.Version 1.03 or earlier: NEF (RAW): approx. 23 exposures; NEF+JPEG Basic: approx. 21 exposures
• The default setting for the camera clock has been changed from 2004.01.01 to 2005.01.01. The clock can not be set to a date before 2004.12.31.- Correction of a problem that occasionally caused communication between Nikon Capture Camera Control and the D70 to be unexpectedly terminated (Windows).

Click Here to go to the Nikon support website for more help with this issue you are looking for the Firmware update version A 2.00/B 2.00. There are details on how to do this properly. Also I used the email button to get in contact with some of the engineers before i did it and they were more than happy to help. They got back to me within a couple of hours which i thought was really good.

So if you are brave enough give your D70 a make over and get some better results from your camera and enjoy it even more.

Anthony

Antoni Gaudi

The man lived and died a modest man, in fact he lied for three days in a hospital before some one realised that it was him, he would eventually die there after being hit by a tram in Barcelona in 1926. His work still looks new and as brilliant as it was at the start of the last century these three photographs come from the top of the Casa Mila were a roof garden like no other can be found. The locals and tourists alike marvel at what can only be describe as genius.

His mind it has to be said was a little misunderstood, it can only be assumed at what he was thinking when he created this building with no straight edges. What must have gone through the minds of the builders when given the plans. However simply by looking at this building and many others all over Barcelona it can be said that Antoni Gaudi had a great mind which in his day was far beyond any other architect, and that it is only until now that we can fully take pleasure in all of his work.

Barcelona

Sorry about not posting for a while was in sunny Barcelona over the weekend, the photos are hot on the press to be processed so you will be seeing some of them soom I am sure.

Anthony