Photography on Ross Younger

2023 in pictures

Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000

It has been a somewhat lumpy year of photography, so I don’t have a favourite for each month. But I do have some favourites, more than 12 in fact.

Willowbank Wildlife Reserve. These ducks look like they’re about to drop a sick album.

A cheeky selfie before the Davis Cup tennis tie. It was 34C in the shade, and I had no shade.

Kakariki with malice aforethought

Aurora (airglow?) and Magellanic Clouds

Belatedly celebrating C’s PhD atop the Sky Tower

Blue-and-gold macaw in flight, at Willowbank

Rose macro

Roto Kohatu Reserve. The Pūteketeke (Australasian crested grebe)

Behind the scenes at basketball

Busy bee

Waiuta. Two hats and a carful of sandflies.

Willowbank. Scarlet macaw in flight.

Willowbank. A pair of love birds (more blue-and-gold macaws)

Rose macro in our garden

Willowbank. Kea in flight.

Lightroom plugin for Tangent control surfaces

Sun, 15 Dec 2019 21:31:00 +1300

It’s all about speed. If you have a lot of interactive colour correction to do, it’s so much faster to use a hardware panel than it is to use the mouse.

Professional film and video colour graders use hardware control surfaces all the time. Broadcast (video) engineers do something very similar with their CCUs.

This is a plugin for Adobe Lightroom Classic, which draws heavily on a similar plugin called MIDI2LR but for MIDI controllers.

~~You can get it from tangent-lightroom on Github.~~

Update: This project is obsolete! On 1 Apr 2021, Tangent released their own official plugin for Lightroom. It’s included in version 1.7.0 of the Tangent bundle, whish you can get from Tangent support.

The repository lives on, as a place for me to keep my mapping for the Wave:

The 365 day challenge

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 14:49:29 +1300

One year. 365 photos.

The rules I’m setting myself:

Photo must be taken on the day.
Upload same-day if possible. They’re going to an album on Facebook and another on Flickr to facilitate easier searching and perma-referencing.
The best camera is the one you have on you.
Subject matter will vary. Sometimes they will be where I am or what I’m doing, sometimes themes I’ve set myself or technical tests. They will be captioned. May contain nuts.

Photos will appear in this Flickr album (and in a similar album on Facebook). I won’t spam them out with repeated blog posts, but the album appears below as a slideshow, and I may do a “best of” post from time to time.

Stills portfolio

Thu, 01 May 2014 18:36:49 +1200

A selection of my favourite still photos. This page links directly to Flickr, so will update from time to time.

This album on Flickr.

My Flickr photostream.

Solar eclipse photography

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:34:49 +1300

From the 14 Nov 2012 eclipse, which we saw from Cairns.

Full write-up.

Fractals

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 22:40:46 +1300

Some of my favourite fractal images, created with my own software, brot2.

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