Update
Any random update, like a rant or some kind of news.
I never really given that much attention to Instagram Guides, seemed just another influencer gimmick, but now I’m starting to think it could make sense to add some some structure to the otherwise bottomless pit that’s the feed photos. Rather than using it for nicely thought posts (I have a blog for that) the idea is to try to use it to gather all travel updates I already do while on the road. Just like this one from my last Iceland trip. Let me know what you think. www.instagram.com/t3mujin/g…
With all this drama with not being able to reach Instagram (and Facebook… and WhatsApp…) it’s a perfect time to follow me on Flickr, I been quite active there in the last months, usually my processed photos end up there first.https://www.flickr.com/photos/t3mujin/
Há uma nova comunidade de gente que gosta de sentir a fotografia em papel! O The Print Circle é uma comunidade de troca de impressões fotográficas, e a minha primeira contribuição para o arranque do projecto só poderia ser algo que tem sido uma boa parte do meu trabalho nos últimos anos: as Festas de Inverno! Para mais detalhes sobre o projecto, e ver as restantes fotos de alguns talentosos fotógrafos portugueses, basta seguir o link. printcircle.pt/entrudo/
Selárdalur
has to be one of the most unique and out of this world places I’ve been: a lonely man in the 60′s at a farm in the end of an Icelandc fjord that decided to replicate artwork he loved. I was there in 2015, almost 10 years after this video, and that wood wall had already fell. I wrote something about this place sometime ago, I must try to find it… Sigur Rós - Heysátan (Live In Selárdalur)
Mientras tanto, en Cuba…
This week the instagram page Everyday Portugal is being featured on Everyday Everywhere (the umbrella for all Everyday [put-your-place-name-here] projects around the world, and today there’s a gallery featuring the masked traditions of Podence, through the eyes of some talented photographers, myself included. www.instagram.com/p/CPSuJkF…
So… I’m on this Clubhouse thing. Feel free to follow me there, and shoot me some cool stuff for me to follow along the way! www.joinclubhouse.com/@t3mujin
The fact that Iceland is again in the news because of another volcano makes me realize that one of the last photos taken abroad posted in my timeline was taken there……Almost a year and a half ago!!!!! In this snapshot Sumarliði was taking me with his cool black dog in his big red truck to Þingvellir (not the one you might be thinking…), I posted it right after arriving from Iceland and US in 2019. Since then a lot has happened, immediately after returning I dived into the winter solstice traditions, in the past years that has been my main focus in the winter months.…and just when that was over, early last year, that crazy 2020-thing really kicked off… Between a project to document the pandemic (https://www.everydaycovid.pt/) and a genuine lack of interest in browsing the archives, there was no room for photos further away from home…Maybe now it’s time to go back to that archive.
Today is Carnival Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday, and in a normal year I’d be getting ready for this… But because it’s not I just dug into my archive to get something ready for later today. Stay tuned
Time Out Portugal #47
darktable 3.4.1 released
I’m not going to use the current situation to promote my portfolio, but I’ve been thinking a lot about Myanmar lately, wondering what its near future holds, and honestly worrying about it… Because I was there before the democratic reforms, by the end of the military rule (has it ever ended?), my memories from there are a country that was closed and being held back by its ruling class. I remember clearly being surveilled, I remember people talking about the “Lady” quietly to me (who turned out to a disappointment). I have so many fond memories from there, and I think on returning there so often, but I’m not looking forward seeing Myanmar going back to what it was back then, even if it means an “unspoiled” and “authentic” country…
2020 num diário fotográfico
Not my top nine most liked photos, not even my personal picks for 2020… Just nine photos from my instagram timeline that try to get the mood of what my 2020 was.Everyone is sharing their “top nine” collage, a ranking of their most liked photos on Instagram. I did generate mine but wasn’t planning on sharing it, it’s highly unbalanced and a bit monotonous, as 2/3 of it come from the first two months of 2020.Instead I went for doing my own pick, not what I think was my best work throughout the year, but a snapshot of what the year felt (without any given order): the cold first days of the year at Trás-Os-Montes, the few domestic trips, the only masked tradition I was able to capture, the confinement and it’s impact, the significant amount of time spent this year spent at Beira Baixa…
Num ano normal já estaria por Trás-Os-Montes, onde ficaria nos próximos dias, provavelmente até ao início do ano que vem… A esta hora já andaria por Ousilhão, provavelmente a beber um vinho do porto servido na casa de alguém, e nos restantes dias, em todos os lugares onde não poderia deixar de passar, não faltaria comida, bebida, gaiteiros, muita festa e também muito frio.Mas 2020 também deu cabo destes planos…blog.joaoalmeidaphotography.com/pt/solsti…
One of my chores for this weekend, or upcoming holiday at most, is to gather the lens correction data for the Fujifilm XF 16-80mm F4 R OIS WR, so it’s time to recap this from @pixlsus. #lensfun #opensource #fujifilm_xseries pixls.us/articles/…
Esta semana o Gonçalo Borges Dias (um dos co-fundadores) e o José Sena Goulão (autor de algumas das fotos mais icónicas) foram até à RDP falar sobre o everydaycovid: desde o início do projecto até ao livro que está já na forja.https://www.rtp.pt/play/p6403/e498182/isto-faz-se-por-ca
Desde Março que o EverydayCovid (https://www.instagram.com/everydaycovid/) tem existido virtualmente para documentar o estado de emergência durante a pandemia, desde que o Miguel A. Lopes e o Gonçalo Borges Dias tiveram esta ideia e eu, o Rui Miguel Pedrosa, o Rui Soares, o Gonçalo Delgado, o Ângelo Lucas e o André Dias Nobre nos juntámos para levar o projecto
a bom porto, com muitas e longas reuniões via Zoom entretanto.Ontem pela primeira vez passou a existir fisicamente, impresso e pendurado nas paredes, incluído na iniciativa “Diário de uma pandemia” do CC11 - Centro Cultural 11(https://www.instagram.com/cc11_associacao/), com cerca de 80 fotos impressas, para além de uma projeção de todas as submissões do projecto.A partir de hoje, e até final de Outubro, está aberto ao público e convido todos a passar por lá!Rua do Centro Cultural 111700-106 Lisboa De 8 de Setembro e 31 de Outubro, de terça a sábado entre as 15:30 e as 19:30.
…E vão estando atentos porque estão na calha outras iniciativas para trazer o projecto do universo online.
My presets now work in other softwares than Darktable! Well, kind of… Your RAW developer software must support color lookup tables.I started working on t3mujinpack presets, which are based in the Tone Curves module, using precisely the existing color lookup tables (like the film emulations on RawTherapee) as a reference and starting point, also because at the time Darktable didn’t support them at the time. Although it was meant to be a one-man project, I ended up creating it as an open-source project, just for the sake of giving back to the community, and the truth his there has been people giving an helping hand. More recently someone submitted a “pull request” that included all the presets exported back to color lookup tables. This means that the presets, that only work in Darktable, now can be used in other imaging softwares. You gotta love open-source!This opens up some possibilities, by allowing it to be used in many other imaging softwares. The caveat is the software must support color lookup tables, if possible in haldCLUT format or other than can be converted from haldCLUT (like 3D LUT). These are still under heavy development, and can’t yet be found in the stable release, but feel free to download from Github and try to apply these color look tables to your photos to get the same look. Hopefully!… github.com/t3mujin/t…
Right before it was released I was able to play around with a X100V for some hours, and I’m able to confirm everything on this article: overall it’s a neat upgrade, like having weather sealing, but that new lens really is an awesome piece of glass! Something I might consider after this pandemic thing goes away and prices go down… Either that or a Ricoh GR III.(via @dpreview)www.dpreview.com/articles/…