Update
Any random update, like a rant or some kind of news.
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…
In the last few years my birthday has coincided with the National Geographic Exodus Aveiro Fest, like in my talk two years ago where Happy Birthday was sang right before I started. Spending this quietly at home isn’t bad, what’s bad is feeling constrained of some of the things you like, like meeting some of your mates and listening some inspiring people…www.instagram.com/p/Bq7WLFF… View this post on Instagram A post shared by João Pedro Almeida (@t3mujin)
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…