There have been a couple of things I’ve been working on and trying to update, and I finally have them available, so this post is simply a short list of new things available on the site.<\/p>\n
I mentioned earlier<\/a> that I would include a tutorial on removing noise<\/strong>, and so I have:<\/strong> it can be found here<\/a>. Bear in mind that this is limited to noise from bad sensor pixels, the kind that shows up in many images, especially low-light or long exposure shots. The other kind of noise, usually multi-colored speckling from low light or high ISO, is a very involved thing to remove, and the tutorial would be much longer, but I still may get to that someday.<\/p>\n I might have to start teaching my students directly about the next one, which is how to effectively resize an image<\/strong><\/a>. I’m still amazed at how few people understand this, and how many websites I see where the images load slowly because no one knows how to make their images web-sized. You can save a lot of download time and server load by making web and e-mail photos the right size, and get better results from your prints too.<\/p>\n Last year I provided instructions on making a year-long guide to rise and set times for the sun and moon<\/strong>, and I have updated it for 2012<\/a> (formatting and leap year stuff.) Call me optimistic, but I didn’t cut it off after December 21st, either. It’s admittedly a bit fussy, but you only have to do it once and then have a quick reference for the sun and moon for the year, which you’re going to use frequently to get those great landscapes and ‘golden hour<\/a>‘ shots, right?<\/p>\n And I figure I’ll just mention this here, rather than make another post about it. You may recall my taking Cecil Adams of “The Straight Dope” to task on his wishy-washy answer to the question, “Does god Exist?<\/a>“, and apparently I wasn’t the only one. Yesterday, he responded to one of his detractors in a disparaging way<\/a>, claiming that he really<\/em> was making the point of how weak the Cosmological Argument is. I’ll be blunt:<\/strong> bullshit. If you’ve ever read the details of some of his answers, you’ll know that he’s more than capable of getting past the appearance of importance<\/a> to deal with the crucial details, and if anything, his advisory staff is even better<\/a>. Even the Straight Dope Message Board<\/a> handed him his ass over the reply, which is no doubt what prompted the revisit. That he couldn’t do so without both shameless backpedaling and several petty digs is just a lack of character.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There have been a couple of things I’ve been working on and trying to update, and I finally have them available, so this post is simply a short list of new things available on the site. I mentioned earlier that I would include a tutorial on removing noise, and so I have: it can be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5,4,3,12],"tags":[969,1025,1027,1028,1026,968,349,350],"class_list":["post-6640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-continued","category-critic","category-nature","category-photo","category-random","tag-cecil-adams","tag-digital-noise","tag-moonrise","tag-moonset","tag-resizing-images","tag-straight-dope","tag-sunrise","tag-sunset"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}