"This column is dedicated to the proposition that Canada (and indeed the world) is in a crisis situation and that fundamental social change is required to remedy this situation." - The First Column, Lambda November 2, 1971 This blog is inspired by my column of the same name in the Laurentian University Newspaper, Lambda, from 1971-1973. The title refers to the concept of subverting the system from within. To read key excerpts from those columns read the first few posts in this blog.
Slideshow of photos taken along the Fernbank Road Pond in Stittsville in July 2023 with my Panasonic Lumix FZ100 camera and edited with Photoshop Elements 2023, Simply Good Pictures 5, Franzis Color Projects 6 Professional and Franzis Black & White Projects 6 Professional.
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I imagine most people have a favourite photo editor that they use for all their photo editing. Sometimes I like to mix it up and use different software for the different abilities each has. I will usually save my photos as lossless PNGs when transferring between different programs to avoid compression degradation.
Original Photo Taken with Panasonic Lumix FZ100 Camera
Cropped to 16X9 with JPEGCrops
Auto Optimized with Simply Good Pictures
Red Channel Enhanced with Photoshop Elements 2023
Kaleidoscope Effect Applied with Franzis Color Projects
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Way back in the day when I used to be a member of the Camera Club of Ottawa and we met at the
NRC building on Sussex Drive the most usual criticism of my photos
was that they were “good record shots”. I did not see that as
much of a criticism at the time because then I mostly thought of
photography as capturing what was there, rather than as artistic
expression, and that composition was the main skill required. At that
time I was using a
Konica Autoreflex T3 35 mm camera shooting mostly Fujichrome 100.
When I got into digital photography and realized what one could do with photo software I began to see photography more as an art form, Of course even back in the days of film one’s choice of film to use and settings to use, not to mention darkroom work, meant that photography was always an art form.
Currently I do All my photography with digital cameras, my main go to camera being my Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ100. However the photo used in this blog post was taken with my Panasonic Lumix TS5 compact waterproof and shock resistant sports camera that I can easily carry in my small bike pouch at the front or in the pocket of my PFD when kayaking.
So far the best single click photo optimizer I have discovered is Simply Good Pictures 5 .For all around photo editing (and for display map creation) I tend to use Adobe Photoshop Elements 2023. However more often than not I am using Franzis Color Projects 6 Professional for the interesting effects it can create. For conversion to Black and White my choice is Franzis Black & White Projects 6 Professional with it’s large selection of options.
Franzis Color Projects provides an extremely large number of preset effects, some that just enhance the quality of the photo, but also many that provide artistic effects that create a whole new look to the photo. Each preset choice can be further refined within the program. The program can also emulate many specific types of film.
For this demonstration project the original photo, taken on the Old Quarry Trail in the Ottawa Greenbelt, was shot with my Lumix TS-5 and then auto enhanced with Simply Good Pictures and then the individual effects were applied with Franzis Color Projects Professional 6.
Original from Panasonic Lumix TS5
Interim Phase - Simply Good Pictures Auto Enhancement
Franzis Color Projects Edited Versions
Natural Structure Dark
Natural Colour shift 1
Natural Colour shift 3
Surreal shifted
Landscape Blue filter
Architecture Monochrome
Architecture Sketch
Portrait Low key
Artistic Water mirroring
Painting Bright sketch
