Out for the day with Chiara – only this time Chiara was behind the camera
Out for the day with Chiara, my Italian researcher and photo model. Only this time Chiara was behind the camera.
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Question appeared on a forum to which I belong with regard to emulating tungsten lighting with RGB+CCT. To find out, I fitted a good old fashioned Philips “Photocrescenta” incandescent bulb and a Mi-Light FUT-105 LED into a double E27 double bulb holder and mounted the assembly on a standard studio boom arm. The Mi-Light FUT…
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Summer in Pécs, Hungary. Trip to Tetye to meet Charles Barca, the guy behind Black Panther Linux.
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Hostile server blocking – eliminate ads and other nasties, free
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Brass monkey weather
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