Like cleaning a window...

This reworking of photos seems a bit like cleaning a window: once you do a little bit you have to do the whole thing (that's why I usually don't touch my windows... ever...)

I used to process my Canon RAWs with DPP (Canon's software), but since I got the hang of Adobe's Lightroom a bit, I seem to get better results.

I don't think it's DPP versus Lightroom though, but me probably, paying a little bit more attention to the end result. Although Lightroom does seem more subtle with the possible tweaks.

On the other hand, DPP seems easier when it comes to getting the colours right. Not sure why. Just a feeling, or perhaps a matter of 'being used to'. This whole post processing business is rather subjective I guess.

I don't particularly like to use two applications for processing photos, that's another consideration, so this was also a bit of an experiment to see what Lightroom could do with the Canon RAW files. Lightroom can handle both Canon and Leica (DNG files), but DPP can only handle Canon, so Lightroom it is for now.

So, on I went... another album resized and reprocessed, some photos removed, some added...

Click on the photo to see this album with 13 'new' photos from 25 December 2009...

Elephants once more

And in the spirit of the monkeys I also reworked the elephants.

Some more detailled post processing, and the full version is bigger.

Click here - or on the photo above - for the 20 photos in this album.

Click here for the total index.

New albums

Have been restructuring a bit...

Albums now go through the photobrowser.

You'll see a little thumbnail list on the left side. You can scroll through the list with your mouse wheel if you keep your mouse above the thumbnails, or by clicking on the little arrows to the left of the list.

You can also navigate through the photos by clicking on a thumbnail, or by clicking on the buttons at the bottom of the list. Those will present the previous or the next photo. Note that loading of the photo might take a while, especially on the full version.

Tested all this new php stuff in IE8, FireFox 4 and Safari, and they all seem to function properly. Haven't tested it on Chrome or Opera.

A recently added album is of a trip to the East Coast and Sungai Lembing.

Click here - or on the photo above - to view the 23 photos.


Monkeys

I also reworked the monkey album.

New post processing and upscaling the size a bit. You've probably seen most of it already, but if you're interested in the bigger versions, click here - or on the photo above - for the 22 photos in this album.

Click here for the total index.

Not all albums go through the photobrowser yet...

Tugboat once more...

From the other side... think the nice coloring is partly due to air pollution from mainland China...

Clicking on the photos on this blog will now land you in the photobrowser (not for all yet, but at least for the most recent ones), which allows you to change sizes (top left, next to the photo - click on 'small/medium/large') if the full version is too big...

Buzzard

Not exactly what you would call 'a great bird shot', more kinda impressionist :-) but it has the skyline to compensate... there's several of these buzzards flying around in Hong Kong, shot (with the camera) from the water on 21th of March 2011...

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Night market

Hong Kong, night market area near Jordan Road, 20th of March...

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Floating

Hong Kong, shot from the water...

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Family...

...relaxing near the beach at the east coast, Malaysia, April 2nd 2011...

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Not a streetmonkey

East coast Malaysia, April 3rd 2011...

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Tugboat...

...pulling towards the mist, Hong Kong, shot from the water...

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Palm cat yawning

From a very recent trip to the east coast...

I called her 'palm cat' cause she was sleeping in a pot, under a palm. The shutter sound woke her up, clearly too early for her taste, cause she couldn't stop yawning... this is one of those yawns...

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Who's afraid of Red, Yellow and White (or flying)

Fixing a huge commercial banner on a wall, next to a part of the walkalator...

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And more sun...

Shot from the water...

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Then there was Sun

Hong Kong Island in the sun, shot from the water...

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