Pat David @patdavid@mastodon.social

The Rehearsal

During my friend Mairi's wedding, a break in the clouds.

This is the image I used as an example for a tutorial on exposure-mapping in #GIMP (https://pixls.us/articles/simple-exposure-mapping-in-gimp/)

https://flic.kr/p/YC8Rqg

#FOSS #photography #landscape #wedding #freesoftware #artwithopensource

I hate hearing myself speak or present. So, here's me presenting about PIXLS.US during the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE).

I'm normally much better at this, so I apologize in advance if I rambled too much...

https://opensource.com/article/18/5/pixls-us-community-photography

#FOSS #photography #pixls #freesoftware #artwithopensource

Coffee with the soon-to-be married couple.

Upstate New York at my friend Mairi's wedding. My wife. Being odd.

https://flic.kr/p/XrZMqQ

#artwithopensource #portrait #photography #foss #freesoftware #coffee

Farming for Mairi

On the farm, picking vegetables for our friend Mairi's wedding!

https://flic.kr/p/XrZMco

#photography #portrait #farm #wedding #artwithopensource #foss #freesoftware #gimp

My wife is an alumni of Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS and is looking to help defray the costs for a student there to attend a 4-week course at her job (the Dauphin Island Sea Lab).

If anyone following me is up for donating a little to help the student to attend that would be AWESOME! Plus, the lab is a non-profit so the donation is tax-deductible.

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6JUZPZKB82Q7C

Please help! Every little bit is appreciated!

(Pictured, my wife. :) ).

I'll repost this with a fix shortly, but for anyone seeing this old post, the correct paypal link is:

https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=6JUZPZKB82Q7C

THANK YOU

My wife is an alumni of Marjory Stoneman Douglas HS and is looking to help defray the costs for a student there to attend a 4-week course at her job (the Dauphin Island Sea Lab).

If anyone following me is up for donating a little to help the student to attend that would be AWESOME! Plus, the lab is a non-profit so the donation is tax-deductible.

Please help! Every little bit is appreciated!

(Pictured, my wife. :) ).

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?token=gGOYB2f2xMh7AAWCqO2ZVwlR5MJXcrqDtEM9UxRtm9pyMP4raPcyEKbY7_leWzLINaUe4m&country.x=US&locale.x=US

#MSDStrong #marjorystonemandouglas #marinescience

Dot Headshot

An outtake from a recent headshot session. I liked it, so here it is... :)

https://flic.kr/p/Vk6jWd

#photography #portrait #headshot #artwithopensource #rawtherapee #gimp #FOSS #freesoftware

One of the enhancements recently brought to RawTherapee is a threshold slider for the Sharpening and Microcontrast tools, coded by Ingo. It lets your photos appear to be more sharp and have more texture while suppressing the oversharpened-look.
Compare the sky and rock in these screenshots:
The first: no sharpening.
The second: regular sharpening tools.
The third: new AMaZE+VNG4 demosaicing and RL Deconvolution in combination with the threshold adjuster.
#FOSS #artwithopensource #photography

Another view of Abbey Road

Mine doesn't have four famous fellas in it, but I was walking around with some fellow photography nerds! :)

From LGM/London.

https://flic.kr/p/JS9omS

#FOSS #photography #urban #artwithopensource #freesoftware #GIMP #darktable

Goodbye Google Analytics

https://patdavid.net/2018/05/goodbye-google-analytics

As part of a larger post on the data middlemen that most don't even think twice about, and how it relates to your privacy online.

#FOSS #privacy #analytics

Switching Themes

https://patdavid.net/2018/05/switching-themes/

I finally get around to setting up an alternate dark style for my website and to persist the choice users make.

I also get to tie in an amazing book I get to read to my kids "The Dark" by Lemony Snicket. :D

Heathers should not be a documentary.