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Personal site of Toni Corvera, irrelevant monkey geek.

Photos

Some more playing with techniques
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NIKON D60
200mm (~300mm)  f/5.6
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Went crazy with colour sliders on an old pic to kill some time :P
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CASIO EX-Z850
7.9mm (~38mm)  f/4.0
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Playing with B&W again
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NIKON D60
46mm (~69mm)  f/8.0
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Bleach-bypass and a couple tweaks over "It's coming..."
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NIKON D60
55mm (~82mm)  f/10.0
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Giraffe
(Giraffa camelopardalis)

Barcelona Zoo
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NIKON D60
200mm (~300mm)  f/5.6
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Unused roof tiles.

Shot in Valverde de Júcar, Cuenca.
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NIKON D60
55mm (~82mm)  f/8.0
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The colour craze continues
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CASIO EX-Z850
7.9mm (~38mm)  f/2.8
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Result of playing with stuff I'm not familiar with, to kill some time.

Photo taken in front a white background.
As with other stuff I mark "experiment", it's a quick and dirty edit, just some messing around with colour balance.
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Euphorbia pulcherrima (a.k.a. Poinsettia)
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NIKON D60
55mm (~82mm)  f/8.0
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Reworked version of "OHAI".

Guanaco
(Lama guanicoe)

Barcelona Zoo
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NIKON D60
200mm (~300mm)  f/5.6
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Next try at a wallpaper, from the same batch as "Live".

Critiques welcome.

Full size (download) is 1680x1050
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NIKON D60
190mm (~285mm)  f/8.0
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Shot in Aranda, Spain.

Tweaked a lot :P
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NIKON D60
55mm (~82mm)  f/8.0
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My first go at a wallpaper.

See also the next try, "Blush"

Critiques welcome. Is it too detailed? Too bright/reflective? Whatever?

Full size (download) is 1680x1050
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NIKON D60
125mm (~187mm)  f/7.1
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Kind of companion to the previous Dark.

I overexposed the bridge badly, though I like the result anyway. Guess I love Budapest's bridges too much :P


Edited in GIMP. Cropped (73%), B&W film simulation (Ilford Delta 100), darkened shadows and unsharp mask.
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CASIO EX-Z850
14.2mm (~68mm)  f/5.6
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Shot in Budapest.

See also "Fisherkids".
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CASIO EX-Z850
11.8mm (~57mm)  f/5.0
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Shot in Budapest, can't remember more details :(

The slant and low light didn't help in getting a shop but since I love slowish shutter speeds I really liked the result.

See also "Giddyup".
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CASIO EX-Z850
14.2mm (~68mm)  f/5.6
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Featuring \"Taff\"

This photo was actually a mistake, I forgot to set up the cam and the last photo was taken with a slightly slow shutter speed so the result is a bit blurry, but I still find it quite nice.

Aug 4th, 2009: Re-edited from scratch
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CASIO EX-Z850
7.9mm (~38mm)  f/2.8
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Samby
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NIKON D60
18mm (~27mm)  f/7.1
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Taff
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CASIO EX-Z850
7.9mm (~38mm)  f/2.8
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This pinwheel always made me smile :)

This was shot as part of a workshop, I found the image laying around, smiled at it, and decided to upload it...
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CASIO EX-Z850
7.9mm (~38mm)  f/4.0
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Summer of 2010 came and I'm again killing some time messing with old photos :P
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NIKON D60
50mm (~75mm)  f/4.0
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Cuban Flamingo
(Phoenicopterus ruber)

Barcelona Zoo
Minimal edit. Raw conversion in View NX and a subtle Unsharp Mask in GIMP.
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NIKON D60
200mm (~300mm)  f/5.6
deviantART
Shot in Aranda, Spain.

Pretty much like No. 1... but not quite
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NIKON D60
18mm (~27mm)  f/22.0
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CASIO EX-Z850
9.5mm (~46mm)  f/3.1
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Some toying with adding text and frames, something am not used to :P

This is, as far as my knowledge goes, a Passiflora caerulea, aka Common passion flower or Blue passion flower.

Oh, by the way, the text is based old wives tale in the town I shot it (and apparently a common belief across Europe at least). It's hard to see from this angle but on most individual passion flowers the numbers match their features (by the way, the number of apostles is ten because neither Judas nor Peter are counted).
Edited in GIMP. Contrast and saturation enhancement, unsharp mask.
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SONY DSC-P100
7.9mm (~mm)  f/2.8
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Storefront in Ourense, Galicia (Spain)
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NIKON D60
44mm (~66mm)  f/8.0
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Shot in Valverde de Júcar, Cuenca, Spain
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SONY DSC-P100
13.7mm (~mm)  f/7.1
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Praire Dog
(Cynomys)

Barcelona Zoo

I love this scene, too bad the light was dim and the exposure rather awful :|
Minimal edits, I intend to redo it with some more time. Raw conversion in ViewNX. WB, "push" and unsharp mask in GIMP.
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NIKON D60
175mm (~262mm)  f/5.6
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Humboldt penguin aka Peruvian Penguin
(Spheniscus humboldti).

Full-size highly recommended. The look on its face while sunbathing was awesome, too bad it isn't clearly displayed here though. I put a full-size crop of its face in my scrapbook though :)

Barcelona Zoo
Raw conversion in ViewNX, minimally edited in GIMP. Cropped (67%) and unsharp masked.
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NIKON D60
75mm (~112mm)  f/5.6
deviantART
Featuring "Duck"

A good rest after an exhausting day.

The focus was on the paws although with an ultra-compact camera it doesn't make much of a difference.
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SONY DSC-P100
23.7mm (~mm)  f/5.2
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Just a something I liked, this is part of "Casa Salvador", a restaurant in Cullera, Valencia (Spain).
Heavy editing in GIMP. Rotated, cropped, B&W film effect (Ilford Delta 100), wall defects (clumsily) corrected, contrast enhancement, some burned highlight fixing, added film grain.
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CASIO EX-Z850
7.9mm (~38mm)  f/4.0
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Fontana di Trevi, Roma, Italia

Oceanus in all his glory :)

The unedited photograph is in my scrapbook
Mild to heavy editing in GIMP. Various contrast modifications, subtle desaturation, toning and vignetting.
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CASIO EX-Z850
11.8mm (~57mm)  f/5.0
deviantART
Samby, ~12 years old
Edited in LightZone + GIMP. Pushed 2 stops, noise reduced and sharpened.
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NIKON D60
55mm (~82mm)  f/5.6
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This one was shot from a moving car so I did my best to salvage an acceptable image since a liked a lot that lone tree in the middle of the field; and it also served as an excuse to tinker a bit with filters, image manipulation and the like.

Shot near Cuenca, Spain in 2004.
The original can be seen in my deviantART scraps.
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SONY DSC-P100
7.9mm (~mm)  f/2.8
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Don't ask me why but I like the photo. Although originally an spontaneous snapshot it ended up being kind of meaningful to me.
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SONY DSC-P100
7.9mm (~mm)  f/5.6
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... because I'm bored
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NIKON D60
26mm (~39mm)  f/11.0
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Meerkats aka Suricates
(Suricata suricatta)

Barcelona Zoo
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NIKON D60
80mm (~120mm)  f/4.5
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Samby, ~12 years old
Edited in LightZone + GIMP. Minimal noise reduction, digital fill flash, sharpening and B&W conversion.
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NIKON D60
42mm (~63mm)  f/5.3
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Straw bundle.

Shot in Valverde de Júcar, Cuenca.

Previous in series, Next in series

Basic adjustments done in Lightroom.
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NIKON D60
55mm (~82mm)  f/14.0
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Shot in Budapest.

I liked how the old building got reflected in the new one, though the effect didn't show that much in the shot.
Edited in GIMP. Rotated, cropped, B&W film effect (Ilford Delta 100), contrast enhancement, unsharp mask
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CASIO EX-Z850
7.9mm (~38mm)  f/2.8
deviantART
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NIKON D60
55mm (~82mm)  f/5.6
Shot in Cullera, Valencia
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CASIO EX-Z850
7.9mm (~38mm)  f/4.0
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Shot near Valverde de Júcar, Cuenca, with my last film camera.

Not very spectacular for a panorama, I know, just two photos, but more a way of practising than a real work.

This was my first (public) try at stitching some photographs together; and my absolute first portrait (i.e. vertical) stitch. Could be better merged but fits well enough for now; thanks to my temporarily unavailable tablet the masks in the intermediate file are a mess though :D

The originals were matte prints scanned and it shows, although I love the strange colours of these prints. Might rework it once I get my paws on better versions.
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Nikon Lite Touch Zoom 70W
mm (~mm)  f/
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Sunflower, shot near Cuenca, Spain
RAW conversion in ViewNX, edited in GIMP. LAB denoise, WB, contrast and saturation enhancement, sharpening.
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NIKON D60
145mm (~217mm)  f/8.0
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I love violet sunsets, there's something unreal about them...

Shot from a car near Barcelona.
Edited in GIMP. Increased "against-the-light" look, darkened sky, rotated, cropped and unsharp-masked.
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SONY DSC-P100
10.7mm (~mm)  f/3.2
deviantART
Some tweaking of a random, dull, field photo shot near Valverde de Júcar, Cuenca (Spain), to get a vintage-y effect.

The unedited photograph is in my scrapbook.
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SONY DSC-P100
13.7mm (~mm)  f/7.1
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And the boring days go on :P
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Software Releases

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Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.12.3

Platforms: POSIX // Bash

Preview of Video Contact Sheet *NIX 1.12.3
Release Notes: This release actually handles --ffmpeg and --mplayer. It has correct parsing of -U. Switched to a minimum of bash 3.1. Avoids re-capturing the same frame twice; Uses getent instead of /etc/passwd when available. It will not use mplayer's length as a ceiling for timecode removal.

Release Tags: Stable, Minor, Bugfixes, Minor bugfixes

 

Video Contact Sheet *NIX (vcs for short) is a script that creates a contact sheet (preview) from videos by taking still captures distributed over the length of the video. The output image contains useful information on the video such as codecs, file size, screen size, frame rate, and length. It requires MPlayer or FFmpeg and ImageMagick. It is confirmed to work on Linux and FreeBSD, and possibly other POSIX/UNIX systems.

mp3plot 0.6.0

Platforms: POSIX, Windows

Preview of mp3plot 0.6.0
Release Notes: Preliminary support for MPEG-2 and Layers I and II. Detection of sampling rate (defaulted to 44.1kHz) and CRC flag (displayed its value reversed) have been fixed. A nasty bug with free-form bitrate and corrupted files that led to an infinite loop, eventually exhausting memory, has been fixed. There are more warnings where appropriate. The theoretical length is printed in seconds.

Release Tags: Major feature enhancements, Stable, Major bugfixes

 

mp3plot creates a plot (textual or graphical) of the bitrate distribution of an MP3 file. It displays which proportion of the audio file uses each of the possible bitrates. The plot can serve, for example, to compare an audio source as encoded by different encoders or settings or to display how the chosen (average) bitrate was achieved by the encoder.

 

nautilus-follow-symlink 1.1

Platforms: POSIX // Gnome

Preview of nautilus-follow-symlink 1.1
Release Notes: This release uses a stock icon instead of the hard-wired icon location. It has packaging cleanup, and a configure script is provided by default.

Release Tags: Stable, Bugfixes

 

nautilus-follow-symlink is a nautilus extension that adds a context menu entry to nautilus on symbolic links pointing to directories, which once clicked opens the pointed directory (the real path) in a window. It does so both when right clicking on the folder icon or on the contents of an opened symbolic link.

Relevation 1.1

Platforms: POSIX, Windows // Python

Release Notes: This release supports cryptopy if PyCrypto is not available. It enhances cross-platform support. It will print an error message if the decryption produced incorrect data (normally caused by a bad password). PyCrypto/cryptopy has been added to version info (--version). Windows support enhancements: a minimalistic GUI, Py2exe support, packaging scripts, and fix for the uninstall procedure.

Release Tags: Stable

 

Relevation is a command-line interface to retrieve passwords stored with the Revelation Password Manager. It provides equivalent functionality to the "Find" box as found in Revelation's GUI.

 

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I haven't updated VCS in a while and somehow managed to keep this update ready but unreleased for months, so today I decided it was about time to get rid of it and be free to work on 1.13 This is a minor update with a couple bugfixes, but most importantly, it marks the switch [...]
Relevation 1.1 released
A small update for Relevation. It will now handle wrong passwords a bit more gracefully and it's also easier to use on Windows now. Full list of changes: Support cryptopy if PyCrypto is not available. Enhances cross-platform support. Print an error message if the decryption produced wrong data (normally caused by a bad password) Add [...]
New tool released: Relevation
I've just published a new tool I named 'Relevation'. It's a command-line tool to access the passwords stored with the excellent Revelation Password Manager, which only provides a graphical interface. I've been using the basis of my new tool on my computers for more than 4 years now and decided I might as well release [...]
Site is back to normal, finally
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VCS 1.12.2 released
Another minor update, although the last few versions have contained a really stupid bug that prevented the temporary files from being removed (leading to a lot of stale, possibly big, files), so upgrading is highly recommended. Thanks to Jason Tackaberry for pointing the bug. Note though I'm still on holidays so this is a quick [...]