Walkthrough for a simple photo post-process

When posting one of my pictures, I usually say that some post-processing was done. This is nothing but very classical stuff, that I believe are common to most photographers.

However I’ve been advised to give a glimpse of what those modifications were. And that’s why this post will explain and illustrate, for a very simple case, how, starting with a picture coming out of my camera, I get one that suits me enough to post it here.

The picture I’ll use as an example is the following:

Île et sillage au large de Saint-Malo (version finale recadrée)

Island and wake in front of Saint-Malo

Long story short, the post process I usually do, and that I will show here have basically two purposes:

  • improve color and contrast
  • re-frame the picture

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BackupMonitor: important bugfix

Icône de Backup Monitor

A nasty bug found its way in the latest release of BackupMonitor which caused the program to suddenly exit when something went wrong during the execution of one of the backup script.

The bug has been corrected  (a problem with threads and a method call that should have been asynchronous) and the “correct” behaviour is back: when something goes wrong an error log is displayed and the program “hiberantes” until the user wakes it up.

The updated version can be downloaded from the project’s page.