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Author Archives: Tal
Using timecode in Excel
A extremely useful 20-kilobyte Excel macro, programmed in 1996, allows video editors to easily edit timecode spreadsheets.
TC.XLA adds a dozen of new and handy functions that are very simple to use. You can now easily add and subtract timecodes, convert between frame rates and even find the value of a timecode in feet for 16mm or 35mm film. The macro seems to support all standard drop and non-drop frame rates.
Install Python 2.6.1 without trashing Ubuntu
Getting an independent Python 2.6.1 version running smoothly on Ubuntu 8.10 ("Intrepid"), without interfering with the system's reliance on Python 2.5 and without breaking the entire package dependency system.
Tagged linux, python, ubuntu 11 Comments
Python and Leopard
How to fix a messed up $PYTHONPATH environment variable in Mac OSX Leopard.
Tagged osx, python 4 Comments
Bobigny, mémoires d’une cité
Directed by Marie-Pierre Jaury
TV documentary (2007) 50′
Produced by Au fil de l’eau / France 5
Original music score
Quand l’art prend le pouvoir
Directed by François Lévy-Kuentz
TV documentary (2008) 2×26′
Produced by Les poissons volants / Arte
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Plugin-based photography section
I finally got to designing a unified photo gallery which exists independently of the posts. Some photographs are taken from the posts, while others can only be found in the gallery.
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Mourir pour la voiture
Directed by Paul Moreira
TV documentary (2007) 52′
Produced by AMIP / Premières Lignes
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Realistic HDR tonemapping
Lately I’ve spent some time experimenting with HDR tonemapping using Photomatix Pro and Photoshop. I find that most examples you bump into on the web demonstrate the ability of tonemapping to create very striking and surreal images. But actual benefit of this technique, in my opinion, is that it allows a photographer to capture a [...]
Tagged black & white, france, hdr 1 Comment
Châteaux de Lastours
The following photographs are some basic experiments I did with HDR tonemapping vs traditional masking techniques in Photoshop. The view from atop the Châteaux de Lastours, brightly lit, had obviously a very high dynamic range in terms of light energy. I have tried capturing it using two methods. The first one simply involved shooting two [...]
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