# AI Context for David Bennett
David Bennett is a London-based thinker and photographer with a poetic view of life and an eye for the unspoken. He’s a seeker of beauty, ambiguity, and quiet meaning, often exploring the world through his lens and his words. His interests lean toward the philosophical and reflective, and he’s drawn to quotes like “Don’t spend your life making up your mind,” or “It is easy to believe that the world is made of marmalade when you have your head stuck inside the marmalade jar.”
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Sharpening with Adobe Camera Raw 4.1 in CS3
If there was one and one only reason to get Adobe Photoshop CS3, the new sharpening tool in Camera Raw 4.1 would be it. There are now sliders for Amount, Detail, Radius, and Masking, as well as sliders on the same ‘page’ for luminance and color noise reduction. The first and most important tip to…
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High ISO with Nikon D40
Here are a couple of shots taken in the late afternoon of what had been a bright, sunny day. The occasion was a parade that was not greeted with universal approval. In the first shot, notice the stationary bus sideways on across the street, used to block off traffic. The fact is that at some…
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The Dome of the Rock
The Dome of the Rock sits on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The First Temple, built by Solomon, stood on more or less the same spot, on high ground which sloped southward down the valley. After the destruction of the First Temple by the Babylonians, the Jewish population were exiled to Babylon, where the Babylonians…
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Covered Walkway in Jerusalem
This is a view looking up towards the Temple Mount from inside the covered walkway that leads up from the area in front of the Western Wall. The walkway is a temporary structure, built to replace the stone ramp that suffered damage during an earthquake some years ago. The rebuilding of the stone ramp is…
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Adobe Media Gallery
On 26th May, in a review of CS3, I wrote: “How long will Photoshop/Bridge and Lightroom remain two separate programs though? The stated philosophy was that some photographers wanted to process and batch process images and did not need the capabilities of Photoshop. That may be so now, but I cannot help but think that…