no more band-aids
Man, it doesn’t take long to cycle through a set of 36 favorite photos… Here’s a snapshot of my Flickr Faves from today. Easy to tell where my head has been lately 😉
Again, some pretty amazing photos in there.
Man, it doesn’t take long to cycle through a set of 36 favorite photos… Here’s a snapshot of my Flickr Faves from today. Easy to tell where my head has been lately 😉
Again, some pretty amazing photos in there.
Here’s a current snapshot of my Flickr Favorites. Absolutely amazing stuff!
As an aside… I went to Bragg Creek with the family on the weekend. Found someone with the absolute perfect job. She runs a tour company slash photography studio slash African artifact shop. Spends a few weeks/months each year in Africa on safari, taking people with her (to pay the bills), takes a lot of photos while there, and gathers artifacts to sell in the shop with a selection of the photos. And, she has some great shots that are different than the usual silhouette-of-animal-at-sunset stuff you usually see.
Here’s a current snapshot of my Flickr Favorites. Absolutely amazing stuff!
As an aside… I went to Bragg Creek with the family on the weekend. Found someone with the absolute perfect job. She runs a tour company slash photography studio slash African artifact shop. Spends a few weeks/months each year in Africa on safari, taking people with her (to pay the bills), takes a lot of photos while there, and gathers artifacts to sell in the shop with a selection of the photos. And, she has some great shots that are different than the usual silhouette-of-animal-at-sunset stuff you usually see.
I’m still amazed at the quality of photographs coming through Flickr – through the “Interestingness” filter, as well as through some of the more specific tag feeds I subscribe to.
Here’s a snapshot of my Flickr Favorites – and this only holds the last 4 days or so of new additions.
I’m still amazed at the quality of photographs coming through Flickr – through the “Interestingness” filter, as well as through some of the more specific tag feeds I subscribe to.
Here’s a snapshot of my Flickr Favorites – and this only holds the last 4 days or so of new additions.
It took over 2 weeks, but I finally got the pictures off of that Sony funkicam. They’re generally really nice photos, but the camera was apparently set to “auto photo screw up” mode. Every image has a bright red datestamp burned straight into the image like gramma’s camera does. Why on earth would a digital camera burn a timestamp into the image, when EXIF does a better job without screwing up the picture? grrr….
Some nice shots of Evan in the mountains, some nice shots of mountains, and a great shot of Dad. I’ve got some to stitch a pano of the valley, and will post that when it’s ready. There are more photos, but I won’t put them online because they have other family members in them, and they didn’t sign up for this dump-everything-online stuff…
The image quality (despite the lower resolution due to the teeny 32MB Memory Stick) is great. Man, I really have to get a Digital Rebel XT or something 🙂
Update: Here’s the pano. It looks much crisper than the ones I made using my little Fujifilm digicam, too!
It took over 2 weeks, but I finally got the pictures off of that Sony funkicam. They’re generally really nice photos, but the camera was apparently set to “auto photo screw up” mode. Every image has a bright red datestamp burned straight into the image like gramma’s camera does. Why on earth would a digital camera burn a timestamp into the image, when EXIF does a better job without screwing up the picture? grrr….
Some nice shots of Evan in the mountains, some nice shots of mountains, and a great shot of Dad. I’ve got some to stitch a pano of the valley, and will post that when it’s ready. There are more photos, but I won’t put them online because they have other family members in them, and they didn’t sign up for this dump-everything-online stuff…
The image quality (despite the lower resolution due to the teeny 32MB Memory Stick) is great. Man, I really have to get a Digital Rebel XT or something 🙂
Update: Here’s the pano. It looks much crisper than the ones I made using my little Fujifilm digicam, too!
I just got back the 20″x30″ print of the panorama I shot at the top of Diamondhead (a series of photos stitched together automagically with Autostitch).
It looks absofriggin’ AWESOME. I mean, wow. Completely blown away at the quality of the print. Looks like a professional poster.
I goofed when I sent the image for printing through iPhoto, though – I forgot to manually crop or pad the image, so they just cropped it to fit the aspect ratio of the print, chopping off the mansions at the foot of Diamondhead, and the hotels at Waikiki. Next time, I’ll send a 4×6 aspect image, likely with white blocks at the top and bottom to pad the image so the full pano fits onto the 20″x30″ print.
Ofoto obviously noticed the croppage, as they slipped in an informative document into the package, explaining about cropping and the various aspect ratios. They also mention an option called “Zoom & Trim” which can be set to “off” to turn off autocropping. That option apparently isn’t exposed by the iPhoto “order prints” interface…
It cost about $30CDN (delivered), and took about 2 weeks to get to me. I might also shop around for places that can do the print locally for instant gratification.
Update: Duh. Next time I order a print, I’ll just stack 2 or three panos to approximate the 4×6 aspect ratio, and pad the little bit extra as needed. No reason to throw away half of the print! 🙂
I just got back the 20″x30″ print of the panorama I shot at the top of Diamondhead (a series of photos stitched together automagically with Autostitch).
It looks absofriggin’ AWESOME. I mean, wow. Completely blown away at the quality of the print. Looks like a professional poster.
I goofed when I sent the image for printing through iPhoto, though – I forgot to manually crop or pad the image, so they just cropped it to fit the aspect ratio of the print, chopping off the mansions at the foot of Diamondhead, and the hotels at Waikiki. Next time, I’ll send a 4×6 aspect image, likely with white blocks at the top and bottom to pad the image so the full pano fits onto the 20″x30″ print.
Ofoto obviously noticed the croppage, as they slipped in an informative document into the package, explaining about cropping and the various aspect ratios. They also mention an option called “Zoom & Trim” which can be set to “off” to turn off autocropping. That option apparently isn’t exposed by the iPhoto “order prints” interface…
It cost about $30CDN (delivered), and took about 2 weeks to get to me. I might also shop around for places that can do the print locally for instant gratification.
Update: Duh. Next time I order a print, I’ll just stack 2 or three panos to approximate the 4×6 aspect ratio, and pad the little bit extra as needed. No reason to throw away half of the print! 🙂
My old clunky Olympus D-510Z is overdue for retirement. It’s only a 2 megapixel camera, and takes increasingly worse pictures. They’re fine if there’s a LOT of light, but otherwise, all bets are off.
So, I just cashed in my SDLW benefit (a University thing, where we get a small portion of our salary alotted to buying toystools to support our lifelong learning – computers, iPods and digital cameras appear to be the most popular way to do that).
I picked up a Fuji Finepix E510 – a nice compact 5 megapixel beauty, with a honking big 2″ screen (and it’s amazingly bright and clear). I like the controls, and the camera was reviewed well. Probably the best camera in the low-end price range – at least one of the best bang:buck ratios. (if I’d had more cash to allocate, I’d have sprung for the Canon Digital Rebel (or the XT), but that’s another story…)
Anyway, I look forward to taking a LOT more pictures, and am hoping they’ll turn out consistently better (at least photo-quality, if not aesthetically) than before. I’ll be taking the Fuji on the Sonoma State Pachyderm Developer’s Retreat on Monday, so there will likely be a Metric Boatload of new photos from the Bay Area uploaded over the next few days. I know it’s not going to turn me into a Kris Krug or anything, but at least I’m going to be having to throw out badly exposed/focussed photos as often…
Things I like so far:
Things I don’t like so far:
My old clunky Olympus D-510Z is overdue for retirement. It’s only a 2 megapixel camera, and takes increasingly worse pictures. They’re fine if there’s a LOT of light, but otherwise, all bets are off.
So, I just cashed in my SDLW benefit (a University thing, where we get a small portion of our salary alotted to buying toystools to support our lifelong learning – computers, iPods and digital cameras appear to be the most popular way to do that).
I picked up a Fuji Finepix E510 – a nice compact 5 megapixel beauty, with a honking big 2″ screen (and it’s amazingly bright and clear). I like the controls, and the camera was reviewed well. Probably the best camera in the low-end price range – at least one of the best bang:buck ratios. (if I’d had more cash to allocate, I’d have sprung for the Canon Digital Rebel (or the XT), but that’s another story…)
Anyway, I look forward to taking a LOT more pictures, and am hoping they’ll turn out consistently better (at least photo-quality, if not aesthetically) than before. I’ll be taking the Fuji on the Sonoma State Pachyderm Developer’s Retreat on Monday, so there will likely be a Metric Boatload of new photos from the Bay Area uploaded over the next few days. I know it’s not going to turn me into a Kris Krug or anything, but at least I’m going to be having to throw out badly exposed/focussed photos as often…
Things I like so far:
Things I don’t like so far:
