A photoblog by Alex Jones, a photojournalist in the US. Great photos and commentary.
Author Archives: Donncha
Panoramic Photos
Two panoramic shots:
- Paris By Night – a very wide panoramic shot of Paris taken by someone.
- My office as photographed a few minutes ago and stitched together using autostitch!
How do I take/edit great photographs?
How do I take/edit great photographs? – MetaFilter thread with some good points.
Autostitch – stitching photos made easy, even in Linux!
The quite amazing autostitch is a piece of Windows software that stitches together photos into a nice panoramic image. I don’t know how it works but it’s truely amazing! What’s even better, it runs in Linux if you use Wine!
It’s as simple as clicking File->Open, selecting the images to open, then clicking Stitch->Start to create a panorama.
Here’s an example from the Donoughmore Vintage Festival a few days ago:
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Blogs About Photography
Here’s a few blogs and sites about photography. I know most of them, but there are a few new ones such as Boo’s site which is a veritable mine of information!
Vim folding redux
The Island .. I won! I won!
I won tickets on Red FM a few minutes ago to go see a preview of The Island on August 10th! Woo!
JavaScript Password Generator
I had need to create lots of passwords recently. Why should I poke randomly at my keyboard when someone already has a generator I can use? 🙂
Ootips – Object Orientation Tips
Ootips – Object Orientation Tips.. my primary development language these days is PHP, so my OO skills aren’t called upon as much as they used to. Still should be useful stuff here for everyone!
D’Arcy Norman Dot Net » Blog Archive » Multiuser weblog software is heating up again…
D’Arcy Norman looks at the multi-blog universe again. He’s examining a few systems and I like his simple litmus test:
If a user’s first reaction to the software is something like “GAH!” they are less likely to use it.