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Photography Links and stuff
The May issue of the Digital Journalist is now available. Unfortunately they don’t have a direct link to that issue but delve into the archives for past articles.
Digital to Analog – an essay exploring the transititon from film to digital. The author laments the attitude novice photographers have these days – it’s digital, it’s somehow “better” than film, but we’re “picture builders”, not “takers”.
I agree with him to a certain extent, but the freedom afforded to me by the digital medium and a half-decent camera has helped me get much better in my art.
I understand completely how choosing a simple camera, without automatic controls of any sort, will force a photographer to learn “how” to take photographs properly. When I want to experience that I simply set my camera to Manual mode and I get a lot more control over the camera. That doesn’t help my technique or eye of course. That comes with time and practice and I think I’ll never stop developing that!
If you consider a picture as a frozen moment in time… Can you alter that moment? Yes and no. Yes, you can tweak the image in a darkroom or in Photoshop… But more importantly: you can never capture THAT moment again.
Early Morning in Blarney
The sun rises on a beautiful summer day!
Imagemap mouseovers – "You are here!"
So, I want to “do something” when someone mouse-overs parts of an image. How? This answers that question nicely methinks! Should have thought of it myself but had my head stuck in other business all day!
<area shape=”rect” coords=”15,15,85,85″ href=”default.htm” onMouseOver=”do_something()”></area>
Will Digital Images Last?
Only this morning I searched through my 35mm photos for photos from my holiday in Barcelona and I had to smile or grimace as I flicked through several years of photos – Paris, Spain, Chicago, Ireland.. All memories, good and bad. That’s fine for a once in a while trip down nostalgia lane but searching my digital images is easier.
Lance Ulanoff asks, Will Digital Images Last? in this PC Mag article. My 35mm snaps all fit in a small box but my digital archive already requires 3 DVDs to backup. What do we lose by not having the tactile feel of photos?
(via Photography Blog)
Sed one-liners
Cool! Several handy one-liners for use in Sed, the stream editor.
# double space a file
sed G# double space a file which already has blank lines in it. Output file
# should contain no more than one blank line between lines of text.
sed ‘/^$/d;G’# triple space a file
sed ‘G;G’# undo double-spacing (assumes even-numbered lines are always blank)
sed ‘n;d’
Ye Shall Pay!
The Real Capital! (Sort of!)
Justin points out that Sky News Ireland needs a guidebook! Hehe.
Woo! Look at those wages!
So, where the hell can I go to be payed as much as the people surveyed in this report? What do I have to do? Sell my soul? (aka – use Windows ;))
Nick Berg
Here’s a harrowing and horrible description of the video of Nick Berg’s murder. I think once you’ve read it you won’t want to watch the movie. I certainly don’t. (via John)
Later… blogrunner has lots more to say.. (via referer links)
Later Still… Wikipedia Page about the man.