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The knot conspiracy – Wedding Photos From Both Sides
Oooh, this thread on dpreview caused a bit of a stir! Someone linked to this thread on theknot.com about copying the photos taken by professional wedding photographers. For some reason the original message is gone but the replies remain.
In this digital world it’s getting harder and harder to prevent copyright theft, and even though the bride and groom paid for the photos, the copyright for those photos remains with the photographer.
Woofy had a good idea – offer images on CD, perhaps only low-res ones with prints later. Darrell refined the idea by suggesting he provide one or two high quality prints as well.
At the end of theknot.com thread several photographers joined in, no doubt from dpreview, their comments are worth reading, if only to remind oneself that for these people, photography is a business.
These linked generated a great conversation on #linux, which did *not* descend into puns or jokes, although that could be because Kevin wasn’t around..
Pseudo-IR Tutorial
Nice! This tutorial describes how to convert a “normally shot” photograph into an infra-red photo. It uses Photoshop, but the techniques described can be done in the GIMP too! Here’s a few more bits too.
While we’re on the subject, here are the top 10 signs you spend too much time at STF! hehe.
Online Photo Magazines
Why buy paper magazines when there’s so much good stuff being published online? That’s what I want to know! Here in Ireland we have to pay tax on magazines that adds an exorbitant cost to magazines from the UK.
Mark noticed that Vivid Light Photography #38 is out now, and Photo Focus is for me, like Mark, a mag I’d never come across before!
Perl and PHP Stuff
Via delicious this morning I have two titbits for your consumption!
Movable Type Ported to PHP – Apparently they’ve done what appears to be a nearly complete port of MT from Perl (bless it) to PHP. This port appears to include support for all current MT tags, it relies on Justin Vincent’s ezSQL DB library and Smarty templates, and even supports a plug-in API.
Why PHP still stinks – from a Perl coder’s perspective. 😉
Libertarian Presidential Candidate Michael Badnarik Answers
In this Slashdot Questions & Answers session a US presidential candidate I had never heard of answers the questions of /. readers..
You’ve stated that in your first couple months of holding office you’ll eliminate the federal reserve, kick the U.N. out of the country, and bring as many of our troops home as possible, among other radical (but good) changes.
The Official God FAQ
This FAQ could be useful the next time you’re arguing with someone on theological matters!
The Home Computer in 2004!
Oh wow! So this is what home computers will look like in 2004! I want, I want, I want!
These are going to be so amazing! And that balding man in the suit really inspires me to go out now and buy one! (via Fuzzbucket!)
How to Build a Successful Website by Chris Beasley
How to Build a Successful Website – lots of good points here. Worth a read!
(via Angie)
GIMP Intelligent Background Eraser
Here’s a plugin for the GIMP that you can use to erase the background.. a Windows .exe is included, and source but not a Makefile. My interest doesn’t extend to writing one unfortunately!
Gimp plugin for “intelligent Erasor”
replace the selection with an interpollated background. If the border along the selection is relatively continuous, i.e. a pretty boring background, then this tool works as an erasor.