Here’s a good and lengthy article on Digital Panoramas. There are several good tips about taking the photo as well as a walk through using PTAssembler.
Me? I’m still stuck using the GIMP, CBA learning Panotools as I seem to get “good enough” results without them!
The author has a blog post about the article, with links to other stuff he’s written on the subject!
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James Nachtwey – Photography Gallery
Not sure where I found this link, might have been del.icio.us. James Nachtwey has an online gallery and his images are well worth a look. Be warned that it’s not all roses and honey in his world…
Vivid Light Photograpy #36
The latest Vivid Light magazine is online and there’s certainly a few interesting articles. Mark quoted from two of the articles but I had a quick read of the Nude vs. Naked story. Judging by the comments left, it’s a hot issue among readers of the mag, although to be honest the nudes were very tasteful and hardly worthy of the negative attention they received.
Then again.. “ohmygod! is that Janet Jackson’s nipple?” *shock*
Bush in lala land?
Or in other words, he can’t see the reality he created.
In this review of a speech Bush made a few days ago William Saletan counters and analyzes the words and ideas of the American President.
It really looks like they won’t learn from the past, if they continue to delude themselves about what they’ve done in Iraq, but I’ll leave it to the above article to say it best.. (Was this the speech where Bush tripped over saying, “Abu Ghraib”? That was mentioned on the radio yesterday morning.)
Via Scott who mentions that The New York Times has reconsidered, “the WMD hysteria that marked some of its prewar coverage and marred its reputation.” Even Dave Winer picked up on this which makes me cringe about linking to it!
While we’re on the subject, I started on Mark Little’s Zulu Time – it’s turning out to be a good book, and I’ll post a slightly more detailed review when I finish it!
Photographic Filters, Adapters, Usage…
Really good and lengthy article on camera filters. I’ve only read a bit of it but it’s enlightening. I have to disagree with his assertion that protective filters not be used. I agree that they degrade image quality somewhat but I’d rather have the security of that uv filter..
Cache Bashing Google API Used In SEO War!
This is a nasty way to get your Google ranking up! Copy content from your competitors sites and once you have a higher Google ranking than them Google will discard your competitor’s sites because of the duplicate rule.
This tactic suggests to me at least two major dangers – the first is that your competitors can copy your site, cloak it, and possibly knock your site out with Google’s duplicate content filter. I’m looking into this more, so don’t get all worried. I’m not sure how widespread or dangerous this could be.
No. 10000
I didn’t let up much after taking over 6,500 photos last year I’m already over halfway there this year. The photo below is the 10,000th photo to be taken with my Sony F717. It’s rather unremarkable except that I learnt a lot today about using the histogram, and the GIMP distort tool is very handy for correcting uneven horizons!
More to follow, maybe.
Purely by coincidence, someone asked on STF about the lifespan of a 717 camera. It looks like there’s plenty of life left in mine!
Crash Testing: MINI Cooper vs Ford F150
In this crash test a much smaller Mini^h^h^h^hMINI came off much better than a Ford pickup in a simulated 40mph crash. Look at how both cars crumpled! I wouldn’t like to be in that Ford.
Owen, you can get me a good deal on a new car then? 🙂
How to remove lens flare
Here’s a good tutorial from Andy Williams on the STF. It’s illustrated by screenshots and looks like a good use of the clone tool, and cleanup using layers and other tools.
Good stuff!
The Last Friends…
The last episode of Friends aired a few minutes ago. I used to be a fan years ago, but to be honest I haven’t watched it much in a while. Good episode though.