For those of you who think brand is more important than function, this Ferrari branded camera is just what you’ve been looking for!
In “stylish” Ferrari red with the same logo plastered all over it you can’t help but be noticed by fellow tourists and passers-by as you raise your camera to snap a few photos.. oooh! ahhh!
Author Archives: Donncha
B2++ 0.8.1 out!
Although it’s a minor update, the latest release of b2++ should be installed by everyone running b2++. I have provided a very simple upgrade package as well with only the changed files so you’ve no excuse not to upgrade!
Check the download page for links!
Changes:
- Referer display of Google and Yahoo queries nicer.
- Cosmetic changes to backend pages.
- Added Photoblog plugin.
Soldiers escape injury in sarin attack
BreakingNews.ie: Soldiers escape injury in sarin attack – Oooh.. nasty surprise for the soldiers involved. Includes background info on Sarin:
colourless and odourless gas… 500 times as toxic as cyanide…
An estimated 5,000 civilians were killed and 10,000 injured when the Iraqi air force bombarded Halabja with mustard and other poison gases, including sarin.
More hoaxes that fooled the worldly wise British media
So, the editor of the Daily Mirror has stepped down because of the fake photos of British troops torturing Iraqis. Let’s not forget the many other hoaxes the British media fell for!
Why you should never put your picture on the Internet …
Several good reasons why not here! 🙂
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’