Category Archives: Photography

Right across from City Hall I found this inscription on a metal bollard. An online search for that name didn’t bring up anything of use but maybe someone can point me in the right direction?

60 years ago yesterday Paris was liberated from the Nazis and their collaborators. Here’s photos from that time.

Someone asked on STF about the differences between Standard and Fine digital camera compression. A reply pointed to this page showing examples of each. I don’t think the example photos are great however, being rather flat and hazy. I agree with his conclusion though, except the resolution issue – I may want to print out my photos in the future!
This guide gives a reasonable idea how well your photos will print out. I haven’t printed any 11×14″ or 16×20″ photos yet, but you never know. I think I’ll stick with 2560×1920 pixels and standard compression! That’s a good compromise between resolution, quality and file size.
I almost forgot. The Sony F717 has a “2560(3×2)” mode. This is actually 2560×1712. Looks like widescreen tv and doesn’t save much space but could be handy if you knew you were making 6×4″ prints later.

Despite all the showers and bad weather, Jacinta and I went to Doneraile Park on Sunday afternoon. It’s a beautiful park, and was owned and developed by a family with a famous daughter.

Here’s an editorial piece on photography in public areas. It’s lengthy but it and the comments explore the subject well.
There’s a lengthy thread on the Street Photographers list after a number of members were stopped by police. Trouble, trouble, trouble.

All because some paranoid daytime-TV-watching shut-in saw someone outside with a camera. And because the local TV news tells him to report any suspicious activity said fear consumer dutifully calls the police. After all why would someone want to take pictures of anything other than their family and those Kodak spots at Disney?

This is even worse that some third-world banana republic. At least there you can usually bribe your way out.

Great photos at Black and White Photography – New York and London. Wow.

Lots of photos in this presentation. Got bored waiting for it to load, will take a look tonight!

Some of the things recommended by the author on this list are plain weird but at least they’ll give you some ideas too!

The readers of PhotographyBLOG gave camera phones the thumbs down in the last poll there. But look at the quality of the photos here! Wow, pretty amazing if they’re real! (Warning .. lots of images on that page!)
The camera in my 6600 is fairly crap, it’s good for snapshots when-I-absolutely-can’t-use-a-proper-camera but nothing else IMO.