Category Archives: Photography

Hmm, smugmug.com has a nice gallery layout. Hawker’s photo galleries is an example I came across on STF. Drill down into each gallery – thumbnails are printed alongside a larger image. Click on any thumbnail and the page reloads with the large image visible to the right of the thumbnails. Cool.

Seems that some members of STF are having problems with their new F828 cameras. 🙁 It appears that not everyone is having those problems, but the camera firmware is user upgradeable so that may fix the problems!

I was in town this afternoon shopping and as I queued at the ATM in Paul St. I heard an almighty roar from Patrick St. As soon as I got my money I rushed down to be confronted with a large group of bikes making their way down the main thoroughfare of the city!

As a side-note, this is the first time I tried the “shoot and pan” trick with my camera. I set the exposure time to 1/30 second and as the bikes went past I panned the camera as I took the shot. Most of the time it didn’t work too well, but the picture of Santa above came out well IMO!

Despite what #linux thought this discussion was about, it’s actually about photographing hawks, owls, ospreys and other wild fowl. Here’s a tip I must try out, whenever it gets bright again in these parts..

…When shooting against a bright sky, compensate by 1.3 to 1.7EV….

I think that’s up the EV, but another post suggests turning it down by that amount. Who’s right?

Amazing panoramic photo of the aurora!

Why didn’t it occur to me to pull the string of the lens cap so it wouldn’t dangle down and knock against my camera?

I was down in Cobh with my brother the other night and while he talked to a friend I setup the tripod to take a few shots. In the distance you can see Spike Island, home to one of the prisons that will be soon shut. I thought the foreground bars provided a nice frame for such an institution.

Some excellent portraits posted on STF today! The author gave them as an example of DOF, but I think he was looking at the wrong parts of these strong photos!

Here’s a good course for schools to teach digital photography skills using the GIMP! It is of course useful even if you are past that particular part of your life too!