Photography – Page 52 – Something Odd!

iPod, uPod, we allPod

While Mark is rubbing his hands in glee playing with his new computer, Apple released the new iPod. At $600 the price’s a little steep and makes the iRiver H320’s $299 price tag look a lot more attractive. I can squirt photos on to both, and I doubt I’d be away from a PC long enough to fill the 20GB capacity of that device with images.
Metafilter discussion here, along with some insightful comments and links.
I mentioned the H320 before: 1 2

Bah. That U2 iPod is ugly. I am going to buy some sort of mp3 player soon to take jogging and with me to work, I haven’t decided what to get. I do not think I want to buy an iPod, I do not like the looks of them, I have no interest in iTunes and the damn aac files.

Later… Hehe, User Friendly is funny.

Justifications for shooting RAW

I don’t have any choice, my camera only shoots jpeg, but if you can, shooting raw is a good way to go to improve your photos! This article
by Tommy covers some of the issues, although I find myself thinking things are “good enough” most of the time with jpeg.

Photographing a Lunar Eclipse

It’s very difficult to photograph the moon, not least of which because it’s so far away! Your eyes deceive you when you look at it – sure, it might look as big as the street light but wih distance there’s a lot less light getting to you. This article on photographing the moon is very good and explains the phenomenon well.
Here’s a picture I took on Monday evening in Monkstown. The moon was rising, and after it re-appeared from behind some black clouds I snapped this photo. Originally, the photo had a lot of noise, but by blurring, and “burning” two layers in the GIMP I think I got a nice background and noise free image! Of course, reducing it in size helps a lot to hide that sort of thing!
Enjoy the picture, it’s all we’ll see in Ireland with the storm building outside!

APOD has a diagram showing where and when the eclipse will be visible.
Here’s another article on moon photography. Nice, if fake looking photos.
Mr Eclipse “The Ultimate Resource For Eclipse Photography”

Thoughts on Full Frame

A very lengthy Sunday Morning Photographer article this month, with rebuttals back and forth. Obviously a heated and passionate subject!
(Via Mark)

Morguefile Photography Classroom

Morguefile.com has what looks like an excellent photography course by Jodie Coston.
I briefly skimmed over lesson 1 and was very impressed. It’s something I’m going to come back to again and again.

World's Most Reliable CD-R From Delkin

According to this press release, Delkin make the “most reliable CDR in the world!”
Excuse me while I don’t believe you and make duplicate copies of all my photos. Anyway, CDR is simple too small for my archival needs. DVD-R is what I need and use and I’m due to make my annual copies of my current archive in the next few weeks.
I really should buy a CD box to store all that media..

That Lovely Glow Effect

Here’s a nice “glowing” effect and described well. Nice simple trick and easily duplicated in the GIMP too!

Samsung develops world's first five-megapixel camera phone

Wow, a new Samsung phone will have a 5MP camera! I might as well dump my camera now eh?
Mark’s got a photo of the camera itself.

Clampdown on Photographer's Rights in New York City

This piece by Thomas Hawk is yet again another story of a photographer being stopped in New York. I wanted to take photo of Grand Central when I was in New York last year but I never made it over there. Looks like I’ll have to get a permit if I decide to go there again!

Photos From STF

Here’s some photos from Shell, Wyoming in the US. The author covered lots of bases – abstract, macro, long exposure water, night shots. Superb!
14 photos and a story from Cairo. Lovely shots of people and places.