Looks like I’m not the only one who shies away from the confrontation of street photography. It is hard to do!
The SadOldTosser's Guide to Photography
Matt presents a guide to photography that everyone should read. It explains in gentle lessons how to get the most from your camera and improve your photography! Brilliant!
Some, such as Donncha … would appreciate some advice to help make their pictures just that little bit more professional and less amateurish at the same time.
An Ceili Mor – Part 2
FlickrUploadr – Linux Flickr.com uploader
FlickrUploadr is a Flickr upload tool written in Python and Gtk.
It runs on Linux and probably any platform that are supported by Python and Gtk which is most of the popular ones!
I haven’t tried it yet but have to admit I don’t mind the email uploader. Attach a load of photos and click Send. Simple.
(Thanks Donal!)
People's Republic of Cork Event Guide
PRC has an event guide!
Alongside Cork Gigs there’s absolutely no reason why you won’t know about any event in Cork!
23 Photo Sharing
23 is a new photo sharing site like flickr.com. It doesn’t have the fancy Flash interface that flickr Organize has but the free account allows you to upload 1024MB 15MB (The help page is out of date!) per month, and you can have as many albums as you want!
I uploaded a few photos already and it works well!
An Ceili Mor – Part 1
The Ceile Mor was held in Cork City last Saturday in an attempt to break the world record for the largest Irish dancing event ever! The organisers hoped to get over 10,000 partipants, but as it was, they managed 8,371 which was enough to beat the previous record held by the town of Dublin in the USA! Here’s a few pictures from the day. Ryan has plenty more shots too!
Click for a larger panoramic image (432K)
Feeling Down? Tubthumping!
Feeling down, tired, depressed, or tetchy like Ray and gang are on TodayFM? Listen to Chumbawumba’s Tubthumping and you’ll soon be jumping around and grinning!
I get knocked down
But I get up again
You’re never going to keep me down
PhotoJournalists.. what can happen
Ryan explains what can happen when you come into contact with the public.
It doesn’t happen very often, but somtimes people do freak out when I take their photo. The guy holding the balloons in this post last month stormed over and demanded to know why I was taking his photo. I didn’t want to state the obvious fact that he was a good subject with a few dozen balloons hanging off his arm. For some reason he was worried that his face would be photographed. He has an English accent, anyone from the UK recognise him?
I hate confrontation. Taking photos of people requires that you interact with them. They’re probably strangers so the first impression they get of you is very important. Some can pull it off, some thrive on it. It tires me so I prefer to be a coward and use my zoom lens.
Here’s a hint for any shy street photographers: Wrap the camera strap around your arm, and twirl it around to get rid of the the remaining slack. You can now hold your camera securely in your hand. If you do it right, it’s possible to face the camera forward with your finger or thumb on the shutter button. This photo and many others posted here were taken this way. Sneaky? Possibly. Morally objectionable? Not at all. I rely on my own judgement as to what I publish online or photograph so I consider that the method doesn’t matter.
I didn’t go into town last night – I was tired and when I heard that traffic was bad, well, Futurama and Scrubs were on and I vegged for the first time in ages.
RAW files thumbnailing
There are 3 ways of creating thumbnails of RAW image files in Nautilus, the Gnome file browser.
Not having thumbnails is very annoying so I’ll try some of these later. The Gnome RAW Thumbnailer looks like the best bet!