The very talented Andy WIlliams astounds yet again with a gorgeous photo of the Golden Gate bridge and the city behind it.
He’s also taken the trouble to post the picture before he processed it so you can see what a difference that makes. Wow!
PRCs Guide to Oxegen
I’m a little late noticing this PRCs Guide to Oxegen but it’ll still be useful if you going next year. Lots of great advice…
- Despite this unpleasant factor of being near Dublin music festivals like Oxegen are pure daycint though.
- If you have a tent don’t assume thieves won’t just open (or slash) your tent and take stuff from inside.
- Blacked out windows essential in case some other feen sees your Winnie the Pooh pyjamas and you sucking your thumb like a baba.
- Food is the job cos it keeps you going like.
- Kildare is in the Greater Dublin area which is a significantly closer to the arctic circle than Cork therefore you can expect a temperature drop.
quarlo — photos — new york city
quarlo — photos — new york city – Great photo blog from NY. Lovely photos, many highly saturated, others b/w. All imaginative!
Photography Composition Articles Library
There are simply too many articles here for me to ignore this site… One of these days.
And here’s Photography 101 – a summary of lots of general camera info. Good read.
And another 10 tips for the photographer!
Bertie Ahem
It’s not Bertie Ahem, it’s Bertie Ahern! 🙂
… The Taoiseach, Mr. Bertie Ahem, TD, has asked me to thank you for sending him …
(Thank you Colm for the link!)
Shooting digital in Iraq: Ben Lowy
Here’s what started out to be a dry story that listed the equipment Ben Lowy uses in the field, but later he opens up and give an account of a terrifying but challenging time for him. Great photos too, and not all what you’d expect from Iraq.
“There is a certain attraction to doing conflict photography,” he says. “I think anybody who says there isn’t, doesn’t really look at themselves. You’re your own personal Arnold Schwarzenegger. You get to run headlong into danger. And there’s something really attractive about that. But you also have a tremendous priviledge to be witnessing history for everyone else in the world.”
Do your pictures tell a story?
Photofocus Magazine has a thoughtful article here. Tell a story with your photos.
Why tell stories with your camera? Well, for one thing, people who look at pictures will enjoy looking at a story over a snapshot any day. Telling stories with your camera forces you to slow down and think about what you are doing. What is it about this scene that makes you want to make a photograph? What moves you or attracts your eye? Is there a theme, a phrase or a point of view that you want to capture and preserve?
Asking these types of questions will almost always lead to a better photograph.
Foundphotos – peek into their lives
Foundphotos is kinda strange. It states that, “these were found by doing a search using p2p programs. people share their own personal digital photos in their shared folders, i guess they put them there for friends or family to download or just select their whole my documents folder as shared.”
After scrolling down through the first few photos I got this feeling that I was getting a look into the lives of strangers and other cultures. People from all walks of life are featured here in all kinds of situations – snashots of family, personal encounters, public events and down right silly goings on at times.
Mostly safe for work but no guarantees!
Now we can all download the Internet!
Prompted by a question asked by Keith on #linux,
“ok well tell me a few good linux ditros that you can get everything for?”
I went searching and found a way that everyone can download the Internet themselves! It’s quite amazing that they’ve managed to do this but if you’re new to computers and you’re bored of trying to delete the Internet this is for you!
Mozilla and WinXP Flaw
This bug/flaw could be serious if you run Mozilla on Windows XP. It lets web pages run any program without user intervention. There’s a fix so go download it! You can take some consolation in the fact that not many blackhats are going to exploit a browser with 1% share of the general Internet browsing population however!