Julian Beever’s pavement drawings – great artwork and cool 3D drawing too, such as this coke bottle!
Tag Archives: Photography
Sony DSC-T3 vs Minolta Dimage z2
My sister’s boyfriend has the rather sexy black version of the Sony DSC-T3 digital camera. It’s got an absolutely huge LCD screen on the back, and it’s awfully slim. 7day shop <a href="http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=777_4_409_40908&products_id=99854"have it for about 359 Euro, but for a bit less I could get the much more capable Konica Minolta Dimage Z2 with it’s 10x optical zoom!
It’ll be a second camera to serve in situations when I don’t want to take an expensive Canon 20D out.
Which to choose? I’m very drawn to the Sony, as it’ll use the memory sticks I already own!
Matt – take a look at the Z2, looks like a good camera for you!
Later.. I don’t recommend 7dayshop any more. Read my 7dayshop review and please avoid them!
Topography of Ireland
Here’s a very large 3293×4168 topographical map of Ireland. It’s huge!
Here’s how they did it.
This is where I live!
How to improve the Google ranking of your portfolio site
The other Martin Taylor provides a short article on how to increase the visibility of your photo portfolio on Google. All basic stuff, but if you don’t know ’em they’re invaluable!
Camerapedia.org
Lovely! Camerapedia.org is a Camera encylopedia! See their page on the Sony F717 (still being repaired – two weeks without a camera, how have I survived?)
Got there via photobloggies and Mark Hancock. BTW – Vote for him in the photojournalism section!
Greycstoration : Fast Anisotropic Smoothing of Multi-Valued Images using Curvature-Preserving PDE's.
Basically, what Greycstoration algorithm does is describe how to do noise reduction and scaling of images very well. It also does a hell of a lot more and the demo page is very impressive!
There’s a GIMP plugin based on the work but I couldn’t get it to compile. He has another demo page too, which leads me to believe that I will spend some time trying to get this to work!
Later.. Note to self, install the development libraries before complaining!
# apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev
Camera Hacks
Camera Hacks – it’s a new WP powered site, but there’s a couple of good posts already.
(via Ryan)
Random Images
I still don’t have a working camera but I do have a camera phone..
The C64 disk drive was called the 1541. When I saw this car in front of me I had to snap it!
The recent Sudan Red 1 scare made many more people aware of how our food stuffs are made from ingredients from all over the world! This was a sign outside Tesco in Douglas, Cork.
Irish Photography
Ar an la seo, La Fheile Phadraig, ta about.com ag feachaint ar griangrafadoireacht Gaeileach agus na daoine sa tir seo a bhfuil baint acu leis.
(On this day, St. Patrick’s Day, about.com is looking at Irish photography and the people in this country involved in it.)
I didn’t get in to see the parade, it’s overcast, my camera is still in for repair and it was too easy to lie in bed and relax!
Cropping with an Aspect Ratio in the GIMP
Cropping with an Aspect Ratio in the GIMP – another easy to follow tutorial by Eric Jeschke, the GIMP Guru!
The crop tool in GIMP 2.2 has a handy “Aspect ratio” text box which I’ve used but this method is easier.