Good article from The Register on how volatile and prone to loss our digital data is. Who’ll keep our data safe after us? Digital Banks? Will our descendents have photo albums to look at?
Tag Archives: Photography
DIY Flash Diffuser
One of the tips here is using the end of a shampoo bottle as a flash diffuser. Must remember to try that one. I like the idea of using a Nokia hands-free lead as a remote control for the Canon 300D! I wonder would something similar work for my 717?
Then I went searching and found all sorts of interesting things!
Oh yes. a few more tips for you. View source if you don’t want to watch the annoying vertical scroller!
GIMP Lomo Plugin
mF posted a Lomo plugin for the GIMP. His example images on flickr look good but I haven’t been able to get the script to run in GIMP 2.0, will try in GIMP 2.2 tonight.
script-fu: Error while executing
(load “/home/donncha/.gimp-2.0/scripts/lomo2.scm”)
ERROR: unbound variable (errobj script-fu-menu-register)GIMP: Plug-In “script-fu”
(/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/script-fu)attempted to install procedure “script_fu_lomo” in an invalid menu location.
Use either “<Toolbox>”, “<Image>”, “<Load>”, or “<Save>”
Update! Here is a GIMP Lomo plugin that works in GIMP 2.4!
Seashore – GIMP derived Cocoa app
Seashore is described as, “an open source image editor for Cocoa. … based around the GIMP’s technology” which is a boon for some but others will run screaming for the hills. 🙂
Night Photography
Here’s a rather good guide to night photography. The guys at Anandtech have impressed me before with their writing and this article is a good introduction to the basics.
Gimp# – write .net/mono plugins!
Gimp# is a C# wrapper around the GIMP API.
It’ll allow you to write GIMP plugins using C# 🙂
Excellent Photoshop Post Processing Tutorial
Take a quick look at this tutorial, then open the beach image in Photoshop or GIMP and follow the instructions. You’ll learn a lot about post-processing!
My biggest surprise was when I added the “soft light” layer. Painting on it brought out detail or deepened shadow nicely!
It's Freezing Out!
Taken in my garden this morning as my breath turned to mist and the world was frosty white.
10 MORE Ways to Make Money with Your Digital Cameras
Following on from the original article, here are 10 more ways to make money with your digital camera!
Hmm, I could do some of these things!
At The End Of The Day
Yesterday was a glorious day. It was one of those rare days when the sun shone, and blue skies were the rule. It finished with this lovely sunset as I drove home.
So of course I had to stop and risk life and limb by running onto a narrow bridge while rush hour traffic edged past carefully. I think it was worth the trouble, don’t you?