Tag Archives: Photography

My friend Niamh’s sister got a puppy a few weeks ago. Here he is, Snoopy, the cute little thing! Really hard to get a good shot of a fast moving, almost non-stop creature. Thankfully he stopped to chew on an autumn leaf !

In the latest SMP article, Mike Johnston asks what else do photographers need?
I think, for most people digital photography is here, today. I certainly haven’t thought about bringing a film camera on holiday in years!

Get down on your knees, get dirty, scuffed, slip and slide. All for a photo.
Not this one, mind, but it happens occasionally!

This Wired article explores the oft-asked question, “what do I do with all my photos?” The guys at the Bettmann Archive have a much harder job than I do at sorting their photos!

Jenny Drake wrote an illustrated tutorial on Changing sky colour with the Gimp.
She does a great job of explaining her technique but I think she had a tough job as the sky was really washed out, – compositing two images, one for the landscape, one for the sky would have resulted in a better image maybe!
Still, something to try later..

Trees reaching up from the ground to the sun soaked hills.

Common sense tips from Shirley. When I travel I tend to bring along as much memory as possible, batteries and a charger, and if I get the opportunity, I’ll burn my photos onto several CDs, carrying one on my person/hand luggage and another in stowed luggage. But that’s just paranoid me!

Megapixel Myths is an introduction of digital cameras, probably useful for someone new to the genre and looking for a new camera.
This Megapixel Myths site is a lot more involved – the author goes over many aspects of digital vs film photography, including the costs of each..

Let’s look at two scenarios to see how the cost of digital and traditional photography balance out over the first year. Notice that I said cost, not value. Cost is the total amount of money you spend. Value is what you receive in return. Cost is empirical; value is subjective.

My camera has probably halved in value in the year that I’ve owned it, but if I had a nice 35mm film camera it may not have gone down in value so much! (That said, film cameras are getting cheaper as digital becomes more popular!)

While the girls ate sandwiches and drank tea I wandered off with my camera..

This lengthy articlegoes into detail about sharpening using PS. It translates to The GIMP, but the dialogs are very different.