The reliability of CDRs and writeable digital media in general came up for discussion on Slashdot yesterday (as it does every 6 months or so), but Mark posts that CD-Rs may become unreadable after only 2 years! Damn, that’s scary as I’m archiving my photos to DVD-R now. I’ll probably rewrite my photos next year just to be safe. Check out Mark’s post for a comment I left there with more..
Tag Archives: Photography
Cloning Out The Can
What to do? Leave the can in or get rid of it? Interesting essay as I cloned a car out of one of the photos to appear in a few days here. It also gave me the opportunity to rotate and brighten the original image too. I hadn’t noticed the awful slope of the far shore!
Street Photographer Interviews
Several excellent interviews of street photographers in the latest Popular Photography Magazine. (via PhotographyBlog)
Later… I noticed one piece of advice that was repeated in several of the interviews. You should manually focus your camera to 2 or 3 meters, and set the exposure before hand. That’ll certainly avoid the 1-3 second lag while the auto-focus kicks in, especially in low light.
Sile Selida
So, does anyone remember a snail on Bosco’s show years ago called Sile?
Meanwhile in Blarney..
Photography stuff
Various articles and magazine updates via Photography Blog:
- Secrets of Success – ” What does it take to succeed as a photographer?” or succeed in any field for that matter as the list is fairly generic!
- How To Reproduce A Tone – Interesting use colour tools.
- Vivid Light #35 is available with some good articles. .. and it can be just damn bad luck that images get lost although I do admit I rarely delete photos!
Later… Mark posted 24 photos from the past year. He took 10,000 photos with his Canon EOS 10D and here’s his favourites. (ok, that 10,000 photos beats me by a few thousand! You must have a very patient girlfriend!)
Old Man
The Bees! The Bees!
If you go into the woods today, you never know what you might find! You might even get stung by these little creatures.
I lay on the ground about 2 inches from the flower as I took this and when he fell from the flower I made sure to get up quickly!
Keeping photos of exes?
This is the first time I’ve come across this subject online, and this thread has some excellent replies.
Wish dpreview had a flat-mode. I hate loading lots of pages to read a thread. It’s a pain on dialup and for archiving!
Photo.net – Photo Of The Week
This is an amazing action shot of a horse race! Wow!As the author says, “A wide angle put to good use in difficult conditions.” I can only imagine!