APOD had two interesting photos over the last few days:
Jintle has a lot more space photos too!
If you have a camera, run a photoblog or you’re in town, there will be a meet up tomorrow in Cork!
Everyone will gather in front of the Clarion Hotel at 2pm tomorrow where we’ll plan our photographic assault on the city!
It’s also the Jazz Weekend here in Cork so there’ll be plenty of interesting subjects to shoot!
For more info, and a map, look at this Upcoming.org page, or Ryan’s Blog!
See you there!
I Like the look of those Flickr badges running on a lot of sites. I don’t like that it uses Flash though so imagine my delight when I came across the WordPress Flickr DHTML Badge Plugin. It’s easy to install and configure, and only needs one line added to your sidebar.php to activate!
I’m already running it on In Photos and it’s great!
And in case that’s not enough, here’s some more Flickr goodness!
You are cordially invited to attend the launch of Mr. Donncha O Caoimh’s new website, In Photos.
Please be aware that gentlemen are required to wear proper evening attire, and ladies must be appropriately dressed also. Drinks and refreshments will be served on the lawn after the game of polo. The photo exhibition will begin as soon as you click the link above so don’t be in a hurry, there’s plenty of time and lots to see.Please enjoy this brand new website dedicated to all aspects of photography.
Thank You.
I entered the Photo Friday ‘Darkness’ competition a few days ago with my Flight Over Water photo from a few days ago.
Hope I get a couple of votes but some of the competing photos are very good!
Wow! I’m impressed! FAlbum is a Flickr plugin for WordPress. It’s simple to install and configure, except make sure you put the rewrite rules above any WP ones, especially if you’re using WP 1.6!
It displays your Flickr albums, most recent photos, and lots of other pretty stuff, all inside your blog!
There’s a longer feature list above, and a few demo pages. This is definitely one project I’m going to keep an eye on for the future!
Later… The FAlbum plugin is now running on my new photography site In Photos displaying all my Flickr photos in a nice album!
In Behind the photograph #001, Paul Watson shows how he processed a dramatic sunset photo. It is Photoshop specific but some of the techniques work in the GIMP too – that b/w burn layer tip is very dramatic!
October 1st is here and Ray and co were on the radio this morning encouraging everyone to get out there and take some photos! They were originally meant to broadcast from 11 to 1, but they locked themselves in the studio until 2pm! The discussion did degenerate into talking about handbags but it was great anyway!
I bumped into Ryan but he went his own way after half an hour. To be honest, it wasn’t a great day for me – frequent showers meant I had to wear a jacket, but between showers it was reasonably warm. Add that to a late night last night and I was struggling to keep my interest going. I have a few good shots which I will submit to Today FM, and eventually they’ll appear here too, but as Ryan said, there wasn’t much happening in the city.
It’s looking like a nice evening so I may take a walk about later around Blarney, you never know what might happen!
Edit: There’s a possible 51 shots from my walk around town that I’ll edit and submit. I have to work on them properly, but Bibblelite does a great job batch converting RAW files to Jpeg, and getting the colour balance right. Dcraw and UFraw both have problems with auto-wb on the Canon 20D in my experience.
Later still… I realised today (Sunday), that ufraw doesn’t keep the exif data when I import RAW files into the GIMP. If they check that for date and time info they might presume I was cheating and posting older images. I could tell them, “RAW images on request” I suppose.
Industry Push and Pull – great piece on how things are chugging along in the photography industry. Digicams get bigger sensors, DSLRs have to compete, full-size 35mm sensors won’t always be expensive..
This Flickr: Technique discussion talks about blending two exposures to maximise highlights and shadows.
It’s a simple but very effective technique, and of course if you use RAW files then you’ll already have an advantage over Jpeg.