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my office as art
2008-07-12 06:16:00 For Photo Friday 's topic office. This is a thrid genertion image, that is designed to be viewed from a cyclinderical mirror (any shinny tube will do) placed in the center of the small inner circle. Looking at this mirror you should then get a fairly convining view that you are looking at a three dimensioanl room's reflection. The image began as a series of 4 photos that were stiched together using AutoStitch, to produce and ultrawide angle view. This was then transformed into a polar project using Anamorph ME. Normally my office looks more like this, a "little" less tidy and well used, and perhaps even more out of focus. Still it is my place and I am happy to work here. More About: Office
Going (any)Phone friendly
2008-07-11 02:48:00 No I haven't succumbed to all the hype, but I have researched how you make your blog more mobile friendly, one way is to use google reader, but the reader has to do that. A much nicer way for bloggers is to use mofuse, its a kind of mobile friendly wrapping that drops the side bars and other cyber noise and bandwidth consumers. The result is a the basic post with enough navigation via number key shortcuts to make browsing from the phone nice and easy. Best of all the thumbnails of the posted images are nice and legiable. The phone bill will thank you. PS: In a shameless bit of network cross promotion that show off Alvin wants to bore you with his new IPhone . More About: Friendly
iphone spam'alanche
2008-07-08 23:03:00 I'm sure, like me, if you are on-line and in Australia you will have been the unwilling recipient of an avalanche of hype, (ie expensive spam) about the release of the 3G iphone here . And if you can't wait till friday, apparently optus will start selling phones on midnight thursday (ok it is technically friday but much earlier). However there is one very important thing the iphone hype forgets to mention, like telstra's qriuos hype before it. In Australia mobile phone plans come with ridiculously highly priced and low quoted data rates (so check out the bad news before you get excited) and I totally agree with Stephen Collins, the first telco to offer decent data rates "will own the market" Iphone could be also be the watershed for digital photography, tens of thousands of photos are already being uploaded each day to flickr from Iphones. The camera specs are nothing flash but as any good photographer knows 90% of the picture quality comes from how the camera user "sees" t...
more on hardlinking
2008-07-08 05:24:00 The technology of QRcodes are being hyped for advertising and marketing , (and making moneyfor telstra). Yet it has wide application, there is a Mobile Barcode Add On for firefox, that lets you get a QRcvode on the fly from any website you visit. Also google as a neat QR code generator, part of google chart api, that lets a developer a code that can ge generated in the HTML on a webpage. There plenty of standalone applets such as barshow. The use of the codes are definitely not limited to the web. Infact it is better if they are on physical objects, not just billboard. They can even be merges with photos (as above). You don't even have to use them for connection to a web, they could just be a copyright notice that you embedded in your photos as a graphic watermark. You might need to experiment with this because the code will need to be large enough to be readable, but small enough to not be obtrusive. If japan is anything to go on the biggest applications might be for se...
Variation on a Spiral
2008-07-07 19:20:00 Two photos joined with the windows live gallery panorama tool. Yes they don't line up but I like that. For photofriday's topic spiral
Proud Protea
2008-07-07 03:26:00 Having survived a hot dry summer, the Protea shows its fortitude to the cold. More About: Proud
QRious'r & QRious'r
2008-07-06 08:46:00 I am finding all the hype by telstra about "their" QRious codes just a bit hard to stomach. I like the idea of these QR codes and have posted about them last year. Despite what telecom implies they are very late adopters of the technology, not creators of it. You don't even have to buy a new phone (or sign up for an outrageous contract). Ok these new 3G phones will have QR reader built in, but if your phone has a camera and web access you probably are ready to go. You just need to download some software. If you are with Telstra, and are happy with them you can type in the tediously long www.mobius.telstra.com.au on your phone's web browser and if your phone model fits there current limitations, it will be delivered to your phone. Alternative there are free sites that provide generic downloadable readers, like i-nigma & Kaywa. [Also Quickmark, see deans collin's comments on this blog, he obviously has an interest in marketing qr codes.] One final item you shou...
capturing colour
2008-07-02 08:09:00 Don't be surprised if you have been disappointed capturing specific colours with your camera. The truth is that cameras do have different colour sensitivity. Most digital camera use a bayer filter to separate the colours into pixels and this has twice as many green sensors as red and blue sensor in an attempt to mimic the human eyes greater sensitivity to colour and especially greens. Worse the colour sensitivity changes with the intensity of the light and that is before you even start to worry about the colour temperature of the light source. The set below were taken with 1.50EV braketting of the same subject but in indirect light. The light meter can also be biassed by the background colour which further complicates the colour sensitivity. So don't be discouraged check in the viewfinder, change the exposure (or even used bracketing) and try changing the background if you can. More About: Colour
HDR Afternoon
2008-06-29 06:55:00 Gippsland green in HDRi, taken near the new foot-bridge over the Tarwin river. More About: Afternoon
Second Brain
2008-06-26 15:01:00 If you are like me and have a lot of stuff scattered around the web, because you are using a variety of Web 2.0 services, not necessarily because you are messy, you might like to look at some of the newer services that let you collect everything in one place, or more precisely the links to get everything. Second Brain is such a service and interacts well with blogs, flickr, twitter and even picasa web albums. I have been using Shozu on my mobile phone for a while which is a little similar but ran into problems installing the desktop version (you probably get a blog about when I figure out what is going wrong). So I like the idea of one tool to interact with many services, BUT at the moment second brain is very much a RO tool, and doesn't have the RW bits operations yet (lars assures me they will come)
Play me a song - about the future
2008-06-23 23:26:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Play me a song, originally uploaded by wolfcat_aus. I went along to pubcamp in melbourne yesterday, looking at where Web 2.0 might go next and was clearly the oldest bloke in the audience (fortunately richard walsh was involved in the debate so I was not the oldest overall)The real timetracking of twitter hasshtags was impressive, and i guess the general consensus was content is king, but it is "hard to make a buck" (Stephen Mayne) and the advertising networks have the money in their pockets already. So where does that leave the humble content creator? Do you sell your soul to google (yahoo! etc) or can you keep your digital rights and expect a a tiny bit of value to flow back to the content creator. Or is the general perception going to remain, if its on the net, its free to copy (and reuse).Special applause... More About: Future , Song , The Future
Mosaic (of the self referencing kind)
2008-06-18 09:35:00 Whilst I haven't mentioned my photo impressions much recently I am still creating them. Bigger than before. On the weekend I took a series of photos of the three "yellow ducks" which are a floating sculpture on the small pond below the Monash Gallery of Art, with the view of creating a self reference style of mosaic where the tiles where variation on the larger image itself. I took several photos, using the bracketing setting on my camera. I have deliberately kept the number of tiles low (which make the large image less obvious. you will definitely need to click on this to see the larger image to appreciate the flip flop you will experience in front of the large version of this. First you see the large image but soon your eye just sees the littler grouping of ducks have squint and there is the large image again. More About: Mosaic
Its a small world after all
2008-06-11 08:21:00 I am fascinated by just how many interconnecting links my contacts have on flickr. to see this i have been playing with a nifty tool called flickr graph, it is an on-line application that explores the social relationships inside flickr.com. It makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm and builds a graph like the one shown here.Click on this link if you want to research other [Great] flickr tools, (but some aren't so great!) More About: World , Small , Small World
Colour Management
2008-06-09 09:08:00 I have not directly posted anything on colour management, not because I don't believe it is important, it certainly is one of if not the most important part of digital photography. It is that managing and matching colours across the whole photography process is complex and there isn't a simple "one click" solution. On that topic I have to come clean and admit that I do not use photoshop, so I am not a disciple of sRGB or adobe RGB or other acronyms or the adobe work flow, but that can wait to another post. The problems of colours matching is firstly related to the variable sensitivity to light of different wavelengths (what we see as different colour) and also the ability to render that range of intensity either on a screen or printing the image on paper. These are technological limits and they change as the various pieces of hardware are improved. To complicate all this our eyes and brain have very good discrimination in how they process and discern certain colou... More About: Management , Colour
location, location, location
2008-06-04 01:50:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } big rock panorama, originally uploaded by imageo. This is a mutli-image stiched panorama (using autostitch) and I had forgotten to geotag it in google earth. No worries I thought I'd do it in Flickr. Think again!Ok, I did try with Yahoo! maps and I only got with a few hundred meters of the shore (at least the loaction name was right, in the past yahoo maps has also given me the wrong location name by kilometers) but compare the detail with the google earth (below)at roughly the same scale. In google earth I was able to zoom much further and see the actual rocky headland. An this area is still just average accuracy in google earth. By the way you need picasa to geotag in google earth. More About: Location
I don't only photograph sunsets
2008-06-01 16:07:00 Looking at my recent flickr & blog posts you may be excused for thinking I have become a little obsessed with sunsets. No really its just that there have been some great ones lately. This is actually a multi-image autostitched panorama. More About: Sunsets
Enjoying the last of the day
2008-06-01 04:02:00 A pair of hooded plovers [Thinornis rubricollis], possible one of less than 100 nesting pairs left on the Victorian Coast.
Capturing the glide
2008-05-24 07:41:00 Whilst I have made multi-image montages of birds in flight before, i have found trying to use tools like autostitch, a little hit and miss, mainly because it is seldom that I have enough overlap for such automatic software to make seamless joins. So I have had to resort to more manual techniques. The three photos I took (show above) of a pacific gull landing on the beach, had enough surrounding detail to try out autostitch and it did find joins for the last two images and it is beautifully seamless. However autostitch refused to add in the first image, despite all my attempts twiddling with the overlap settings. I was therefore very surprised at how beautifully the windows Live Gallery make/panorama tool worked. i guess the only problem was the shift in the overlap because i was panning up as I was also panning horizontally. So I decided to make a feature of these joins, in the stepping black "matte".
Pacific Gull Sunset
2008-05-22 15:31:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Pacific Gull Sunset , originally uploaded by imageo.
venus bay beach sunset
2008-05-19 02:49:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } venus bay beach sunset, originally uploaded by imageo. it was very cold but still worthy the effort to capture the last of the sun's ray. More About: Beach , Sunset , Venus
Photographing birds in flight
2008-05-07 09:00:00 Taking photos of birds in flight has become quite a personal challange. It is not that easy, they move fast, your don't get to choose the background or lighting, the list of issues goes on an on, BUT the results can be very pleasing. If you are interested there is a great group on flickr Field Guide: birds of the world and I like the second entry of their tips for better bird shots, 1. practice2. practice3. repeat More About: Birds , Flight
fleeting light
2008-05-06 12:35:00 Photographing a rainbow is difficult enough, but the light wasn't great and I wanted to try out a HDRi set and get a piece of driftwood in the foreground. Ok it didn't quite work because I can not get good registration on the images, because i was moving and it was hald held. Still the rainbow was spectacular. More About: Light
Almost Winter
2008-05-05 12:28:00 Autumn is drawing to an end and winter is drawing near More About: Winter
Thanks
2008-05-05 03:55:00 A special thank you to all those who attended my first "solo" exhibition opening on Sunday. Especially Kieran Kennedy for his well researched words as he opened the exhibition. For those that missed the opening the exhibition is on in the Meeniyan Art Gallery till 23rd May. Earth :: Water :: WindPhotography & Art Works by Norm HansonTHE ACCESS GALLERY May 4th-23rdMeeniyan Art Gallery84 Whitelaw St. Meeniyan 3956Meeniyan might be worth the visit if you are a fan of the ABC new drama Bed of Roses, much of it is filmed in this beautiful part of south gippsland.
Tiny beach houses at Sorong
2008-04-28 05:07:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Tiny beach houses at Sorong , originally uploaded by imageo. These are the smallest house I have ever seen. Yes they are full houses not bathing boxes! More About: Beach , Houses
The roof repair guy
2008-04-26 13:34:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The roof repair guy, originally uploaded by imageo. Life is a lot slower and simpler out on the islands of papua. If the rook leak in the rain you don't have to rush to Bunnings, you just wait for the rain to stop and find a banana tree. Oh and yes you need to find the roof repair guy, he'll be siting in the shade More About: Roof , Repair
rice paddies
More articles from this author:2008-04-25 03:07:00 .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } rice paddies near makassa, originally uploaded by imageo. Aerial view of flooded rice padies near makassa More About: Rice 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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