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Autumn afternoon
2007-05-12 08:42:00 This is a 21 image autostiched panoramic photomosaic More About: Afternoon , After , Autumn , Autum
What I saw at the PMA expo
2007-05-06 05:29:00 1) Without doubt the best thing at the PMA Image technology expo was the "Talking Shop" Talk by Ken Duncan. Not sure that the apple Aperture team would be so happy he barely mentioned their product or even apple. Still he was full of enthusiasm and wonderful insights into his passions, including why you should get up early and not stay in bed.For me three other things stood out in the show2) The Photobook has come of age, not just those very expensive things that are becoming the staple of wedding photography, now the quality is being passed down to a broader market. Anyone with some great photo can now consider producing there own personal books for around $100 each. Most services let you upload via the net, but frequently required adhering to their photoshop or PDF templates. I was most impressed with the momento, which is Australian based, and have already downloaded their free software (not a yet another photoshop template by the way) and it has a wonderful feature called ACE la... More About: Expo
24 hours at flickr
2007-05-05 02:26:00 Yes its today. Unfortunately I wont be participating, but there is nothing to stop you. Go out and take lots of photos today. Then join and upload your best or even a few to the 24hour flickr group More About: Flickr , Hour , Hours , Flick
Avoiding the $20 fee for PMA Imaging Tecnology Expo
2007-05-03 03:13:00 If your are a Melbourne based photographer (so hopefully a member if the Australian Photographers group, if you are not join now!) you may be interested in the PMA Imaging Technology Expo (4th. to 6th May) and more importantly how to avoid the $20 entry fee. Well you can pre-register here. You must have a valid email address, so that's the down side, the get your email address to send stuff too. So check the fine print at the bottom and deselect that the exhibitors can bulk email you.Would you like us to release your email address to all exhibitors after the expo - for their use only - so that you can be kept up to date with the latest developments? Yes No* and finally notePlease note that by handing over your visitor badge to an exhibitor at the expo for further details means that you are consenting to receiving information from that exhibitor only. Having said all that I've preregistered. There are further detail in liftouts in both The Age and Herald Sun Today(Thursday). Also ... More About: Aging , Tecno , Avoid
The road to Evergreen farm
2007-04-24 11:34:00 For PhotoFriday topic the country More About: Ever , Road , Farm , Evergreen , The Road
The graduate
2007-04-18 08:10:00 Somethimes a candid photos can say so much more than the formal pose. More About: Graduate , Adua , The G
PhotoFriday :: The blues
2007-04-16 14:14:00 The superb fairy wren(Malurus cyaneus), is better know to most Australian as the blue wren.For photofriday topic the blues More About: Blues , Friday , Frida
April Fool's Day bonus (scout poster)
2007-04-01 06:20:00 April Fool 's Day bonus (scout poster), originally uploaded by imageo. If you have always wanted one of those really cool scout posters of you flickr photostream. Fd's flickr toys have an april fools day bonus, you can get a set with "all" your photostream organized by interestingness, but I think it is just for one day! So hurry.Thanks fd.Normally the scout only shows you photos that habe made it into flickr explore's top 500 photo list More About: April , Post , Poster , Bonus
PhotoFriday: Growth
2007-03-31 09:18:00 Some recent growth in my cretaceous gardenFor Photo Frida y topic: growth More About: Growth , Grow
Geotagging: google maps on your phone
2007-03-29 08:29:00 If you have a newish mobile phone, with net access and the ability to run java applications you can get google maps on your phone. Being google maps (as opposed to flickr's yahoo maps) local detail and the related satellite imagery for Australia is pretty good. In the town you can get down to street level, no worries. It is basically designed to help you find things (like business) However it is off the beaten track that geotagging photographers will find the google maps satellite images impressive, not quiet as good as a GPS but with a little practise I'm sure most of use will be able to get our photographic locations within at least a few 100 meters AND it is easy to save these locations as placemarkers in favourites (pressing the * key will redisplay them) BUT I haven't figured out how to merge the location details into my cameras EXIF data, well yet!If you are interested, enter the following URL into your phone's browser -www.google.com/gmmIt will initially download the 129k... More About: Google , Phone , Google Maps , Your , Maps
red sky in the morning
2007-03-27 23:08:00 it has been so long since decent rains down here in south eastern asutralia, is the the "shepards warning" we are all waiting for? More About: Morning , Red Sky , In The Morning
multi-exposure photomosaics
2007-03-26 13:46:00 These two images are multi-exposure photomosaics, using the picasa collage tool More About: Photo , Expo , Multi , Exposure , Sure
Cropping
2007-03-26 02:00:00 One of the very best "enhancement" technique for a new digital photopgrapher(and experienced ones, and film photographer as well) is the simple method of trimming out unnecessary parts of the image, a technique know as cropping.How you do it is very simple you just selecet a smaller area of the photo, normally using the mouse to drag out or reposition a selection rectangle. The cropping tools in software varies a lot, and here I am using picasa. Even photo kiosk at the photo processor will offer cropping and it can both make an artstic difference (by improving composition) and avoid chopping off peoples heads (when those machines "crop to fit" the usually centralize the portion to display). Some cameras even have a cropping feature. If you have tried you systems cropping tool yet, do an experiment get two of three ok photos and cropp them, print them out and show them around. See how many peope realise they are even the same photo.Finally a work of warning, remember the size pou wan... More About: Crop , Ping
Uploading photos made easy
2007-03-21 05:03:00 One of the first task to become urgent when you get a new digital cameras, is what to do when the memory card, or camera memory fills up. You might even have to start reading instructions, or loading software, or connecting cables, or ... the list of anxieties goes on for way too long. Well don't panic if you know how to remove the memory card or where to attach the usb cable to your camera, you don't have to learn much else.I'm not sure about apple's mac computers, but I have gotten the distinct impression you need the iLife program iPhoto . So I suppose mac user mistakenly expect that you have to have adobe photoshop to load photos onto a PC. Well it is really easy on a PC running microsoft XP, and I expect as easy using Vista. Just plug your memory card into a card reader or plug in the USB connector and you will see an autoplay dialog box spring into view.The first option will take you through XP's built in Scanner & Camera Wizard, which is really simple to use, but only giv... More About: Photos , Made , Load , Easy
Web Based Lighting Photofix
2007-03-20 04:04:00 You don't have to have the latest and greatest photo editing software to get access to some good basic photo fix routines. After cropping, and straightening, improving lighting is probably the most desirable fix. However this is often a multi-step process. This is a one step automatic automatic lighting correction called DxO lighting is available as a net based fix from the Fd's flickr toys site (which has a lot of other fun photo manipulation toys). Even if you don't have a flickr accont you can use this site, but it is flickr oriented. If you like the results and want to look at the commercial package check out the DxO site. More About: Photo , Lighting , Light , Base
Mum...?
2007-03-15 14:13:00 Mum...?, originally uploaded by imageo. Not sure why I overlooked posting this photo when I took it. Its one of those warn fuzzy feeling photos. The big yellow duck is actually a public sculpture on show for the monash gallery of art. What I liked is the juxapositon with the real ducks, which don't seem very overwhelmed by their over sized cousin.The panorama gives you a better view of the gallery and lake, a great setting for public art.
A much ado about nothing, or not!
2007-03-15 13:20:00 Now that Microsoft's Vista operating system is rolled out expect to see a fair bit of hype about their "native" photo gallery/management features built into the software. They do look good but don't despair most of these features are already available in XP, or free downloadable packages like picasa. Seeing all the hype I feel a little series of post on what you can do now without vista is warranted. So watch this space for future posts However if you want to follow the "official" vista story, check out Microsoft's own Photo Blog & Vista Blog More About: About , Nothing , Much , Thing , Much Ado About Nothing
Laughing Kookaburra [Dacelo novaeguineae]
2007-03-14 07:11:00 Laughing Kookaburra [Dacelo novaeguineae] Originally uploaded by imageo. This kookaburra has spent some time relaxing in the same large banksia for the past two days. I suspect it is also a great vantage point to watch the grass lands below. The characteristic laught can be heard early morning and in the evening at the moment (but not during the day) More About: Nova , Guinea , Laugh , Guin , Laughing
birds in flight collage(s)
2007-03-13 12:52:00 birds in flight collage 1 [pacific gull] Originally uploaded by imageo. I'm still feelling a bit challenged to get a nice series of birds in flight. Its a much harder subject than you may imagine, the fly past at a decent speed, so it is essential to pan, and have them clearly in focus, and be able to take multiple frames, and zoom in, and well the list goes on and on, Before long you start think special cameras, special lens. However I'd rather just figure out how to do it all with my camera.So I have a lot of experimental panning sequences and thought they would make great photomosaics or collages. The collage is made with picasa.The photomosaic, refused to work in autostich, but i was able to achieve what I wanted with the sitch facility in corel paint, but joining the waves as best I could (you will probably need to click on the image to see the larger version) More About: Birds , Light , Bird , Flight , Coll
An uncommon visitor
2007-03-12 06:41:00 Blue bottles (Portuguese Man of War) (Physalia utriculus) are not a common sight on the Venus Bay beach, being more common in warmer nor then waters. They are not true jelly fish but can still pack a nasty sting even when washed up damaged and dying.Is this the first sign of warming or just a unusual occurrence of currents, wind and waves? More About: Visitor , Common , Visi , Visit , Uncommon
Progress
2007-03-04 06:17:00 Progress Originally uploaded by imageo. Looking towards the coast in south east kalimantan (indonesian borneo). On the left is original rainforest, then partly logged area, then wild rice farm (slash and burn type farming), then palm oil plantations in the distance More About: Prog , Progress
Textural Collage
2007-02-26 07:29:00 Photomosaic collage of ripple marks in wet sand.for PhotoFriday's topic Text ured More About: Coll , Ural , Collage
Pacific Gull in flight
2007-02-25 03:55:00 Pacific Gull in flight Originally uploaded by imageo. This photomosaic was made, using autostitch, from several photos as I panned to follow a pair of pacific gulls as they began their flight. You may need to see the image below larger to fully appreciate it. To do this just click on the image. More About: Pacific , Light , Flight
PhotoFriday :: Selfportrait
2007-02-22 03:52:00 I've been in Adelaide, so I figured using the chrome balls in Rundle Mall would make a great way to get a series of self portraits into one image. I was both right and wrong. Taking a series of overlapping photos with myself close up to the balls I did manage to get a number of different reflections of me into the series. The "sculptures" had become quite scratched and dulled since I last saw them so my reflections are also somewhat dulled and blurred. Then I used autostitch to merge the series of photos together. Damn that process burred and ghosted me out further, because my reflection is actually in a slightly different place on each photo, So autostitch's merge of overlaps has a piece of blank ball and my reflection to overlap and the reflections are all ghosted a bit, but if you look they are still there. Oh well it sounded like a good idea at the time.For Photo Friday 's Topic Self Port rait 2007 More About: Portrait
flying low
2007-02-11 09:48:00 an adult pacifc gull,(Larus pacificus) flying low along the beach More About: Flying , Lying
new caledonian shearwaters
2007-02-06 21:58:00 These birds followed our boat for miles. I know them as mutton birds (shearwaters) but in new calednia they are Puffinus pacificus More About: Hear , Water , Shea , Cale , Waters
anti-shake
More articles from this author:2007-02-04 11:55:00 I was out, without my tripod at night (which normally means blurred images), and thought I should give the “Shake Reduction” mechanism on my new pentax camera testing. These are both hand held, and at a around of a third of a second in low light I think the "anti-shake magic" does a good job (these are not specific before shots here, but a probably have a few hundred of those unuseableir is nothing blurred ones that are not worth looking at). The stabilization is done at the CCD and image recording level so there is nothing obviously different through the view finder, when you take the photo. More About: Anti 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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