I’ve noticed some photos of mine are on certain websites around the place. I find it interesting to see which of my photos are used. Here are some links: Fantasy-fest devil Diesel the family cat Kitten in Nicaragua Major Mitchell cockatoo Heller International building, Chicago Little chargers Murray river
Goes to NBA cheerleaders. I dream of the day I’ll be allowed to take my telephoto lens into a basketball arena. *sigh*.
Some “different” things have been going on in my life recently. People recently saw these photos from the CD release party. ...
Ok, here are some other weirdness pics I’ve taken with my crapola RAZR camera… This fish looks like it’s dead, but it’s just got an airbubble in it’s tail so has to spend most of its day upside down. Poor bugger. Nice car, eh? Take a look at what is hanging near the rear view mirror - a disabled parking permit. Ok, so maybe the driver really is disabled… ya. ...
I’ve been going along and updating photos in various photo sets, mainly because I’ve visited those places more than once and I’ve been hauling my trusty DSLR along with me. Sets that have been updated are: Around Florida The Keys The Everglades Oh, quick point about the Everglades, I noticed this story a couple of days ago about a python taking on an alligator. Wow. ...
Errr, unusual welcome message: How icecreams die: How is this pronounced? No comment required.
I’ve just uploaded 50 or so pictures from my trip to Australia. I’m still not completed with all the pictures though. There are some from the Adelaide 500 that aren’t up, plus I’m missing a whole CD of pictures that are still back in Oz. Ahh well. The ones I have uploaded are here. I only took a few pictures in Sydney because I didn’t have enough time to get all touristy. Most of the pictures are from when I went to visit my Uncle and Aunt out on the farm(s) which is about 25 kilometres from Loxton. I think one of the coolest pictures though is of my 9 year old cousin driving a manual car. That was just awesome! You’ll also realise I have a penchant for old stuff - whether it be old houses or broken down machinery. Not all of those pictures are up yet. Might I add: not all of Australia is like this! Most of the Australia population lives in cities along the coast. I’ve deliberately gone out of my way to show this side of Australia. Oh, and there are no pictures of kangaroos. We did see some, but they hopped away to quickly for me to get a picture of them. ...
For a little while now I’ve been looking for some good panoramic stitching software. Panorama tools has always been my first choice but I couldn’t find a suitable front end for it. That is until now. I’ve found a really good open source frontend called Hugin. I use this combined with Panotools and Photoshop to produce the panoramas. If you want to dabble in panoramic photography just follow the guidelines on what to do in the download section of the Hugin website. They have a pretty good summary of what other tools you’ll need. Then you just blend any seams between panoramas using Photoshop and these guidelines. ...
This may be the coolest thing I’ve found on the net today, and I don’t know why I haven’t stumbled across it beforehand. It’s called HDR (High Dynamic Range) compression. In a nutshell, it enables a greater range of light to be displayed in a single photo. It’s particularly useful where photos have both light and dark areas. Normally to capture detail in the brighter parts of a scene you’d have to underexpose but then detail would be lost in the darker areas. Conversely, to get detail in the darker areas you’d have to overexpose but then the brighter areas are all washed out. With this technique you get the best of both worlds where both light and dark areas show detail. The only drawback is that you have to take multiple pictures of a scene at different exposures. This requires a tripod to avoid camera shake. ...
Pictures from the Bahamas are here, featuring guest appearances from the “grass-weed” guy and my brother doing something useful: carrying beer.