I posted about Furl.net some time ago, I have been using it on and off but found it a schlep to use since I have to go and open the site all the time.
Today in their newsletter I noticed they mentioned a Firefox Plugin for their services, I downloaded and installed it and must say I am quite happy with it, will probably use it more often now.
Screenshots and stuff on the above url, way kewl.
Photoxels.com has a good article about the various categories of digital camera. The article covers Point and Shoot, Beginner, Serious, Prosumer and dSLR. It also has something to say about how you go about choosing the right one, well worth reading if you are in the buying market.
Thanks to George Schlossnagle who hacked up a RSS feed generator for Gallery that supports per album feeds rather than a feed for the whole thing I now have RSS feeds for my galleries.
These are the ones that I update most frequently though you can subscribe to any of my albums by just fiddling the URL a bit.
Favorite Photos, London and People.
For anyone wanting to get into photography for more than just snapshots of people at a party it is often a painful process, they buy expensive kit, learn all the tech behind it and then hope they get good photos but end up being disappointed.
The problem is learning to see something and knowing how it will look as a static two dimensional photo. Evaluating the range of colors in the scene to see if they will complement each other on a photograph and keeping track of things that distract from the intended frame. Things become much more difficult if you intend to do black and white versions of the photo since you cannot just see how something will look once converted into a black and white.
It is for this very reason that I carry my point and shoot 4 meg pixel camera around, it is not a great camera, did not cost an arm and a leg and force me to concentrate on aesthetics rather than sharpness, tonal range, depth of field and all of those things that while being required knowledge often distracts amateurs or semi pro’s that’s still learning to find their vision.
It takes patience and practice, something that an article titled Finding Ones Vision on The Luminous Landscape covers and explains very nicely, well worth a read.
As I mentioned the other day I want to start fiddling with mod_gzip, I did just that and am quite pleased with the result.
More details on the full entry.
