International Photo Awards – Update

Sorry for the extremely late follow up on this (almost 12 months, not bad for me!!), I just discovered that the Honourable Mentions pages were updated, and I have links directly to my entries.

You can find my original post on the whole awards thing here

And you can find my Honourable Mention entries on the following links:
Alley Dwellers
Alone

Space shuttle time lapse gold

Check this out – an amazing time lapse video of an entire shuttle prep and launch. A stellar effort, and a great approach that would have allowed those involved to stay out of the way!!

The Underwater Project

The Underwater Project by Mark Tipple has to be some of the coolest underwater photography I’ve seen for a while – gonna have to give this a go myself, been a while since I hit the surf and this is as good an excuse as any to get back out there!!

The images are for sale on Mark’s site, and there’s a bunch of download stuff too if you Google him (seems to find an alternate older site?)

Time to get building… again

Wireless Tethering (c) Jamie Carl
This looks like a cool idea, and sooooo easy – I’ve been mulling over the various ways I could get better remote control of my camera. Currently I use an Eye-Fi card to do live previews of images, particularly in the studio when the models like to see how the images are turning out.

(Yes, many shooters would shudder at the idea that someone would see their images before post, raw off the camera – it’s a story for another day, but I can summarise by safely saying that the models are not looking at the technical quality of the image, they are looking at themselves!! And usually with an overly critical eye, I might add!!)

I’ve also tried tethering, but I’m not a fan of cables in most situations since it increases the chances of some serious damage to gear if someone trips!!

So I was pleased to discover this post talking about using a slightly modified wireless USB transmitter/receiver to eliminate the cable, and still retain tethering control!! GOLD!!!

Check it out if you are interested in all things tech, particularly wireless!! Jamie Carl – Wireless Tethering

Pinhole Camera Calculator

Possibly handy for you pinhole shooters out there, particularly those of you who also build the cameras (23 pinhole cameras to build) – this site has everything you’ll need (mathematically) to set up a pinhole camera!! Check it out, a handy reference to keep… well, handy!!

Just another day at the volcano

Eyjafjallajökull – You might not be able to say it, but you definitely need to watch it!

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

On a separate tech note, I really need to take a closer look at combining my DIY film dolly with my Canon DSLR, and my timer trigger – just need to rig up some sort of mechanical way to also do the tilt part (since I cannot afford a fancy astronomy star-follower like many awesome time-lapse shooters use)

Head on indeed!

I can hear the cries now – “It’s Photoshop!!”. And you’d be wrong!! Check out the article, all it took was the idea, a helicopter, and a willing owner of a fully restored DC-3D.

Check out the article here for more

Peekfreak sparking up cool film ideas!

Peekfreak just made my day – yet another concept that sparks the tech interest in me, and makes me want to get back into film all over again!! The concept is simple – using pretty much anything you can get your hands on, make film cameras for interesting and amazing results!!

Go and check them out, particularly if you like building stuff and experimenting with your photography!!

Peakfreak cameras

Site update underway

So I decided that the old theme just wasn’t doing it for me, and I liked the look of this new one – everything has gone smoothly for the most part, except for the few hours the whole thing imploded in an ungraceful display of web petulance. But some stern words and turning off all the plugins until I found the culprits had me underway soon enough!!

There’s still a main “Home” page to be done with a lightweight slideshow on it, and the Portfolio page is currently _extremely_ lame – but it will have to do until I spend the time figuring out how to get Lightroom and SlideShow Pro Director playing nicely together (or paying someone to do the hard yards for me – anyone?? Anyone at all?? Seriously, I will pay…). NextGenGallery is cute enough, but I need my image management system (ie Lightroom) directly publishing the content (to SSPD) – hands off automation FTW, eventually…

I’m rapidly reaching the day where I no longer know how to drive this fandangled interweb thingy – I completely understand how my parents felt when they struggled programming the VCR… *sigh*