Entries Tagged as 'Photography'
Automatic geotagging of photos
DP Review reports that a new geotagging device that adds geotagging to photos taken while carrying it around. I have thought about adding geotagging to my photos but every solution that I have considered takes some effort. This would be very nice to sync with Google Maps on my fotolog site.
The pocket-sized receiver keeps track of where you go and, so long as you’ve synchronized your camera with the clock on the Photo Finder, will match up your photos with where you were when you took them. Inserting an SD, SDHC, MMC or Memory Stick PRO Duo card allows the device to embed this location information into the EXIF metadata of the images on the card.
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Improve Your Photos 60 Seconds at a Time
Lighting faces
* The soft light you get on overcast days is especially good for photographing people, as it delivers the best skin tones
* Side or ‘cross’ lighting is more interesting because it gives depth and form to your portrait sitter
* Keep backgrounds and other distractions to the minimum so that the viewer can concentrate on the face
* In this picture, soft light from a window lights the faces of the girls from the side, while a zoomed-in setting throws the foreground face out of focus.
Flickrvision
This is a nice mashup between flickr and Google maps and quite hypnotic. Each time a photo gets uploaded to flickr, it displays it on a map where it came from.
Check out flickrvision here.
10 Most
Andre Gunther lists the ten most common photographic mistakes and explains how to eliminate them with some good examples.
A “photographer” took a photo of a group and noticed that the flash hadn’t fired. He put the camera in his pocket with the comment “I’ll photoshop it later”.
There are so many things wrong with this (read my post if you want to know more), but even if he could solve all his problems with Adobe Photoshop (he would at least get increased noise levels), he would need to spend a lot of time on the photo.
Taking a second shot with the flash enabled would only take a few seconds. So if you think a photo didn’t come out right and if you have the chance, always take another one (but don’t delete the first - see 4, someone might have their eyes closed in the new one or there might be some other reason the previous shot turns out better).
Photoshop is an invaluable tool for photographers (I even wrote some Photoshop Tutorials myself); however, it is not a remedy for everything and you cannot turn bad photos into good ones with Photoshop alone.
I am a technical (computer) geek and we used to say, Garbage in - Garbage out. The same applies to Photoshop.
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While I’m talking about photography
Slate has started a feature called Today’s Pictures in collaboration with Magnum. Something different and interesting to see each day. Perhaps it would have been even better with a RSS feed.
Arbus
I picked up a book in the English second hand bookshop a couple of weeks ago. Diane Arbus: A Biography
New Year Photo Resolutions
That great site Photojojo has some wonderful ideas on getting the camera out for another year and to start clicking. For example there is Take a photo every single day, oops too late for that or I’ll just start today and continue to January 9th 2008. Check it out and get inspired.
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