Category Archives: photography

after the storm

January 23, 2010 – 15:14

Nature can be awesome. Last year in November a hail storm passed by on a Sunday leaving the cloudy and stormy looking sky filled with orange colours so bright and alive I just had to go out in the cold and shoot some of that beauty. Click for the big version on Flickr.

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access the worlds public photo collection

November 3, 2008 – 20:47

Over at the excellent Flickr photo sharing service they now have a new category of pictures called The Commons. It’s not the Creative Commons searchable pictures database I talked about before. This is a collection of copyright free images which are also publicly available from libraries or other archiving organisations around the globe. It makes [...]

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changing your photo's exif data

July 27, 2008 – 21:42

If you have one of those digital camera’s that forgets what day it is after you’ve replaced the AA batteries you might end up with a lot of pictures with bad EXIF data tags. As a geek and nitpicker I sort of dislike that. In fact, in Picasa all of those pictures ended up being [...]

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digital photography tips

July 30, 2007 – 14:08

If you have a digital camera, and you’ve been browsing to the stunning photo’s you can find on Flickr you probably realise that you can do a lot more with that little piece of electronic light capturing device than shooting a few typical birthday party pictures by now. Of course, it’s always handy to get [...]

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snapshots

June 7, 2004 – 20:29

Just came across this interesting article with digital photography composition tips through a Slashdot post. Interesting because I’ve just recently got me one of those nifty 5 mega pixel cams myself, and I’ve noticed that some good usage tips are more than welcome. Reading the damn manual is another thing that’s pretty helpful as some [...]

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