Links Of The Day

Written October 27, 2005 in Links

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Huge Pixel Poster - via Digg where there are more comments about this sort of thing. “Pixel Art is form of digital art, created on the computer through the use of raster graphics software, where images are edited on the pixel level. Graphics in most old computer and video games or even in Game Boy games are considered pixel art.”
How to dodge & burn like a pro? - I use the soft light layer approach myself.
Stripping Raw Naked - interview with the Apple Aperture product manager, Joe Schorr. Of course he’d tell you that it’s aimed at professionals! Meanwhile, Paul says that Aperture will not pose a challenge to Photoshop as it’s missing too many features. I’m sticking with the GIMP for the time being.
Lumilux - nice photoblog, I really like his “shape” photos. Big expanses of single colours broken up by one or two objects.
Has everything already had its picture taken? No, but does it matter? To the Lazy Photographer yes, “The idea that you don’t need to take photographs anymore because someone will take the picture for you and put it on flickr.”
2 Minute Photoshop Tricks
Shooting Great Pictures of the Fall Foliage - look for detail, look for light. The colours of the trees around now are amazing!
How to Get Traffic to Your Photoblog - a lot of the advice applies to regular blogs and websites too!
Ideal ISO setting for the 20D? - ISO200 was suggested by numerous posters to this forum but it’s not as simple as that…
Do you make your photos lie?

7 comments on ' Links Of The Day '

Donncha, have you ever thought (planned) to integrate WP ‘not just’ as blog engine but also as photoblog engine which has been used by Lumilux?

Written by Budi on October 27, 2005 at 7:38pm
Lumilux looks like it doesn’t use WordPress and it’s certainly not the best use of the blogging medium - it doesn’t allow comments, and only has thumbnail going back 32 posts.
What I’d love to have is a photoblog theme for WordPress. It would need to:
1. Make it simple to post images. It should be as simple as Flickr - either upload form, or blog-by-email.
2. Flexible enough to have one photo or many photos appear per day, and multiple posts if so desired. A post may contain multiple photos.
3. It shoudl generate thumbnails for archives. That’s a hard bit.

Any more features?

Written by Donncha on October 27, 2005 at 8:07pm
I have try some of the Flickr plugins for WP and I haven’t satisfied yet. I have also thought of making a theme for photoblogging on WP. I agree with your points above. Here is something else.
1.The ability to read one photo’s metadata automatically or manually (EXIF data). Like what camera did you use. What date it was taken. Or for the pro, the focal length, lens, shutter speed, etc. Then how to place this data nicely with some comment from you “I take this picture in.. bla bla bla” along with the picture. I usually see this on Chromasia and Flickr and I think it’s nice.
2. One of the problem of photoblogging, I think, is the page loading time. It will be longer than usual, but it shouldn’t be too long.
3. I think a photo in photoblog should be treated like entries on blog. We should have latest photo, categories, recent comment, etc. Think of Wordpress but replace the entries with photos. That would be ideal and it is simple.
4. I think it will be easier if Wordpress somehow join Flickr One of the disadvantages of Flickr is that its closed community. People with no Flickr account can’t leave comments.

p.s. need any help with the CSS?

Written by Eric on October 28, 2005 at 4:44am
Donncha, I think Eric has said what I’ve been thinking about. We’ve discussed about that this morning.

Written by Budi on October 28, 2005 at 8:23am
Lumilux uses an old version of Textpattern hacked beyond recognition. I’ve never tried WordPress for a photoblog…

Written by Hans on February 15, 2006 at 3:00am
This MSNBC news clip shows a skateboarder trying to jump a car to get this stunt on TV. But he crashes badly: http://www.monkeybriefs.com/view.video.php?id=268&no=10743

Written by Skateboarding Crash on June 01, 2006 at 1:45am
By the way, Donncha, comments and full archives have been up for quite some time now; in fact, your comment was what made me realize I was being a dolt for not doing so.

Written by Hans on October 31, 2006 at 11:31pm