Aviary’s entire suite of media editing tools is now available for free. I’ve watched the progress of this, very ambitious, project for some time now and jumped out of my seat when I heard this news. Online media editing tools, some hands-down better then those offered by the big boys (Adobe), all for free: Phoenix [...]
Tag Archives: photo
Facing up to Facebook Photo Uploads
31/1/10 – 20:03
I’ve been mas-uploading photos to Facebook recently – not really my cup of tea but its a great way of sharing the holiday snaps with the Indonesian contingent of the family who are mostly young and into facebooking etc. Considering the trials and tribulations I’ve been through I might save some of you the heart/headaches [...]
New Photo Album: Leica F2 c.1951 – April 2009
26/4/09 – 03:18
This 50+ year old camera still takes reasonable photos despite the ineptness of the photographer and cracks in the shutter curtain that produce light leaks.
New Photo Album: Holgaroids
11/4/09 – 13:16
Ouch – sounds painful! You should get some ointment for that. Not necessary the Holgaroid is a camera – is my latest toy. The Holga is a mad 120mm film camera entirely made of plastic (lens and all) that is used for Lomography. Lomography is the pursuit of taking technically bad photos with shoddy cameras [...]
George Lawrence – Go Fly a Kyte
30/1/08 – 17:28
Slashdot has a nice item on an attempt to reproduce the work of Kyte-Photographer George Lawrence. In 1906, after the San Francisco quake, Lawrence used a rig of kites to fly a 46lb panoramic camera over the devastated area to record the destruction. He did that same thing three years later to show the success [...]