Month: <span>February 2008</span>

Published February 3, 2008 by

Digital Lomography

Well, I was moseying around on Ebay looking at lomographic cameras with minimal success (And I’m worried about cost re. film) and then decided to have a poke around to see if there were any digital equivalents. There aren’t – or I didn’t look far enough. Obviously with the likes of Photoshop this is unimportant as you can just about do anything anyway. Why I hadn’t already considered this beats me.

Digital Photography School has a tutorial on turning your digital images into lomographs. I’d seen this months ago but it was nice to find it again.

So I think I might find a Polaroid digital equivalent too, and have a bit of fun. Should I post some of my efforts?

Design Photography

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Published February 2, 2008 by

Lomography


This is really quite interesting. I’d love one of these cameras!

Design Photography

Published February 2, 2008 by

Painting

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Back in December I had a short inspired moment to pursue digital painting. Well I gave it a shot today. I used this tutorial which although isn’t brilliantly interesting, still looked better than some of the others around and seemingly not hideously complicated.

So here is the result. I dumped in an island and a bit more cloud to give it a Solomony/Savo feel. It’s really quite boring, but I’m not devastated with the effort. Infact considering I did this all on Photoshop with just a brush and a smudge tool (okay I might’ve made some hue/lighting changes too), I’m pretty happy. I don’t like the sand. All up it is more wispy than the tutorial, but I dare say one shot is not destined for accuracy, it takes many.

*And some further changes an d a crop. I like this better:

croppedsea2.jpg

Design Experiments

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Published February 2, 2008 by

Paradise Lost – Post of the Day

Post of the day goes to a blog I do not read but found through someone else who also found it through someone else.

Paradise Lost

It’s a very interesting post. Somewhat challenging and quite beautiful. I am not about to cease blogging but it’s an important reminder to keep things in perspective.

Blogging Post of the Day

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Published February 2, 2008 by

Blogging Tools and Heroes

The things you don’t realise! Yesterday I fell in love with Feedburner. It first saved my bum in providing a mail subscription option for my work’s blog. Not that it was any real huge issue, but it did bring a note of satisfaction to my afternoon.

Secondly, in my perusal of wordpress plugins I realised that I did not have my standard blog feed hooked up to my feedburner one. Woops. I found a plugin that lets me do this easily and so now everything is set. But Feedburner has so much more. I’d hardly scratched the surface. It pays sometimes to explore a little more.

One day I’ll work out how Technorati and Digg work and why I am bothering having accounts there (or I think I still do).

Blogging tools of choice:

Blogging Technology

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