Link Roundup 12-29-2007
By Brian Auer • December 29th, 2007Before we get to the list, be sure to check out my super-cool guest-post on “Going with the Grain” over at ADIDAP (we swapped posts for Christmas). I’ve always liked grainy photos, so I put together a little information on the subject and picked out some CC photos to help make my point.
- Depth of Field Calculator
DOFMaster
Cool little DOF calculator that shows numbers for various cameras, focal lengths, and f-numbers — tipped off by David Ziser on this one. - Minimalism: Because Complexity Sucks!
ADIDAP
A great collection of minimalist photos and discussion to go along with the various techniques of minimalism in photography. - Displaying Images in Photoblogs & Galleries
Pro Blog Design
8 tips from a blog designer for laying out a photoblog or photo gallery with navigation and usability in mind. - Aperture, ISO and Shutter Speed - The Good Kind of Threesome
CameraPorn
Technical overview of the three elements of exposure in photography — what they are, how they’re used, and a discussion of the trade-offs for each element. - Wanna Get Your Gear Stolen or Damaged While Traveling? Don’t Read This.
CameraPorn
6 ways to keep your gear happy, safe and sound during your travels. - FlickrFan: A Heads-Up For License Conscious Flickr Photographers
JMG-Galleries
A discussion of a new application and how it deals with image licensing. The discussion in the comments is filled with great stuff. - Are you smarter than your camera? 5 ways to prove it
Alphatracks
If you always shoot fully automatic, in the program mode, try a few of these suggestions next time you are shooting. - 20 More Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Angle
Sawse
What’s the most critical element to taking amazing photographs? One device has been at the heart of producing some of the funniest and strangest pictures around: proper angle. Sorted into three categories, here are 20 awesome perfectly angled photographs! - Great Olan Mills Photos
List Of The Day
Ridiculously funny stuff. Really terrible portraits from studios like Olan Mills and Sears, and the author’s commentary is just the icing on the cake. - Videos of the Week — I love street photography. This first video is an educational piece. The second is an inspirational piece from Felix Lupa (also on Flickr). The good street photos make you smile; the best ones make you laugh.
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Brian Auer is a photography enthusiast from San Diego, California. He's also the guy behind the Epic Edits Weblog. As a hobbyist photographer since 2003, his passion has been to constantly improve his photography skill set, to share his own knowledge with others, and to become an integral part of the photographic community.
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Both video’s are not available anymore.
About one of the 8 tips for photoblogs “Scrolling horizontally works”: Does this person know anything about webdesign or even considering users??? An absolute nono for websites is horizontal scrolling, even for pictures. Ofcourse everybody will have to decide for theirselves if they want horizontal scrollbars, but as a user I would leave the site immediately.
About the stealing of your gear: I have insured my equipment (I have to update the insurance for my new gear though). I don’t know about other countries but here we have a cheap insurance for camera equipment. I think I pay less than €100/year for about €4500 worth of equipment. I think it’s absolutely worth it.
The correct angle pictures: great pictures. Just shows that even when a photography rule is to not take pictures at such an angle, you can get great results. I think everybody who visits Pisa will take a picture of the tower like that though, so it’s not always original.
The videos work fine for me. Anybody else having problems?
As for the horizontal scrollbars, I think that might work better in a gallery than a photoblog. I’ve seen some galleries that pull it off very nicely.
The link roundup seemed to be the right place to ask this question.
Are there any photoblog setups available that allow a direct post or linked image from flickr? I started with Aminus3, but the problem of having to upload a separate image instead of just linking one became a pain, so much so that I gave up. Blogger’s no good because it cuts off a portion of the image.
I’d like to display an image a day, but don’t have the time to keep committing myself to so many sites.
Hmm, videos work fine here now too, must’ve been my internet connection.
@ the_wolf_brigade:
Pixelpost allows you to post images but only make them visible on a specified date. As far as I know there’s no uploading from or to flickr, but you might ask on their forum.
It looks like you can just use Flickr’s “Blog This” function to post to a WordPress blog. Here’s an article that talks about it.
Thanks Brian, that seems to what I was looking for, but it must have got lost in the seemingly unlimited non-relevant information displayed in a google search….