Signed up for at DeviantArt and RedBubble after an evening of researching the alternatives -- there are many, but there were too many issues with the rest. I am 1000words at RedBubble and LarsRaeder at DeviantArt. My main purpose with this is to have a place where it's easy for people to order prints of my photos. I don't expect them to advertise for me, but I don't want to roll my own web shop yet.
No pictures up there yet, but there will be soon.
Monday 15 December 2008
Thursday 11 September 2008
Reflector
These two photo show the difference between using a reflector and not:
Without reflector:
With reflector:
It's more than just a little more light, it gives volume. Definitely a useful tool.
Without reflector:
With reflector:
It's more than just a little more light, it gives volume. Definitely a useful tool.
Wednesday 11 June 2008
Rejected
Just got rejected at iStockPhoto, where I applied by sending these three photos:
I'm not very surprised, in fact I'd have been more surprised had I passed the first time. I saw a post on their boards by somebody who'd been in the stock photography business for 30 years, yet had an 80% rejection rate with iStockPhoto. They're tough, much tougher than the more expensive Alamy. No wonder I haven't had a sale through Alamy yet.
On the bright side, they give pointers to very useful advice along with the rejection, which was on grounds of composition and subject matter rather than technical matters. I am aware that those are my weaker points, I have technical matters pretty well under control.
I'm not very surprised, in fact I'd have been more surprised had I passed the first time. I saw a post on their boards by somebody who'd been in the stock photography business for 30 years, yet had an 80% rejection rate with iStockPhoto. They're tough, much tougher than the more expensive Alamy. No wonder I haven't had a sale through Alamy yet.
On the bright side, they give pointers to very useful advice along with the rejection, which was on grounds of composition and subject matter rather than technical matters. I am aware that those are my weaker points, I have technical matters pretty well under control.
Sunday 6 April 2008
More food picture
Though FooPhoMo may be over, I still like the "take a single food picture" idea. I took some threatening-looking ginger yesterday, which came out so-so. Todays picture has been planned for a long time, and came out almost better than I envisioned it - I love how sharp the knife appears.
Update: We now have this printed on canvas hanging over the dining table, and it has been exhibited in several places. It is definitely my favorite "made" photo, in the sense that I knew ahead of time what I wanted in the photo, and carefully arranged everything to get it just so.
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Tuesday 1 April 2008
FooPhoMo is ended!
At the beginning of March, quaryn_dk suggested that I try my new macro lens by taking exactly one picture a day of food. Having done so (outside of travelling and stuff), here are the results - in black & white for reasons of learning about that. Comments and favorites are welcome.
Wednesday 12 March 2008
Idea: Google Maps ephemeris
Use Google Maps API to display the direction and height of the sun at any time.
First off just lines showing direction of sun at a given time.
Next ability to move/zoom lines to have them show the lines you want.
If API allows 3D info, make shadows!
First off just lines showing direction of sun at a given time.
Next ability to move/zoom lines to have them show the lines you want.
If API allows 3D info, make shadows!
Monday 11 February 2008
Sunday 10 February 2008
Short trip to Brabrand Sø
Nice sundown today, though (as usual) hazy. Went by the little lake behind Viby Stadion, which wasn't very interesting. Continued out to Brabrand Sø, the west end parking lot -- almost full, so many people were out, and indeed the weather was nice, esp. for early February. In fact, a little freaky warm for the time. Should have been snow and ice and stuff. Tried some backlight pictures, the colour shading in the water with silhouettes works nicely, if the silhouettes have a good form -- simple or patterned.
Sunday 27 January 2008
Photoshoot: Århus Å
Took the 70-300 with me when going for bread. The little park has a couple ducks and *many* gulls. When shooting birds and other rapidly moving objects, set manual exposure for the bird -- especially white things will easily overexpose, and getting that extra speed will help.
Went down to Eskelund to recycle cardboard. Since this was the first sunny day in quite a while, I was hoping to get some good time in, but I napped until about 3:50, and by then I could mostly just watch the last rays of the sun disappear. Official sundown is 16:36, but I was out at the path at 16:10 and the sun had by then dipped below the usual western clouds. The path out to the lake is actually rather long, and the flooding has made it difficult to get out to clear water.
Photos turned out to have little interest, except perhaps the three sculpture pics. Need to consider what to look for on snow-less, plant-less days. 70 mm is fairly long (112mm equivalent), and 300mm (480 equivalent) is positively paparazzian.
I tried the printable lenshoods for the 60mm. Disappointed to find out that they don't attempt to screw into the normal slots, but are supposed to be put on with tape or rubber bands or something.
Went down to Eskelund to recycle cardboard. Since this was the first sunny day in quite a while, I was hoping to get some good time in, but I napped until about 3:50, and by then I could mostly just watch the last rays of the sun disappear. Official sundown is 16:36, but I was out at the path at 16:10 and the sun had by then dipped below the usual western clouds. The path out to the lake is actually rather long, and the flooding has made it difficult to get out to clear water.
Photos turned out to have little interest, except perhaps the three sculpture pics. Need to consider what to look for on snow-less, plant-less days. 70 mm is fairly long (112mm equivalent), and 300mm (480 equivalent) is positively paparazzian.
I tried the printable lenshoods for the 60mm. Disappointed to find out that they don't attempt to screw into the normal slots, but are supposed to be put on with tape or rubber bands or something.
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