Posts Tagged ‘photography’

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog
Wow it has been so nice to be lazy, to be spending what feels like more time offline than online. All of the tech todos on my list for the holiday vacation remain undone (the list crumpled up and is burning in the wood stove now). The plan to [...]

I’ve had fun following D’Arcy Norman’s tweets as he experiments with an old Pentax film camera he got from his Dad. It got me thinking that I’ve had a string of cameras, but have never bothered to document my camera history.
Not that anyone would care,, this is a blog post for me as an [...]

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Fenchurch!
November was a month of taking on more of the “do something every day” type projects, and I think the madness needs to stop. I’ll stop every day.
This of course, is not a promise I intend to keep. I find these challenges very rewarding, especially the ones that you [...]

It’s been a while since I shot or even explored Gigapan, the amazing photo exploration tool that lets you see a wide range of zoom detail in a scene. I have not even captured a scene in a while (see my old ‘pans).
But by sheer accidental link clicking from my RSS Reader (am I the [...]

Lifehacker’s Top 10 DIY Photography Tools is a mine of nifty gems for photographers to up their own photo mojo. Besides what I learned (see below), I am finding myself thinking more about the rise of the DIY (Do It Yourself) culture on the net- there surely is a future blog post relating that to [...]

Telegraph Hill Tilt Shift by cogdogblog posted 19 Oct ‘08, 12.10am MDT PST on flickr
Inspired by a link from kotke to the Fenway Park "Model", I experimented with the Fake Model method. Essentially it is a PhotoShop play of careful gradient selection and lens blur to create effects that convert real photos to [...]

Photosynth was one of those “cool demos I saw and bookmarked for later” that I was recently nudged to go back and look at– this week I saw a very cool scene created by the folks at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
In a nutshell, PhotoSynth magically creates a navigable scene that lets you move [...]

I did not discover the barfing flickr panda just followe dlinks in my gReader from sites like Mashable. The panda provides a different way to Explore flickr, the 500 most “interesting” photos as identified by the magical algorithm. The Panda just seems to be a new way to vew them; just sit and watch as [...]

More Moo Goodness by cogdogblog posted 2 Aug ‘08, 6.19pm MDT PST on flickr
My moo note cards arrived today! I got a set of 16 cards with photos from my journeys to Australia.

Yep, got more moo card goodies- my set of 16 notecards came today; I made a set of selected photos from [...]

I’ve tried to formulate it in my head and cannot put exactly to words why I love so much taking photos. And now I decided I dont really have to have it in words. It’s what energizes me. And so much has been rekindled just since January on taking on the challenge of the [...]