September 12, 2010 Photography as You Remember It Ahh, the good old days. When photography was easy … and not quite so convenient. (Thanks to Richard Hamm for the link.) Categories Tech Talk
September 10, 2010 Hmmm … What is the New York Times Doing Next? Sounds like the Times has something up their sleeve with their News.me domain. I’m curious … the blog post mentions a Flipboard-like service, which if it’s done legally and helps generate revenue, I’m all for it. (Haven’t looked at Flipboard for the iPad? Here’s my $0.05 review – it’s a content scraper. Stay away from it.) Categories Business & Industry/Journalism/Tech Talk
August 10, 2010 How to Fail at Video I just love this … Glen Canning on how to fail at video, in massive ways. (Thanks to … well, everyone on Twitter who posted this today.) Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Video
August 7, 2010 More on the Last Roll of Kodachrome We’ve talked before about Steve McCurry’s being given the last roll of Kodachrome ever made, now there are some more details about what he did with it. Can’t wait for the National Geographic special … Categories Business & Industry/Craft/Tech Talk
August 5, 2010 Will it Blend? You’ve all seen the series of YouTube videos from Blendtec, where they blend up everything from iPhones to marbles. Now, they seem to have partnered with Olympus … My desire for an Olympus Pen just keeps growing … (Thanks to my old friend Alexander Koromilas for the link.) Categories Tech Talk
July 31, 2010 Shoot a Magazine Cover of an iPhone … with an iPhone No, really – use a cell phone to shoot a full-size magazine cover. Pixel-peepers the world over are cringing right now, but Peter Belanger shot the current Macworld cover with his new iPhone 4. And didn’t retouch it, either. See, it isn’t the camera, is it? As Ansel Adams said, “The single most important component of a camera is the twelve... Categories Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk
July 29, 2010 Video for the Small Screen Do past thoughts on video still apply for mobile platforms? It would seem so … and a lot of those still apply to desktop- or laptop-watched video, too. (Picked up from Richard Koci Hernandez’s Twitter stream.) Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk/Video
July 29, 2010 Colorama Returns Kodak has taken the massive backlit displays it used to feature in New York City’s Grand Central Station and sent them to the Eastman House Museum. If you’re in e Rochester area, I would highly recommend taking a look. Categories Craft/Good Work/Tech Talk
July 25, 2010 JPEGs, Adobe Lightroom and Quality Settings I am not an Adobe Lightroom user (though one colleague and one former student may sway me from my Photo Mechanic/Aperture combo), so I don’t have a lot of experience here to back this up … but Jeffrey Friendl has posted an excellent tutorial on JPEG compression quality as it relates to Lightroom exports. It has some fantastic interactive sliders... Categories Tech Talk
July 13, 2010 One For the Kids I know there’s a fairly large number of college students reading this (meaning, all of mine), so here’s a deal for you … Amazon.com, which has everything you really need to be happy, has a free shipping service called Prime. (You want a three pack of Spiderman toothbrushes? They have it. How about an external battery for your 2001-era Handspring... Categories Tech Talk