Friday, August 8, 2008 at 16:31 A HDR (High Dynamic Range) photo taken from the office.
The HDR looks relatively normal. Not that bad if you think that I shot the 9 images with the bare hands.
More HDR on my flickr page
HDR, flickr, photo in Photography Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 19:52 Have been experimenting with photoshop actions the last couple of days. The latest action (a vintage look) I created (with some help / ideas I found on the Internet.
Combine this with the border/watermarking action and you get the following result.
Learning a bit every day.
Photography, actions, photo, photoshop in Personal, Photography, Software Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 21:44 I've been using for about two years now, and today I found the stats page (you need to log in to view your stats). No idea if this is new, but it sure gives a nice breakdown on your photo activity.
flickr, stats in Personal, Photography Monday, August 4, 2008 at 16:01 
I usually don't put too much personal stuff on my blog. But every once in a while things happen. Things you have to do.... reluctantly.
As of yesterday, I'm no longer the (proud) owner of two of my cats. Both Isabella and Lilly went to a new owner. Four cats was just too much to take care of (all of them were 'left-overs' of a previous relationship).
I miss them already :sad: .
Friday, August 1, 2008 at 17:16 Ever since I started uploading photos onto the Internet I needed a way of 'protecting' my images. I could choose to upload a very small photo, with terrible JPEG artifact, but that's not the way you want to be remembered. Especially today. Today we have the bandwidth and the online storage to upload large images, so why not do that.
If you don't want that other people (or companies) to (financially) benefit from your hard work (1, 2, 3), you may want to 'tag' your photos. Just to make sure who created the original image.
When you shoot lot's of photos and share them with others on the Internet, you don't want to manipulate each photo. You would want to automate this.
Thankfully, there are numerous programs out there that can do such a thing. Some are free (free as in speech, and free as in beer), and others are commercially available.
actions, photoshop, tutorial, watermark in DRM, Photography, Software, Tips'n Tricks Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 17:37 The GiSTEQ Corporation has released a OSX compatible version of their software for managing the Phototrackr GPS unit.
I hope that more will follow, because there not that many OSX compatible devices out there. The good thing is that e.g. PhotoGPSEditor DOES support RAW photos (at least Nikon's RAW format).
Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 11:25 I got my wire remote (MC-30) for the Nikon D300 recently. Finally able to start shooting in the dark (on a tripod) without the fear of movement unsharpness.
More photos on my flickr page
HDR, photo in Personal, Photography Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 17:59 A couple of days ago I upgraded to Wordpress v2.6. After the upgrade I opened the blog, and added a new post. Both of those actions worked properly.
After the upgrade I noticed a major decrease in comment and trackback spam. But today I discovered the real reason why comments AND page views were close to zero.
There's a bug in Wordpress 2.6 where the permalinks are not working correctly. If you're using permalinks with the date, name, etc. (e.g. /index.php/switched-to-mac/) you get a 'Not Found' error. A definite WTF moment.
When you change the permalinks setup in the wordpress admin pages to default the pages/posts are accessible again. It seems that the issue is known and will be fixed in Wordpress 2.6.1. Untill then, most of the Google search results which end up on my website will result in a 'Not Found' error.
I would go back to an earlier version if I could. After the upgrade (which I thought that worked correctly) I removed the 2.5 installment... Yet another lesson for the future.
UPDATE: the pageviews are returning to normal :)
Tuesday, July 29, 2008 at 17:28 Adobe has released Lightroom 2.0.
The new features for this release are (my favorites);
An overview of the (new) features can be found here.
UPDATE: I've been playing with the dual display feature for a couple of hours. This is definitelly a major enhancement. Finally, a real workplace of 2 * 24" widescreen.
