Archive for December 2006
Flickr
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Originally uploaded by jauderho.
Not long ago, Flickr increased their upload restrictions to “unlimited”. That was the last straw for me, apparently, as it turns out I’d rather give Yahoo! $25 per year to host my photos for me than fiddle about with creating and maintaining a self-hosted gallery system. So, yes, I have joined the Flickr Revolution somewhat late in the game.
Right now I’m testing the funky little “Blog This!” button that appears above all the photos. This one is by Jauder Ho (ltns!)
Tomato
Books are awesome and teach you super-useful things about stuff, like Photoshop. Here’s a tomato:
More fun with macros
Last week I built a cheapo light tent for doing lighting for indoor macro photography. First attempt was too huge, so I took it apart and cut all the dowels down by another 6″. It’s still too big, so I’ll probably take it apart again tomorrow and cut it all down another 4-6″ per side.
In the mean time I messed around and took some shots using my awesome Nikon 60mm macro lens. The problem right now is that now I need to figure out how to embed the proper colour profile in the images for browser display. Hum. Anyhow, here’s one of the shots I took earlier:
