Posts Tagged ‘photography’

Pimp Richard’s Workflow

My Renaissance Man friend Richard has a post about designing a digital photography workflow. He used the free visual software, Gliffy, to produce the flow he has now. In his blog, Richard asked others to help better develop his workflow, or suggest their own additions to the process. It’s a neat exercise for you to consider doing, for a few reasons:

It promotes learning about how to design useful

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July 6 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: gliffy, photography, process, workflow | 1 comment»

Presentation Hack: Flickr Backup

Imagine the scene: you’re at a conference, about to present on the latest application your company is proud to offer, and moments before going onstage, you realize you’ve left the usb drive with the presentation in your other bag. You’ve got nothing. Your backup copy isn’t handy. Whatever the case. Or… maybe you just don’t want to travel with all kinds of gear.

Use Flickr.

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May 22 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: flickr, hacks, photo, photography, powerpoint, presentation | 8 comments»

Photo Hacks: Make a Photo Block

PhotoJojo has all kinds of interesting DIY projects for photos. I could’ve listed any of about a dozen, but here’s a neat one on turning a photo into a photo block, complete with a video tutorial.

We’re here to help. Gather your piles of vacation photos, stunning portraits of Aunt Mildred, and your gallery-worthy shots of your feet; it’s time to put ‘em to use.

Make a Photo Block — [PhotoJojo]… » Continue

May 19 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: DIY, howto, photography, photos | no comments»

Flickr as a Business Tool

I was puzzling over a note in Dave Gray’s Flickr account, and by note, I mean a photo of a note he’d taken at a conference, when it struck me:

Flickr is not a photo sharing tool. It is a platform, and it could be exceptionally useful for businesses.

Flickr Business Hacks

Upload a product design for review- mark it “friends only” and have your “friends” (coworkers) share their thoughts using

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May 17 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: business, flickr, photo, photography, social, software, web, work-life | 16 comments»

Limit Creativity, Get Innovation

Go create something. I don’t care what, how much it cost, the purpose, or the form, but the result must be supremely innovative, worth every penny, and profoundly significant to the human race. Take your time.

The reasonable person finds this overwhelming. Creativity’s root is the tension filled conflict between the imagination and the physical: input and output, insight and achievement, learning and performing. Remove conflict and there is no need for creativity. Imagination v. reality – like a courtroom battle — negotiation leads to creative solutions. In onerous jargon laden corporate speak: look for the win/win. » Continue

February 28 2006 | By Bruce | Tagged: creative, creativity, performance, photo, photography, writing | 8 comments»

Edit My Life - Please

Look at Dad take pictures of little Joey go down the playground slide. Wait – hasn’t he taken about 100 shots of that little boy this morning? Oh yeah – digital – our lives are digital now. Content is overwhelming: words, images, sounds. That same proud Dad uploaded this week’s most precious 150 images to the Joey’s Cute website, so all his dedicated fans can view the little darling.

Those phone photographers are in play too. The phone is now a ubiquitous capture device making no one immune from the serendipitous photographer documenting our most inelegant moments. Unedited, they’re thrown up on Flickr.com for your viewing pleasure – often for everyone’s viewing pleasure.

Pleasure? I’m not so sure. Just like those jokes we used to forward through email as web-neophytes, they swiftly become annoying. We learned only to forward those that were extra-specially, extraordinarily hilarious. The best ones traveled the internet like a virus, but as with a healthy immune system, minor viruses are cured. Who’s going to cure the information overload virus? Who’s going to help me edit my life? » Continue

February 3 2006 | By Bruce | Tagged: creative, creativity, digital, editing, photo, photography, Productivity | 1 comment»

Being A Creative

We are all creative, but being “a creative” usually refers to someone for whom creativity is life’s goal: Illustrator, Architect, Advertising Art Director, Writer, Musician, Photographer, Designer, Etc. Scientists, Surgeons, Marketing Managers, CEO’s and other problem solving discovery professions are among our species most creative members, but typically don’t get the label. » Continue

January 18 2006 | By Bruce | Tagged: creative, creativity, motivation, performance, photography, writing | 3 comments»

Taking Professional Looking Photos Without a Professional

After reading this tutorial, you can be a professional photographer too. Lindsay Landis over at Switchboards teaches on using non-professional items to generate the professional looking photos. She teaches how to create a small photo tent using frosted plastic Rubbermaid container, white interfacing, daylight light bulbs andwhite color matte poster board. Then she gives some tips on configurating your digitial camera’s settings, including shutter speed, aperture, ISO/ASA (film speed), white… » Continue

January 9 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: howto, photography | 1 comment»

DIY Budget Macro Lens for Photography

Photocritic.org has a post on making a macro lens for macro photography, and the cost is less than you can ever imagine - using a Pringles can. I think I saw couple of DIY that uses a Pringles can, like the wireless antenta. How can Pringles can be that useful!

… What you make the actual distance tube out of is relatively unimportant, as long as it… » Continue

December 13 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: DIY, photography | 1 comment»

Ten Digital Photography Tips

Derrick Story, author of Digital Photography Pocket Guide, has just revised his great article on Digital Photography. His expert advice is that you can make great photos with simple digitial camera with some custom adjustments. There are ten tips that he suggested: