To what we're listening- Alejandro Escovedo – Nuns Song
- Alejandro Escovedo – Chelsea Hotel '78
- Alejandro Escovedo – Always A Friend
- Pzizz – 20 Sleep 15-55
- Pat Metheny – The First Circle
- Pat Metheny – September Fifteenth
- Pat Metheny – In Her Family
- Pat Metheny – Red Sky
- Pat Metheny – I Can See Your House From Here
- Pat Metheny – Quiet Rising
- Project 365 (photo a day)
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- SummerBoard Screenshots
- Being a S@HD
- Music
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Oh, for crying. Out. Loud. (iPhoto Edition)
Why can’t I, in iPhoto, search for photos by size? Or by any piece of metadata about any specific photo? This is especially puzzling when I can use Automator to search by size.
Why isn’t Automator faster when searching for photos of a certain size? For crying out loud. By all appearences, I could work my way more quickly through my library, flagging the thumbnails than, apparently, Automator can. If only there was another tool that could find and remove the thumbnails.
Oh! There is! Thumbnail Annihilator. It, too, seems to spend seconds on each photo, lazily determining if it meets the specified size criteria.
Granted, there are 24,599 photos in this particular library. If it took a second to look at each one, determine if any dimension is 240 pixels or less, flag it, and move to the next photo, that would be just under 7 hours.
But it’s a COMPUTER! This is the kind of crap it’s supposed to be GOOD at! Still, I’d be OK if it took 7 hours to flag all the thumbnails. Except it takes MUCH longer than that, and is still churning away the next morning when I wake up!
What the F? WHY!?!!?
Tags: Apple, Technology, ThingsEdgy Post
Interesting article on edges for your photographs.
Tags: Photography, Software, Techniques, ThingsProject 365: Still Life - Shit from China
Honest to god. How much money do we spend in the US
on crap like this in any given year?
Really. How much lead do we need? Or phtalates?
And seriously. How much do we spend yearly on
this kind of crap?
The most interesting thing about this photo is that I shot it in my light box, lit by a single 100 watt bulb. Hany Farid could tell you, by looking at my photo, where the light was.
Tags: Commentary, Photography, Project 365, ThingsCCD Sensor Cleaning
I’m going to dive into Photoshop Elements to “heal” a bunch of dust specks on a recent photo because I had the temerity to shoot at f/16.
I think the time has come to clean my sensor. I’ve put it off for far too long.
I’ve used the Copperhill method before - and shall again. Perhaps as soon as today.
Tags: Photography, Project 365, Technology, ThingsRose
Father & Daughter
Info on HDR
Photomatix settings (starting point): Dan Achatz recommends (some place in the PFRE discussion group) starting values:
- Strength=20
- Saturation=35
- White Point=10
- Black Point=10
- Gamma=1.
From Stuck in Custom’s HDR tutorial:
- Strength: 100
- Color Saturation: 70
- Light smoothing: 4 (out of 5)
- Luminosity: +9
- White Point: 2.5ish
- Black Point: 1.5ish
- Gamma: 1.0ish
This looks like an interesting app - I’d like to start playing around with more realistic looking HDRs. Photomatix really punches up the photos, but they almost always have an air of unreality to me. Maybe if I took some time to learn how introduce more subtlety into the images… But seriously, if I had an app wherein I could shoot, download, drag, drop and generate…how cool would that be? Oh. The app. Bracketeer.
Digital Photography School has An Introduction to High Dynamic Range Imaging (HDR). This was written by Jason, from Pixelens.com, who wrote HDR Tidbits (links, news, inspiration) for his blog.
Tags: Media, Photography, ThingsNewest Gadget
My lovely bride and darling daughter got me an ION USB turntable for Father’s Day.
I got a chance to play with it yesterday a bit, but was ultimately unsuccessful in getting a recording of “The Beatles, Live at the Hollywood Bowl,” what with my inability to correctly use the audio software I’ve been using for, oh, five or so years. And the skipping.
Putting together the table (or “deck,” if I’m going to be elitist about it,) I realized why people ditched their vinyl. It takes a lot more time and effort to set up a turntable than it does to plug in a CD player. And it takes a lot more time and patience to play a record than it does to play a CD. Or MP3, for that matter.
My plan is to do very little editing and clean up, in an effort to get the LPs transferred into the digital domain as quickly as possible. Once they are digitized, I can go back whenever I want to split the tracks and clean up the clicks and pops. On the other hand, how cool would it be to drive around town as if I have an old turntable in the trunk - sans the skips when I hit the railroad tracks.
Mmmmmm. Clicks and pops, baby. Clicks and pops.
Tags: Albums, Clicks & Pops, LPs, Media, Music, Records, Things, VinylOf Spamming and Spoofing -or- RU Getting spam from me?
So I’m getting dozens of returned e-mails because someone spoofed my e-mail address - that is, they are sending out spam in such a way as it looks to the casual observer like I sent it. I suppose that’s what I get for having the same e-mail address for ten years or so.
So how do you know if an e-mail actually comes from me? If you look at the long headers, the X-Mailer line will show either “iPhone Mail,” “Apple Mail,” or (from this point forward) it will be signed with a digital signature.
Which brings me to a short wish-list. I wish:
- Google would allow me to filter out incoming messages that are not in English.
- Google would allow me to digitally sign my e-mail messages from their interface.
- I could install my (new!) digital signature on my iPhone, so I could digitally sign outgoing correspondence on that platform too.
- ISPs would put in place the technological means (via authentication) to greatly reduce the incidence of spam and spoofing in the first place.
And for anyone looking to gain control of the spam in their mailbox, I recommend getting a gmail account.
Tags: Technology, ThingsJohn McCain Campaign Logo
Just playin’ around.
McCain’s Arizona Sunset:
It’s always darkest
just before it goes pitch black.
Tags: Election 08, McCain, People, Politics, ThingsJELyon endorses:
