Stuff You’ll Like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- Photocritic: Visualising Studio Lighting.
- Read/Write/Web: first look at snapgroups. I’ve been waiting to see what Mark Fletcher (Bloglines and Onegroup, which became Yahoo Groups) had up his sleeve. It’s SnapGroups, which is a fresh take on community/group/forum/list type setups. At first glance, looks very interesting. This looks like it might give Yahoo Groups a run for its money. Already beats the hell out of Google Groups, but then, so does a hit to the head..
- Jeremy Pollack: 5 Lightroom Quick Tips
- George Barr: One in a Hundred
- Michael Zhang: Time-Lapse of the Milky Way over Hawaii. Awesome.
- Jim Goldstein: Gates of the Valley, Yosemite National Park
- David duChemin: Confessions of a So-Called Pro
- Michael Johnston: National Geographic ten top photos of 2009. there’s been some grumbling about NatGeo’s choice of photos here. I think photographers need to step back a bit and see that these were chosen as much for (if not primarily for) the story they’re telling as the photo and quality itself. Great NatGeo work, but the photo is the vehicle, not the purpose.
- Rob Knight: unclutter your library with lightroom’s stacks.
- Joe Pelletier: Trail of the Stanley Cup. One of the rarest and most sought after hockey book set. Laurie owns all three volumes as part of her collection. Her collection is around 500 volumes, not including media guides (more or less complete back into the 80’s and other volumes earlier) and programs (a few thousand, something like 20 linear feet of them going back into the 30’s) or my collection of rulebooks (including ones going back into the 40’s). At one point when we were actively collecting we kept hearing about another collector in B.C. we kept hearing about in various stores — one store told us he wanted to meet us as he was buying for the Hockey Hall of Fame and wanted to buy our collection. No idea how true it was, nobody ever followed up with us on it. Most of that was “before eBay”, today, anything worthwhile ends up online there or on abebooks or one of the other used services, and it’s almost impossible to find really rare stuff at non-insane prices, so mostl we don’t… but while we were building this collection, we sure had a lot of fun wading through dusty bookstores…
- Juan Pons: Favorite Images from my “Winter in Yellowstone” instructional photo workshop. (sigh. jealous).
- Mike Panic: 7 things photographers should never do
Stuff You’ll Like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- 10,000 Birds: Inaccessible Island Rail. excerpt: The Inaccessible Island Rail is perhaps the coolest bird that neither I nor anyone I will ever meet will ever see.
- Audublog: Klamath settlement could benefit habitat for California migratory birds.
- Google: Google Voice, explained. I’ve been using Voice for a while to manage the fact that I deal with multiple cell phones now, and I’m happy with how it centralizes and simplifies my telphonic life… Which is way more complicated than I ever expected “a phone” to be…
- PDNpulse: dining room/studio in Brooklyn. Because Im’ looking at how to set up a home studio area I’ll actually be able to use….
- Strobist: it’s time for the PC jack to die.
- Rick Sammon: Quick Tip on Fill Flash
- Michael Zhang: Use Bicubic Sharpener for web resizing
- Chris Brogan: attention as a currency and noise
- Mark Williamson: They closed Death Valley
- Jim Goldstein: Mavericks — impact of scale
- Scott Bourne: better skies with lightroom’s graduated filter
- Alan Murphy: Using a water drip to attract birds
- Rick Sammon: Q&A on color space
- Kent Newsome: how to vastly improve your Facebook experience with filters and lists
- Trey Ratcliff: Trey Ratcliff Speech at Google (I had a chance to see Trey speak at Apple on this trip, and had to cancel to go to a meeting I ended up not needing to be at. oh well)
- Trey Ratcliff: how to make a web portfolio (the joys of Smugmug)
- Syl Arena: Speedlighting — learning Canon Flash Photography
- Merced Sun Star: San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge. This’ll give you a feel for what it’s like being at a fly-in. Until you experience one, though, you don’t really understand just how it affects you at a visceral level…
- Adactio: testing huffduffer’s sign-up. Interesting rethink on a signup sheet. The A/B test is intriguing.
- Digital Photography School: Taking Stock of your own photography
- Michael Frye: Oaks. (going to look for this tree next week…)
- Brian Auer: Tone Curves: final tips, tricks and things to avoid.
- Outdoor Photo Gear: Setup Heaven in South Texas
- Michael Zhang: Stop Motion Post-It Animation by Disney
Stuff You’ll Like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- Dak Dillon: A Photographer’s Guide to Working with Magazines
- Jeff Revell: HDRSoft makes HDR easier with Photomatix Light
- Ed Finkler: We are the stupid ones.
- Heather Morton: Doug Menuez and his new Stock Site
- Peter Carey: How to control multiple flashes wirelessly with a Canon 7d [[ good timing!! ]]
- Kirk Tuck: My idea of a great workshop. Collaboration is key
- David Hobby: After the Light: High Pass Post Production
- Kurt Repanshek: 15 years into the wolf recovery program
- Moose Peterson: What’s the best investment
- 10,000 Birds: Help! It’s raining Brown Pelicans!
- Jeff Atwood: Cultivate Teams, not ideas
- Michael Frye: Coyotes
- Juan Pons: Recording Audio with your video
- Brian Auer: Nonlinear Curve Adjustments and histograms
- Round Robin: We Love Birds launches
- Matthew Ingram: Don’t let the Good Become the enemy of great
- Harold Davis: Split toning in a winter vista
- Paul Burwell: top ten ways to make sure you’ll never be a pro
Stuff You’ll Like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- Carolyn Wright: How to deal with infringements.
- Kevin Marks: Standards are the Links of the Social Web
- Tim O’Reilly: Google Buzz re-invents gmail
- Don Dodge: Google Apps Developer Blog
- Matt Kloskowski: Four Signs that it’s time to start from scratch in Lightroom
- Jeff Revell: Tips for better zoo photography
- Rob Sylvan: Customizing your Camera Raw defaults in Lightroom
- Steve Berardi: What went wrong with this sand dune photo
- Greg Russell: Shooting Panoramas with minimal equipment
- Rick Sammon: Crop my pictures and you’re a dead man
- Sean McCormack: LRB Exhibition
- Images without borders: Welcome to Images with0ut borders
- Louis Gray: Low Quality Offensive Ads degrade the web experience
- Nick Nichols: Full Disclosure
- Hal Schmitt: Stitching Together Your Panoramas using Lightroom and Bridge/Photoshop
Stuff You’ll Like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- Vincent Driesen: A successful GIT Branching model. (via Jeremy)
- Michael Frye: Photo Critique, Subway 1
- George Barr: Yours, Mine and History
- Naturescapes: 2009 Images of the Year. (wow).
- Jeremy Pollack: Pre-Travel Research Tips
- Audubon: Reintroducing Wolves could rehabilitate ecosystems.
- Steve Berardi: how three bananas can improve your photography skills
- http://moosepeterson.com/blog/?p=12203#mce_temp_url#: Wildlife Photography — Your cup of tea? (yes!)
- Jim Goldstein: 10 tips to managing social media productivity
- Rick Sammon: On Creating a Photo with Emotional Impact
- Michael Frye: Waterfalls in Winter
Stuff You’ll Like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- Wildbird: Bolsa Chica footbridge being installed. This will really make Bolsa Chica even more interesting to explore. (this is good)
- Oregon Live: Brown Pelicans are lingering on the Oregon Coast. (this is bad..)
- Rick Sammon: When you are through changing, you are through
- Terrie Eliker: Beating Lens Fungus
- Daniel Jalkut: Can’t Catch Me
- Grant Brummett: 400mm birding lens comparison (I use the 100-400 IS a lot, plus the 300mm F4 IS with a 1.4x tele. the 300/1.4 is definitely crisper than the 100-400 at 400mm, but less flexible, so it depends on what I’m trying to do. In general, I shoot the 100-400 when I’m handholding and walking around, and the 300/1.4 combo on a tripod. Don’t forget to turn IS off when attached on a tripod)
- Fraser Speirs: Future Shock.
- Steve Frank: I need to talk to you about computers.
- Moose Peterson: This Unsettling Thought Might Bring some Comfort. (moose writes on something I’ve written about also)
- Audublog: A whole bunch of reasons why birds matter
- Alan Hess: Off to the Zoo
- Cats Who Code: How to easily create a Thematic child them. (it’s time for me to get butt in gear and start the blog redesign seriously…)
- Greg Russell: Evolution of an image, and the value of critique forums
Stuff You’ll Like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- Caterina Fake: Participatory media and why I love it (and must defend it) — and while she’s absolutely correct, she also without realizing it shows the flip side of participatory media (the abuse of it), when she has to point out “Sadly, it’s true. All my archives have been taken offline so I don’t have to spend hours clearing out comment spam with horrifying subject matter. I’m sorry.” — every system needs to understand how it’s going to enable people who embrace the community values, but exclude those that only see the value as something to acquire. That’s why historic villages had walls and gates — not to keep villagers in, but to keep them safe. Sad that it’s necessary, but necessary it is.
- Mike Chen: I’ve been traded to SBN — congrats to Mike, a good move by SBN to bring him on.
- Scott Bourne: A simple primer on photographing birds in flight
- G Dan Mitchell: Photographing Death Valley
- Flickr Blog: FlickrTab — (chuq says: one thing I haven’t found a solution to that I liked was integrating my flickr photos with my facebook page. FlickrTab looks like what I’ve been looking for)
- Harold Davis: Creating HDR Images by Hand
- Brian Auer: Photo Editing with Histograms
- Hal Schmitt: Stitching Together your Panoramas using Lightroom and Bridge/Photoshop
- Kurt Repanshek: Wintering In Yellowstone — Logistics (on the list — I want to do this even more than go to Churchill for the polar bears)
- Jim Goldstein: Dawn at the Racetrack; death valley
- Scott Bourne: the HDR Wars
- Audubon Magazine: A couple of thoughts on the Magazine’s Photo Awards
- Tom Stienstra: opening gates for Sweeney to sea hike
Stuff You’ll Like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- National Geographic: Quashing Kudzu.
- Engadget: AT&T pricing changes. If you’re an iPhone user, make sure you’re set up with your new, improved, lower prices. It probably also doesn’t hurt to review your plan and see if you can change features to save money. Same with your landline, cable, sat-TV, DSL, etc, etc etc, because the companies rarely seem to remember to give you the better rates until you remind them…
- Michael Frye: Snow. Frye now has a blog talking more about the environment than about the photography, and it looks like a real winner with some nice stories and thoughts about Yosemite.
- Audubon California expands Kelso Creek habitat protections in Kern County
- DC Birding Blog: What makes birds cooperate against predators?
- bbum: solar install on an eichler (Part 1). I love owning an Eichler — but they definitely come with challenges, the best being a house with no attic OR crawl space, meaning stringing cables is a challenge and a half. Ours fortunately doesn’t have electrical strung across the roof. We also don’t have foam roof; when we reroofed, we stripped it and had R14 rigid laid down and then tar and gravel over it, and it’s made life much nicer here. Except the garage, which turns out to be a faux savings, because the garage is now horribly cold or horribly hot depending on the season, and really should have been insulated as well. oh well, live and learn. (memo to self: ask Bbum for the name of his electrician. a guy who ‘gets’ Eichler is gold).
- Jolie O’dell: There’s no such thing as free content. (TAANSTAFL – ultimately, someone is paying for it).
- Round Robin: Godwits go Missing on Chloe Island. (hmm. maybe they’re visiting the Pier 39 sea lions)
Stuff you’ll like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- Brian Auer: How to read histograms
- Michael Frye: Talking about photos. Frye has started a blog where he talks about the story of making the image. Looks to be an interesting set of discussions
- Michael Johnson: Canon 5D Mark II Price Drop…. and Why. — my first reaction; if you’re someone (like me) thinking along the lines of a new 7D body, the price difference between the 7D and the discounted mark II make this an interesting option. And perhaps this price drop might cause adjustments in the used market that bring the price of a good full-frame body even closer to the 7D. Something to keep in mind if you’re body shopping right now.
- A Photo Editor: good news in photography
- Joe McNally: Dang. (I was discussing sports with a friend the other day and trying to explain why I’ve become so uninterested in baseball, and really couldn’t articulate where my loss of interest came from. Oh, yeah. Barry Bonds. Mark McGuire. Baseball’s complaceny about steroids adn the rampant abuse because it led to lots of home runs and fan interest coming out of the work stoppage. And now the fallout as the sins come home to roost. Now I remember… Sympathy for McGuire? None. chances I’ll support him for the hall of fame? None. Interest in baseball right now? Still — basically none.
- PhotoWalkPro: new signature worthy papers from Epson. Have to try these out. I’ve really liked printing on some of the Hahnemuhle papers (especially photo rag bright white, german etching and Pearl 320), but still looking for a killer glossy paper to fall in love with.
- Jim Goldstein: Best Photos 2009.a nice collection of “best of” resources, including mine. Some very study-worth portfolios here.
- Sean McCormick: Practical Presets (for lightroom)
- Marco Arment: Don’t be a hero. (amen. I did the same thing in my job search. Too many companies take advantage of someone’s enthusiasm and build their businesses around burning out their people by creating chronic schedule death marches, but far too often, the people who burn the candles at both ends don’t get a cookie for doing so, they get laid off. So why do we keep buying into this? This is a part of silicon valley (and tech industry) culture that the geeks have to stop accepting so willingly. There’s a time and a place for long hours and deadline crunches, but they shouldn’t be 24×7x52 environments.
Stuff You’ll Like
A weekly compendium of stuff I found I thought you’d like. If you do, let me know, so I know to find more of it for you.
- Tim Bray: After Branding. In 2010, you are whatever the Net says you are. Deal with it. (good advice for anyone living in the public eye online, and if you’re online, you’re in the public eye)
- Scott Bourne: Traveling? Better get a UPS account. If you ask me, the terrorists are winning here, by convincing us to destroy our transportation system FOR them.
- Lighting Essentials for Photographers: 8 Essential Sites for Emerging Professional Photographers
- Brian Auer: My Favorite Photos from 2009
- Jack Hollingsworth: Twitter Mantras from Twitter Monk
- Michael Zhang: Interview with Laura Brunow Miner of Pictory. Pictory is impressing the hell out of me so far. It looks like it could really shape how we build online publications moving forward. (“I also felt there was a need for more online publications with the care and intention of print magazines, but also the practicality of the web.” agreed!)
- Virtual Photography Studio: The Real Reason more photographers can’t break into the destination market
- Steven Snell: 10 Keys to Growth as a Designer — and all of them relevant to the photographer and most creatives.
- Active Light Photography: The only time for Yosemite
- Hal Schmitt: Basic Stitched Panorama Guidelines
- Sean McCormack: Action Keyword List
- David duChemin: Sustaining the Practice of Art
- Rick Sammon: Great Day for the Fox, not so much for the squirrel
- Rick Sammon: Become a conservation photographer in 2010
- Chase Jarvis: Create. Share. Sustain.
- Trey Ratcliff: HDR, it’s about the light
- Rick Sammon: Envision the HDR End Result in your Mind’s Eye
- Rick Sammon: Create an HDR Image Even When the Subject is Moving
- Jeff Revell: The HDR Debate: What’s All the Fuss?
- Trey Ratcliff: Just Find Some Beauty (to some degree, this is the piece that triggered much of the current HDR ‘debate’)
- Lighting Essentials for Photographers: Branding your Photography Business, a Realistic View
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