Photo and Pictures

Flickr gets a redesign and they emphasize on Geotags. I believe the location should be a part of Exif. I think the next feature to add to system cameras is actually gps so that you always know where you took the pictures.

There are of course some other features like reaching alot more directly from picture page and more. You are already able to play with it. Just log into Flickr and play around.

Remember to read the terms so you know what you say is ok to Yahoo the large coorporation that bought Flickr. You will need a Yahoo account to use Flickr. As well as you will need a Google account to be able to use Picasa.

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You are already storing your photos on Flickr or Ipernity and want to do some effect. The photoservice Tuxpi already can get the picture from an URL and you can choose en effect. You then can save it on your desktop. There are several effects to choose from and you are to lazy to upload it in your photo editor.

Here you can choose an effect and then choose another one and you will get a result that show effect upon effect. Like my result with the filmstrip. You also can add text and so you can do a cartoon out of your own pictures. The rest is up to your imagination.

Remember bot to do it to special photos that you don´t anyone else to reach. Actually that photo you should have on your hard drive where it´s safe. Any picture you put on the net is unsafe so be careful what you choose to view to others.

Roy Tanck have created a simple way to present your Flickr images in an image cloud. You must authorize others to use Flickr API. It’s very neat and easy to use on your blog or website. It is very easy to customize the widget to your needs. You fill out a form where you decide how it should look like the size and background. You can even make it great for a whole page, but it is not something I recommend because the pictures become very pixly.

There you will also need to know is your Flickr ’s RSS Feed. You’ll find it at the bottom of your flickr page. The link is on the “Latest” or the link provided on the orange RSS icon. When you are finished with the form, simply press the “Generate” and your code will appear in the window below the form. The click and copy to paste where you want it on your blog or website. It will show the most recent published photos on Flickr. So when you upload a new image appears on top of your widget.

The images in this widget presents my latest Flickr photos .

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CleVR is a tremendously simple and user friendly service where you can make your panorama with a few clicks. You shoot your first panorama by shooting several pictures around you. This makes it easier if you have a tripod. To test how easy CleVR was photographed so I just took pictures all around me in the kitchen. The quality of the photos were no good, but they worked to test with. It took me not more than 5 minutes to install the application using Adobe AIR and upload photos and create panorama you can see below. There is a simple free version and two pro version that costs about €9 or €25 per month / user depending on your needs.

Panorama of Köket on CleVR.com

It could not be easier to create your panorama. This program and the service is completely web based and is therefore independent of the operating system you are using. This is how simple and user-friendly service I would like to see in the future. If you are into panoramas you will find at www.panoramas.dk or Virtual lebanon.

Do you know you can simply create your concept map about your photo project. I have here used cmaptools to create and publish a project and links to the photos. You should know that it is simply shown wrong in new Opera. Seems that they still have to work with their browser. I still get no buttons in Ipernity so i have to guess where they are.

This is a simple way to communicate and work together about a simple photo project. You can of course build the map together as long as you save a new copy on the same place. Its also a good way to let others know about your project.

Cmaptools is open source and are of course free to use and you can collaborate about your concepts map. It is really a good collaborate way and you are can work together on a distance.

Photo by: Michael Gäbler. Wikimedia is presenting Picture of the day. You can also check the latest half year for inspiration and try to copy there work for inspiration. Remember to follow the license that is with the picture or mediafile. Since you also find sound and video as Creative Commons or GFDL. Remeber that sometimes the license is copyright and you need to contact the copyright holder.

You can of course be a contributor yourself to wikimedia market yourself with creative commons. Remember to supply the license so people know how to use your picture.

Being a beginner in photo you will need to challenge your photo skills every week. That is exactly what Photo Friday is all about giving you opportunity to challenge your photo skills and excel. You can learn things from this site or never give them any thought.

You can always try new things but challenge your photo knowledge and training you composition skills you will find this challenge is great. You will also learn alot from other contestants. Take the opportunity to learn from others mistakes. It is also a great opportunity to show off your skills.

You can print your images at your places taking a way to get something out there publishing it on your blog to market yourself. See it as a way to get working every week and then finish it off for the weekend. You can be satisfied with yourself all weekend.

There are lots of rules and ways of thinking when you compose your photos. The golden ratio is deeply rooted in our culture and is found again and again in nature such as in the Nautilus shell . Our minds quickly captures the very harmony of proportions.

There are tools on the Internet where you can get help to crop your pictures so that you get a better harmony in your photos. Composition adjuster gives you the ability to easily add on help lines, so you can quickly and easily crop your images to get the right symmetry. It works better if you use Internet Explorer as your browser.

In Gimp you can also add some lines on cropping and selection tool such as the heart, the Rule of Thirds and Golden Ratio. It is a great tool to crop the images so that you control the audience into what is interesting in the picture. this is something you can apply to photoshop as well.

Photos that lifts from the rest is far too often that is using elements with derived proportional to the golden ratio. In the picture with the snail and the ant, it is the golden triangles that create a lovely picture. Ant on the shell also shows that it is not only about composition to get a picture to lift. I like images where there is symbolism and thought behind. You have to depart from the rules of sense.

The same applies to this shell where we can clearly see how the spiral from the first plant to stop the blade in the foreground. The challenge is to recover an eye for how to get a good composition that caresses the eye.

The Cat at dawm, I simply have instead gone from golden ratio to some extent, but used the template to place the cat. The cat I placed beneath the lines of the golden ratio, which creates a small asymmetry. You can also see that the lines go through the lots where the background varies in color. This is a counterbalance to create a little harmony in the background of the picture.

Equally important to learn the rules, it is to find openings that are just your style to break the rules. To create your own style requires you to stand out from what is cliché.

Learn More: About thirds rule and the Golden Ratio, Golden Rectangle on Flickr

What about the colors in the camera and the pixels of RGB system on your computer screen anyway? A nice explanatory film is never wrong. This knowledge is not necessary to know as a photographer or photo editor, but is a good general knowledge. The analogy with the colored glasses are excellent.

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Photowalkpro have several movies on how to do to get good using HDR images. Here’s one that shows you how to set up and camera settings for HDR. It is good if you have a camera that has bracketing in other words that can take multiple images with different exposures. The Nikon D40 does not have bracketing, which can be useful to know. You will find several tutorials on photo that you surely will have use of them.