Just watched this wicked YouTube video on a new way to resize images. Content aware image resizing. Speaking as a photographer, this is a very interesting concept. Maybe these algorithms will see the light of day, and maybe they won’t. I just want to play with it and see what it can do with my pictures.
Tag: Photography
Ottawa Processing
Pics from the Ottawa vacation. We did a lot while we were there. A farmers market, the cottage in Quebec, and then back to Ottawa where Sox and I were able to check out the Bywar Market. Its taken too long to get the pictures up, so I haven’t done any of the post processing that I was wanting to.
Along the canal.
A farmers market in the park.
Scenes from the cottage.
Outside the Kazabazua pottery store.
Byward Market
All the pics are here.
Langley Weekend
A couple weekends ago we made a trip to Langley to visit Sox’s family, and to visit with some friends. It was a great trip but rather expensive when you add in the IKEA trip.
My mother in law has the most amazing garden, and every time I visit I come away with some spectacular pictures of her flowers.
While there we walked up to a nearby park so Sprout could play. He enjoyed the slide a lot.
I also took Yoshi up to the dog park a couple times where he had a great time.
On the last day we were there I got out on my own to just wander and shoot. Downtown Langley was pretty quiet for BC Day, but it gave me more opportunity to take pictures.
It was a great trip. Lots packed into a long weekend.
All the pics are here.
Marveling Gardens
I have been marveling at our flowers in the front gardens recently, so today I decided to take a few pictures of them. I love how different types of flowers can take on such drastically different shapes and colors.
A few more pictures are here.
Disaster Shoot
The back yard may be a disaster area, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t some nice pictures to make there. With the sun out I ventured into the yard for a mini shoot. Some of these were taken on different days, but each time I took a picture I was struck by how green everything was. It is surely Spring now, and for that I am thankful.
The rest of the pics are here.
Walking Prospect
These shots were all taken in the past week while out walking at lunch time. The weather is definitely improving and that is a very, very welcome prospect. It has been windy and rainy for far too long.
The rest of the pics are here.
Organizing Impossible
I have been looking for some software for organizing my pictures for quite a while. There is a features set I have in mind for this software, and it seems impossible to find.
- tagging
- show which tags I have already used
- tagging auto complete
- tagging information stored in an open format (XML)
- archiving pictures to DVD
- ideally NO picture manipulation (no resizing or retouching)
- ideally open source software
- works with my existing pictures folder hierarchy
I have been following this LifeHacker article on that very topic. I am currently using the YYY-MM-DD-Topic folder hierarchy that a lot of the commenters say they use. I really want better searching capabilities though, so software is needed.
I don’t like Picasa. Memory Miner sounds cool , but there is no windows version yet (I am hopefully on the mailing list for the windows Beta).
ACDSee is heavy duty, but maybe ACDSee Viewer will work – more investigation needed.
Pixvue is now abandonware.
Adobe Photoshope Elements
Corel Snapfire – UI sucks
This guy talks about IMatch. I might download that and try it but $59.95 USD? That is a little pricey for me.
There are lots of things to investigate, but I still feel like whatever I find isn’t exactly what I am looking for.
Snowdrop Possibilities
Yesterday I broke out the light box to take some pictures of some snowdrop flowers from our backyard. It was a fun little bit of time spent while Sprout was sleeping. The background of the first 3 shots is the lid from a cookie tin. As I spend more time taking pictures using the light box I am beginning to foresee new possibilities with it.
I posted my favourite shot over on my photoblog for yesterdays picture.
Illumination Shots
The above is my photoblog post for today. I was shooting again in my lightbox after making a couple cutouts to recess the lights a little. This works well, and allows me to get much closer to my subject. I think this also helps the illumination.
FYI, this is my todo list notebook. I am about halfway through the book.
Some other shots from this session:
Overhead Beans
Highlights from a photo shoot I did at home today in my light box. I made some mods to the box to make it easier to work with. Today all I did was cut down the depth, so it was more square. This works much better now. Next time I will make some cutouts to recess the lights a little. I think I will also cut a top flap so I can take overhead shots too.
All pics are here. These are some coffee beans that I am sure to enjoy another day.