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Desk: September 2009. Chaos.
Image by ashley.adcox
So...its really easy to look nice and organized when you've just cleaned up...but how about at 1:30 in the morning, when you walk in your room and see your desk how it is in "working order"?
yea, so here it is, in all it's glory. My messiness at it's best. I've been meaning to do another desk shot for a while. I kind of want to have random snapshots of it during random stages, you know?
Desk November 2008: www.flickr.com/photos/viggum/3030312266/
All design/photo books were moved to my bookcase, I gave up on the dead tree and tossed it, the few DVD's that I keep in my room were moved to my bookcase...yea...I guess that that's really all that's not there this time around.
I'm starting to delve further into design and I'm finding that sticky notes are a must, especially if you're teaching yourself how to use a program...sticky notes are liiiiife savers in that case.
Life has been good. I've been staying pretty busy. I'm getting my first taste of design work...it's definitely...different. It's far more collaborative than photography, which is pretty cool. With photography I feel like I mostly just did my thing and sent it off- and people liked it or they didn't. But design stuff...you're more or less chipping away at something until you reach a point where everyone's happy...I really enjoy that aspect. The learning curve is pretty high- especially when you get in to the technical aspects of printing. I've downloaded the trial of Illustrator (up until now I've done everything in Photoshop...which won't work when you hit the printing stage...thankfully I found this out AFTER I downloaded Illustrator so it wasn't a huge freakout), so I basically have 28 days left to teach myself the program and finish a project. lol..whoever said life isn't interesting? Thankfully that falls right in line with when the project would need to be finished anyways...so that works out really well.
seriously though...I'm enjoying it. I just wish I knew the ins and outs a little better. I feel incredibly limited in what I can do. I plan on taking some serious time to sit down and really learn all about Illustrator at the end of the year. I should be able to get it at a student discount in December (yea...I keep pushing back when I'm going to start school. I procrastinate, I know). I can get the creative suite for 0 as opposed to 00 non-student...yea...that's definitely the motivation I need to go to school lol. It's almost cheaper to go to school and get the program than it would be to just buy the non-student version! :-p jk.
I used to say, rather flippantly, that I wanted to be a photographer and do design as well. I'm not sure I ever believed it- like...if I was ever serious. I've never been the artistic type. I've never been able to draw, I just don't feel like I'm overflowing with creativity. I can have my moments...but that's just it- they're moments.
But now that I'm doing a little of it, it's definitely something that I want to continue- I want to learn. I'm not sure how I thought it would be when I would flippantly say that that's what I wanted to do...but I think it's exceeded my expectations. There's something really cool about listening to someone's ideas/the base of the project, spending a few days trying to come up with a basic visual idea, and then start chipping away on it and nearing a finished product. It's so much more involved than photography.
Photography, for me, is a VERY selfish process. Even when I shoot other people, it's ME. I shoot what I want to see, what I want to feel. Photography is something I do for myself.
Design...it's so much more collaborative- you HAVE to care about the other person/party. You have to be able to hear them & hear what they want and appreciate the fact that their experience/view is different than your own.
Photography, even(especially?) when I'm shooting other people, is about hearing/understanding myself.
Design is about hearing/understanding other people.
I never imagined how incredibly different they were. I treated it all so flippantly in the past, but I think now that I've had a tiny taste of it, I'm taking steps to be a bit more serious about it, because it's something that's definitely worth pursuing. I have so so so so SO much to learn, but it will be so worth it.
anyways. rambles. that happens at 2am.
speaking of which, I've been on a solid day schedule lately...so I should probably shut up and go to bed.
Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8 Lens
Image by Mr LFC
In my first blog in flickr, I’m going to discuss a high-involvement purchasing product, it is Nikon’s lens, Nikkor 14-24mm f2.8 ultra-ultra wide zoom.
The 14-24mm is sharper in the corners at f/2.8 than anything. It's so good, it's crazy to those of us who know how difficult it is to do this. The 14-24mm is sharp all over at every aperture. It's a little softer at f/2.8 at 14mm in the far corner of an FX frame, but it's as insanely good at Nikon's MTF curves claim. No other ultra-wide comes close. The 14-24mm is as free from dark corners and as sharp wide-open as my 14mm AF is at f/5.6!
Not that you'll see this sharpness improvement in most photos, but you will see it if you're looking in the corners of the FX frame wide open at the wide settings The older lenses simply can't get this sharp out there, but you can put filters on the front of most of the older lenses which you can't with the new 14-24mm. They all look the same when stopped down to f/8, but you still can't put filters on the front of the 14-24mm. This product made in Japan.
I am a Nikon user, I started to play my photography two years ago. When I realised that my current kit lens cannot satisfy my requirement as a photographer. I need a lens to help me to photo-shot on portrait and landscape. To be specifically, I need a lens which can help me to take for a couple in their pre-wedding and wedding photos.
I had good internal information because I been two years with my DSLR camera, I know exactly what do I want with my camera. I know I need a wide angle lens to support my camera to take a good background and sharp picture. It is really hard to image that lens with high aperture are really attractive to photographers. Also, the highest of aperture, the more expensive of the lens. 18 mm is the normal wide of kit lens. If wider than 18 mm, the price will more expensive than kit lens. So, when wide angle combine with high aperture lens is not 1 plus 1 equal 2, the advantages should be range on 4 or 5. I got my external information from websites, such as ebay, Nikon’s forums and etc. I also got some advice from my friends. They reckon me to get Sigma or Tamron, different brands of lens, but they can fix to Nikon’s body. Yes, I decided to purchase Nikkor lens as the above title because I have a senior in US doing photography. He told me that I won’t going to regret to buy 14-24mm lens, as he is using 14-24mm from 3 years ago until now. So, this is my assets and future investment. It runs about ,000 in Australian dollar and those who have already start getting them in November 2007 ( I hate third-party). So, this affect my primary research method because this is Nikon.
Another important point have to mention about the surface of my lens. It make by Nano Crystal Coating! There is only one internal surface with this coating. It's just another letter for Nikon to use to push new lenses on people. It means nothing to photographers.
A lens' ghost, flare and contrast performance depend on many, many many factors. It depends more on the wisdom of the lens designer than a coating on one surface of one element. The other zillion surfaces have Nikon's traditionally excellent Super Integrated Multicoating (SIC).
I did not face any difficult with channel purchase decision. I found two shop to make a price research. There are Camera House and Walch Optics. Camera House offered me at 2500 or more, sound still little expensive for me yet. As my research, my evaluation and selection of this product by its first realised at 2007 and yet it still cost about ,800 in Walch Optics, I deal with them individual until the price down to ,250. At last I decided to purchased from Walch Optics instead of Camera House. Actually I can make an electronic payment from some websites to purchase 14-24mm lens because same product but cheaper 0 or 0 in Melbourne (mainland). To consider the lens is too expensive and there might be a risk to face a corrupt of the product, potential issues to make refund, to meet a fake lens. That will be easy and secure to make a high-involvement purchase by face to face. Also My behaviour to this product because of Nikon brand, its quality and I like the photos by Nikon, they are totally different from the Canon.
Oh yeah, I bought this lens! This lens is absolutely outstanding performance! 24mm is no big deal. The world has never had a really sharp 14mm before, but we have had sharp 24mm lenses for decades. If you in my facebook’s friend list, you can see my current album, lots of nice photos are made by my new lens!
Referenes
www.walchoptics.com.au/index.html
www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/14-24mm.htm
www.consumerpsychologist.com/
Bin. G, Jaehong. P, Prabhudev.K, 2011, The Impact of External Word-of-Mouth Sources on
Retailer Sales of High-Involvement Products, Informnation System Research.
Project365 - Day 7 - Jan 7, 2010
Image by Sandro Cuccia
I am emailing this iPhone camera image directly to this blog from my iPhone. This is one reason I like the Posterous service. Plus, the price is right -free!
Right after I got up early this morning as I was fumbling around for my coffee, I caught some golden light in the corner of my eye. As I investigated, I saw the golden light of sunrise shining through some baubles and things my wife attached to a small window in our foyer. Oddly enough, I found my iPhone in my pajama pants pocket, composed an image, and took the shot.
I am currently evaluating a number of iPhone apps for post-processing, special effects and image editing. I am researching these for photography product reviews I write MyMac.com. I also dicuss these apps on my podcast - the MyPhotoTech podcast. (www.MyPhotoTech.com).
This image is uncropped and processed with the LO-MOB iPhone app. I applied the News Emulsion Effect. This is the "sloppy border" you see here. This border effect was in vogue a few years ago.
Photo Tip: Beautiful images are captured early in the morning or in late afternoon when the light is at its best - the "golden hours."
Camera: iPhone 3GS, 1/15 sec @ f/2.8, ISO 124
The Flickr Book
Image by Thomas Hawk
Well, it's not here yet, but it's one of the best ideas I've come up with yet, I think.
One of the best overviews of great photography that I've seen is something called The Photo Book published by Phaidon. If you haven't had a chance to check it out you definitely should. It's a great primer on the world's greatest photographers. The idea is pretty simple, 500 photos by 500 photographers. The great ones are all included: Ansel Adams, Henri Cartier-Bresson, more modern greats like Andreas Gursky as well as important historical photo journalism like that of Eddie Adams and his Pulitzer prize winning photograph of the 1968 image of the execution of a Vietcong guerrilla in a Saigon street. The book is modestly priced at around which is a huge bargain compared to other art photography books out there.
So what does this have to do with Flickr? Flickr should publish The Flickr Book. Similar in style to Phaidon's The Photo Book it would also highlight 500 photographs from 500 photographers on Flickr. The kicker is that all of these photographs would come from Flickr's Explore selection and would be selected by a panel of editors at Flickr (Stewart, Caterina, Heather, whoever else, etc.). The quality of the book would be high and the price modest -- also like The Photo Book. A "The Photo Book" Flickr mashup -- very cool.
Ok, and here's the really, really, really best part. All profits from the project could go to one of two places.
First Flickr has already been very supportive of Creative Commons and this is great to see. I license all my photographs via Creative Commons and it is a wonderful way to be able to share your work with the world while still maintaining some degree of control over your images from a commercial sense. This could be a great project to raise additional funds for Creative Commons.
Alternatively, and I actually like this one even better, profits from the project could go to Kids with Cameras, a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. I picked up my first SLR when I was about 14 and learning photography as a child has had a profound impact on my life. To be able to provide the tools of photography to poor kids around the world who can't afford them and allow them to use this medium as an outlet and way to explore their world is tremendously empowering from a self confidence and self reflection perspective and provides tremendous emotional value to the disadvantaged.
So what's the downside to this project? Well first off Yahoo! could spend the money to publish a truly fantastic quality book and then nobody buys it (well you probably get at least 500 people and their family who buy it but no one beyond that). I'm not sure on the cost to publish a book like this but I would think it could be a small price to pay for the boatload of publicity that this project would receive and the goodwill directed towards both Yahoo! and Flickr over the project. Yahoo! of course does advertise and could direct people towards the book. They could also provide html code to put an ad for the book on people's blogs or Flickrstreams and get a boatload of free advertising for the book and the project (and for Flickr and Yahoo!). Even if the book failed, they would not lose.
So what's the upside? Tremendously powerful things.
Click here to continue reading: thomashawk.com/2006/01/introducing-flickr-book.html
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