by Tris Hussey on December 18, 2009 · 7 comments
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This afternoon WordPress 2.9 went from Release Candidate to just plain old released and, yeah this is a good one. I’ve been using 2.9 in it’s early beta incarnations for months now and have been quite happy with it. I haven’t noticed a huge improvement in speed or stability, but then again I’m not benchmarking it, I’m just using it. Oh and writing about it, of course.
For my money, there are two great features that make this a great update. The first is the new built-in image editor. No, you [...]
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Just got the call from a friend of Bradley’s that the Burnaby Board of Trade needs a photographer for their event tonight. Sorry to the folks at Launch Party v6 but I won’t be there this time.
[From Burnaby Board of Trade - Upcoming Events at the Burnaby Board of Trade]
Now I have to think about gear, and clothes and …
Wait I do have work before that.
Crap.
If you’re at the event, come over and say hi. I’ll be guy with the big honkin’ camera around his neck.
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Just got the call from a friend of Bradley’s that the Burnaby Board of Trade needs a photographer for their event tonight. Sorry to the folks at Launch Party v6 but I won’t be there this time.
[From Burnaby Board of Trade - Upcoming Events at the Burnaby Board of Trade]
Now I have to think about gear, and clothes and …
Wait I do have work before that.
Crap.
If you’re at the event, come over and say hi. I’ll be guy with the big honkin’ camera around his neck.
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Image by Planetnelson via Flickr
One of the photographers who I most aspire to be like, to emulate, get inspiration from is Kris Krug. I think more than any other person his work, example, and encouragement is one of the main reasons I decided to make the jump to go pro.
Every time a great picture has been taken of me, Kris has usually been the person who as taken it. Even with my own camera.
This past summer at Gnomedex Kris give a short presentation on how to take better pics. Doesn’t [...]
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One of the best features of DSLRs is the ability to get more features or extended capabilities through firmware upgrades. I had heard rumours that Nikon was prepping an update to the D300’s firmware, but last time I looked it wasn’t out yet. Last night cruising through my feeds I saw that UK-based Digital Photographer posted links (sorta) to the update and I quickly zipped over to Nikon Canada to get my copy and update. Here’s what the firmware update for the D300 gives you (and I think it’s pretty [...]
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I’m a huge fan of Picnik. I can do so many cool things with it. It’s snappy, fun, and easy. Now I saw on both RWW and Photojojo reviews of Aviary and it’s online photo editor Phoenix and my first question was (and sorta still is) is it worth $95/yr (for the high-end package, the “Green” package is $8/mo)?
RWW has a pretty comprehensive review of the tool:
Aviary is indeed a very comprehensive image editing suite. While testing the different applications, we were impressed with the overall speed of the service [...]
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I caught from Brian Solis—FlickrDown Pulls Pictures from the Cloud to Your PC — bub.blicio.us—and DownloadSquad—posts about FlickrDown and thought, wow that sounds cool until I read this comment on Brian’s post:
Brian, it appears this program allows the download of images even when the photographer does not allow downloads. It also strips the metadata from the photo, which is copyright violation.
So if you want to use if your own images, that’s one thing, but to use it for anyone else, without their permission, is theft.
Umm, whoops. I don’t blame [...]
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I had a great time today at Media Democracy Day. I didn’t get there until after lunch time, but I managed to catch a couple panels and live tweeted them.
First was:
Journalism in a time of Big Media Domination
In much of the traditional media, newsrooms are being squeezed, local coverage diminished, and serious journalism abandoned. What does this mean for journalists and journalism as a whole? What are the challenges and opportunities? Could this void be filled by independent reporters and innovative journalism projects? In a media system dominated by [...]
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Over the weekend I went to Seattle for a little shopping and while Sheila was browsing bead stores (she makes amazing jewelry), I took pictures around the stores. At our last stop I was playing with small apertures for some landscapes (f/16 to be exact). I wasn’t really getting what I was looking for so after shooting a few other things, I decided to take a picture of an interesting light pole on the street and got this:
Well “wow” was the next thing out of my mouth.
I have been playing [...]
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Today we had the October edition photowalk around Vancouver with the VanDigiCam group. We started around Terminal and Main and then meandered around until we found ourselves at the Cambie St. Bridge.
What a fantastic night for a photowalk. The light was just amazing and the air crisp and cool.
Right now I’m still exhausted from the walk to really get into all the stuff I learned, but I did decide to play around with Lightroom to get some HDR (high dynamic range) effects and other colour effects.
I wasn’t going for reality [...]
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I think you will excuse me a little me a bragging about the latest issue of FeedFront—Issue 3 : FeedFront—because the cover picture is one of my pictures from Affiliate Summit East from this past August. Well, that one and about a dozen other pictures I took from the conference scattered throughout the issue as well. Yes, Shawn and Missy hired me to take pictures for the conference, but it is one thing for the pictures to be good enough for online/Flickr, a whole other thing to be published.
This makes [...]
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Tris Hussey is a writer, teacher, blogger, and speaker on all facets of Internet life, WordPress, and social media. He is the author of Create Your Own Blog: 6 Easy Blogging Projects to Start Blogging Like a Pro and Using WordPress.
