January 29th, 2009 | by Simon | published in Apple, Photography
I bought Apple’s new iLife software package on Tuesday from the Apple Store in Belfast (they seemed to have plenty in stock as well) and spent the night playing with the new iPhoto. iPhoto and iDVD are the only parts of iLife I use (I use Final Cut Express for video editing, and don’t use [...]
October 19th, 2008 | by Simon | published in Photography, Travel
An old abandoned hotel in Corpus Christi
April 2nd, 2008 | by Simon | published in Photography, Technology, Web/Tech
If you’re like me, you’ll use an image editing application quite a lot – from removing red-eye from party photographs to cropping an image, rotating it or putting a border on it for your blog and so on.
It’s sometimes frustrating though, say if you’re at work and need to alter an image quickly or away [...]
August 1st, 2007 | by Simon | published in Photography
Valdosta Georgia Floyd originally uploaded by EllenJo.
I love dogs anyway (can’t wait to get one grrr), but this is an example of why dogs are fun, combined with unique and creative photography! Ellen Jo has been taking her dog Floyd all around North America and photographing him in different locations.
You can check out the full [...]
July 3rd, 2007 | by Simon | published in Film / TV, Mac, Photography
Check this out! It’s called The Flip, and it’s a neat little video camera. I have to admit, I bought one. It comes in two versions, storing either 30 minutes or 60 minutes of video on its internal flash memory. The one I bought (60 minutes) is $149.99. The 30 minute version is $119.99.
Now while [...]
April 24th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Photography, Web/Tech
My favourite Photo sharing everything site, Flickr, has announced 24 hours of Flickr.
Basically, they’re asking everyone to join the relevant group and upload their best photo taken on that day (geo-tagged of course) and they will be considered for publication in a book. That may be the main incentive for taking part for some, but [...]
April 24th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Photography
Well I finally got my hands on my new camera this week! It’s a digital SLR – a Nikon D40 to be precise, and I really like it for a couple of reasons.
Firstly, it’s smaller than a normal DSLR, and it’s very light as well, which means it’s pretty practical to carry around with me. [...]
March 11th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Friends, Photography, Scotland, Travel
Photo: © David Martin flickr.com/photos/avidday
Scotland! I love it, but I guess that’s because I’m from there. Anyway, later this year, I’ll get to visit a part of Scotland I’ve never been to before – the Western Isles – when I head off to Islay, pictured above.
My mate Nick’s soon-to-be-wife is from there, and we’re heading [...]
February 6th, 2007 | by Simon | published in Photography, Web/Tech
Flickr, the online photo sharing site, which I really love, announced recently that they are soon to start requiring old school users (i.e. people that have used Flickr for a while, like myself) to use a Yahoo! ID to log in. There’s been a whole hoo-haa about it that has been picked up by the [...]
October 30th, 2006 | by Simon | published in Photography, Web/Tech
Photojojo (which is a great site / newsletter btw) has a great tip today on how to make a tealight candle holder into a photo stand – cheap and stylish!
The tip comes via a Swiss company, Atelier, which has turned a whole load of household objects into other useful objects (some just silly, but some [...]
