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I saw some mention of BigPhotoHelp.com as a good place to get prints. It seems that they’re a smaller business with some nice printers, as opposed to a giant corporation. And yet they’re cheaper than the competition. (And they don’t offer tacky crap like coffee mugs with your picture on them.) I did a little [...]
In: Living|OCD|Photography|School
30 Sep 2007The walls in our room are bare, and it’s starting to get to me. Some ideas: Fenway Park, ultra-wide shot. A Boston Panorama with great colors. (Although it’s missing landmarks such as, say, well, almost all of them.) A daytime panorama with the Prudential, et al. A nice Nantucket “fine art” print Cape Cod Morning, [...]
I came across Glass and Gear today, a lens rental place. Unknown to me at first, they’re in New Hampshire. I chatted with the owner a bit via e-mail, and am pretty impressed. The 85mm f/1.2 lens is amazing. (For $3 grand, it had better be.) It’s often touted as one of the best lenses [...]
In: Photography
28 Sep 2007As I mentioned, I bought a lot of two Canon digital SLRs off eBay. I got a great price. I succeeded the other night in selling one of the two for a fair price. (Which means that I ended up getting the 10D for under $300 after it was all said and done.) However, the [...]
In: Cool Links|Hero of the Day|Insanity|Interesting|Politics
28 Sep 2007Rusty, who doesn’t actually use his own blog because he is a lazy slacker, sent me this link last night. Apparently, The architect never noticed that he had just designed an enormous swastika-shaped building for the U.S. Navy. The U.S. Navy never noticed, until it was too late, that their architect had designed an enormous [...]
I have a lot of excess capacity on this server. The ‘basic’ hosting industry is shot to hell: $3 for 100 GB of disk space and unlimited bandwidth might be considered expensive. (It goes without saying that they won’t actually let you use that much.) But here are a few markets that aren’t touched on [...]
In: Insanity|Photography
27 Sep 2007Most ‘normal’ (point-and-shoot) cameras use really small sensors, no bigger than your thumbnail. In fact, probably smaller. They’re easily at 8 megapixels. The sensor in my digital SLR is roughly the size of two postage stamps side-by-side. It’s six megapixels. (There are big quality advantages to this, but momentarily disregard them.) Now consider if you [...]
These photos are some of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen. And I’ve seen a lot of amazing photos. As you look at more and more, you realize that there’s clearly heavy post-processing being done, e.g., Photoshopping details in, and generally doing more than just ‘fixing’ things up a little. (Some clearly get a [...]
I’m hardly in the upper echelon when it comes to social skills, but I’m going to post this anyway… I’ve come to the conclusion that a person’s social skills are one of the most important things they learn. The problem is that they seem to be learned solely through trial and error and observed experiences: [...]
I read Body for Life a while back, and kept thinking, “I should take that up… Next week.” This morning I finally cracked and went for a jog. I almost didn’t, but at the last minute I decided to give it a try. I promised myself I wouldn’t go far, and that I could always [...]