Prints
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...
Art
The 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...
Lens Rentals!
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 for...
New Lenses
Posted by Matt in Photography on 09 28th, 2007 | No Comments
As 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 lens was part of the deal, which left...
Military Intelligence
Posted by Matt in Cool Links, Hero of the Day, Insanity, Interesting, Politics on 09 28th, 2007 | 1 Comment
Rusty, 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...
Hosting Ideas
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...
Half-Baked Idea?
Most ‘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...
Wow
Posted by Matt in Cool Links, Interesting, Photography, Rants & Raves on 09 25th, 2007 | No Comments
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’...
Social Skills
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...
Jog
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 switch...