Making the rounds this week on various WDW-related blogs and forums, You know you’re a Disney cast member when… There are a couple that I know apply, and bug the heck out of my sons: You have the overwhelming urge to offer to take people’s pictures When you go on vacation, you say hello to […]
Category: Photography
A Photographer
I walk around Walt Disney World and take pictures. I hang out with the kids playing lacrosse or marching in the band and take pictures. I find things I think are interesting along the side of the road or in my backyard and take pictures of them. But Michael Kamber… I got up and ran […]
Another Walt Disney World Panorama
Also from last week’s lunchtime visit, here’s an almost 180-degree view of Village Lake. That’s a really tiny view, you really need to click through then hit the “all sizes” button. Similar to the last posting, I used hugin to assemble this pano, this time from 7 images. The pictures were taken with a little […]
A Disney Pano
A panorama shot of Disney’s Saratoga Springs Resort & Spa, made of three pictures taken from Downtown Disney. The pictures were taken with a Kodak EasyShare CS4230 and combined with hugin. In the foreground are part of the Lego brick dragon that lurks along the shore. I’m pretty impressed with hugin. These were taken with […]
For Cameras, This Building Doesn’t Exist
Whatever you do, don’t take a picture of this building. Washington Post, Secret Buildings You May Not Photograph, Part 643: The only antidote to this security mania is sunshine. Only when more and more Americans do as McCammon has done and take the time and effort to chronicle these excesses and insist on answers from […]
Another Photographer-Unfriendly New York Law
First it was rules against photography in subways, then of bridges. Now you’re going to love this beastie: New York City May Seek Permit and Insurance for Many Kinds of Public Photography. New rules being considered by the Mayor’s Office of Film, Theater and Broadcasting would require any group of two or more people who […]
grr. Why does PhotoShop CS keep stripping EXIF info when I SaveAs JPG? Not all of it, mind you, but the Date & Time get reset to when the SaveAs happens :(
Geo-Tagging Inaccuracies
Here’s a little something I noticed while wandering around the maps on flickr… either some people aren’t being terribly exact when they’re geo-tagging their pictures, or some data’s being lost somewhere along the way. There are a bunch of pictures that are obviously in the “wrong place.” This is a cool picture, for example, but […]
Avoiding Photographic Regrets
Jim Goldstein writes in If I Only I Knew Then What I Know Now: The art of improving is by harnessing ones frustration, dissatisfaction and/or curiosity. Pushing oneself to not just practice, but research and experiment is the key to mastering photography… technically in camera or with post-processing. With that in mind the one piece […]
On Photo Retouching, a Third Time
Steve Crandall, quoted in 2004: “It may be that independent cooberation of photos (several images taken from different cameras) are required to give a warm feeling of truth.” This week in Toledo, when several pictures of the same event were compared one was different: “Each paper had its own similar Bluffton picture. But The Blade’s […]