Archive For June 20th, 2005
Mike Johnston asks are we getting used to paying a premium for new tech? I think it’s always been that way. Technology is expensive when new but rapidly goes down in price. Digital camera tech is advancing at such a rate that anything older than a few months old then it can be very obsolete. [...]
Weddings, From a Photographers Point of View – We’re trying to pick out a hotel now for the reception. Haven’t even considered a photographer yet, and I’m banned from camera work for the day! Several good points in this article, including things I hadn’t thought of yet.
Should you get your photos printed at home or elsewhere? I’ve done both, but the prints I’ve got from shops and online have been of much better quality. The author, Valerie Goettsch, runs digitalphotos101.com which looks like it has a few interesting bits and pieces!
Without marketing your business isn’t going to succeed. Roy Barker introduces some ideas for budding professionals to follow. Stock photography is probably the easiest way to ease yourself into the photography business!
In this (what looks like a promo) article John Grand explains some of the issues with organizing your photos. After reading this I went looking, and found Lodju (also available from Debian – apt-get lodju), and then looked into gThumb. It allows you to put photos into categories, and I spent an hour last night [...]
GIMP menus are going to be reorganized! Finally, no more Script-Fu, or Python menus, only one “Filters” menu! What I’d love to see in the GIMP is a “My filters” menu where I could drag and drop frequently used menu functions. I’d drop Levels, Curves, Rotate, Scale and Unsharp to that menu for starters!
