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Project 365 2011 – making my mosaic
After taking a photo every day for a year, I thought it would be worth a few extra hours putting it all together in to a nice looking mosaic. I think the easiest way to do this is using Google’s Picasa program. The problem with this is that you need to have all your photos [...]
On the trail of my great-grandfather
A few months ago I was given a DVD with scanned images of my great-grandfather’s photos from the 1930s – 1960s. I was looking through them and this photo seemed particularly interesting. A lot of the pictures are family photos or travel shots, but this was just an ordinary street. A candid snap-shot of a [...]
Chromaticity wallpaper
Messing around with triangular pixel effects and came up with this wallpaper. Thought I would share. Has a nice mix of detail and simplicity. 1920x1080px. Tutorial coming soon. Let me know if you want it at any other sizes.
Free camera vector clip art
As requested by Alex, this is something I meant to put up ages ago. The vector artwork for the Freelensing visual guides I made, based on the Canon 40D and the Canon 50mm f/1.4 lens. Download the ZIP file with the AI and SVG artwork Canon 40D vector clip art by Luke Roberts is licensed [...]
Project 365 Calendar 2011
After saving the hard drive from my laptop which died a few weeks ago, I’ve finally been able to recover the 2011 calendar I had made! If you’ve decided to participate in Project 365 this year, you might start to find it difficult to keep track of which number day it is in the year [...]
Freelensing help and tips
After a year running the Freelensing group on Flickr, helping and getting feedback from people experimenting with different cameras and lenses, I thought it would be good to have a bit of a round-up of tips and tricks. Flange focal distance Or: why you should try a Nikon lens on a Canon body Coffeeground and simon.hucko [...]
WordPress – “Missing a temporary folder”
A client of mine emailed me yesterday saying they couldn’t upload photos on their WordPress-powered blog. It was coming up with the error: “file.jpg” has failed to upload due to an error Missing a temporary folder. After some searching and a lot of reading, the only solution seemed to be that it related to the [...]
Digital Aurora wallpaper
Inspired by “Catch the Beat” by Staredown Studios and this MSNBC Style Effect tutorial, I decided to have a go at making my own. Digital Aurora 1920×1200 1024×768 320×480 Digital Aurora flipped 1920×1200 1024×768 320×480 Digital Aurora dual-screen 2560×1024 And I thought this one turned out kind of interestingly – applied the Polar Coordinates filter. 2560×1024 [...]
KickStart
Like classic motorcycles? I’ve started a tumblr blog over at KickStart.tumblr.com with vintage, classic, worn-out and generally interesting motorcycle photos that I find.
Create a randomly coloured grid in Illustrator
I stumbled across this work by Gerhard Richter – 4900 Colours: Version II (his other Colour Charts are great too) on ffffound and fell in love with it. Taking the randomly coloured grid concept a bit further (in the graphic design sense) is the Pet Shop Boys album, “Yes”, seen below. I thought it would [...]