The Boston Globe’s The Big Picture is simply stunning.
Boxee recently added support for The Big Picture. You can find it under Photos section. It looks even better on a large HDTV monitor.
DPS has some great tips for taking photographs of children.
I’m still learning but I try to keep these in mind whenever I’m out with my little ones.
I took this photo of james earlier today before going sledding.
I’ve been playing around with low-light (no flash) photography for awhile and trying to get better. Mostly putting my Canon 40D in P-mode and cranking the ISO way up. This cupcake photo would have been pretty bad if I turned on the flash.
I sent my brother a few recent pix to review and he gave me some good tips. Now I’m gonna practice spot metering, adjusting light source & modifying the exposure compensation.
My brother is a very good photographer and runs Serious Compacts. It has a ton of great info about prosumer comact cameras.
He just started a new message board for Zeiss lens owners. Zeiss now makes lenses for Sony, Nikon, Canon, and Pentax. They also make a couple film cameras and lenses for those cameras, plus there are a lot of classic Zeiss cameras and lenses.
So if that interests you, head on over to Zeiss User Forums.
Oh man, the Canon 5d mark II is amazing. Check out this video created by Joi Ito.
(thanks to Ed Shaz via Twitter for the link)
I’ve blogged & tweeted a bunch about the Tmobile G1 powered by Android.
My dad just picked up a different G1. It’s the new Panasonic DMC G1. My brother has a link on his blog of a review of this new camera.
It takes great photos. Here’s my dog Jackson. Shot in low light, ISO 400.
For the past year, I’ve been using three cameras. For serious photography, I use my Canon EOS 40D. For everything else I use the iPhone. I still have a compact Canon SD800is that I use from time to time. Especially when I’m on the run and I know I’m going to need a flash. Lauren uses it more than me at this point.
The Panasonic G1 won’t replace my 40d and it’s too big for every day use.
At least for me.
But it’s still a fine camera if you don’t want a big DSLR. My dad really likes it and he’s a big time shutterbug.
It also comes with a big, beautiful flip out LCD.
It’s getting dark so early these days.
I’m going to try and practice taking more photos at night w/o a flash.
I took this photo over the weekend in Harvard Square. ISO turned up to 1600. I didn’t have a tripod and clearly I have a lot to learn!
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Dave Winer has graciously allowed me to use some of his software before releasing to the general public.
I’ve already written about how much I enjoy his Flickr-to-Twitter.
And tonight Dave turned me on to one of his latest creations. It’s called FlickrFan. It’s still in what he calls pre-alpha mode.
I won’t describe details on how it actually works but it’s an elegant, simple way to have flickr photos sent to your HDTV. It can work on any display. Yet having these photos on a HDTV monitor is magical.
And FlickrFan does more than that. It grabs feeds for all of your flickr photos and all of your Flickr contacts as well. In my case it’s several of my family members and good friends. Having those pics rotate in random order on my HDTV is so damn cool. The first photo that showed up on my TV was my brothers kids. Beautiful. And it also mixes in photos from a major news provider (I’m not sure Dave wants me to mention their particular name).
Personal photos, friends & family photos, news photos and other network data automatically sent to my HDTV is defining my new connected family room.
And that is a powerful thing.
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