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A Website With A Flash Of Inspiration?

Screenshot from strobox.com

Screen­shot from strobox.com

Just dis­cov­ered Strobox.com, a web­site linked from Life­Hacker this morning.

Fan­tas­tic!

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Some More Quick Links

Snow Leopard

Can A (Snow) Leop­ard Change It’s Spots?

Those few hardy souls fol­low­ing my Twit­ter stream must be won­der­ing what’s going on with some bizarre posts. I have been work­ing away with giv­ing my web­site a fresh lick of paint, and test­ing the changes at www.jonathanbourke.ie. It’s com­ing along nicely, but it will be a few weeks yet. The new site, while look­ing sim­i­lar to the exist­ing site, will have a more con­sis­tent struc­ture to it and will greatly ease gallery posting.

In the mean­time, here are some inter­est­ing links I came across:

  • How To Get The Best Colour Out Of Your Pho­tos — Life­hacker again comes up with a great guide for pho­tog­ra­phers. This one is heav­ily color focused, and the Pho­to­shop wiz­ardry required.
  • How to get (more) space in a news­pa­per — I fol­low the @adrianweckler on Twit­ter, edi­tor of the con­sumer tech sec­tion in the Sun­day Busi­ness Post news­pa­per in Ire­land. He shares some great tips for PR peo­ple (and pho­tog­ra­phers) in this post bemoan­ing the qual­ity of photo’s sent to journalists.
  • Light­room Cam­era Cal­i­bra­tion — I spend way too much time on my pho­tog­ra­phy tools, rather than using my pho­tog­ra­phy tools. This post on Cam­era Cal­i­bra­tion in Light­room def­i­nitely falls into the first cat­e­gory, but what the hell, I’ll share this link from Matt Kloskowski anyway.
  • What I’d Love to See in Light­room 4 — Damn; and I am only get­ting started on Light­room 3 (and the 3.2 release is nearly upon us, bring­ing with it direct post­ing to Face­book!). Scott Kelby gets the ball rolling with his wish list for Light­room 4, then has to defend it, before oth­ers chime in with their sug­ges­tions.
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Some Quick Links

A screenshot of Flickrs new look

Flickrs New Look

After the “War and Peace” like length of my last post on “Edit­ing Canon EOS 7D Video with Pre­miere Pro”, I have taken a bit of a break. Here are some quick pho­tog­ra­phy related links to dis­tract while I craft my next mas­ter­piece :-)

  • Life­hacker — How to record great video with your hd dslr cam­era. Some great tips on shoot­ing video, includ­ing know­ing which way your focus ring moves. Sounds sim­ple, but you don’t have time to mess around with this when shoot­ing video.
  • ImpulseAd­ven­ture — Com­par­i­son of Dig­i­tal Photo Cat­a­log Soft­ware. After my brief reviews of DAM soft­ware such as Adobe Light­room, I found this excel­lent (and mas­sive) com­par­i­son table of pretty much every soft­ware prod­uct for dig­i­tal asset man­age­ment known to man.
  • Finally, Flickr will shortly be intro­duc­ing an excit­ing new look, as seen in the image at the head of this post. It also fea­tures a great “Dark” mode, seen below, some­thing which many third party ser­vices had pro­vided in the past. I use Flickr to show­case my images, it’s a great com­mu­nity, and I enjoy the feed­back that an image or gallery on my web­site doesn’t nec­es­sar­ily receive.
A screenshot of the new Flickr "Dark" Mode

The new Flickr “Dark” mode

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