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Saturday, June 30, 2007 -
Paper Crane Project
One of the lovely things about flickr are the strange and lovely ideas people come up with. A few months ago there was a mention on the flickr blog about the Paper Crane Project.
The project was for Liz to make 1000 paper cranes and distribute them around the world. All I had to do was email Liz and wait patiently. My crane arrived a week or so ago, and when the weather improves she'll be going on a photo shoot around Brighton. I've added this photo to the group but it won't be the one that is printed out and posted back to Liz.
The project was for Liz to make 1000 paper cranes and distribute them around the world. All I had to do was email Liz and wait patiently. My crane arrived a week or so ago, and when the weather improves she'll be going on a photo shoot around Brighton. I've added this photo to the group but it won't be the one that is printed out and posted back to Liz.
Monday, June 11, 2007 -
The Photographers' Gallery
I spent Saturday in London, and stumbled across the Colonel's Review of Trooping the Colour - basically a rehearsal before the proper one next week. Immensely colourful, and lots of people wandering around. The squirrels were out and posing (or at least trying to get the tourists to feed them!).
I spent the afternoon in The Photographers Gallery. I found the book store immensely well stocked and somewhat overwhelming, and yet still managed to leave without buying anything. The general theme of 3 of the exhibitions was "found imagery" with Joachim Schmid exhibiting discarded photographs from around the world, including one that he found the day he put the exhibition together.
The 2nd related exhibition was a collection of images from Found, Ohio and Useful Photography and includes a fax machine to allow new imagery to be faxed through and displayed on the wall of the gallery.
I was also quite fascinated by the In Almost Every Picture exhibition - there are 5 books made up of related photographs covering subjects such as non-identical twins wearing identical clothing and a collection of photographs of a photographers wife whilst on their travels - these have all been put together by Eric Kessels from collections of photographs he has found in flea markets across Europe. I think the fascination for me came about because they reminded me of photos that Mum has from her holidays with her friends in the 1960s.
The cafe was a wonderful place to relax, with copies of photographic magazines and books on the tables, as well as the artworks on the walls. I'm looking forward to spending a couple of hours there again soon.
I spent the afternoon in The Photographers Gallery. I found the book store immensely well stocked and somewhat overwhelming, and yet still managed to leave without buying anything. The general theme of 3 of the exhibitions was "found imagery" with Joachim Schmid exhibiting discarded photographs from around the world, including one that he found the day he put the exhibition together.
The 2nd related exhibition was a collection of images from Found, Ohio and Useful Photography and includes a fax machine to allow new imagery to be faxed through and displayed on the wall of the gallery.
I was also quite fascinated by the In Almost Every Picture exhibition - there are 5 books made up of related photographs covering subjects such as non-identical twins wearing identical clothing and a collection of photographs of a photographers wife whilst on their travels - these have all been put together by Eric Kessels from collections of photographs he has found in flea markets across Europe. I think the fascination for me came about because they reminded me of photos that Mum has from her holidays with her friends in the 1960s.
The cafe was a wonderful place to relax, with copies of photographic magazines and books on the tables, as well as the artworks on the walls. I'm looking forward to spending a couple of hours there again soon.
Sunday, June 10, 2007 -
Problem getting photos off my Nikon D80
This morning I had a problem getting all of my photos off my SD card in a usable format. I used my usual process: take card out of camera, put into card reader, import into lightroom. At the end of the import a message appeared telling me that 36 images were in 'unsupported or damaged".
I can view these images on the camera, but can't view them on my Mac.
In the finder window these 36 images are the only ones that don't have a thumbnail image when looking at the contents of the SD card. I can't view them in Preview, iPhoto or even Nikon Picture Project.
A shell prompt recognises most of my images as "TIFF image data, big-endian" but the "corrupt" ones as "data".
This is the 2nd time this has happened, but this time affects 36 photos so I need to:
a) find a way to get these photos off the card and
b) make sure this never happens again
I decided to head upstairs and grab the direct cable from the box. My reasons for not using this method most of the time is that I prefer the card reader solution because:
a) it doesn't use up the battery
b) the camera isn't lying around on table tops as often and
c) I could actually continue shooting whilst the images get transferred onto the computer.
I plugged in the cable, looked through finder and the 36 troublesome images had icons. With fingers crossed I restarted lightroom and let it start an import. The missing images were all imported. So, it's a card reader problem. The card reader I've been using is a Packard-Bell PB-CR300 and at least one other person has had an issue in the past.
So today I'll be heading off to find a card reader that will work with high speed, high capacity SD cards.
I can view these images on the camera, but can't view them on my Mac.
In the finder window these 36 images are the only ones that don't have a thumbnail image when looking at the contents of the SD card. I can't view them in Preview, iPhoto or even Nikon Picture Project.
A shell prompt recognises most of my images as "TIFF image data, big-endian" but the "corrupt" ones as "data".
This is the 2nd time this has happened, but this time affects 36 photos so I need to:
a) find a way to get these photos off the card and
b) make sure this never happens again
I decided to head upstairs and grab the direct cable from the box. My reasons for not using this method most of the time is that I prefer the card reader solution because:
a) it doesn't use up the battery
b) the camera isn't lying around on table tops as often and
c) I could actually continue shooting whilst the images get transferred onto the computer.
I plugged in the cable, looked through finder and the 36 troublesome images had icons. With fingers crossed I restarted lightroom and let it start an import. The missing images were all imported. So, it's a card reader problem. The card reader I've been using is a Packard-Bell PB-CR300 and at least one other person has had an issue in the past.
So today I'll be heading off to find a card reader that will work with high speed, high capacity SD cards.
Thursday, June 7, 2007 -
New lens
After posting last week that my new lens hadn't arrived it appeared the following day. I didn't get a chance to play with it until the weekend when we visited Richard's folks in Margate, but I'm very pleased with it.
I'll still probably shoot more photos with the Sigma, as a lot of the photos I take at the moment are low-light evening events, but this seems to be a lovely addition.
I'll still probably shoot more photos with the Sigma, as a lot of the photos I take at the moment are low-light evening events, but this seems to be a lovely addition.
