Igor's posts with tag: photography
|  | User Requirements Verification for Philippine eLibrary Enhancement Project. Estancia Resort Hotel, Tagaytay City, June 30 - July 1, 2008. |
 Link: http://www.taggalaxy.de/Got this from the http://www.photojojo.com newsletter... It's about Tag Galaxy ( http://www.taggalaxy.de) Navigating the Internet Photo Universe
"Finding photos on the internet is like being a tiny spacecraft adrift in a vast, starry galaxy. How will you ever find what you’re looking for in that cosmos of tags?
What you need, weary traveler, is a guide.
We hear Carl Sagan isn’t taking much new work these days, so allow us to present an alternative. Follow us to Tag Galaxy, where swirling solar systems of Flickr tags abound.
Say you want to find a memorable photo of poodles. Type in “poodle,” and it becomes a fiery sun, orbited by related tags like “dog” and “silly haircut.”
Click on more tag planets to create new suns (”poodles+noodles+strudel”). Or click on the sun itself to see all of the photos tagged with your search terms projected onto a rotatable spheroid planet.
All you need now is a turtleneck for your computer, and it’ll be just like having Carl at your side."
| | Moreno - Garcia Nuptials and Maria Sheriz Dionne Baptism. May 24, 2008. San Agustin Church, Intramuros, Manila. Sherwin, a graphic artist and photographer now based in Singapore, was my officemate in the old Questor Magazine office. Congratulations! It was also nice to see Jennyson and Kellogg, old friends from the Q. :D |
| | "Basic Digital Photography Workshop", lecturer: Mr. Nap Apolinario, Jr, PMP. May 17, 2008 9am-12noon at the Manila Observatory, Ateneo de Manila Campus, Loyola Heights, QC. |
| | Streetlights. 20 to 30 secs, 1600 ISO, tripod. |
| | Lensless photos experiment. Canon body cap with pinhole, 15 to 30 secs exposure, 400 to 1600 iso. Yes, from the looks of it, it's time to clean the sensor. O_o;; |
| | At the playground |
 The UP Library Science Alumni Association (UPLSAA) in cooperation with the UP Library and Information Science Students Association (UPLISSA) invite you to the Basic Digital Photography Workshop on May 17, 2008 9am-12noon at the Manila Observatory, Ateneo de Manila Campus, Loyola Heights, QC (Beside Ateneo Grade School. Walking distance from Gate 2, the one across McDo-Katipunan). This session will be facilitated by photographer, Mr. Nap Apolinario, Jr, PMP. Learn the following:  Understanding photography  Basics of exposure  Composition and taking better pictures  Basic digital image manipulation  Equipment Just bring your digital camera (point and shoot or dslr) and a minimal fee of P150 for alumni and non-UP students and P100 for students.For inquiries, e-mail us at uplsaa@yahoo.com. Hope to see you!!! *Note: Updated as of May 7, 2008
| | Playing with my 50mm at Starbucks Katipunan with the UPLSAA. |
| | Lagos del Sol, Caliraya, Cavinti, Laguna. The lake, breakwater, plants, the sunrise, the stone pathway steps and the buddhist koi pond (where I slipped and sprained my ankle), my juggling balls (which I also use as poi), Nats' bitter catmon. |
| | These always sit on my table or pc workstation wherever I work. Been jumping with me from workplace to workplace for years. Took them home from UP, where they sit on my faculty room table, last March to clean 'em up. |
| | A month ago, gw3n posted a link on her multiply blog (http://amiagnecimme.multiply.com/photos/album/28/DH_Photoshop_Technique..) about a Dave Hill post processing technique over at Flickr's Strobist group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157594577686705/). I've been itching to try it yet never had the time. Well, tried it this morning with some tweaks. It looks good on some yet horrible on others, especially outdoor and brightly-lit shots. Got some old photos (I think they're all in my past albums here) and high-pass filtered, enhanced and bg'ed like crazy. Usually I only resize and occasionally crop so this is experimental for me (I usually have the grfx guys at the mag do it). Puro madalian lang. Hirap magbura ng imperfections. :D Did some in 2 while others in 3 passes hence the multiple files. It generates too much skin tone noise on the files for my tastes. |
Got this from Carina's post.
UNESCO’s Earth Sciences Programme is running a photo contest on the theme of The Changing Face of the Earth, to raise awareness among youth of the state of the planet. There are several cameras and 40 book prizes to be won. Entries close on 30 June 2008. Contestants may enter in one of the two following categories: - 15-20 year olds and
- contestants aged 21 years and over.
Each contestant is invited to submit a single colour photo depicting her or his personal testimony to the Earth’s rapidly changing landscape in a positive or negative way. The photo should illustrate one of the ten themes from the International Year of Planet Earth (see list below). Photos may portray rural or urban scenes and should depict changes to the landscape caused by natural phenomena or resulting from human intervention. The Prizes
Each of the winning contestants in each category will receive a copy of two UNESCO books in English or French, depending on their preference: Explaining the Earth and The Changing Face of the Earth.
Explaining the Earth depicts our planet’s place in the Universe and in our Solar System, the Earth’s structure, plate tectonics, the role of the atmosphere and hydrosphere, the formation of reliefs, the ice ages and natural hazards.
The Changing Face of the Earth traces continental shift since the Pangaea, a single supercontinent, began breaking up 250 million yeas ago, via 10 maps.
In addition, the best entries in each category will win a camera. The names of the winning contestants will be announced in the October 2008 issue of A World of Science and on UNESCO’s science portal. Choose one of the following ten themes for your photo - Soil – Earth's living skin, Planet Earth in our hands
- Groundwater – towards sustainable use
- Hazards – minimizing risk, maximizing awards
- Earth and health – building a safer environment
- Climate change – the ‘stone tape’
- Resource issues – towards sustainable use
- Megacities – going deeper, building safer
- Deep Earth – from crust to core
- Ocean – abyss of time
- Earth and life – the origins of diversity
How to enter
If sending in your entry electronically, please complete the form then send this with a high resolution photo (300 dpi, 700 KB minimum) bearing your name as an image file to: photocontest@unesco.org
If sending in your entry by post, please complete the form then send your photo to: Changing Face of the Earth Photo Contest, Editor, A World of Science,
UNESCO,1 rue Miollis, Paris 75732 Cedex 15, France. - Publication Date: 17-10-2007
- © UNESCO/NOPD Isidro Magana - Floods in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina, September 2005
| | Pics of UPCat and my month-old home theater system. I'm cheap, but hey, it works for me. A 5.8k 21in. Promac CineFlat 2100CT (not LCD, heck, it's 30thou cheaper). Cheap 1.6k Rainbow DVD. 2.4k 300watts MX Professional amplified stereo speakers. I only fire up the speakers when there's a good movie on, like Camelot (old Richard Harris film, ya know, before he became Dumbledore). I crank it up to level 4 to hear every clothesline, bodyslam and bitchslap in a WWE pay-per-view. BTW, at level 2 it's already deafening. I really haven't ventured into cranking it up past level 5 for fear of going deaf. |
| | Yup, am sick. Cough and colds. Stuck at home and had the chance to sort miscellaneous photos taken February 2008. Playing with B/W and an old lens assembly from a betamax cam stuck to the end of my cam lens. My sick dog. Cash and Carry. |
Link- Flickr: Explore interesting photos from 7th January 2008
I was wondering why my Flickr photo of Katrina Romero (10th place in the recent board exam) with Dean Rosalie B. Faderon, Chancellor Sergio Cao and Vice Chancellor Lorna Paredes at the UPSLIS 2007 BFL Recognition Program last January 7, 2008 was getting too many views and comments. It now has 68 views, 7 comments and marked as a favorite by 3 people, a far cry from my regular Flickr photos which usually have 0 to 2 views, 0 to 2 comments and 0 to 1 marked as favorite. The most popular nunchaku, theater, yoyo, poi and weapons photos average 75 to 500 views, 2 to 4 comments and 0 to 1 marked as favorite photo. This was quite confusing for me. The only other UPSLIS Flickr photo that has a lot of views (71 and counting) is the Lantern Parade photo with Mennie Viray in the middle. That I could explain since Von linked to it in the filipinolibrarian.blogspot.com post entitled "Deal or no Deal: the Librarian Edition". I was about to get mad thinking some wise-@$$ linked to my photo and was making fun of it ( kawawa rin naman si Katrina, madadamay). I was thinking of deleting the comments or taking the photo down. But after some snooping for a couple of days, I came up with a hunch. I found my way to big huge labs' Scout. It's a script to find out if one's "...digital photos are listed among the 500 photographs chosen each day for the Flickr Explore page". I used it and, true enough, I found out that Katrina's photo was #189. I really don't know if they use a script to choose photos randomly or if someone from Flickr scours uploaded photos, but I am at least thankful that it wasn't what I thought of at first. Thank God. (I don't know Katrina personally, by the way. I just take pictures. :D)
| | Random Holiday Pics, Bahay Pari, Bulacan. |
| | Miscellaneous Photos
Manila Cathedral and Bulb Setting |
| | Because of Nap and his cameras...
Because of Carina who has the eye...
Because of Lorelei who looks absolutely stunning in photographs...
Because of Marj and Jen who take a ton of pics and make their storage media beg for mercy...
Because of Iya and her Olympus...
Because I envied the Canon DSLRs of Arnold, Enteng and John...
Because Eimee wants a gorillapod and Frances has a lightbox...
and because Dad left me EF lenses...
Wala lang, nainggit lang ako. :D
Di ko matiis, bought a Canon 400D.
Sorry Des and Iyra, mas malakas hatak nung DSLR kesa sa ASUS eee.
And because mudwrestler posted his reversed lens photos on http://digitalpinoy.multiply.com...
Test reverse lens macro shots, Canon 400D and kit lens.
Still have to relearn a lot after many years of just using fonecams... |
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