The world as frankps sees it!
Photos
I have taken quite a few pictures through the years. Most of them end up on my Flickr account, and some in tourist guides and magazines around the world.
Sigma lens and Crumpler photo bag
Jun 4th
FotoVideo has an expo week with nice prices. Today’s special offer was a Sigma 10-20mm F4-5.6 EX DC HSM. A lens that I have been drewling for, ever since I borrowed one from a friend last summer. This super wide-angle zoom lens has a wide angle of view from 102.4 – 63.8 degrees. And the deal? Half prize!!! So I qued up half an hour before the shop opened, and I was not the first one to do so…
I also found that they had some Crumpler bags for half prize as well, and found Crumpler Messenger Boy Full Photo BP. It has space for the camera body with up to 5 lenses and accessories. In other words, room for all mid level photographers portable gear.
Great start on the day, and tonight I’m going to Diamond League at Bislett, Oslo. First time, and I’ve been living in Oslo for 16 years!
Who wants Google Maps, after seeing this?
Feb 17th
I have just seen Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, demoing augmented-reality functionality in Microsoft Live Maps. I have been using Microsoft’s map service more and more lately, as it works brilliantly here in Oslo. There are some important things that I miss, like being able to embed maps in to blog posts. I partically liked that Microsoft has been working together with the Flickr developers on some of the new functionality, and I hope that Flickr soon start using Live Maps instead of the now outdated Yahoo Maps on their service.
Here’s the TED talk, enjoy:
Microsoft’s Silverlight technology impresses me. It is used in their map service, so I hope that it will be available as plugin/extension for all major browsers soon.
iMapFlickr
Nov 12th
The map service is perhaps the weakest service on Flickr, and I have been looking for alternatives. This week I found one. iMapFlickr lets you easily create custom Google Maps from your geotagged Flickr Photos, and it, of course, let you embed the maps to your website or blog. You can even link the maps up on Facebook or Twitter. And best of all, it’s free!
iMapFlickr is a great mashup tool with customizable map settings (photo size, map height and pin style), and you can save your maps for later use as well. The tool is one of many Flickr tools that are available at Flickr App Garden.
I learned about possibility of Combining Map Flickr and Flickr on Digital allows for easy Online Mapping on Digital Photography School.
Adobe Lightroom 3 Public Beta
Oct 22nd
I guess Lightroom is the only Adobe product that I can say that I truely love. I have problems keeping my mouth shut when I hear somebody talk about Adobe Acrobat, Reader and Flash! The recent security problems with the Acrobat products haven’t helped either. I have never really used Photoshop and I don’t use Dreamweaver in my web work any more. My first experiences with Digital Editions have not been good either. So what is this with my love for Lightroom? Why didn’t I choose Apple’s Aperture. I have no idea. After one week with Aperture, I ran straight in to the arms of Lightroom.
Lightroom 2 was really good. I missed only a few things. And that was Flickr uploading functionality and HDR support. I am so happy to say that Flickr support was the first thing I noticed when I started Lightroom 3 beta for the first time. HDR support seems not to have been added.
Thank you Adobe, I will be playing with your beta many autumn nights!
Flickr with face recognition
Oct 22nd
Flickr today launched something that I first thought that was a great new function: Face/People recognition. The service is called People in Photos. There is just one sad thing with it, the new feature can only be used to highlight members of the Flickrverse that you’ve photographed, find photos of members you know, and manage which photos you’re in.
What a disappointment! This is social media gone bad …
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