The Ultimate Commodore 64 Talk @25C3.
I can’t help myself now. This just brought back too many memories from when we used to sit around and hack the C64.
Opening borders, doing colour bars, trying to extend sprites in the border, doing real time animations…
Good article for those who missed out on the eighties…
This has nothing to do with photography per see but I thought I’d share this link anyway. The link goes to a data recovery centre where you can listen to various types, brands and models of harddisks and how they sound when they have died.
This is what Wikipedia says on the subject:
A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on) in an artificial setting.
This week is stilleben week! Arrange your objects, light them and shoot :)
This lens has quickly become one of my favorite lenses. The 70-300 is very versatile and it is a lovely walk-around lens for street photo as well as nature photography. It is also useful for portrait work when you want to shoot a little more from a distance. Perfect for candid shots in the crowd.
Full designation: Nikkor AF-S VR 70-300mm f / 4.5-5.6 G ED-IF
Bokeh (derived from Japanese boke, a noun form of bokeru, ”become blurred or fuzzy”) is a photographic term referring to the appearance of out-of-focus areas in an image produced by a camera lens using a shallow depth of field.[1] Different lens bokeh produces different aesthetic qualities in out-of-focus backgrounds, which are often used to reduce distractions and emphasize the primary subject. —wikipedia
This week, create a photograph with out-of-focus background to emphasise the subject, either using the photo editor of your choice, or by focusing ;)
Happy weekend!
Nikon as released their D3x camera on the Photokina faire. From the specifications it seems to be a really cool camera and a worthy successor to the D3 model. The price tag are set for professionals however, don’t expect this to be anything but top of the line.
Since the first time I read this tutorial, I’ve been wanting to try out fake tilt shift, and I was reminded of that desire when I read and clicked Stefan Jansson’s comment on ichimusai’s Hötorget post. Stefan has posted some excellent fake tilt shift photos on his site, check it out!
This week’s challenge is to create your own Lilliputian world, by no means are you restricted to using fake tilt shift, even though I am going to :)
Have a nice weekend!
Hötorget is famous for the people selling things in the daily market place all the way back to the early medieval days. This used to be a village called Väsby in those days and when they built the street ”Kungsgatan” (the King’s Street) they found several skeletons, money and other remains from some 700 years back in time.
In 1914 the trade with fresh raw meats such as beef, sheep, swine or horse. Later the same year all freshed and skinned animals as well as birds, salted or smoked fish, boiled shellfish, butter, bread, cheese and flour was also banned for sanitary reasons.
Many of the people selling foodstuffs then moved into the indoor marketplace nearby instead where it was still allowed.
Today you will find mainly people selling used second hand items, toys, mobile phone accessories, bags, handbags and valises, cheap clothes (with varying quality I must say) your various bric-a-brac stuff and old musical instruments, CD’s, LP’s and so on… and you can find pretty much anything if you asked around. I saw two laptops being sold as well. One looked severely used. The other looked brand new.
No questions asked.
The houses around is dominated by shopping but there is a huge blue house where which is the Stockholm Concert Hall. This building requires a page of it’s own but it is a great example of 1920s architecture.
The train towards Västerhaninge from Sundbybergs station. We see the rear end of the train here. Shot with 50/1.8 and Nikon D300 using ISO400.