One of my old mates pointed out that the DIY network has a surprisingly thorough introduction to digital photography.
It appears as if the article series is mostly just a transcript or summary of a television programme, but the articles are very well written, interesting, and have a series of “further reading” links. Although I knew all of this before, I just wasted an entire afternoon reading all the links. Highly recommended, in other words :)
There is a lot to be said for making stuff yourself, but what when there are things you can’t make? I’m a half-decent programmer, but couldn’t write a piece of image software if my life depended on it. Luckily, there is a lot of fantastic freeware out there. My good buddy Ed Perchick has rummaged through the darkest corners of the interweb… Read the rest of the article »
I have been knowing I had to do something on kite photography for ages, but I’ve been dreading it, because there are already so many great pages out there that deal with kite photography.
The idea is simple: You take a kite, and tie a camera to it. Then, you fly the kite, and you set off the camera somehow, taking photos from the unusual viewpoint of a bird. It’s actually not entirely unlike what the world-famous French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand is doing, sans helicopter.
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