Sydenham Camera Club, based in Bridgwater, Somerset, UK (note spelling no "e" in Bridgwater)
More Photo Links (#links)
- The
INs and OUTs of FOCUS, (92 page PDF file), An Alternative
Way to Estimate Depth-of-Field and Sharpness in the Photographic
Image, by Harold M. Merklinger
[http://www.trenholm.org/hmmerk/TIAOOFe.pdf]
--Internet Edition (HTML File):
http://www.trenholm.org/hmmerk/download.html
- PhotoPoints.com,
Photos, photography, critiques, ratings, forums, experts
- Nature Photography, Photos-of-the-year, also has articles, forums, and other pages.
- Photo Friday - The Weekly Photo Challenge
- Timeline
- Photography and the History of the Camera
[http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blphotographytimeline.htm]
- Photographer
to the Tsar: The Empire That Was Russia: The Prokudin-Gorskii
Photographic Record Recreated (A Library of Congress Exhibition),
color photography with 3 pictures taken with a different filter.
- 26
Years of Family Photographs (1976-2002), a family photograph
each year [http://zonezero.com/magazine/essays/diegotime/time.html]
- Saving
Photographs After A Disaster Occurs, Preservation,
Instructions for dealing with wet photos, how and why to freeze
photos, mold damaged pictures, mud damaged prints, and how to dry
wet photographs. [http://www.trenholm.org/hmmerk/TIAOOFe.pdf]
- "Bhutan:
A Visual Odyssey Across the Himalayan Kingdom", the largest
commercial book ever published, according to Guinness World Records,
at 5 feet high and opens to nearly 7 feet wide, 114 pages, digitally
photographed by MIT students and digitally printed each book
consumes 2 gallons of ink.
[http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/152475_book15.html]
- An era of photography ending, By David V. Mitchell, editor and publisher of The Point Reyes Light
Additional links 2005-03-03 ...........
- Bruce Dale's home page,
had been a photographer for National Geographic
for 30 years. Check out the links on the left panel including the Panorama Tutorial which has
an interesting arrangement of photos and tips.
- John Beardsworth Photography News/Blog [Blog]
- Weekly Photography Tips, Scott Eccleston [Blog]
- Adobe Photoshop Killer Tips,downloads, produced by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, see Photoshop User TV (30 min espisodes posted each Monday_ with
the "Photoshop Guys" (Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Scott Kelby)
More Links to be checked out (#notes)
Digital links (#digital)
The following buttons invoke
Bookmarklets
to display additional information within the supplied links:
paren tips
-- to show hidden title information if present in a link.
HREF visible
-- to show the actual links in use
[Reset with F5] -- to Reset or Restore view.
Digital Photography, Information related: (first four were supplied by Arik Gorban)
-
Digital Camera Reviews and News: Digital Photography Review: Forums, Glossary, FAQ,
Latest in digital photography and imaging news, comparisons,
newsletter, and discussion forums.
-
Digital Cameras, Digital Camera Reviews - The Imaging Resource!, latest digital camera, scanner and printer reviews.
Unique: Camera Advisor to select a camera.
-
DesignerToday (formerly PhotoShop Today), Tutorials and Techniques for Photo Shop.
-
Moose Peterson's Wildlife Research Photography, Tutorials and How To's. Example:
CCD Cleaning - Digital Cameras
- Using Digital Cameras and Files,
about.com, many additional topics in sidebar
- Steve's Digicams,
digital camera information and news [ref.], and particularly his Camera Reviews
- Tips For Improving Your Digital Snapshots, 5 tips related to differences between digial and film photography. You should also look at the
histogram
- Digital Photography Tips « at WorldStart
- A Practical Guide to Interpreting RGB Histograms, Learn how to interpret your digital camera's thumbnail image luminance histogram to help determine the proper in camera exposure. This is part 4 of a series of interpreting histograms. Luminance histogram shows tonal range (brightness) vs
number of pixels. An RGB histogram does the same but accumulates results
from R-G-B channels, the vertical lines appear to represent full f-stops.
- Digital image file types Explained: JPG, GIF, TIFF, PNG, BMP, by
Rick Matthews, which is one topic in his personal notes -- Misc Tips and Info.
- PhotoshopNews: Photoshop News and Information (not affiliated with Adobe)
- The evolution of camera clubs and the digital revolution PSA Journal, Nov 2002 by Vinnie Kempf, Ridgewood Camera Club
- Kodak's First Digital Camera - Retro Thing, 1975,
- Jack Moskowitz, PhotoContest Pro software for clubs mainly in NJ.
Price Comparison for purchases (#price)
Transferring media (#transfer)
Online Storage for Digital Photos or other data (#storage)
- Streamload is offering 10GB free online storage for multimedia files (download 100MB/month, upload 100MB/month). Use compressed thumbnails for quick viewing, plus, share the full-quality originals to let your friends and family view high-quality images. Suggestion if you want to keep it free don't attempt to
store more than you upload in month, because you probably want to share
your pictures and download pictures from your friends.
[
zdnet]
Special Effects (#effects)
- Burning Man Opera Ark of the Nereids 2002, shows a method of presenting stereo images using animated .gifs to rapidly switch between left and right images. For most of us the brain will impose a crude sense of dimensionality on a wildly wiggling scene. (Even a one eyed person would see stereo. Ran across this topic on a Mars picture that was copied and so was not animated but then did a Google search on
space.wiggle OR stereo.wiggle
and found it interesting. This one works for me
Mozilla Firefox but not Internet Explorer,
Omphalos Burning Man 2003 stereo wiggle images. Some other sites were:
Mars Pathfinder Stereo images from 1997
-
Art of Science Competition winners and Exhibition from the first annual competition 2005, Princeton University.
- Liquid Sculpture - High-speed and Fine Art Photography of Drops and Splashes, Martin Waugh, creating shapes by dropping and splashing water, or other liquids. [FAQ]
-
Out of Bounds Art, Photo Shopped **NEW**,
Out Of Bounds Shadows-Mini Tutorial (Worth1000.com, Photoshop Contests)
- Origami lens slims high resolution cameras, Engineers at UC San Diego have built a powerful yet
ultrathin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens.
- Panoramas**NEW** -- from top of Mt Everest,
Ice Palace,
Colorado River Rafting,
Leonardo's Last Supper
China,
near Yangshou
- Sensitive Light:, Pictures of Smoke,
and other galleries,
favorites, Graham Jeffrey
- Sidewalk Art (3-D on 2-D surfaces)
- Create Photo Collages in Any Shape
- 15 online photo editors compared | Webware - CNET
Macro Photography (#macro)
Nature - Animals (#animals)
Holiday, Halloween, and Calendar Events (#holiday)
Fun and Games (#games)
NJ Places (#njplaces)
- Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (U.S. NPS) - Yearly History Events
|| Millbrook Days -- 1st full weekend in Oct ||
Van Campen Day (Walpack) 3rd or 4th Sun in Oct.
- New Jersey Gardens,
about 50 gardens in NJ in alphabetical order, if you've heard of it it, it is probably
in this list.
- New Jersey Tourism - New Jersey Gardens
- Historic Gardens in New Jersey, Spring Flowers, Living History
by Mary Jasch
- New Jersey and Greenways, Rail Trails, and guide to hiking,
biking, and trail riding
- Somerset Naturalists has additional links to
Nature interests in New Jersey.
- Map of Pennsylvania Waterfalls, New Jersey - by Geology.com
- Northwest New Jersey Skylands Calendar of Events ("skylands:")
- Places to Photograph [PDF file], mostly in NJ, prepared by Ridgewood Camera Club
- Places To Shoot more in NY than NJ, prepared by Rockland Photography Club (NY member of NJFCC)
- Some places in NJ and PA related to coal, railroads and canals
can be extracted from pictures of Flickr: Bruce Livingston's Photostream and of red cabooses in Port Murray,NJ
and Port Murray Station & Caboose on Flickr - Photo Sharing! -- use arrow keys for Prev / Next / show title / noshow title
Places (#places)
- Bryce Canyon Photography Spots --
michael almond,
Kendall Aderson ,
Yi Feng, Patrick Jennings,
Graham Lyth,
Mark Meyer,
Zane Paxton Stop #3,
Pixagogo??,
Kite Aerial Photography,
-- Shooting Zion and Bryce by Bob Krist,
a sight to behold in the winter by Margo Bartlett Pesek,
- Photography | GreatOutdoors.com
Presentation (#presentation)
- 30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes, you can use for effective presentations of your images On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery. [Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine]
- Google Earth 5.0,
lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space
to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, takes placemarks a step further and record a free-form tour in Google Earth. Simply turn on the touring feature, press record, and
see the world. You can even add a soundtrack or narration to personalize the journey.
[tour]
Tutorials and Plain Old Fashioned Photography
(#tutorials)
Encyclopedia Reference Material (#reference)
- Macro photography
is a kind of close-up photography. Macro was defined as at least 1:1 (lifesize) on the film. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is an excellent source for photographic topics.
Competition, Projects, ideas (#projects)
- Flickr: In Numerical Order
- A "Do-It-Yourself" LCD projector is a real projector you can build. This projector can achieve HDTV quality, rivaling projectors which cost many thousands of dollars. Build a screen.
Education - local evening classes (#education)
- The Jointure (Bound Brook H.S. and many other schools in Somerset County);
Search for "Photography" courses. Many of the SCPC members joined after taking one of Ed Barry's adult envening clasees on "Photography for Serious Beginners" at Hillsborough High School.
- Watchung Hills Adult School
offers several classes in Photography,
[contact]
SCPC Club Member Sites (#membersites)
Arik Gorban
-- http://arik.photopoints.com
(join for free to see more than two pages at photopoints);
David McRitchie (non-photographic links)
-- http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/firefox/firefox.htm Firefox Customization
-- http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm Excel (spreadsheets)
Friends of Club Members with Photographs (#friends)
Yuan Li (former member of both SCPC and PCC)
-- http://www.liyuanphoto.com/ and http://www.liyuanphoto.com.cn
Leo Koach (former member of SCPC) (studio link has been dropped)
-- http://focuspoint.dpchallenge.com
-- http://www.dailyawards.com/myprofile.aspx?CID=303
John Walkenbach (also has a web blog and Excel pages)
-- http://pbase.com/jwalk http://j-walkblog.com/blog/ http://j-walk.com/ss/excel
Photographers who have Presented/Judged at SCPC (#programlinks)
- Alan Leckner, Leckner Designs, Nature's Essay, Leckner Photography
- Bill Maxwell, past member of Somerset County Photography Club, and of the Plainfield Camera Club. Hiking and Nature trips in far away places.
- Brien Szabo, Gallery,
Thinking 4X5 in a 35mm World,
Subzero Danger in Nature Photographer Magazine (Winter2006) ||
also see some tips he provided Brien Szabo's Tips for Nature Photos in New Jersey back in 2007.
[appearances: Mar 27,2007] [Scheduled for Mar 24, 2009]
- Joel Morgovsky,
Member and Past-Chairman,
Portfolio Review Committee
Soho Photo Gallery in New York City;
Professor of Psychology
Brookdale Community College.
[past appearances, and scheduled for Jan 27, 2009]
- Nancy Ori,
Director of Photography and Video Production New Jersey Media Center LLC
[appearances: Mar 14, 2007]
- Roman Kurywczak has
gallery of photos and is a member of Camera Naturalists.
- Roz Rosenblum, On the faculty at Rutgers University and a member of the Professional Women Photographers of New York, Roz is a past president of South Shore Camera Club on Long Island. She has presented at The Photographic Society of America's Foto Fest, in NYC and NECCC at U Mass at Amherst. She has exhibited at such prestigious galleries as The Cork Gallery in Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center. [scheduled for Apr 28, 2009]
- Vinnie Kempf, Ridgewood Camera Club, a photography instructor in Bergen County, he is noted for his digital travel and contemporary photography.
- Bob Krist, speaker at NJFCC-2009, A Focus on Storytelling - WSJ.com, Bob Krist helps travelers who photograph become photographers who travel
Kodak Mailers, new address (#mailers)
Qualex, Inc. Closed it’s doors as of 4/25/2004 - All KODAK mailers will be sent
to District Photo in Beltsville, Maryland, for processing. District Photo will process
all mail orders, except Kodachrome. Kodachrome will be forwarded to Dwayne's
Photo of Parsons, Kansas, for processing where orders will now be mounted in
cardboard mounts only. Service time for mailers will not be impacted by this
change. For mailer related questions, call 1-800-345-6973. (search NJFCC for Kodak mailers)
Sending mailers to Fairlawn, NJ will delay processing.
Note address has been changed to a PO Box: KODAK MAILER PROCESSING,
C/O DISTRICT PHOTO, PO Box 3022, Beltsville, MD 20705-3022
Fuji Mailers, new address
Fuji Film Mailers [source: NJFCC Aug 2006 Cable Release (PDF)],
It appears that Fuji has outsourced the
processing of slide film. Notice has been
received that, effective July 1, 2006, Fuji
slide mailers should be mailed to: Fujicolor
Processing, P.O. Box 837, Parsons, KS 67357.
If sending slide film via UPS or FedEx, the
address is Dwayne's Photo, 415 South 32nd
Street, Parsons, KS 67357. Questions can
be referred to their Customer Service group
at (800) 522-3940.
Print prices (#prints)
CostCo membership required:
4x6 (.17), 5x7 (.39), 8x10 ($1.49), 11x14 (2.99), 12x18 (2.99);
Posters (mail order): 16x20 or 20x30 ($9.99) -- prices noted in Feb 2006
for upload and instore pickup. 8x12 is only available in store not online. Sam's Club also membership required has comparable prices.
Sam's Club membership required: 11x14 $2.87, 12x16 $3.56, 16x20 $6.34
20x24 $9.58, 20x30 $11.66
Walgreens 8x10 ($2.99, 2/$5.00)
Target
Software [Free, at least for noncommercial home use] (#software)
Many free software applications including IrfanView can use Adobe PhotoShop Filters, see How to Install Photoshop-compatible plugins.
- FastStone Image Viewer 2.22, an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments and more
- IrFanView 4.23 «, by irfan skiljan,
is the best for viewing raw images (everything but ScanSoft .max files). You can
toggle full screen (enter) and as Thumbnails(T). You can rotate temporarily (R | L) or permanently via Shift+J, and
zoom in (+) and out (-). Be sure to download both the program and the plug-ins.
To convert to send as email or smaller pictures: Batch conversion, input directory: C:\camera_..., (select images, add), output directory: C:\temppix\, batch conversion, advanced options: width 800, 50% width & height, 75 DPI, 16.7 million colors, START.
Some usage notes: (cheat sheet), and at Member Night. If installed you can run IrfanView from here (i_view.exe}
| Original | size |
colors/16M | picture size | |
Copy | method |
Quality | size | colors |
picture size |
| 972 KB | 2592x1945 | 89,962 |
36"x27" | | 39.83 KB | lanczos | 80% |
680x480 | 25,272 | 8.89"x6.67" |
| 973 KB | 2592x1946 | 89,963 |
36"x27" | | 54.93.KB | lanczos | 80% |
800x600 | 30735 | 11.11"x8.33" |
Thumbnails with IrfanView: File, Create Thumbnails, in order to print 4x6 inch print
choose the following dimensions and options: 960 x 640 pixels, 6 col by 4 rows,
spacing (30H 30V pixels), Margins (30 and 30), save all pages, file info with Exif created date ($F |$E36867)
White Borders with IrfanView: Image, Canvas (3 pixels on each side)
- Picasa™ 2:
Automated Digital Photo Organizers, Picture Software, Instant Photo Albums, Sharing, Printing.
A free software download from Google. Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC.
Allows you to crop «4x6,
5x7, 8x10 or manual dimensions and ability to adjust and move cropping frame,
plus crop to fit and Shrink to fit. To crop a picture, Import (File, Import from).
Undo/Redo:
Does have: Crop, Straighten, Redeye, Auto Contrast, Auto Color, Fill Light, Neutral Color Picker (for gray scale) is on Tuning.
Picasa never saves over your original files, so you'll never ruin or damage a picture by editing it. Picasa preserves your original photo as a digital negative, so every edit you make is fully undoable. Changing the "to Location" is under Tools, Options,Save In.
Does NOT have cloning, which is strange since this software used to sell for $100. Don't like that it insists on going through all pictures on your system so that you can see them all (big delay) and leaves footprint in each directory with pictures. Repeating process is fast because it only reworks
directories that have changed. But that makes it difficult
to work on a machine with limited resources.
To save a modified picture, you must export. Like many other utilities that convert picture data, this one changes the directory timestamps to restore date and time timestamps see "THE Rename" below. [http://www.picasa.com/picasa/]
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Picasa is NOT recommended, may have severe adverse consequences.
- Terragen™, generate photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac OS. At this stage in its development, Terragen is free for personal, noncommercial use.
/\
- Some additional links to software (including "THE Rename") can be found here
Recovery of pictures from CompactFlash, etc (#recovery)
- PhotoRec - CGSecurity, PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (Photo Recovery) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it'll work even if your media's filesystem is severely damaged or formatted. MEANING: Files will be recovered
to a folder in same directory as program runs from, the filenames will be
different but the EXIF information and pictures will be intact.
Example: C:\download_win2000\testdisk-6.6-WIP.win\testdisk-6.6-WIP\win\recup_dir.1
- program ot restore timestamp and image name???
Additions or Plug-ins (#extensions)
Browsing Tips: (on Geocities sites) (#geocities)
Firefox: Right-Click, This Frame, Show Only this Frame –or– if page has frames turn JavaScript off when on Geocities sites
Normally when browsing with
Firefox, I disable Java and Referrer Logging, but might also disable JavaScript on a Geocities site.
(using the context menu, if you install the Web Developer extension).
The Adblock extension can remove all Geocities and Google ads from display (loaded but not displayed).
Internet Explorer: Click the advertisement's [x] to close the ad.
Opera: Automatically suppresses ads you don't have to install any modifications.
Browsing Tips: (Links)
The Linky Firefox Extensions allows you to open all links in a selection in separate Tabs.
Of passing interest (#boundbrook)
Link Pages (#linkpages)
Recommended Links:
Short Topics
Weddings:
Other links from random sites:
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can sign up at Watch That Page,
simply create folders on the website for the logical arrangement of pages that you want an email notification of changes. Avoid adding pages that are created on the fly such that a date might be the only change.
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