Sunday, June 17, 2007

Well, not really a list yet, but here's one thing I'd like to see:

I recently resumed a childhood hobby when my wife gave me a Digital SLR camera as a gift. I haven't done photography except for the typical party and tourist shots since I was a child. 

There's quite a lot to learn.  Now, when you take a picture, your exposure, aperture, focal length, ISO speed, and a ton of other information is saved with the metadata of the file. I've been reading some books on photography techniques, but learning by doing seems to make it more fun. 

Flickr extends the pleasure of the hobby by allowing you to build friendships and have others express their opinions about your pictures.  I'd love to have a page on Flickr that shows me a view of my picture thumbnails, with the following information below the thumbnail in concise form:

  • View count
  • Favorite count
  • Comment count 
  • Exposure
  • Aperture
  • Focal length
  • ISO Speed

I'd use this to view my sets much like a "study", so I can see how different settings affect the picture.

Sunday, June 17, 2007 2:57:39 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)  #     |  Comments [1]  | 
 Tuesday, June 12, 2007

I seem to have changed gears lately with the gift of a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi from my wife. Much of my creative energy seems to have found a more comfortable home taking pictures.  I've been reading voraciously on the subject and have been taking the camera with me almost everywhere I go--- my friends sometimes think I've grown a new appendage.

It's been years since I've felt like I've really flexed my creative muscle, and it's refreshing.  I seem to be getting more and more excited with every picture I take. There's nothing like falling in love with a creative outlet.

Statr for Flickr graph
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 5:30:42 PM (Mountain Daylight Time, UTC-06:00)  #     |  Comments [0]  |