Three New-to-Me Blogs

October 21st, 2009, No Comments »

Last week was a research-intensive week, and in my online travels I encountered three interesting new blogs. I have little sense of their relative popularity, so apologies if you all have seen them already:

  • Regretsy - You’re likeliest to have seen this one, which is kind of a People of Walmart for crafting. The site features the worst and strangest products advertised on Etsy. Speaking as a craft-free zone over here, the site comes off as rather cruel: “ha, ha, look at the crap people are trying to sell”. But, each to their own.
  • Hey Oscar Wilde - “This website, now in its tenth incarnation since being launching in June, 1998, is an extension of a personal art collection of various artists interpreting their favourite literary figure/author/character.” A source of excellent illustration and portraiture work–I quite like this vogon.
  • 2000 Dollar Wedding - These folks are, you guessed it, planning their $2000 wedding online. I found this site because she was a Blog Action Day participant.

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Take Better Photographs

June 18th, 2007, 2 Comments »

Via Digg (I think), here’s a straight-forward, well-illustrated article on ten ways to improve your photographs. I suppose these are pretty bog standard, but some of them served as good reminders:

Most people don’t take a single photograph without posing in front of a perfectly good scene. Don’t get me wrong, its nice to see someone was somewhere, but how many of those can you really look at and stay interested. The pictures feel extremely static and people always pose the same way. You might as well pose in front of a blue screen.

I don’t mind a few vacation snapshots and some of them can be quite funny, but I think it is a much better idea to capture the moment. People laughing and joking or having fun going after some activity is much more interesting than having them pose together in front of the camera.

You may find this article–about the photographic version of the phrase “fix it in post”–more interesting.

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