1.  Foolography Unleashed

2.  Aoka AK-4N

3. Red Hen Blue2Can

Bluetooth GPS receivers:

1.  Holux GPS logger

2.  QStarz 1300s (bought this one for its claims of google earth ease)

Wired GPS: I don’t really care.  If you do, check out this list.  On second thought, maybe I should care.  2.

Software

1.  Picasa

2.  Aperture

More to come on Eye-Fi to live folders in Lightroom, Aperture, other slideshow apps or to auto-FTP folder.

CF adapter

reference

Most SUCK…despite amazing photography.  I base my judgment on the following fatal flaws:

–site load takes longer than 2 seconds

–all flash

–fixed width, looks tiny on my huge monitor (see above)

–confusing to navigate

–doesn’t change image sizes based on viewer’s platform (fast LAN vs ATT 3G)

–anything with a stupid “click here to enter” link or auto music

–no keyboard controls

–and basically anything on livebooks.com

http://www.philipharvey.com/ (nice pics…on a tiny corner OF MY screen)

http://www.mirjamevers.com/ (OMFG…auto music AND “enter here” link.  bye)

http://www.colebarash.com/ (lamebooks.  took 5 seconds to load on my

http://www.scottkelby.com/portfolio/ (this would be an amazing site ‘cept the flash menus don’t work on chrome, WTF)

http://portfolio.joemcnally.com/

http://www.chrisnichollsphotography.com/

GREAT!  Counterexamples (which probably cost thousands of dollars to develop):

http://mariotestino.com/ (sweet!  even if it is flash)

http://www.gregfoto.com/

http://www.linascheynius.com/numero.html (simple html, although horizontal is almost as annoying as auto-music)

http://www.grantgunderson.com/ (makes use of the whole browser window!)

http://www.carlosnunezphotography.com/ (nice simple html)

http://www.imagesby.com/main.html (flash load is too slow but wins for full screen panoramas)

yes…i know this site sucks too.  do as I say, not as I do.

School’s out for a month.  Therefore I’m posting all the junk I shot during it since I actually have time to now.

Technology note:  Lightroom plugin “fotoplayer” is not ready for primetime.  Don’t buy it…yet.  If your title bar says “fear” at the top its cause they have a LOT of bugs to work out.  Is it really that complicated?

I have no clue who these people and their dog are.  But it was an unbelievable day so everyone was happy to take a picture.  Let me know if you know them.  Maybe she lost my card.

I’m sitting here watching “the wrestler”…and figured I’d post the sites of the wedding photographers that bubbled to the surface after I stumbled (literally) through hundreds of (largely painful crappy housewife1064×768 flash) wedding photographer sites.  nevertheless i’m considering doing it (again) and was trying to figure out what sucks and what doesn’t.  here’s what doesn’t.  dang if there’s a lot that DOES though.

Sloan

Chris + Lynn

Grace and Hun Kim

Scarlett Lillian (great work but i insist it’s rude to auto-play music on a web page)

Scott Hayne

Jerry Yoon

Benjamin Edwards

Rowell

Simply Bloom

If you’re planning a wedding, choose one of these and pay a lot of money cause they deserve it.  Or call me and I’ll try to imitate them.  Regardless, you won’t get some cheesy [!@#$!@#], soft focus and STUPID.

In the evening after sunset, whether you acknowledge it or not, light generally has a “cool” blue hue.  Tungsten light bulbs generally have “warm” orange cast and old-school flourescent tubes can have a green glow.  …or so it was the purpose of this assignment to show.

Kickin it with Sis in LA.  Not really an assignment, just needed to practice using the off-camera flash.

well, it took four months and four hours but post number one of 2010 is finally here.  this was for “concepts” class.  the concept was to express “fear.”  what you see represents my biggest fear.

…my digital photo final project…as originally submitted.  I told the teacher I wished there were people in them.  She told me to go back and try again…with people in them.  Dangit.

About halfway through the semester I backed my way into a final project proposal where I stated I’d depict the recent presence of humans…using the various formal and narrative techniques (theoretically) learned in class.  I think they look a lot better printed.  That’s still not saying much.  Some straight up bore me.  Mostly just posted here for historical documentation.  Looking forward to getting better, tightening up my technique–and narrowing my purpose in photography.  First class of first semester down.