Company

Monday, 4 August 2008 7:15 pm ~ rbonini

Yet another shot from the Isle of Cumbrae. More here.

Flight, Plate 2

Monday, 4 August 2008 5:57 pmMonday, 4 August 2008 6:57 pm ~ rbonini

More from my visit to the Isle of Cumbrae off the west coast of Scotland

Flight, Plate 1

Saturday, 2 August 2008 7:35 pmMonday, 4 August 2008 7:02 pm ~ rbonini

I took this photo last week on the Isle of Cumbrae just off the west coast of Scotland.

You can view the rest of the set here.

FriendFeed

Saturday, 12 April 2008 6:03 pm ~ rbonini

After all the hype, I’m on FriendFeed.

Finally. In addition to my blog posts showing up there, I’m sharing my Link Blog and my SmugMug Photostream.

Here’s my page and the feed is in an unassuming text label under Feeds in the column to your right. I’m going to try find or make a proper label for it, since it looks out of place at the moment.

It will be interesting to see which feed people prefer, the blogs’ feed or the FreindFeed one.

Photos: Luxor

Thursday, 17 January 2008 3:59 pmThursday, 17 January 2008 4:00 pm ~ rbonini

Yep, my Luxor photos are up and ready for viewing. These are the first 100 of many to come. The image above is from the Temple of Queen Hatshepsut.

You can see them here.

Hope you enjoy them and don’t forget to comment.

Photography: Beginning

Wednesday, 9 January 2008 11:36 pmWednesday, 9 January 2008 11:39 pm ~ rbonini

Whew, Photography isin’t easy. You need the camera, the software,the online storage and so on. Not to mention the accessories.

I bought a Nikon D40x a few weeks ago and haven’t stopped playing with it since. Which is one reason the blog has been suffering. Got a 55-200mm lense in addition to the supplied 18-55mm lense. And a flash and tripod for night shooting. Though I might have to take the tripod back and get a better model.

After thinking about the moment for a while I finally settled on Smugmug mainly because I get a kick from dealing with faceless corporations everyday (not 🙂 ). Take a look at their About us page to see what I mean .Plus they really have a good reputation.

I’ve got a few photo’s from holiday (4,300, to be exact – I went overboard). A good portion of that is from Luxor, Egypt and they’ll be the first ones up once I get them sorted. And I’ll cross-post the best of the best here.

I came within a whisker of splashing out and buying the Educational version of CS3 Design ( I qualify as a Second Year undergraduate). Though I definitely get it next month. What really sealed it was the fact that Smugmug has a CS3 add-on for uploading your newly tweaked shot from within CS3. I’m getting it mainly for Photoshop, but Acrobat and Illustrator would be useful as well.

Once I have that I can start shooting in RAW and acting like a proper photographer 🙂 .

One thing that really would make life easier is a WHS Add on for Uploading straight to Smugmug from your Photos folder.

As a side note I subscribe to Thomas Hawks’ Blog. He has some really great shots.

Also see this list of the best photoblogs of 2007.

Great things to come…