Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Well, I’ve done it. All the images are tagged, rated, captioned, and ready for export. What a mess. For the (probably nobody) listening, this has been an immense effort, and I’m glad I don’t have to do it ever again. The topic of creating books or web pages for these images is a whole other [...]

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I have a deep desire to upgrade (sidegrade?) my iPod Photo 40gig to something newer, specifically to play video, and maybe more. The complexity of this problem falls in many places. I don’t mind doing a simple upgrade – the 80 or 160 gig iPods are cheaper and bigger than what I paid for my [...]

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Aperture is clearly designed well around the digital photographer. There’s always room for improvement, but I became so accustomed to the workflow and environment that I decided to use it to organize my digital conversions of 35mm negatives.
Here’s what attracted me to the idea:

Easy keywording. I just like the way it’s done in Aperture.
Easy to [...]

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I have a few, very few, audiotapes that need converting to digital so I can put the tape player/recorder and tapes in the recycle bin. I don’t really plan on doing any voice dictation any time soon, and I think there’s only one decent tape player in the house. No offense people, but its time [...]

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Looking at the library, there  were a number of mosaic-panoramas – things that weren’t ment to be 360’s. I stitched those (or the ones I marked anyway) this morning on the ride to work. PTGui Pro is what I used, but I could probably have gotten away with hugin just as well. I’ll put some [...]

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Yikes. I finished tagging and rating all my photos. I thing I’ll do a debreifing soon, but it’s amazing to think that I’ve finished everything but the captions.

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I generally survive the week on 5 hours sleep. Well, it caught up to me. I spent the weekend with a very minor headcold the could probably be written off to allergies. The wind was howling, the air turned dry, but the rain the previous week could be generating mold. There’s just no telling. Either [...]

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I once read how one person did the ratings on their photos, in a way I rather like. It went like so:

Keep, but flawed deeply – out of focus, exposure wrong, etc.
Flawed.
Acceptable.
Special.
Something you’d frame or sell.

And of course with modern software you usually have a “reject” or “delete me later” category for those things that [...]

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Apple’s Boot Camp lets you boot Windows, but a couple things are left undone in version 1.4. My biggest pet peeve is that the clock is always wrong when you return to Mac OS. It’s 12:22 and my mac dutifully reports 5:22 AM, because I booted Windows on Saturday. The only suggestion Apple has at this [...]

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[10:54] daveb: there are three things I’ve learned not to discuss in open forums: politics, punctuation, and distros.
[10:54] clee: daveb: don’t forget sex and religion.
[10:54] daveb: bah, they come up all the time
[10:54] abdulras: daveb: that is truely wise, but trolling is a lot more fun
[10:54] daveb: you just can’t talk about those at [...]

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