Monthly Archives: October 2011
Negative/Positive
Back to Square One
Shoot Now, Focus Later
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A shallow dof shot where the focus was misplaced on the wrong part of the sculpture. |
The revolutionary thing about the Lytro technology is that the camera not only record *one* particular focus, but *all* possible focuses (plural? foci? focuuuuuuuuuuuuuuus??? – It’s a contradiction in terms, isn’t it?) through an array of mini-lenses which can record the various directions from which the light is hitting the sensor. And thus then the focus can be adjusted afterwards, as all this information has been stored on the camera.
SLR vs LFP
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Shooting LF at Poolbeg Power Station |
Good Girls Go to Heaven…
The tour took us right up to the staff canteen. Initially this was built as a public restaurant – even a night club where members of the public could use the Busaras building not only for travel purposes but also for leisure activities. (For that purpose there was also a cinema in the original plan of the bus station.) Hence the canteen has architectural features that are more befitting for a public venue than for the staff canteen of the Department of Social Welfare. Like these beautiful inbuilt roof lights, dome shaped and tiled with yellow mosaic.
The whole building amazed me. It was built from 1948 until 1953. That effectively means that Michael Scott designed Busaras in the 1940s. What an amazing modern space for that time!!! Just from the look of it I had always assumed that it was a 60s design. The colours, the shape, the details seemed to suggest that. Scott was seriously ahead of his time there! And even if architecture is not the focus of my studies here, I have to say I was very interested to learn more about how this building was designed and constructed, from the first in-built hoovering system in the canteen down to the cantelevered canopy over the busses. I actually wish I had looked and admired less and taken more pictures. This would have made a lovely calendar project for some of my architecture friends… Ah well.
Social Media for Photographers, Part 2
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Sorta navel gazing… well, gazing through something roundy, anyway… |
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Log into your FB fan page
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Click on “Edit Page” and go to “Apps” in the menu on the left, then click on “Edit Settings” under the “Notes” section. A new window will pop open. Click on “add” in the middle and then OK.
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Click “Edit Page” again and “Apps” again. This time under Notes you click “Go to application”.
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In the menu on the left, click the link “Edit import settings”. You will now be given the option to import one blog into your fan page stream.
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Simply paste the URL of your blog into the box, check the tickbox stating that you are importing your own blog and click “Start Importing”. That’s it.
Sanity Photography
Large Format Photography
Back in college after the long summer break. It is great to be back, I must say, especially as the first semester started with three really interesting classes, among them my first elective for this, my final year. I had no trouble at all deciding on Large Format photography in the end – and the first session in class more than confirmed my choice: It has re-awakened my interest in photography; I am almost giddy with excitement.