Almost a Technocrat in Draft

This is how you can make a home made negative film scanner by using a shoebox and your digital camera. The basic idea here is to use your digital camera (campact, DSLR or even smarphone) to capture the negative to a digital image and use a photo editor to invert the negative image to color image. Before you go and pick up your digital camera and start snapping your old negative films, you will need a light box to illuminate your negative films, and a jig to properly hold your camera in place to avoid shaking when you snap the negative image. (via  jamsplay.com YouTube )

This is how different angles of lighting can change a person face.  This proves how important lighting works in photography. Good photos do not have to be from DSLR only. References, Sources and Credits: http://digg.com/video/its-amazing-how-much-lighting-can-change-your-face

Google decided to stop supporting Picasa running on Linux. They have taken down the download link for the deb install package for Ubuntu Linux OS. I need the deb install package as a pre-requisite to install any latest version of Picasa (Windows installation file) on my Ubuntu Linux OS. If you are not sure what I meant by installing the latest version of Picasa on Ubuntu Linux, please refer to this post for the steps . Luckily I was able to find the deb install package file in the internet and save it for my future re-installation of Picasa on my Ubuntu Linux OS. Here is the download link: picasa_3.0-current_i386.deb

Another great video from Dylan Bennett about photography. References or Credits: Dylan Bennett's Learn About Photography and Video INDEX PAGE

Don't really understand what Depth of Field is? Watch this video. References or Credits: Dylan Bennett's Learn About Photography and Video INDEX PAGE

A really good video explaining what F-stop really means in photography. References or Credits: Dylan Bennett's Learn About Photography and Video INDEX PAGE

A panorama view of The Bund in Shanghai Most compact cameras will have the panorama photo creating feature built-in and some will have the feature to guide the taking of pre-panoramic photos to be stitch in a PC software tool. A DSLR camera generally takes better quality photos compare to a compact camera, but it does not have the feature to create panorama photos or guide you in taking the pre-panoramic photos. This blog post will show you how to setup your DSLR and take the pre-panoramic photos that to be stitch using a panorama photo stitcher software tool in a PC. Setting Up Switch to Manual mode. Set your aperture to around f5.6 to f8. Set your ISO appropriately according to your lighting. Meter your scenery from left to right to get a good shutter speed (that will get you a good exposure from left to right).  If you are taking the pre-panoramic photos handheld, please be mindful of your minimum shutter speed you can use handheld. Find an object that is far away but not infini...

This script is dependent to UFRaw. Install UFRaw in order to convert. xterm is used to run the UFRaw simply because to show the progress of the conversion. Nautilus-actions parameters: %d "%M" #!/bin/bash export FILE_PATH=$1 export FILE=$2 #Create directory if [ ! -d $FILE_PATH/Converted_JPEGs ];     then mkdir $FILE_PATH/Converted_JPEGs; fi; #Convert RAW image file to Jpeg xterm -e "ufraw-batch \         --wb=camera \         --exposure=auto \         --out-type=jpeg \         --compression=96 \         --overwrite \         --out-path=$FILE_PATH/Converted_JPEGs \         $FILE"

[Update 20th Aug 2010] Install method works with Picasa v3.8 [Update 14th Apr 2012] Install method works with Picasa v3.9 [Update 14th Jan 2013] Download link for Picasa for Linux deb install package file Google has done it again. They have released a great Photo organizer + editor + uploader + cool etc ... But! Yes, there's always a but. Picasa developers in Google left Linux users (one of them is me) in high and dry. Being in Linux world, there always workarounds or customizations. Heck! Picasa 3 for Linux offered by Google itself is a workaround for Linux users. A short search(Googling of course) around the internet, i found 3 workaround methods to install Picasa 3.6 in my Linux box. Workarounds in overview: Install Wine and install Picasa 3.6 The problem with this is that you won't get the Gnome integration that Picasa 3 for Linux offers. Install Picasa 3 for Linux and replaced the whole install directory with Picasa 3.6. But of course, you will have too install Wine and in...