September 2007 Archives

This is where I work.  This is he downstairs bit.  Never been occupied.  I was just on my way home down the back stairs when I noticed the sun streaming in.  The first floor was pretty stark.  The ground floor was watery - the light having come in through the trees.  

It is utterly amazing what can be achieved with a phone camera.  Yes, I got this camera (OK, I'm not paying) simply because it is a phone... But just look at this.  It is beautiful.

...with all of this, I am going to be Free.  Free to decide if I do it, how I do it, why I do it...  And it is just for me.  I am not going to be enslaved by guilt or fear.  It actually has no value or purpose.

Well, this is very disappointing.  I have just had a look at this page in Safari on my Mac and the pictures are much more saturated.  Looking at the pictures on the Mac via Firefox they look the same as in Photoshop.

Why is that?  What can I do about it?  Maybe it's because my Safari is a beta.

As it says, I don't do bags in shops anymore.  A bit sanctimonious I know, but I even eschew bags for fruit and veg.  This is what my shop looks like when I get it home.  This is not what a 'regular' shop looks ike - this is a weekend shop.  Hence the vin.

These 'bags for life' (is that what they're called?) are more comfortable to carry, they carry more so there are fewer trips to / from the car when you get home, you know that they're not going to split on ypu and dump / smash your shopping on the floor,  which is always concrete.

I was just leaving the checkout with this shop in my bags and in my trolley when I noticed the woman behind me asking for these 'bags for life'.  NSTAC?  Dunno.

Quite amazing that such a small town had such a car show with so many unusual cars.

A Lotus Formula Junior (I probably made that up).  It is a Lotus something though.  Taken in the baking heat in France in a little village in the Gorges du Tarn.

Having just uploaded the two Lancia pictures to Flickr, I see that the EXIF data is preserved in full.  So, it looks as though save-for-the-web in Photoshop discards it.  No problem.  Just need to record new actions that do the image resizing in Photoshop itself.  Not sure why I didn't do that in the first place.

Yes, the 700px wide image is shown in full.  And the colour workflow also works.  Next xheck is to see if the EXIF data has been preserved.

I hope and expect that this will not be cropped

Now that it is published, the colours are correct!  So, proofing in PS is the right thing to do.  It will however look 'bad' when viewed back in Finder on the Mac.  This is to be expected.

But 750px is too wide.  I'll try 700.

The more that I think about it, the less happy I am about colour / people on EMC.  It simply isn't about 'holiday snaps'.  Yes it is a blog but it is not that sort.  Flickr meets that need.  Maybe EMC needs a manifesto / mission / purpose statement.

I am going to remove them.  

Maybe colour isn't a problem.  In fact I don't think it is.  But holiday snaps?  That _is_ a problem.  To me.

As Chris at work said.. 'Maybe you need a new persona for colour'.  I believe that Flickr is that persona.

My new Movable Type blog / gallery (when it arrives / when _this_ posting area becomes 'it') is going to be the (spiritual) successor to EMC.

After much soul-searching, thought, mind-mapping and Su's coaching help - live and with cards- I have been able to move forwards in where I'm going with my photo publishing.

I have been able to separate the parts.  One is the 'developing' of the photos (storage, management and getting to a publishable image) vs. how and where to publish them.

More on this soon.

The image below of Ava is clipped.  Why is that?