Quick Time Lapse

Flickr’s video service is getting much better. They obviously are feeling a little pressure from Vimeo and doing like Snoop says and stepping their game up.

I need to as well and doing a complete time lapse.

Flickr is King

Filed under: Uncategorized

File Magazine

Wow, I’m kind of stoked on this. I submitted a few photo’s to File Magazine and they accepted one and put it in their collection.

Here it is:

http://www.filemagazine.com/thecollection/archives/2009/02/saltonseaskyand.html

File Magazine is a little different than your traditional photo magazine, here’s a brief synopsis:

Welcome to FILE magazine. We publish images that treat subjects in unexpected ways. Alternate takes, unconventional observations, odd angles — the photographs in the collection reinterpret traditional genres.

This is the image they took:

Enough of the self promotion.

Filed under: California, Photography, Uncategorized , amatuer, file magazine, Flickr, Links, Photo, Photography, Pictures, Salton Sea, self promotion, web site

Even More Fun With The 50mm

Was in Long Beach and Signal Hill again this morning.

All pictures link back to my Flickr page where there rest of the pictures are.

Also, check out the music blog Robot Jones.

Filed under: Uncategorized , Adobe Lightroom, D80, Long Beach, nikon 50mm 1.8, photo gallery, Photography, Photos, Photoshop, Signal Hill, southern california

Shooting Perfect Strangers

There is this blog I read everyday called greyscalegorilla, and a month or so ago he posted about taking pictures of perfect strangers, so I decided to try. This is my first attempt.

It’s really bad, but I will keep trying.

If you haven’t been to the Greyscale Sight, I would definitely peep it, the author kind of yell’s at you to do your best and to get creative from time to time. Sometimes you don’t want to hear it, but sometimes it’s what you need to hear. Also, tips on design and photography. Look I’m not on this dude’s jock or anything, although this post seems like it, just if you’re into creativity, just look it up and get inspired by a white dude from Chicago.

Another thing, I should just break down and buy a really good point and shoot so I’ll always have one in my pocket. The D80 is too bulky to take everywhere.

Filed under: California, Los Angeles, Nikon D80, Photography, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized , Adobe Lightroom, greyscale gorilla, Los Angeles, Nikon D80, Photos, stranger, Update

More CSS Shizzz

I’m still working through my CSS book and I’m using a Bart Simpson bookmark so I don’t lose my place. I’m working on backgrounds now, and this is where photoshop skills come in handy. I have none. To be quite honest there isn’t much help as far as books go in the aspect of photoshop for web design, since everyone, myself included, has gone DSLR on the entire world, 99% of all books are Digital Photo related. Very few help with web design…bastards!!

Anyway..on to backgrounds:

Defining Background-Origin.

The starting point for the calculation of the background-position property of an element is determined by background-origin property:

border

padding

content

Applying the border value, the calculations for the background images position will start from the edge of the border of the element.

Actually, I don’t have example to show you, so just know that as of today only Mozilla, Safari and Konqueror support background-origin.

Next up on the agenda is navigation. Lots of markup here.

Here are 2 quick examples of CSS designed web pages that I just think are the shit man. The shit!
CSS – PunkAss
CSS – Hedges

Also, I’ve been playing around in photoshop and Color Efex Pro and they have this filter that simulates film grain and it’s a lot of fun. Here is an example via Google Picasa 3 uploads due to me being a poor bastard who hasn’t updated his pro account with Flickr yet.

From CEP

This is me riding home from the swap meet.

Filed under: Books, Cascading Style Sheets, Javascript, Nikon D80, Orange County, Photography, Web Design , Adobe, Books, CSS, D80, Javascript, Nikon, Photoshop, Web 2.0, Web Design

Housekeeping on Flickr

I went through all of my pictures on Flickr and got rid of some.

Organizr makes it so easy. Still need to upgrade to my pro account, then I can upload a batch I got waiting.

Twitter is still lame. Flickr is #1.

Filed under: Uncategorized , Flickr, Internet, Photo, sharing, Twitter, Web 2.0

What I Learned Today With CSS

So I’ve finished the images chapter in my book, and I pretty thrilled with the results.

Images with captions:
Example Here

Introduction Image:
Example Here

Photo Gallery:
Example Here

Last but not least, a thumbnail page:
Example Here

Next I’m on to conquer backgrounds.

Filed under: Books, Cascading Style Sheets, Web Design , Books, CSS, Learning, Web 2.0, Web Design

This makes me sad…I blame George Bush..

Directly from the Editor In Chief:

Today is a particularly sad day for all of us at JPG and 8020 Media.

We’ve spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we’ve reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but we just weren’t able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.

The one thing we’ve been the most proud of: your amazing talent. We feel honored and humbled to have been able to share jpgmag.com with such a dynamic, warm, and wonderful community of nearly 200,000 photographers. The photography on the website and in the magazine was adored by many, leaving no doubt that this community created work of the highest caliber. The kindness, generosity, and support shared among members made it a community in the truest sense of the word, and one that we have loved being a part of for these past two years.

We wish we could have found a way to leave the site running for the benefit of the amazing folks who have made JPG what it is, and we have spent sleepless nights trying to figure something out, all to no avail. Some things you may want to do before the site closes:

- Download the PDFs of back issues, outtakes, and photo challenge selections. We’ll always have the memories! www.jpgmag.com/downloads/archives.html
- Make note of your favorite photographers. You may want to flip through your favorites list and jot down names and URLs of some of the people you’d like to stay in touch with. You may even want to cut and paste your contacts page into a personal record.
- Catch up with your fellow members. Our roots are in this humble flickr forum and we recommend going back to find fellow members, discuss the situation, or participate in another great photo community. www.flickr.com/groups/jpgmag/
- Keep in touch. This has always been much more than just a job to each of us, and we’ll miss you guys! We’ll be checking the account jpgletters@gmail.com in our free time going forward. We can’t promise to reply to every email (since we’ll be busy tuning up our resumes) but we’d love to hear from you.
- Stay posted. Although the magazine is ceasing publication, we’ll be updating you on what’s happening with your subscription early next week.

We’re soggy-eyed messes, but it is what it is. At that, JPGers, we bid you goodbye, and good luck in 2009 and the future.

Laura Brunow Miner
Editor in Chief

Sad sad news.

Filed under: Uncategorized , Bush, Economy, jpg, magazine, Photo, sad

CSS > Photo Gallery

I’ve given up on the sIFR for now, I couldn’t get them to work, so I’ve moved on to basic photo galleries using CSS. When I say basic, I mean basic. Once I get the style sheet typed up, I’ll post a link to an example.

Also, I need to learn Dreamweaver asap, because anything that will save me time is welcomed. Once I finish the book I’m using now, I think I’ll start on a Dreamweaver book.

Here it is:
Basic Online Gallery

Once again, it is very basic, I will work on styling it up a bit later, but baby steps dawg, baby steps.

Also, I think the best thing about book and website support is when companies allow you to download their css code and dissect it so you can see the errors that might be holding you back. One simple little thing can screw the whole page up.

Here’s my work space:

Last but not least, my current favorites:
Song: Telephone by Erykah Badu
Drink: Pepsi
Food: Chimichungas
TV Show: The Office
Movie: Religulous
Website: Tie: Flickr & Hulu

Also, I downloaded Google Chrome and first impressions is Opera and Firefox fucked and out popped Chrome.

Filed under: Books, Cascading Style Sheets, Current List, Fun List, Javascript, Photography, Web Design , Flickr, Online, CSS, HTML, Dreamweaver, Javascript, Cascading Style Sheets, Web Design, britney spears, hulu, google chrome, photo gallery, the office

JPG Stories

My friend Chad Cheverier wrote this very nice piece about a friend of his that has passed.

Read it here:
Phil Park

Thank you friends.

Filed under: California, Random Thoughts, Uncategorized , a-rod, britney spears, celeb gossip, chad cheverier, Friends, jpg, madonna, perez hilton