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Thursday, November 10, 2005

Kill Bill....

's Browser?!?

This is pretty funny. Read the 13 reasons to switch from IE to Firefox.

Also check out the Explorer Destroyer website. I might put their code on this page.

- Chinmay

Categories - ~Fun~ ~GeekStuff~

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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Taking pictures

In case you want to take good photographs (as opposed to just being a camera geek), you'll be well served to read Alain Briot's series - "Aesthetics and Photography" on the Luminous Landscape. The webpage there doesn't really list the articles in the correct order, (I have no idea why!), so I'll list them in sequence (and by conceptual grouping) here -

The Basics
1) How to See Photographically
2) How to Compose a Photograph

The Technique
3) How to Choose the Best Lens For a Specific Composition
4) How to Find the Best Light for a Specific Photograph
5) How to Select the Best “film” for a Specific Image with both Film and Digital Capture
6) How to determine the best exposure for a specific photograph with film and digital capture

The Operational
7) How to Decide Which Photographs Are Keepers and Which Ones Are Not
8) How to Create a Portfolio of your Work

The Unteachable
9) How to Establish a Personal Photographic Style
10) Being an Artist

There are more of Alain Briot's columns (Briot's View) here, and his own website can be found here. I'd previously linked to an article by Ken Rockwell - How to Make Great Photographs or "Everything You Really Needed to Learn About Photography That They Didn't Teach You at Brooks", that stems from the same philosophy. Read that here.

For camera geekery (I wouldn't deny my own guilt, of course...), there's DPReviews. :)

- Chinmay

Categories - ~Arts~ ~Photo~

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