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WorldWide Photowalk

The Worldwide Photowalk organised by Scott Kelby took place on Saturday 18 July. Roughly 30,000 photographers took part in 900 cities around the world.

We went on the local Portsmouth walk. We met in Southsea at 5pm and spent two hours walking and snapping our way around Old Portsmouth until retiring to the Bridge Tavern for some refreshment.

More photos on my flickr feed and on the Worldwide Photowalk website.

[Update: There’s now a flickr group for the Portsmouth Photowalk!]

Portsmouth
Portsmouth PO1 2, UK

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Time Lapse with an iPhone

Inspired by this post, I purchased TimeLapse from the iTunes Store (£1.19) and installed it on my iPhone. I then propped the iPhone up against my window and set it to record one image every 20 seconds for 90 minutes. I used QuickTime Pro to open the image set and save it out as a movie, then cropped and resized in Final Cut Pro (but there’s probably an easier way). Here’s the result:

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The Olympus PEN Story

Olympus have produced this wonderful stop motion video to celebrate 50 years of the PEN.

This is the PEN Story in stop motion. We shot 60.000 pictures, developed 9.600 prints and shot over 1.800 pictures again. No post production! Thanks to all the stop motion artists who inspired us. …

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Solent Sunset

We’re having some fabulous sunsets on the South Coast. The photograph was taken this evening, in fact, it’s five photographs, each at a different exposure, blended together in a technique called High Dynamic Range (HDR).

Solent Sunset
Solent Sunset

[Update] Just after I uploaded this photo, I saw this article online – “There are at least 10 great pictures within 10 meters of you right now.” What a great idea! Anyway, I submitted my sunset…

This photo will probably appear on Picture of the Day in due course…

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Moo Cards

I just wanted to put a shout out for Moo mini cards. They’re small business cards, probably more suitable for personal use than business as they’re less formal than the kind you get given in meetings.

Moo mini cards
Moo mini cards

Go to their web site, upload a few photos, and arrange the personal information that you want on the back. You order Moo mini cards in batches of 100 and the photos you select are divided equally, so you can upload anything from 1 to 100 images! You can see some great examples on Flickr.

I’ve been using them for a couple of years. £10 for 100.

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Time-Lapse Photography Captures Galactic Core of the Milky Way

From gizmodo:

This gorgeous video is a compilation of shots taken with a Canon EOS-5D every 20 seconds over about nine hours at a star party in Fort Davis, Texas. It’s a humbling sight. Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo. Some specifics: The Canon was equipped with a fisheye lens (an EF 15mm f/2.8 lens) and powered with an external battery to capture all that goodness. The more interesting part is the replacement anti-alias filter the photographer, William Castleman, used: The Canon’s stock AA filter blocks out certain red wavelengths to achieve a “more desirable” skin tone, but if it’s replaced with a filter that lets those wavelengths in, you’ve got yourself a camera capable of shooting a galaxy, as seen here, even if we can’t see it with the naked eye. Really, really cool stuff. [Vimeo via Crunchgear]

Galactic Center of Milky Way Rises over Texas Star Party from William Castleman on Vimeo.