Duxford Airshow – 8/9 September 2012
Last Saturday I finally had a chance to visit the Imperial War Museum at Duxford (near Cambridge in the United Kingdom). The occasion was pretty juicy, as the regular September Airshow was scheduled for that weekend. I think it's almost since I have moved to the UK that I wanted to attend this particular event, as I am quite interested in aviation and warbirds from my very childhood. For once the British weather was also forgiving, with clear skies and high temperatures around 28 C, the ideal set to watch an Airshow.
The museum itself is pretty easy to reach from Cambridge's railway station. It's about 15 minutes with a free courtesy bus which runs every 30 minutes.
500px vs Flickr – Online Photo Sharing services
After being a loyal Flickr fan for years (and pro subscriber), I have to say that I am on the verge of betraying them and move to 500px. A quick comparison of the two follows. Please note I am not comparing the Free service, I want unlimited uploads and storage and both services are offering it only on the paid subscription.
Flickr
- Price: 24.95 $ (or ~ 15.5 £ ) a year
- Unlimited Load / Storage: Yes
- Unlimited Sets: Yes
- Original file storage: Yes
- Other: Ad free browsing / Stats / HD video upload
- Pros: good privacy & licensing options for each picture. Well established website with a large user base.
- Cons: pricier than 500px , so-so interface and UI, has not changed much lately
- Price: Plus 19.95 $ (or ~ 12.3 £ ) (*)
- Unlimited Load / Storage: Yes
- Unlimited Sets: Yes
- Original file storage: ???
- Other: Stats / Sets / Stories
- Pros: Slick'n Sexy interface. Very good content quality, Cheaper than Flickr with the "Plus" option
- Cons:Less flexible in Privacy and licensing options
Both services do offer a Developer API to integrate with them, I have not used them so far so I can't really feedback on that. In general I think it's going to be difficult to move away from Flickr at least for me, as up there I have pretty much every picture I took since I own a digital camera on their servers (that's around ~7K images). However recently when I want to showcase a particular picture and get some feedback from other photographers, I've found that this is much easier to be done on 500px . I used to invest a lot of time in Flickr years ago, and back then it was easier to get feedback, but today it seems much more difficult to simply upload a pic and get some instant feedback. As soon as I created the 500px account instead, and put some photos up there, I got an instant reaction from other photographers and felt that it was quite easy to reciprocate by visiting their stream and have a look!
In short, not sure if I am going to migrate, mainly because it will be a painful process if I decide to do it...but I am very tempted!
(*) They also offer an "Awesome" package at 49.95 $ ( or ~ 31 £ ) a year which includes a personalised portfolio with Google Analytics integration. Don't need it, not considering it in my comparison!
South Acton #station in #London
A sunset picture just off the South Acton London Overground station. What you see in the distance is the Chiswick Business Park complex, including the construction towers for the last building which is being added to the lot. There is still some snow left from the past few days. Yesterday I managed to have a little walk with my Canon and take a few pics in Kew - Richmond area. I should do it more often ... I missed it! Here you are a few shots I took (the leftmost one was actually taken with my phone)
Stabilizzatore per foto/videocamera
Siete stufi di fare foto mosse o video tremolanti ma non avete i soldi necessari a comprarvi un obiettivo con stabilizzatore superpauer (perchè preferite impiegarli per 5 escort polacche che stiano con voi in una suite per un intero week-end)?
Il tizio in questione sembra aver trovato un metodo alquanto semplice ed economico per ottenere un minimo di stabilità in più dalla propria fotocamera. Funzionerà?
Lo voglio provare :asd:
Edit 28 Maggio 2008: ori0n l'ha costruito e provato, e i risultati sono lontani dall'essere apprezzabili! Peccato ...
Flickr – Photo repository
Come alcuni di voi avranno notato, ho spostato la mia gallery su Flickr. Precisamente, ci ho spostato sopra tutte le mie foto personali... perchè? Beh, Flickr è veramente stupendo per un "fotografo alle prime armi" come me: innanzitutto dà un sacco di spazio per salvare le proprie foto ad alta risoluzione in un luogo sicuro (perlomeno, tramite l'account pro che ho sottoscritto a 25$ annui, un'inezia). La cosa interessante poi è la presenza di una comunità globale immensa. E'possibile inserire le proprie foto in canali tematici in modo che vengano visualizzate da coloro che sono interessati ai vostri soggetti preferiti e, cosa non meno importante, è molto facile chiedere (in appositi canali tematici) un giudizio tecnico delle proprie foto, in modo da potersi migliorare. In ogni caso, anche se non siete appassionati di fotografia ma vi piacciono le foto, Flickr è un luogo dove poter saziare la propria voracità visiva: ci sono migliaia e migliaia di scatti di qualità! Potete registrarvi (gratuitamente) e salvare le vostre preferite. Io ne ho già collezionate un sacco. Se volete lasciare qualche commento anche sulle mie, sono ben graditi.
Update: a questo link troverete un sacco di guide e tools utili per Flickr!
Lo smile gigante su Marte
A quanto pare qualche alieno ha disegnato uno smile gigante sul terreno marziano. E'questa la ponderata conclusione a cui sono giunti gli scienziati dell'European Space Agency (ESA) dopo aver ricevuto le fotografie inviate dalla sonda Mars Express. La sonda, dotata di una fotocamera ad alta risoluzione (HRSC), ha ripreso il cratere Galle, di quasi 230 Km di diametro. Seguendo il link che ho postato, troverete molte altre immagini ad alta risoluzioni del pianeta rosso!
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