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I registered with the Sydney based photo art site. Then I went through every photo I’d taken with my digital camera except those I’d lost. I lost all of my American shots, damn it. I’ve now backed up all my other photos on a flash drive. You should take note of a posting I did about storing photos online. You can add Ph.Art to that list now as you can upload to a private gallery there.

Then I submitted a few photos. So far, one has been declined because of its subject matter and one has been accepted. You can see my photos  at PhotoArt here. Hopefully, by the time you click on that link, more photos will have been selected.

Then after much research, I bought a DSLR  from an online site. It is a Canon DSLR (EOS 1000D) for under $1000. Some of the best and most expensive compact digitals were as expensive, so I think I got a good deal. Can’t wait to use it. I’ll need to get out of Melbourne soon.

I love the fact that this new site where you can sell photos is Australian. It just feels better, as many of the photos you see are of Australia. Many of the ones I submitted were of a Tasmanian trip I did a few years ago. You cannot fail to take a good photo in Tasmania.

May 14th, 2009 | Tags: Canon, DSLR camera, Photo art | Category: gadgets, photography, web graphics | Leave a comment

It depends what you have done or not done as to why your prints are darker.  If you have an LCD computer screen, they will be.  All LCD screens have brightness defaults which are too bright. So you can wind down the brightness by 50% to improve quality. Then you have to calibrate the colour. The old CRT screens can be calibrated by adjusting the brightness and contrast.

You can also fix this problem by editing in Photoshop.

To determine if your screen is too bright, hold a blank white sheet of printer paper next to a white document in Photoshop. It should match in brightness and colour. If not, increase room lighting or reduce brightness of screen.

May 8th, 2009 | Tags: photo prints, photoshop | Category: computers, photography, tutorials, web graphics, wikis & widgets | Comments (1)

I have written before about how to back up and store your photos online and about how to make a buck or two at the stock photo sites, but this new Sydney based site established recently by Andrew Coppin looks extremely interesting.

It is called Ph.Art and is intended for the better photographers to display and perhaps sell their photos, but you can store a few megabytes worth of personal photos as well.

It offers the ability to upload your own gallery, browse and buy photos, exhibit and sell photos, share and rate photos and enter competitions.

You can also join an online digital photography course to complete at your own leisure (it costs), access tutorials and tips and tricks, join the forum and read the blog. You can even submit videos.

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May 7th, 2009 | Tags: digital cameras, photos | Category: photography | Comments (1)

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PM Rudd announced today that the government would set up a new government and privately funded organisation to set up a fibre to home broadband for every school, business and home in the country.

The cost is huge and much more than previously thought, but the reason for that is that the main telecommunication company in Australia did not put forward a tender for this operation. This company also controls the lines to homes and businesses, making it difficult for other telecommunication companies to rent their lines. Also, it was to be fibre to node before, but the old copper wiring used by the main telecommunications company made the speed slow. The speed will be as fast as in Singapore, Malaysia, Korea and New Zealand.

This is a huge task, given the size of Australia but without knowing how much it will cost for the individual, I think it’s great. I’ve never liked Wireless. Too insecure for my liking.

April 7th, 2009 | Tags: Australia, broadband | Category: computers, politics | Leave a comment

While the bushfires were raging in Victoria, Australia, I’m sure many of us were thinking what would we take with us if we were in a hurry and we knew our house would probably burn down. Many think of their photo albums, but these days most of our photos are on the computer. Of course one could run with the hard disk, but rather bulky when you only have minutes to get out. An alternative is to have an extra external hard drive which would be easier to take.

We used to have CDs to back up our photos to and we still do, but how to find them in a hurry unless you are well organised? We also now have USB memory sticks but these items are also ones which cannot be in the house if you don’t have much time to get out.

The answer is to store them on someone else’s server.

If you have your own self hosted blog or web site, you can easily upload them via FTP (Filezilla is free) to your host, depending on the plan you have and how much room is there. They don’t have to link to your web site or blog;  just let them sit there. Create a folder called ‘photos’ on your host’s server. Of course, if you change your host remember to download all those photos to your own computer again. I lost quite a few photos by forgetting that once.

Then there is Flickr You can store as many photos as you like here and you don’t have to show them as public photos.

Everyone has an ISP. Most of these allow you to make a small web page for free. You could use that.

Also there is Google’s picasa - you can upload to this and make your photos private.

Off-site, online storage is really your best bet. Now, all you have to do is upload!

March 28th, 2009 | Tags: back up, off-line storage, photos | Category: blogging, computers, gadgets, photography | Comments (2)