Hello Mister

Some of the happy people at the market in sarong.

Tiny beach houses at Sorong

Tiny beach houses at Sorong , originally uploaded by imageo.

These are the smallest house I have ever seen. Yes they are full houses not bathing boxes!

The roof repair guy

The roof repair guy, originally uploaded by imageo.

Life is a lot slower and simpler out on the islands off west papua. If the roof leaks? You don't have to rush to Bunnings, you just wait for the rain to stop and find a banana tree. Oh and yes you need to find the roof repair guy, he'll be siting in the shade.

rice paddies

rice paddies near makassa, originally uploaded by imageo.

Aerial view of flooded rice padies near makassa

HDR Jakarta Sunset

HDRi Jakarta Sunset, originally uploaded by imageo.

The bracketted set of photos, used to create this HDRi image, were taken without a tripod and with long exposures. So without dynamic photo's pinwarping this would have just been a triple exposure blur-out.

The Collages are getting bigger

For those worried that I am neglecting my photography, don't stress. I am not! It is just that blogging has been a lower priority. I have been busy preparing for a solo exhibition at Meeniyan's Access Gallery (84 Whitelaw St. Meeniyan, Victoria Ph:(03) 5664 0101), from 4th to 18th. May.

The Exhibitions is based around the themes of Earth, mainly rock paintings, Wind and Water, mainly photographic works with a big emphasis on photo mosaics (my photo impressions) and collages. Collections of photographic eggs will also debut.

Nice lighting

The dusk lighting of the clouds was specataluar tonight.

The Engagment Party

The Engagment Party, originally uploaded by imageo.

I must begin with considerable acknowledgement for inspiration from the work of a fellow VIC/TAS thread memeber of the Australian Photographers!! group on flickr, thescatteredimage and beyond that to david hockney. There is definitely something beautiful in these recompiled collages, hockney describes this finding his "lergy", in the distored perspective that shift slightly in time as well as space. I guess they tell more of essence than a single static image.

egg-cident

egg-cident, originally uploaded by imageo.

For Photo Friday's topic fragile

One flicker too many

SAY NO!
Originally uploaded by alatimed

Flickr only announced its video service on Tuesday and the chorus of loyal flickr-ites saying NO was unbelievable. A fellow Australian Photographer!! Father McKenzie started a group to say NO to VIDEO on flickr and already it has 24,000 plus members. Surely flickr had done some market research! Or was this a yahoo play against Google-YouTube juggarnaught? Such immediate angst suggests that most are happy with flickr just as it is.


So what is my opinion, I don't really have a strong one. From a bandwidth point of view there is already enough of it wasted on flickr already, and what was wrong with putting your video on YouTube anyway? Is competition going to improve that service or more importantly flickrs?

I'm wondering if the flickr gods will be changing their motto from Flickr loves you, to Flickr who cares!

Forest collage

 

Why not make your portfolio into a video!

Nature's Entryway
Originally uploaded by Reggiesgirl

Reggiesgirl from flickr has a used wonderful way to show her portfolio of nature photography, she made it into a video. With so many screens atound in modern life, making your still work into a video (or slideshow) is a great way to guarentee they will be seen (at least by your friends and family, but if you want your 15 seconds of "net fame" you cam also trust your arm on YouTube as reggie's girl did)



There are any number of good programs (too many to mention here) with which make your slide show and convert them into a video masterpiece. Try Microsoft's Photo Story 3 if you are looking for a free program to try out. At the very least you probably already have Movie Maker which can also do the job.

Light in the rainforest

The secret worlds of tall trees

 

These weird distortions where created by autostitch as I tried to create vertical panoramas from stacked images. Not quiet what i expected by strangely compelling images all the same

Decent rains at last!

 

Photographing actual rain is a very complex task, its udsually very poor lighting, its falling fast and therefeore blurs in the slow exposre required, it usually has no center of interests, the list just goes on and on. So I have taken the simple way out, just photographing the effects and really zeroing in on just a small aspects, using the macro setting on my trusty telephoto zoom lens, the water droplettes on a grape vine. Still it tells the story well.

Nowhere to hide

 

Giving Red Bubble a Go

I have been looking around for a while for an "low fuss" but good quality way to sell my photos on-line. Basically I had concluded there wasn't one. Flickr gets you exposure, but has no commercial aspects, there are other places like Lulu, Cafe Press and Deviant Art, not to forget any number of self publishing stock photo sites, but to be sweepingly general without wanting to get involved in law suits they all exploit the artist, photographer or content creator. These guys are there to make a profits and take the lion share of sale price. I strongly suggest you read the fine print before signing in because you may give away ownership of your images without realising it.

I have heard about RedBubble and decided to give it a try, sorry no glowing endorsement yet (I haven't sold anything, yet!). I thought just writing about joining up and what's going on in there might be interesting enough. What caught my eye was that red bubble just charge a fixed amount to produce and forward the work to the new owner. They charge "premium" rates but they do seem to have the right quality mentality. This is all important to me because I worry about my images. Then they leave the photographer (or other content provider) to add their own mark up, and general it seems to be 20% plus (not the 5% if you are lucky on some other places). Joining is simple but read the conditions.

They do offer a wide variety of formats, from card to posters and onto large mounted & framed prints. The purchaser gets all the say on format of the finished product and there are a good range of options in terms of matt colour frames size and colour. If that doesn't suit, you can choose only to sell particular formats, and there is a very strict limit (overly so, from my experience) of the image size (in pixels) that can be reproduced for different sized products. The best part of RedBubble though from my point of view is it has the groups and community feel of early days in flickr and the quality of work in there is really outstanding.

So watch over on the right hand side and you will see a little slide show of images of mine you can purchase off the web via Redbubble. Give that a try and I will appreciate RedBubble more.

HDR sunset

HDR sunset, originally uploaded by imageo.

This is all about colour & composition, the patterns of the silhouetted branches and intense colour on the clouds behind. HDRi image created with Dynamic Photo, using smooth compressor tone mapping.

Six of the best

Actually I hope you are out enjoying the Easter break, not spending time of the net, but if you are here. this is a great little on-line application that can create decorated eggs from your photos.

Fort Flotsam

For PhotoFroday's Topic Found Objects