Somerset County Photography Club: Promote appreciation and enjoyment of photography. Meetings at the Manville Public Library, 7:00 p.m., second and fourth Tuesdays. http://somersetcountyphotoclub.org
PhotoPlus International Expo + Conference Trade Show, October 19-22, 2016
PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo is the largest photography event in North America, attended by over 21,000 professional photographers and enthusiasts.
Somerset Naturalists, nature club open to everyone interested in birds, flowers, trees, somerset wildlife, and all other natural resources (also see links to parks and outdoor activities)
New Jersey Cultural Heritage Commission (dead link) has a Quarterly publication “Somerset County Cultural Connection” (link lost, look for Oct event) with calendar events and on-going events such as photography clubs which can be viewed online look for “View” on their page and again at the bottom of the linked to page. Also see Somerset County Public Information Office, Historic Sites (dead link) and links on the side for additional NJ and Somerset County links.
Plenty of ways to get involved in the community
), Bradley W. Wadlow and Angela Wyatt, Staff Writers (dated Sep 29, 2014), Courier-News (myCentralJersey.com), a very comprehensive list
of Clubs and non-profit groups serving a large area of New Jersey.
scrapbook | Scott Haskins' Save Your Stuff Blog, and
site:saveyourstuff.com photos wet mold - Google Search
(original link was: http://www.preservationhelp.com/how_to.htm) Saving
Photographs After A Disaster Occurs, Preservation,
Instructions for dealing with wet photos, how and why to freeze
photos, mold damaged pictures, mud damaged prints, and how to dry
wet photographs. [http://www.trenholm.org/hmmerk/TIAOOFe.pdf]
“Bhutan:
A Visual Odyssey Across the Himalayan Kingdom”, the largest
commercial book ever published, according to Guinness World Records,
at 5 feet high and opens to nearly 7 feet wide, 114 pages, digitally
photographed by MIT students and digitally printed each book
consumes 2 gallons of ink.
[http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/152475_book15.html]
‘Instant’ Looks at Polaroid’s Land (Science Friday), Edwin Land, the inventor behind Polaroid, is the subject of a new book by Christopher Bonanos.
Adobe Lightroom Killer Tips,downloads, produced by the National Association of Photoshop Professionals, see Photoshop User TV (30 min episodes posted each Monday_ with
the “Photoshop Guys” (Dave Cross, Matt Kloskowski, and Scott Kelby)
“The History and Science of Color Film: From Isaac Newton to the Coen Brothers” - YouTube [21:-12],
Color is a subtle tool that can transport us from our ordinary lives to extraordinary worlds of cinema. Peel back the layers of history and look at how color was first understood and implemented in the world of film. (link added 2015-05-12)
Travels to The Edge with Art Wolfe,
Travels to the Edge With Art Wolfe : “The Southwest: Zion and Canyon de Chelly”
A visit to Utah's Zion National Park, spotlighting canyons and rock spires. Also: a horseback ride through Arizona's Canyon de Chelly, featuring petroglyphs, …
slot canyons, canoeing on Lake Powell on the tops of slot canyons, photographing
receding water after a flash flood from day before.
Digital links (#digital)
The following buttons invoke
Bookmarklets
to display additional information within the supplied links: paren tips
-- to show hidden title information if present in a link.
HREF visible -- to show the actual links in use
[Reset with F5] -- to Reset or Restore view.
Digital Photography, Information related: (first four were supplied by Arik Gorban)
A Practical Guide to Interpreting RGB Histograms, Learn how to interpret your digital camera's thumbnail image luminance histogram to help determine the proper in camera exposure. This is part 4 of a series of interpreting histograms. Luminance histogram shows tonal range (brightness) vs
number of pixels. An RGB histogram does the same but accumulates results
from R-G-B channels, the vertical lines appear to represent full f-stops
Online Storage for Digital Photos or other data (#storage)
Streamload is offering 10GB free online storage for multimedia files (download 100MB/month, upload 100MB/month). Use compressed thumbnails for quick viewing, plus, share the full-quality originals to let your friends and family view high-quality images. Suggestion if you want to keep it free don't attempt to
store more than you upload in month, because you probably want to share
your pictures and download pictures from your friends.
[zdnet (broken link)]
A Story Revealed Through Reflected Faces, Alex Kisilevich's melancholic series “On the Surface”. Each portrait features a main character seeming to contemplate some deeper meaning of existence, while reflected in the photograph we find their double has transformed into a different, yet surprisingly familiar person.
Sensitive Light: (archived copy), Pictures of Smoke,
and other galleries (archived copy),
favorites (archived copy), Graham Jeffrey (broken links -- images moved from http://sensitivelight.com to Google+ so would be unlikely to resurrect item or new content there, unless he gets a real site),
search on images for "Graham Jeffrey" "smoke" - Google Search ||
TheMostBeautifulThing
(don't know if this is his or not)
indii.org / tintii photo filter, for color pop and selective color photo effects, and local hue, saturation and lightness adjustments. (Free standalone, but not free as a photoshop filter).
Microsoft Research Image Composite Editor (ICE), Microsoft Image Composite Editor is an advanced panoramic image stitcher. Given a set of overlapping photographs of a scene shot from a single camera location.
Some places in NJ and PA related to coal, railroads and canals
can be extracted from pictures of Flickr: Bruce Livingston's Photostream and of red cabooses in Port Murray,Port Murray Station & Caboose on Flickr - Photo Sharing! -- use arrow keys for Prev / Next / show title / noshow title
Photo Spots, Arik Gorban, link information for places in and around Philadelphia, NJ spots, and NYC as presented June 2013 at club picnic.
You can open multiple links in the dropdown above by turning off styling temporarily with a bookmarklet, nostyle: to show all entries within the dropdown, then open selectively or use a addon to open selected links in new tabs in Firefox with the "Linky" addon or an
alternative addon if using Chrome.
FYE (For Your Entertainment) - selected from some of the above
Millions of Cars are Rotting in the Open Air! - YouTube [11:16] transcript cars (0:24), bikes (2:13), neon signs (3:47), red english phone kiosks (4:44), motorcycle parts (5:45), presidential busts (7:04), taxis (8:04), ships on west coast of Staten Island (8:45), locomotives (9:31)
Presentation (#presentation)
30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes, you can use for effective presentations of your images On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery. [Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine]
Google Earth 5.0,
lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space
to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, takes placemarks a step further and record a free-form tour in Google Earth. Simply turn on the touring feature, press record, and
see the world. You can even add a soundtrack or narration to personalize the journey.
[tour]
Seasonal and Weather tips (#seasonal)
Ice Photography onsite page , Walerij Kyrejko (2007-01-16) at Plainfield Camera Club.
Railroads (#railroads)
Railroads are a part of our history, whether operational, abandoned, or converted to rails-to-trails, or reconstructed, and offer photographic opportunities.
Light, Philip Greenspun,
whose personal definition of photography is “the recording of light rays.”
Encyclopedia Reference Material (#reference)
Macro photography
is a kind of close-up photography. Macro was defined as at least 1:1 (lifesize) on the film. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia is an excellent source for photographic topics.
A “Do-It-Yourself” LCD projector is a real projector you can build. This projector can achieve HDTV quality, rivaling projectors which cost many thousands of dollars. Build a screen.
Education - local evening classes (#education)
The Jointure (Bound Brook H.S. and many other schools in Somerset County);
Many of the SCPC members joined after taking one of Ed Barry's adult envening clasees on “Photography for Serious Beginners” at Hillsborough High School. Ed Barry is no longer running photography courses.
Event Space | BH Photo Video where you can find future streams; if it is marked "Live Streaming" you can watch it at home, while it is live you can pause/resume.
bheventspace on Livestream Future live streams, Past streams available immediately below upcoming events, and continued in "Load more events". If the streaming event is marked "Ended" click on the "Watch Again" button or on the picture then the "Watch Again" button.
CostCo membership required:
4x6 (.17), 5x7 (.39),8x10 ($1.49), 11x14 (2.99), 12x18 (2.99);
Posters (mail order): 16x20 or 20x30 ($9.99) -- prices noted in Feb 2006
for upload and instore pickup. 8x12 is only available in store not online. Sam's Club also membership required has comparable prices.
Software [Free, at least for noncommercial home use] (#software)
FastStone Image Viewer 2.22, an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments and more
IrFanView 4.23★ (irfanview.com), by irfan skiljan,
is the best for viewing raw images (everything but ScanSoft .max files). You can
toggle full screen (enter) and as Thumbnails(T). You can rotate temporarily (R | L) or permanently via Shift+J, and
zoom in (+) and out (-). Be sure to download both the program and the plug-ins.
To convert to send as email or smaller pictures: Batch conversion, input directory: C:\camera_..., (select images, add), output directory: C:\temppix\, batch conversion, advanced options: width 800, 50% width & height, 75 DPI, 16.7 million colors, START.
Some usage notes: (cheat sheet), and at Member Night. If installed you can run IrfanView from here (i_view.exe}
Thumbnails with IrfanView: File, Create Thumbnails, in order to print 4x6 inch print
choose the following dimensions and options: 960 x 640 pixels, 6 col by 4 rows,
spacing (30H 30V pixels), Margins (30 and 30), save all pages, file info with Exif created date ($F |$E36867)
White Borders with IrfanView: Image, Canvas (3 pixels on all sides is recommended)
Paint.NET★ (getpaint.net, 1.6MB) (duo core recommended)
clone/stamp, copy/paste, crop, layers, lasso, resize, rotation of selected area, shapes, text, unlimited undo, special effects, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools. Plugins include “Layer Save” and others provide use of PhotoShop Filters and use of PSD files. An active and growing online community provides friendly help, tutorials, and plugins. It started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP. (50 downloads). Undo does not apply to eliminating a layer, but you can see latest saves with File → Open recent.
GIMP - GNU Image Manipulation Program,
favorite graphics editing program of many designers and graphic artists. It is free and compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux (the two big reasons for its popularity). It has a wide array of features, as well as plug-ins, filters and brushes. Documentation is primarily available in online communities, as well as through extensive add-ons.
Picnik (picnik.com), online photo editing, partnership with Flickr. It has all the basic features plus a few advanced ones like layers and special effects. Fix photos, crop, resize, rotate, artsy effects (collage), fonts, shapes. Gone, closed on April 19, 2013, site says to use
Google+'s Photos Editor.
PicPick (picpick.org) ☆, an all-in-one program that provides full-featured screen capture tool, intuitive image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair and even whiteboard. Useful for computer usage documentation not for photographs. (freeware for personal use only). Can also create and upload an image to the web in a few seconds (share → Upload to web).
Picasa™ 2:
Automated Digital Photo Organizers, Picture Software, Instant Photo Albums, Sharing, Printing.
A free software download from Google. Picasa is software that helps you instantly find, edit and share all the pictures on your PC.
Allows you to crop «4x6,
5x7, 8x10 or manual dimensions and ability to adjust and move cropping frame,
plus crop to fit and Shrink to fit. To crop a picture, Import (File, Import from).
Undo/Redo:
Does have: Crop, Straighten, Redeye, Auto Contrast, Auto Color, Fill Light, Neutral Color Picker (for gray scale) is on Tuning.
Picasa never saves over your original files, so you'll never ruin or damage a picture by editing it. Picasa preserves your original photo as a digital negative, so every edit you make is fully undoable. Changing the “to Location” is under Tools, Options,Save In.
Does NOT have cloning, which is strange since this software used to sell for $100. Don't like that it insists on going through all pictures on your system so that you can see them all (big delay) and leaves footprint in each directory with pictures. Repeating process is fast because it only reworks
directories that have changed. But that makes it difficult
to work on a machine with limited resources .
To save a modified picture, you must export. Like many other utilities that convert picture data, this one changes the directory timestamps to restore date and time timestamps see “THE Rename” below. [http://www.picasa.com/picasa/]
/\ Picasa is NOT recommended, may have severe adverse consequences.
Terragen™, generate photorealistic landscape images and animations. It is available for Windows and the Mac OS. At this stage in its development, Terragen is free for personal, noncommercial use.
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Some additional links to software (including “THE Rename”) can be found here
Some basic concepts in Photoshop which might be available
in some form in free photo editing applications.
From NAPP: Photoshop Key Concept Video Tutorials that give you a quick primer on some of the most used functions
(Clone Stamp tool, Lasso tool, Layer masks, Layers Quick Overview, Smart Objects, Type Tool, Pen Tool)
Recovery of pictures from CompactFlash, SD cards, etc (#recovery)
If your card is physically damaged on the outside, suggest mounting to a hub and treating them as a unit so that you can connect or disconnect them from your computer for all recovery attempts.
PhotoRec - CGSecurity, PhotoRec is file data recovery software designed to recover lost files including video, documents and archives from Hard Disks and CDRom and lost pictures (Photo Recovery) from digital camera memory. PhotoRec ignores the filesystem and goes after the underlying data, so it'll work even if your media's filesystem is severely damaged or formatted. MEANING: Files will be recovered
to a folder in same directory as program runs from, the filenames will be
different but the EXIF information and pictures will be intact.
Example: C:\download_win2000\testdisk-6.6-WIP.win\testdisk-6.6-WIP\win\recup_dir.1
program to restore timestamp and image name???
Additional free programs to recover data see
Backup and Recovery (look for CompactFlash).
Losing Digital Images since
demise of film (#losing_our_digital_records)
A video of interest to us all since we’ve seen the transition from film to digital photography.
Are We Losing This Generation’s Photos?
Rick Santich, President, MotoPhotos
Presented at APCUG (Association of Personal Computer User Groups)
2013 Winter Virtual Technology Conference, Saturday February 2, 2013,
YouTube Recording [42:55] (PDF of Slides)
The links for presentations from prior conferences
are at http://apcug.net/virtual
Additions or Plug-ins (#extensions)
(have moved material for PhotoShop and Essentials to
PhotoShop_links
Of passing interest (#boundbrook)
Famous Bound Brook Photographer –
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)
[Wikipedia],
# Her childhood home, at 243 Hazelwood Avenue in the Beechwood Heights section (now Middlesex), is listed in the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and the National Register of Historic Places.
The New Wedding Photographers Handbook BRIDEZILLA [PDF file], by Part 1 of a 4 part series,
This site is dedicated for beginning Wedding Photographers. Home Study BOOT CAMP for NEWBIE'S in the Wedding Game. Essential reading for those wishing to become Wedding Photographers. Document stresses redundancy (Borrow or rent a spare camera if needed for redundancy). Visit the author's
home page (the home page must be viewed in IE, his other pages are fine, except they are all white and yellow on black)
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