— is the blog of Amit Karmakar about photography & life in Sydney, Australia
Things you should be aware of before buying prints of digital photos online
Can you tell if the resolution of photo prints are going to be as good as the online galleries you view?
Well, the simple answer is no. There are very few guidelines, little documentation and digital photography is just not upto speed, yet! This is where knowledge of digital darkroom techniques and photo tools(software and hardware) used play a humungous role. Before you buy photos online inquire if:
I finally bought my Speedlite 500EX E-TTL Flash. Canon’s top range flash to date! Yippie! I am very happy. 
now comes the learning and practicing bit. Have to admit I read a fair bit on Photography everyday and in my travels I have done a fair bit of reading on Speedlite 550EX already, I need to now put those ideas that I have accumulated over the months into real world practice!
If you are an author, editor, or administrator of pages where the content change frequently (either daily, or every few days) you need to make sure that you have a few elements set within the of your document in order that your site visitors always get served with the most current version — in other words, your writing either in a blog/site journal/online magazine as your users may or may not always bother to check they are getting the very latest content.
Chumki is really growing up. She had to be de-wormed yesterday and I don’t think she liked the medicine very much after all. She did all she could to spit it out but didn’t succeed so now she runs away a bit from us. She’ll get over it LOL. But she tries to look all cute (well even more) and beg for food when we go in the kitchen. That habit is gradually wearing off but I guess it will take a bit of time and strong determination on our part to be mean! Here is a picture of chumki on the window sill against the backyard on Saturday morning. And if you want to check out other chumki blogs here you go.
If you live in Sydney and love flying chances are you would already know about the Southern Cross Gliding Club in Camden. Other than the historic beautiful town of Camden it also hosts a big aerodromme that has 3 seperate flying strips viz. Southern Cross, The Cessna Flying club and the Acrobatics power flight centre — run by some Germans and I don’t remember the name very well. The photo is from my archive of 14th July 2002. It’s been a while I went gliding maybe I should soon
Driving through the northern coastline of Tasmania as we headed from Launceston to Stanley on Christmas eve last year we came across this particular landscape which forced me to pull over… Most of northern Tasmania is like this but this really caught my attention. Sometime this year I will have my imagery from Tasmania online. The only reason I couldn’t have been able to do it is time… But hopefully soon. As for Somerset it is about 333 kilometers north of Hobart situated on Cam River at the junction of Bass and Murchison Highways. The picture really doesn’t do justice.
Max Lyons’ digital imagery has always impressed me. While most digital SLR are still learning and trying to cope with deficiencies of the good ‘ole 35mm SLR Max seems to have found methods that not only work in the present scenario it even yields more. Mind you he is not using the very latest camera or the very latest piece of lens either. Over the years of his digital photo wizardy he has developed some tools and some outstanding software like PTA Assembler( for stitching panoramas) Image stacker — a great software to make composite imagery at low light… this gave birth to his outstanding star trail idea I suppose. Absolutely stunning indeed! Max’s Digital gallery is a must see. I could spend hours there and go back for more..and more… and I have already done that so many times.
