James Finnigan : Photography

Microsoft CES website - Group Shot pictures

jamesfinnigan — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:09:25 GMT

Here's Microsoft's CES website. There's a ton of interesting stuff on here. The one that will probably impact me the most is Group Shot. Not that the rest isn't incredibly cool, it's just that I have the groupshot problem a lot. :)

These two images becomes combined (source can be seen bottom left) to look like bottom right. How cool is that for group pictures (particularly those involving small children).

Photo Album Publishing - Why print photos when you can print a book?

jamesfinnigan — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 09:02:00 GMT

Did you know that you can print custom books now? I can easily and cheaply create my own book with mypublisher. It's no quark (what most real publishers use), but it's cheap, easy and good enough. For what I want to do, it looks like the right level of flexibility. I love products like mypublisher and Windows DVD Maker that give me a professional look without too much trouble so I can share great memories, without giving up my life.

I was just in the process of putting together some interesting photo stuff when this caught my eye. I don't have any immediate plans to do something with it, but this seems like a great and inexpensive way to capture some great moments like our vacation to Europe in a way that doesn't involve a computer screen and that we can send to Grandparents and other folks who'd rather not have to sit at a computer to enjoy pictures of those that they love.

I really love the picture screensavers myself, but this is probably something that I'll use to put together a few photo albums of our own. We may even print off the blog that we share with our family members in book format.

Christmas Camera Shopping Technique and Recommendation

jamesfinnigan — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:59:13 GMT

I've been thinking about good point and click cameras lately, and I'm a big fan of the Ricoh Caplio R4. I've played with it myself, and enjoyed some great pictures of flowers from it. But I was recently looking at a report of the most popular cameras on flickr, and noticed that you could see pictures taken with the different cameras.

Because Flickr supports searching pictures taken by a particular camera, you can (as in the flowers link above) search for pictures of flowers taken by your camera. I recommend checking a few common scenarios like longexposure, indoor, etc and compare them with a nice DSLR (I currently use a Canon Rebel XT although I really need more lenses (hint, hint family :)) - longexposure, indoor).