Photographyhacks.org RIP

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I have decided to let my website photographyhacks.org die a natural death after June 2009. It is too much expense to maintain a non-income generating website and too time consuming to play with HTML code every time something is changed or added. 

In order to maintain the information I have on the website, I made a page entitled photographyhacks.org and I placed  the information from the website there. The images in general aren’t worth the effort to move. So, now is the time to look at the pictures if you wish. The images from the tutorials are still there.

 
UPDATE 12-10-2008: I found a quick way to zip all the images from photographyhacks.org. I will put them in a gallery on their own page. They will include, in no particular order or filename convention, cross-eye stereo, images that originally were embedded in the projects, and normal (for me) snapshots.

It was a good weekend ….

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Friday night was warm for the Halloweeners. Saturday and Sunday I spent quite a few hours at a model train show with the club of which I am a member. I wish my legs and back were about fifteen years younger, I had to call both days off early and go home to lay down. Concrete floors do that to us old people. I took a few record shots with my Canon P&S, nothing interesting for here, just some possibly to use on our club website.

The parts and pieces are in place to start two different projects. A small model railroad layout for my home, something I have never had; and the stereo twinning of the Olympus XA2 35mm cameras that I mentioned a while back. 

The results aren’t complete yet on the digital Kodak twins, the software doesn’t seem to be able to latch on to the fuzzy detail from the pinhole lenses. I will have to try doing just stereo pairs rather than the anaglyph images I was hoping for.

The pamphlet for the 2009 one day NYC bus trips came last week and I purchased a ticket for the second week of May. Something to look forward to. Along those lines, my Wife and I will be taking our first trip to Cancun, Mexico in February.

Pinhole Day 2009

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According to the Pinhole Day website > www.pinholeday.org < each year Pinhole Day is on the last Sunday in April which will make it April 26, 2009.

Time to start planning ahead ! 

Quick synopsis of Pinhole Day – the day that all participants take image(s) and upload to the website. All uploads will then be put in a gallery. The Pinhole Day galleries for past years (2001-2008) are available for perusal. It is amazing to see the images from all over the world, taken with all sorts of cameras, all within the same 24 hour period.

Take time to look at the galleries for the past years. I make a bookmark of the last image I have looked at and then start in the same place when I again have the time.

I will put a clickable link within the Web list Widget to the right.

As soon as I get a few images sorted out, I will make some pages up to hold them, after all, I am trying to have a PhotoBlog here. LOL

Edit/Update at 9:30PM – I added a page with some of the images from the stereo pinhole camera.

It is a dark and dreary day ……….

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Perhaps I will see what develops ……….  Enough of that ! 

I do have a personal website, nothing for sale and no opinions on current affairs.

Update March 2009: The website below is now being forwarded to this website. All information is on a page named photographyhacks.

There is an article with details on the Yashica A conversion to pinhole, another on those screw on wide angle adapters, and more photographs.

Today I am going to attempt working with the stereo pairs I have from my homemade pinhole stereo camera. I will probably do one in P***oshop and another in a freeware stereo program. When I get done, if either are decent, I will post them in a message here. They will be in both stereo pairs for crosseyed viewing and in anaglyph format for use with red/cyan glasses.

I just found that the NYC metro system has a 1 day pass for $7.50, available at automatic dispensers. Compared to the double decker bus day pass it is a bargain. I believe I will get one first thing. A note to remember for newbies on the NYC Subway system- in less traveled areas of Manhattan (possibly other places also) there are entrances that only go in one direction. With my last fare used on my card, I went through the turnstile and got in an uptown terminal – yup – I wanted downtown. So, back through the turnstile, up the stairs, across the street, back down, purchase another fare ticket and get on the correct train.  Like I have said in an earlier posting here, I am but a country bumpkin.