The cost of war to the North American people.

I never thought that the Iraq/North American war was about finding 'weapons of mass destruction' and this article is an interesting piece on the costs of this war.

http://www.businessspectator.com.au

Final video of Oz day 08

Some more music for you folks.

Last year I had a clip taken of the Whitlam’s, this year it’s Dan Kelly. Lots of shot’s of Australians sprinkled throughout, and some sky divers.

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Dan Kelly sings on Australia day 'Babysitters of the world unite.'

Not your normal ‘main stream’ type cameras that I read about at PMA

I have a thing for 'left field' type cameras. I'm surprised that I don't own a Lomo.

Casio EXILIM Pro EX-F1

This is one of these new 'hybrid' cameras which are bridging the ‘stills’ and ‘video’ markets.
This camera also offers some insanely high capture speeds.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08010601casiof1.asp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprZNWzUq0o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4WDMEUoF9M

Sigma DP1

This camera is unique in that it captures light data in a whole new way.
Usually an imaging chip has three red/blue/green capture points which are combined to produce a single colour pixel. This chip ‘reads’ all three colours at a single capture point.
What I like about this camera is that Sigma are packaging a full sized SLR chip in a Compact body.

http://www.dpreview.com/news/0801/08013108sigmadp1.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveon_X3_sensor

Examples of Panorama shots compiled in Photoshop Elements.

Follow up to my posting on Photoshop Elements…

cool-all-my-favourite-photoshop-features

Untitled_Panorama1

This is an example of a straight Panorama stitching where a series of
stills are matched up to form a much larger picture. I did a small edit
where I painted the train through from a background layer (you can see
the fuzzy airbrush outline.)

Split_Panorama1

Here you can see where PS decided where to stitch the images.

Train exit tunnel

This is an example of the other type of effect you can get with
Photoshop (I’m not sure this can be done in Elements) ‘alignment’
feature.

I didn’t know when the train was going to appear so I kicked in the
‘burst mode’ on the camera, and took a series of stills as the train
emerged.

These shots were taken ‘hand held’ so PS aligned them the images, and distributed the images onto layers.

I was then able to ‘paint’ through the details that I wanted the get this ‘multi exposure’ effect.

Oz Day 08: Antique Car Show video

You’ve seen the stills. Now experience the colour, movement, and sounds of the Oz Day Antique Car Show (wish I could bring you the smells too.)
Lot’s of people, and music, and there was a fly past by one of Australia’s three jet fighters (I think that only one can fly at any one time.)
Music clip to follow in a couple of days.

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