Articles Archive for July 2008
Posted in Photography, Triathlon on 29 July 2008
I posted some photos from the Zone Urban Epic (ZUE) Triathlon to MaineToday.com’s Seen photoblog.
Olympic triathlete Becky Lavelle, top honors elite women’s division, 2008 Zone Urban Epic
It turns out the MaineToday.com website is unbearably slow, so this may be my last posting to their website.
You can see more in the Zone Urban Epic [...]
Posted in General on 25 July 2008
My son came into my office this morning and offered to let me take some photos of him. “For your practice”, he said.
How can you resist an offer like that?
Posted in Photography, Travel on 21 July 2008
I just got back from a weekend in New York city. I stayed at the East Houston hotel in the Lower East Side. It’s a great, lively location. Lots of opportunities for street photography.
Posted in General on 16 July 2008
Wordpress 2.6 looks great. Revision options is one of the coolest features. You can now see the list of changed revisions, compare them, and even rollback to a previous version.
Captions are also finally included. You can now add a caption to your image, which will appear below it.
Posted in Photography on 9 July 2008
So, the big buzz today is Getty Images pushing up on* Flickr. Haven’t heard it? Well, Team Flickr over at Flickr.com and Getty Images agreed to create a “Flickr Collection on Getty“. But what does it mean? Should you care? Is it a trap? Are you gonna be stripped of your rights and your images [...]
Posted in General on 8 July 2008
Canon announced their newest digital Rebel body, the Rebel XS. Canon really seems to be making it easy for people to jump from point and shoot to D-SLR with these low end models.
But, where’s the beef?
Posted in General on 7 July 2008
Astaco Amante, fake tilt-shift experiment
Originally uploaded by EricHolsinger
Took this from my parking lot at work, with my G9. I wanted to play around with fake tilt-shift. I should have spent a little more time with it. I may try this one again.
Part of my personal project to take a g9 photo for each day in [...]
Posted in Photography on 7 July 2008
Chris Marquardt will bring his “Tips from the Top Floor” workshop to Portland, ME in from August 28-31. This is a four day workshop on Studio and Portrait photography.
Posted in General on 6 July 2008
I took my Canon EOS 40D to catch the sunrise at Camp Ellis, ME this morning. Here are some unprocessed photos from the trip.
Posted in General on 6 July 2008
Boats in Saco River at Camp Ellis, ME
Originally uploaded by EricHolsinger
Took some photos this morning at Camp Ellis, ME. These boats are moored at the opening of the Saco River, where it meets the Atlantic.
I took this photo with my Canon g9. I tweak the My Colors setting to add some extra contrast and [...]
