Month of March, 2008

There are plenty of explanations of what HDR is and how it works, so we won't cover that here. In this tutorial we'll go through the steps necessary to take your very own HDR photo and process it like a pro.

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It's been a while since I blogged about music but with the Miami Winter Music Festival coming up it seemed like a good time to mention my two favourite trance podcasts. They come from no less than two of the biggest names in trance music and their weekly updates are well worth listening to:

Tiesto's Club Life

Armin Van Buuren A State of Trance Podcast

Both can be found within iTunes or from the sites above.

There is endless junk that you can put on your blog from recent news feeds, Flickr photos, badges, adverts and various other widgets but the one I find most useful is MyBlogLog. If your not familiar with the widget its the one that sits on the bottom right of every page with the little images of recent visitors.

It's useful for three reasons:

• It's interesting to see who has been visiting ImAFish from other blogs. I can easily view their blog through MyBlogLog to read what they have to say and post comments.
• If you visit a blog more than once MyBlogLog will automatically add you to that blogs community page so that you can easily see updates.
• The statistics behind MyBlogLog are also useful, they are not complex as Google Analytics but display the data in a much better way. I recently upgraded my account for $25 (£12) to unlock unlimited stats.

So if you have a blog I would recommend giving it ago. Anyone else use MyBlogLog?

This will open your eyes. Be sure to scroll down and see the last pic! (In US $ and Gallons but is a good example of prices from around the world - the UK is pretty high up the list but not as high as mainland Europe)

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I'm an endless tweaker, I can't stop changing stuff here on ImAFish. Today I've played around with the mybloglog widget, yesterday I changed the welcome message on the site and at the weekend I added in my feedburner stats and a bigger RSS feed icon.

Most of the time I think my tweaks are for the best, sometimes they go wrong such as moving the forum but I'm willing to admit when I make a mistake. Tweaking I feel is important in order to try out different elements on my blog, to see which keywords work well, which widgets help bring in visitors or which adverts make the most money without being intrusive.

It could be that I don't visit other blogs enough to notice changes but do other bloggers have a fascination with changing elemtents on their blog as much as me?

Where once it was simple shoulder massager's and turkey basters that had to be adapted to nefarious purposes, nowadays anything you can think of (and probably a few dozen things you could never think of) are out there to give some lonely shut-in the pleasure they can't get from molesting a damp slice of bread or a pumpkin. Things like these ...

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After reading about the 10 most beautiful bridges in the world at the weekend through Digg I went to take some photos of Ironbridge, #7 on the list which happens to be about 20mins drive from where I live.

The bridge itself.

The power station overlooks Ironbridge, giving an interesting contrast between old and new industry.

A view from the bridge looking up the river.

The bridge in the distance.

The bridge and the village which takes it name from the bridge.

On the drive up to Ironbridge I took this picture of the river Severn.

 You can view all my HDR photos on Flickr.

It’s a simple shape, a sphere with a concave dish set in the surface. In 1977, the shape was forever linked to the film Star Wars and is known as the Death Star. In the film, it was a space station as large as a natural moon that housed the “ultimate weapon”, a planet-destroying laser.

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Brickarms can help you build your private army with everything you need, from the superadvanced Colonial Marines' Xeno Pulse Rifles to NATO's G36 Assault Rifles to vintage German Rocket Propeller Grenade launchers and even PPK pistols with Brausch silencers. It your private army is a bunch of LEGO minifigs, that is. Interview with the "arms dealer".

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The event was a huge success and thanks to everyone that came, here are some photos from the day.

The event floor just before we opened at 2pm. 

Me on the Web Orchard stand.

Simon on the Web Orchard stand.

Steve on his Phoot stand.

Paul from Remote New Media.

 Sophie from Lilac Sky.

Richard from Footprint Photography.

Helen from Ascendancy Internet Marketing.

Mint Video

Spa Creative

Knoc Design

Perfect Arc

Breasts aren't everything. With that in mind, here are the five hottest A-cups in Hollywood

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Welcome to the interactive British History timeline! A BBC Presentation.

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Here are some of my best HDR photos from my travels. HDR is a technique of taking a photo over multiple exposures (or extracting them from a RAW file) then recombining them in a program such as Photomatix. By doing this you can bring out the detail from the multiple exposures creating a powerful image.

My first is of St Chads Church in Shrewsbury.

I really like how the HDR technique has brough out the detail in the stone work.

This next one was taken in Betws Y Coed last summer.

I like the brightness in the trees in comparison to the building and water in this one.

This one is of the B&B we stayed at in Betws Y Coed.

Again I love how the stone work is really brought out against the trees.

I took this next one in Egypt last summer.

The rich blue in the sea and sky really shines through in this picture.

This one was taken in the Cotswolds on my Birthday last year.

The contrast in the sky especially with the sun setting is very striking in this picture.

This is another of St Chads Church in Shrewsbury.

The way the cloud almost circles around the spire is especially apparent in this picture as it almost implies the power the building or church has over people.

This train track near Betws Y Coed almost has a rain forest feel about it with the luscious green.

This next one again is from Betws Y Coed.

All of my HDR photos can be found on Flickr.

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