“Tube Face”: the face which is most often made while on the tube or any other public transport in London. Eyes down reading, headphones on, work attire, unnatural light and the morning (or evening) sunlight coming through the window.
Strobist:
Using the ND filter again to get this one taken at f/2
Softbox camera close right
Snooted flash far right
Posted on February 27th, 2010 by Graham
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Handle with ...love.
One of my favourite photos of my 365 day project so far. I need to use props and music as inspiration more often.
“Unpredictable fortune, my past, lights up my future, at last, ending my torture
Like gravity like love,
You get up after you fall
Like gravity like love
I’m not afraid any more” – ‘Gravity’ by Poets of the Fall
Posted on February 18th, 2010 by Graham
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I was formatting a USB external hard drive with NTFS (same thing would apply to FAT I believe). I unchecked quick format which meant it took an age on the large 750GB hard drive, so I thought I would cancel it. The drive was then not recognised my Windows (I am using Windows 7). So I thought I would use Linux to format the drive, put a new partition on it with fdisk or parted but Linux didn’t recognise it either!
I was getting worried now, I tried a different USB cable but to no avail. Finally I simply unplugged the power from the drive and put it back in again and Windows 7 recognised the drive and helpfully asked if I wanted to format it. Phew.
Let that be a lesson to anyone who reads this (or finds it using Google), don’t slow format a large drive with NTFS unless you can wait for a long time.
Posted on February 17th, 2010 by Graham
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After going from using Linux exclusively I have started to use Windows again and I wanted some software which was free and would do a few basic video editing and converting actions, such as joining files together than converting them to mpeg-4 avis. I first off tried “Any Video Converter”, which was ok, but fairly simple and I disliked it not being open source and having versions which cost money (what was I missing out on?).
After trying AVC I then remembered Avidemux a really great, free open source video conversion tool, you can get versions for windows and other OSs here on Avidemux download page.
Avidemux is a free video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks.
It supports many file types, including AVI, DVD compatible MPEG files, MP4 and ASF, using a variety of codecs. Tasks can be automated using projects, job queue and powerful scripting capabilities.
Avidemux is available for Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows under the GNU GPL license.
Posted on February 7th, 2010 by Graham
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My first clone photo. Didn’t turn out too bad, could be better thought. Will have to try some more during the course of the year.
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by Graham
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These are books I have read or are about to read, mainly the latter!
A list if you are unable to see from the photo (top to bottom):
Fitzgerald – The Great Gatsby
Holloway – Between the Monster and the Saint
Terzani – A Fortune-Teller Told Me
Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury
Faulkner – As I Lay Dying
Robers – Shantaram
Tenko-san – A New Road to Ancient Truth
Steinbeck – In Dubious Battle
Steinbeck – East of Eden
Heller – Catch-22
Tolstoy – War and Peace
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Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Graham
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I didn’t realise she had such an amazing collection! I will let you have a look and find out for yourself: http://stephanielee.smugmug.com/
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Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Graham
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Posted on January 8th, 2010 by Graham
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