Vastly underused

It has been several months since I last posted anything in this blog... I am horrible, I know. I counter with, I work full time, going back to school, and I got two kids under 2. So *pppppppptttthhhhhhh* to you! (assuming you wonder why I don't update this blog that often)

In the mean time, I have some photography accomplishments to post about! Figure I might as well toot my own horn for a bit:

• My Flickr account went past 1,000,000 collective views back on February 11th. It took 6.5 years to get there.
  
• My photos from the Calvert Hall v. Loyola annual football game were used in the Calvert Hall Alumni newsletter. Matter of fact, one of my shots was on the cover.
  
• I sold an image to be used on the cover of an upcoming book about Bono. Small academic book, but still- its a cover image!
  
• An image I have of Sierra was selected for a national dog food advertising campaign.
  
• Another image I have was used for another national advertising campaign. If you can find it, good on you. I also wrote about the image story for @U2.
  
• I got a Canon 7D camera body. =)

In other news:

My RSS feed list for photography stands at 33 sources.

Liking Flickr's new sharing methods!

Been using Twitter more for commenting on things I find now photo-related.

Six years ago

It has been nearly six years since my buddy Matt badgered me in to getting a Flickr account. I didn't quite understand the impact it might have, but I went with it. He seemed to be smarter on these things than I was. I was interested in photography, and I didn't want to self host images. It was a good solid site, free at first!

Now it is almost six years to the day that I signed up. And I have put up over 7,500 items- 99.999% images. A bucket load of the images are U2, followed by Sierra my dog, then Gamenight. Five years of TurkeyBowl- Thanksgiving day game between Calvert Hall and Loyola. Four years of the Hon Fest.

I could go on and on... and I nearly did... but in most of that time I never really considered myself a professional. Just a guy who like taking photos and sharing them.
Well, recently things have changed a little bit. I am not sure what happened... and without getting myself in to trouble with Flickr, lets just say I have been able to obtain a few things that I wouldn't have otherwise.

So thank you to Matt, and thank you to all those who have taken a look- more than 960,000 times. (seriously, thats a lot)


Just put up my first video from the 7D:

Check me out on Twitter

I do about all my commenting on photography now from Twitter. Check me out there:

http://twitter.com/promans

the end of P+S...

http://photofocus.com/2010/06/09/the-hottest-selling-new-compact-camera-will-be…/

The end is coming... the end of the P+S as a stand alone device. I am sure there are plenty of people don't own a seperate camera, but just use the camera-phone as a 'I've got something' camera.

The quality of the images on phones are increasing- big time. However, the size of the censor, the ISO, and 'lens' are the sticking points in my mind. Just like multi-purpose print/scan/fax/copy systems, the do it alls will never out perform single tasked systems... however multi-use devices are VERY useful for those who use them now and then. Throw in video, HD video, and holy crow. In the hands of someone who knows what they are doing- and they become very serviceable devices.

I would seriously consider getting an iPhone G4 just for the camera aspect in my pocket... Just as the article describes, the Chase Jarvis 'The Best Camera..' project is VERY true. I don't carry a dedicated camera with me all the time. I really have the make an effort to have my camera with me at all now a days. I have a hard time just slapping on a single lens and rolling out- I want to do more... control the lighting now that I know how... have choices of lenses now that I know how and what they all do.... a carry around camera phone? Would make me think a heck of a lot more and at least it would be with me.

I can justify the cost of the device... I can justify the use with the camera, the GPS. The only downside- the cost of the data plan. Seriously... there has got to be a way to bring that price down.

I don't ever see a hotshoe being ingratiated to the phone- but I somehow do see a PocketWizard app. =)