Photography, random posts and very little about kebabs.
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It’s night time Birmingham. A collection of images from Birmingham at night!
Currently all the images are around the council house/town hall area. Will hope to introduce more images as soon as I can get out.
I’ve got a few more galleries to do, mainly on the construction side plus a panoramic gallery.
Enjoy!
Christmas is a dangerous time for me, usually no one knows what to buy me. I’m happy with this as I always get cash, either that or I choose my own presents. This Christmas is no exception, so whilst I’m awaiting the pre Christmas cash to arrive I’m pondering a Netbook.
I’ve had a play with the Acer Aspire in John Lewis. To be honest it’s not a MacBook running OS X, however the man that is known as Steve Jobs decrees that the glorious Apple will not enter that market (afterall, the fucking fanboys will tell you the MBA or the iPhone is ‘the’ mobile internet platform – twats).
So I go into this knowing it’s not going to be as easy (or indeed as easy as it would equally be on Windows XP).
A number of things are putting my off at present. I know that one is easy to resolve (how to get a 3 mobile USB modem working – should be a piece of piss), others are applications I cannot run on Linux.
2 big showstoppers for me. Photoshop and Lightroom. For a netbook I probably do not need the sophisticated library that Lightroom provides. However it’s raw conversion and editing tools/crop tools are required. As for Photoshop, it’s batch processing and further image manipulation are required.
Now I know with Linux others write similar applications. So lets look at the two rivals.
Ufraw: Seems on the face of it a fairly complex raw processer. It can’t (or i’ve not found how) process in bulk. It will process in turn each image If I open say 20-30 at a time. Still it’s only a raw processor.
Gimp: Advocates of Gimp will tell you it’s as good as Photoshop. Sorry it is not. Whilst it’s a good editor it is not CS3.
So game over? Some would say try LightZone. I’m sure it’s great, but at £145.21 for the Linux version it’s not that great. Especially I have invested in LightRoom already. The more I think about it the more I can’t see myself getting a Linux netbook. If it was just for web use then I’d have one now. But the main requirement for me is a small laptop for photography work. Whilst it has options for photography it isn’t an easy solution.
Looks like this Christmas I really do not know what I want.
Mini shitfest this morning.
Train on time, gets to Snowhill without issue – then gets cancelled for no apparent reason.
Had to wait another 10 minutes for the next train the Jewellery Quarter (Metro was about 8 minutes, but I couldn’t be arsed to try it).
London Midland = Shit
The one thing I pride myself on is my good teeth…..
……well, not so good in the USA style beaming white and straight but fairly healthy and no fillings.
Now an ache has appeared, I’m hoping it’s a wisdom tooth on it’s final push for freedom. I wouldn’t want it to be a filling. I’m not scared of drill, just don’t want any fillings as they (the cheap ones) look fairly horrible.
By chance I’m off for a check up on Thursday, so will find out more then.
I arrived a late today, thanks to a certain train network.
Anyway, today’s event was sponsored by Creative Republic. So who are they? A question I’ve asked myself, the website linked about gives you the info you need to know.
Quote from creativerepublic.org.uk
Well, we’re a group of people who are involved in the creative and cultural industries in the West Midlands, UK.
So I should really know who they are (assuming I’m creative – I guess I am).
Stef Lewandowski introduced CR and also announced the beta launch of a new Dad website called ODadeo. Now this looks to be great, a site written for dads (or expectant) by dads. Not had too much chance to have a look yet, but hopefully will over the next few days.
Also spoke to Stef who also is a really nice bloke.
Next up was a superb voice over bloke called Marc Silk, heard of him? Actually I had heard him interviewed on RadioWM recently (I think it was him). You may know him if from some childrens TV characters (such as Rocket the Rabbit on Rory the Racing car).
Marc was entertaining during his presentation.
Heard about some interesting twittery type gadgets for inclusion on blogs etc.
Overall very impressed with what’s on offer at the Social Media Cafe. There should be some pictures available as Chris Unitt was doing the video (flip I think) and both Stef and myself did a few shots of the event.
