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Verdict on photophlow: phantastic!

February 6th, 2008 | 8 Comments | Posted in Of General Interest

If you’d like an invite, please read to the bottom of the article and leave a comment…

Yesterday, I wrote about a new web app called photophlow that intends to take the social nature of Flickr to the next level.

Last night, I received an invite to check it out. So far, the site delivers as promised. When you log in, you’ll be taken to the anteroom, pictured below. Click on the image for a full-size version.


photophlow anteroom

From the anteroom, you can see the most recent photophlow news, a link to your room, and links to all your contacts’ rooms. On the right, you’ll see a list of the most active rooms; stopping by the photophlow welcome room is a must. They’re always seems to be a few people in there, including photophlow reps who I am sure will be ready to answer your questions. Finally, below the most active rooms, you’ll see rooms for all the groups you belong to. I think this will be huge. One of the best things about Flickr are the thousands of photo groups, at least one for every topic or photo object you can think of. The ability to interact with other group members in real-time will be invaluable… and probably completely addictive!

Now, let’s take a look at my room:

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One of my photos reviewed by PopPhoto

January 30th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in My Photos, Published

A little while back I submitted a couple photos to the PopPhoto Flash blog for their Your Photo: Our Critique column. The photo I submitted was one I took about two weeks after I got my XTi back in December 2006 of the Sixth Street Bridge in Pittsburgh, PA:


Sixth Street Bridge

Melissa Macatee, a contributing blogger for PopPhoto Flash gave it 3 out of 5 stars saying:

“The positives here are Shawn’s use of a smaller aperture allowing the lights on the top of the bridge to have a starburst effect and the leading line of the bridge. To improve on this shot a shorter exposure should be used to prevent the highlights from blowing out. The LCD can be misleading so next time take a few shots with different exposure times or try bracketing your exposures giving you an option to merge them.” (link)

Not bad. I would say that was a fair critique. I was actually quite concerned about the overexposure at the top of the bridge myself. Perhaps next time, I’ll play around more with the light metering. ;-)

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