Phototripping
I’ve been busy recently which a couple of things that will be blogged here sooner or later.
In the meantime I took an afternoon off a couple of Sundays ago to take some photos with a new lens. It’s for something else I’d like to blog about on photography. There’s been some interesting stuff written, but I’m not comfortable with the idea that photography can present an objective record of a view. It’s not simply that photos can be manipulated, it’s not possible to present a default view.
I’ve also tweaked my Flickr settings again. I’d love to be able to release them as BY-SA. At the moment they’re BY-NC-SA, because there’s issues with commercial rights and property rights. It’s partly related to the English Heritage rights grab/assertion on photos of Stonehenge. It’d be easy to portray them as a greedy quango holding back research, but there are bigger issues at stake. Which will need another blog post.
In the meantime my most recent photos are on Flickr.
Nine Ladies stone circle near sunset
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Impressive. May I ask what type of camera you use? I’m currently use a Nikon but I’m thinking of switching to a canon.
I have a Nikon D5000. I looked at getting a Canon 550D, but on the day I went to the shops the Nikon bundle was a lot cheaper. I felt the extra money was for the 550D’s much better video capabilities and I’m not that interested in shooting video with a DSLR. I doubt I’ll develop the expertise necessary for the more subtle differences in things like metering to become an issue.