Archive for October, 2005
Autumn (Fall)
by paul on Oct.17, 2005, under Photography
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I have dropped behind on my photo MEME entries recently, it’s just been too dark when I get home from work to take anything outdoors, so when I had to work from home today I made the time to step into the garden and at least take a few autumn pictures whilst the sun lasted. Whilst I don’t always appreciate the rain in Oregon, it does make for the most spectacular autumns |
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Studio Photography Starter
by paul on Oct.14, 2005, under Photography
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Winter is coming, and with it most of the opportunity for my outdoor photography are going to disappear, so I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what I can do indoors. We really don’t have space in our home to setup a real studio (none of the rooms are large enough), but I’d still like to try a little shooting. Since I’m basically starting from scratch, I’ve been thinking about getting the Canon 580EX Speedlite flash, and seeing how far I can get with just one flash and some reflectors in these small spaces, with the intention of maybe adding slave units later down the line. What do other people do? |
Flash Crowd crushes web server!
by paul on Oct.05, 2005, under Computing
Friday’s New York Times had a fascinating article focusing on the work of Robert Ryang at New York post production house PS260. Robert created a reworked trailer for Stanley Kubrick‘s The Shining, as an entry for a competition being run by the New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors. The new trailer is a wonderful piece of work, but when word of the trailer spread across the Internet, it’s popularity had the almost inevitable results – PS260′s web servers almost crashed under the load. These ‘flash crowds’ are not limited to smaller websites, on September 11th 2001, both MSNBC and CNN services were severely hampered by the sudden traffic. The good news is that open Content Distribution Networks like Coral and CoDeeN are available today to address this issue for even the smallest websites. Give them a try, your readers will thank you!
