I just found this novel little programme on The Unofficial Apple Weblog that let’s you convert your digital photos into Polaroid shots. Poladroid is only in it’s beta phase, but it works really well and the results are pretty amusing. You just drag your photo onto the camera on your screen, and then wait for it to develop. Or if you want to speed things up then - like the real thing - you can shake the photo!

It’s pretty simple, and is more of a novelty thing. But I think there could be some interesting uses for it.

Today I decided it was a nice day to head out and take some photos. I’ve taken a lot of photos at gigs recently, but not so much of things like landscapes and wildlife. The plan was to have a wander around Deptford and get some photos there, but I also wanted to stop by Greenwich; so as it happened I ended up in Greenwich Park, and ended up spending a couple of hours there and forgot all about going to Deptford.

Inspired by Craig I had a go at taking some High Dynamic Range (HDR) shots while I was there. The results seem pretty good, not amazing, but for a first try I’m pleased.

You can see all the photos from today here. I like a lot of the shots I got, and met some rather brave squirrels while I was there.

I’m also in the process of doing some massive Flickr uploads. Over the past couple of months I haven’t had a chance to go through a lot of the photos I’ve taken. I’ve just dumped them on to the computer from the camera and left it at that. Last night (and today) I’ve uploaded about 150 photos, and there’s still probably another 200-300 to go. The latest update involves photos from:

Greenwich Park - 3rd June 2008
Hatcham Social @ 100 Club - 17th February 2008
Photos from Hyde Park - 8th April 2008

I still have a load of photos from a couple of gigs, as well as more from Rave on Air 2008 and 2007 and the London Marathon. Hopefully I’ll all these uploaded soon.

A couple of weeks ago I recieved a message through flickr saying that one of my photos has been selected for an online travel guide, and would it be okay to use it. Of course I didn’t decline this request and promptly filled out all me details confirming that they could use the picture. Today I recieved another message saying that my photo had passed screening and would definately be used in the guide.

The guide is called Schmap and the photo is for Harewood house in Leeds. It’s one of the pictures I took whilst watching Iggy Pop last summer. I’m really chuffed that the image got used and has been published. You can view the original image here and the image in the guide here.

… and slow shutter speeds.

I’ve just been working on this virtual earthquake project when I noticed that the trees framed this shot quite nicely. So I grabbed a snap and then started playing around with slow shutter speeds. The result was pretty good.

There’s a couple more here and here.

I’ve been trying to take a lot of photos when I’m at gigs lately; I think I’m starting to build up quite a collection. A lot of the gigs are pretty low key, taking place in smaller venues. But I’ve got a few good images from much bigger gigs such as Iggy Pop when he peformed in Leeds during the summer. I’ve uploaded a fair few of them on to Flickr, so feel free to have a look.