7 posts tagged “photoblog”
One of my closest friends on Flickr asked if I have an independent photoblog. I answered: is this simply a website containing my Flickr's photos? Yup!
That's good, I thought. I have enough photo stock on Flickr and it is better to explore them on other website as my individual photoblog. Repackaging, in short. Or, even farther, I also have more photos on my laptop which had not exposed anywhere.
Whichever better, it will be nice and worthy to try.
Press "Start" to continue: that was my workplace at the last day before we moved to new building.
An Internet friend came to me yesterday via messenger and told that at last he found my picture. Plus a comment about my face, jokingly. This is typical of our virtual connection today that people know each others with less known about his/her friends' looks, even various photo stock sites exist.
First, for intense converstations about important topics, physical appearances are not so important. We talk about our ideas – for whatever you are. I even miss someone's name after series of chatings, and actually up until now I think it is not necessary to know his identities more. Except I have to meet him vis-à-vis.
Other reasons are my intention not to expose myself pictorially. I love Flickr for its photo communities and do photoblogging there, but I prefer to talk about things around me rather than myself. So, only very few out my stocks exposes me.
More than that, our profile on Net is so limited. It may a picture taken several months ago; it describes a few of our interests. In many occasions I find myself surprised on first eye contact with friends who I have known well virtually.
My picture in Vox's profile is relatively clear about my face. I wonder that my lucky friend at last "found me" here.
As several times happened, I was busy creating new layout replacing old one that made horrible extra space in Internet Explorer. Thomas Arie Setiawan helped me guiding simple-but-useful trick for IE regarding to its handling floating div. It works well mostly because all I need is minimalist and extreme simplicity layout. Still, I needed to spend extra days to move front page, archives, individual entries, and about pages. Other worth things: I managed revisions of layout using Subversion on my Ubuntu, resulting experience of better approaches that will be used to handle various software development projects in my office.
Other interesting experiment I had done in April was photoblogging. Having exceeded my limitation for Flickr's free account, I bought pro account. Never let it be only a status labelled by Flickr, I push myself to take many and many pictures, store them in my local hard disk, and choose the best one I can have, then upload to Flickr. I do that daily or during events, raw captures by hand or handled by extra tools like tripod. Either using my old, secondhanded Olympus camera, or quick capturing by my Sony Ericsson mobile phone are all well-done. My current target is documenting almost all situations I meet and experimenting to tell using photos. That is photoblog inside my mind for now.
So, do I really miss April?
Take my shameless promotion: visit my Flickr's photostream.
I am not a gadgets freak. They are mostly expensive enough for me to achieve.
But this one is nice either as a mobile phone or a pocket camera: Sony-Ericsson K510i. Small and practical enough to handle but still clear enough for photoblogging. So, two devices for Flickr!
I think that upgrading to Flickr is now a must. One set consisting kids going to school dissapears from browsing because I am aggressive enough uploading pictures after 200 entries limitation.
Vox is elegant – that was my quick conclusion minutes before signing in.
I met several "old friends" here, i.e. friends who I have known from other networks. That is interesting enough that those bloggers use Vox for their pictures, especially photos. I guess it is because Vox's environment attracts users to display their "visual elements" in a moderate way. So Vox can be a place between common-blogs and photoblogs.
Yes, those users include me. I will not lie.
Originally uploaded by Ikhlasul Amal.
Free account is nice, always nice. But like any other things which are free, it has a limitation. For Flickr it means limited set and limited pictures browse-able.
Three years ago when I started blogging, I really did not think that someday I will be serious in photoblogging. I was merely a visitor of many friends' collections exposing about various locations they ever visited.
Today I spend more resources for blogging some of my daily life through photos. A noteworthy that I met several "more serious" photographers, Flickr-minded, who give me very nice introductions, spirits, and souls of street photography.
Street photography itself is choosen because it is easy to do, practically "all the time" moment, nice for start-up like me, and suitable for people with limited tools like me.
This picture marks 200 entries in Flickr, with a hope that I have a way to own Flickr's Pro account.
Yesterday I went to office armed with my pocket digital camera and took several shots along the street. It was begun from my house's gate and stopped at about 100 meters near my office. I met enough people and several street events (mostly about preparation for one's job).
Selected from 46 pictures, "the exhibit" of this project were set up on my Flickr's account, exposing 14 entries, Project "30 Minutes to Office".
Today, my free account in Flickr has been used for 183 photos – 17 left! I have a plan to purchase Pro account, but I have not yet decided to do it hurrily (money matters!). Unfortunately, I had invested enough for blog hosting and I must think carefully to spend extra for Flickr Pro.
Later I will think...
Wish me luck. :)
