James Skemp Photography

• July 26, 2008
• James Skemp

I'm sure I'll need to tweak it, but I've technically launched my galleries for my photography 'business' (I use the word lightly at this point). View the galleries online at http://jamesrskemp.com/gallery/ It only took three days, but I'm pretty happy with how things turned out. I'd really like to have the individual photos display a bit better, but ...

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Over 10,000 digital photos taken

• March 30, 2008
• James Skemp

Yesterday afternoon I took digital photo number 10,000. Between the three digital cameras that I've owned (and excluding the one that I borrowed from my sister, which was a gift from her friend Char), I've taken the following. From April 6 2005 to May 9 2007, I took 2924 photos with a Canon 300D (Digital Rebel). From May 18 2007 to March 29 2008, I took 6447 photos with a Canon Digital Rebel XT (350D).

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Are the Adobe Photoshop Express terms too tough to work with?

• March 27, 2008
• James Skemp

Recently the much anticipated Photoshop Express was released. However, crawling through the general terms of use there's a rather troublesome paragraph. Using the terms that are effective 3/1/2008, at http://www.photoshop.com/express/terms.html, we have the following at 8.a.: Adobe does not claim ownership of Your Content. However, with respect to Your Content that you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Services, you grant Adobe a worldwide, royalty-free, nonexclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, derive revenue or other remuneration from, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other Materials or works in any format or medium now known or later developed.

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Using Xml4Ssp 1.3 Rev 1

• February 24, 2008
• James Skemp

Xml4Ssp is a Windows XML generator for SlideShowPro. While the program still needs some work, it's pretty usable as it is. Since there's no real documentation, I'll be covering how I ended up using it to generate my latest gallery. Starting folder structure I began with the following folder structure: casio_images  Pearl FullsizeImage Images Thumb The only folder that contained content was the FullsizeImage directory, in which I dumped my JPG originals.

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Gallery updates: Capitol - Madison WI

• May 23, 2007
• James Skemp

I've added four new photos to the Capitol - Madison WI gallery at http://strivinglife.net/gallery/.

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New gallery posted

• May 21, 2007
• James Skemp

After a bit of looking around, for the best gallery application, I've settled on SlideShowPro. While it does require Flash (version 7 or higher, but I'm requiring version 8 or higher for mine), and it did cost some money, it's a great little application.

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Upgrading my digital camera

• May 18, 2007
• James Skemp

On April 6, 2005, I bought my very first digital camera. On May 18, 2007, I bought my very second digital camera.

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Picture resolution requirements for prints

• April 28, 2007
• James Skemp

What follows is, for more my own information than for anyone else, is a listing of common print sizes, and the approximate resolution a photo must be in order to print well and acceptably.

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Photoshop is fun!

• October 5, 2006
• James Skemp

Duh. Unfortunately, much like Google Video, you can get sucked into the program and end up spending hours (2 and a half in my case) goofing around, getting nothing of real value done. Of course, that begs the question of whether experience, as experience, is of any value. Do we, simply by experiencing, benefit? I suppose when it comes to use a technology, like Photoshop, any experience is a good experience.

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The Earth: Blue Marble

• May 15, 2006
• James Skemp

A couple of weeks ago I was alerted to NASA's Earth photography. Really, it's amazing work. visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_set.php?categoryID=2363

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