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Some of These Photos are interesting. Some are disturbing. A lot seem to be filler. It would have been better if it was 30 interesting photos from 2006 instead of 99. Still, worth a quick scan if you aren’t too busy.

I’m actually planning to photograph some Christmas lights this weekend, so How to Photograph Christmas Lights showed up at a pretty nice time. I don’t think I’ll have the time flexibility that would lead to great shots, but I’ll see what I can manage.

Noah has been taking a picture of himself every day for six years. You can see a video of it here. I started looking at his face, but it’s surprising how little it changes, so eventually, I was just looking at the hair, which I found to be sort of hypnotic.

Sanzen’s Flickr Photo Stream features some incredible images of India.

Scott Stulberg makes some nice photographs.

Over on dg28, the have a collection of cool photographic techniques to try out.

The F Number - Demystified :

In any camera that allows you to have control over aperture, the aperture setting is done using what is referred to as F stops.

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Every newbie, faces some confusions with these F numbers.

• They don’t seem to follow a linear series like 1, 2, 3, 4
• Notation keeps varying like f/2.0 or F2.0.
• The number is supposed to indicate a value of Aperture but there is no “A” in the notation!
• Any time there is a discussion about increasing or decreasing aperture, people don’t use these numbers. They talk about “stops”, like move up 1 stop or move down half a stop etc.

So what’s up with this numbers ? The concept behind these number is not that complicated, but the notations and varying terminology to describe the same thing leaves some room to explain.

You know, I probably learned all this stuff back in my photo journalism class, but it never really sank in, and I never knew where those numbers were coming from. Turns out, it’s a lot of math, but pretty simple at its core.

Flickr Explore provides a window to some of the most interesting photos on Flickr on any given day or month. The interface hides a few things, and it took me a while to find the very, very obvious link to just how they determine a photo is interesting, but even with all of that, this is pretty dang cool.

Wow, that’s a lot of super balls!

I thought I’d posted an article about How to photograph fireworks with a digital camera before. I know I’ve read it before. It turns out that no, I hadn’t posted it, so here you go. Oh, and more links here.