A-Shaft Area of Giant Mine - home of the N.W.T. Mining Heritage Society

A-Shaft Area of Giant Mine - home of the N.W.T. Mining Heritage Society
Author: George Lessard (themediamentor)
Tags: northwest, nwt, nt, society, heritage, mining, yellowknife,
territories, canada
Size: 0.5 gigapixels
Added: June 19, 2009

http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=26238

Aros Fractals

This software is free.
But any donation will be gratefully accepted.

Welcome to the world of Fractals! With Aros Fractals you can explore some
classical fractal images at extremely high resolutions (physical size and
color depths). For the current version of Aros Fractals and other
information, you've reached the correct destination.

Microsoft Windows:afx100.exe(165KB). This self-extracting program installs
Aros Fractals on your system. Ensure that the installation path points to
the correct harddrive (eg., C:). Note this location since you may wish to
create a shortcut for Aros Fractals after it is extracted.

Macintosh::afx100.hqx(419KB). This Binhex format file contains a
self-extracting program, which expands into the Fat version of Aros
Fractals.

http://www.arosmagic.com/Fractals/default.htm

Fractal digital image enlargements scale up to 700 to 800% without image degradation.

Scale up to 700% without image degradation. (Photoshop without Fractals is limited to 300%)

Genuine Fractals 6 supports batch processing using Photoshop Actions.

Superior quality enlargements from medium or high-resolution images and digital photos.

Compatible with Adobe Photoshop CS2, Mac OS X Tiger and Windows XP.

http://www.hallogram.com/genfractals/

The difference between Genuine Fractals and Genuine Fractals PrintPro is that the Print Pro version will handle CMYK-based imagery and CIE-Lab

System Requirements:

• Windows XP SP2 or Vista
• Windows .NET 2.0 Framework or higher
• Photoshop CS2(v9.0.2), CS3
• Adobe Photoshop Elements 4 or higher

.

Genuine Fractals 6
Genuine Fractals MAC/Win Scales up to 800% Supports RGB Supports Grey Scale RGB Formats are commonly used with photo quality ink jet desktop printers (home/small office) and digital photography output devices (photo printers).	$159.95
Genuine Fractals PrintPro MAC/Win Scales up to 800% Supports RGB Supports Grey Scale Supports CYMK CYMK formats are commonly used with traditional ink printing presses found in print shops.	$299.95
Special Bundle Suite
PhotoShop Plug In Suite MAC/Win Includes Genuine Fractals (RGB, Grey Scale Version), Mask Pro, Intellihance, PhotoFrame Pro	$399.95 BEST VALUE

Gigapans (Large Panoramic images)

NWT
http://share.gigapan.org/searchGigapansList.php?keywords=NWT&widget=header_top

They are my first two attemps with my new panoramic hardware.  Camera was set on manual.. looking forward to getting out on the land and taking more... especially in other communities and locations....

Montreal
http://share.gigapan.org/searchGigapansList.php?keywords=montreal

Panorama of Frame Lake, Yellowknife NWT, Canada

Panorama of Frame Lake, Yellowknife NWT, Canada, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Yellowknife seen from the tunnel at the Co-op on Old Airport Road June 14 2009 Photo by © 2009 George Lessard
This file is 20% of the raw version of the original crop of the panoramic of 340 image files sized @ 200 dpi

File name: Frame_Lake_Pano_JPG_V3


From the Gigapan 3Gb image here
share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=25851

Panorama of Yellowknife's Back Bay

My first large scale panorama....

My first Panorama, Yellowknife's Back Bay

http://share.gigapan.org/viewGigapan.php?id=25795

My fist large scale panorama... this one with about 300 images...
of Yellowknife's Back Bay

There should have been more on the right side... but the Gigapan's
batteries died and there were too many mosquitoes to go get more and
finish the pano.... as a first effort.. I had what I wanted...

Atcon Construction Deh Cho Bridge over the Mackenzie River

DSC_7622, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Signs...

When I shoot... I lie to also shoot any signs associated with the sight....

The building of the Deh Cho Bridge over the Mackenzie River on Sunday May 17th, 2009 with the Merve Hardi ferry the second day of crossing in the spring. Photo ©2009 George Lessard

http://www.flickr.com/photos/george-lessard/sets/72157618411102596/


Recent (this spring) and earlier photos of the new Atcon Construction bridge over the Deh Cho in Canada;s Northwest Territories will give Yellowknife (the territorial capital) a year-round link with the rest of Canada and replace the summer ferry and winter ice road.

DSC_7622

Kakisa River bridge replacement project on the Mackenzie Highway

Kakisa River bridge replacement project on the Mackenzie Highway, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Kakisa River bridge replacement project on the Mackenzie Highway at Km 169.8 in Kakisa, Northwst Territories, Canada
Taken on Sunday May 17, 2009
Photo by ©2009 George Lessard
DSC_7583

Bahamian Fifty-Cents

Bahamian-Fifty-Cents, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

Remembering the Bahamas.... that and the Bahamian $3 banknote.

Mexican photographer's images of the blind win $50, 000 Grange Prize

Mexican photographer's images of the blind win $50,000 Grange Prize
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/05/26/grange-prize.html

The Grange Prize
http://www.thegrangeprize.com/grange-prize-home

The Grange Prize, launched in February of 2007, is a unique partnership
between the Art Gallery of Ontario and Aeroplan. It brings together a
public institution and a private enterprise whose common goal is to engage
the public in a dialogue about contemporary photography.

Each year, The Grange Prize recognizes the work of Canadian and
international contemporary photographers, awarding $50,000 CAD to a winner
chosen through an online public vote from among two Canadian and two
international artists.

The winner of The Grange Prize is announced at an awards ceremony held at
the Art Gallery of Ontario each spring.

The Grange Prize works each year with a different partner museum in a
country other than Canada. This partner museum launches the Prize in that
country, and helps garner public interest and enthusiasm for the four
artist candidates. All four artists participate in residencies as part of
the Prize program, and are featured in exhibitions both at the AGO and in
the partner country. The Grange Prize partner museum for 2009 is Centro de
la Imagen in Mexico City.

In 2009, the AGO entered into a cultural partnership with the Mexican
government. The Consulate General of Mexico assisted The Grange Prize in
establishing the curatorial panel and facilitated the relationship with
Centro de la Imagen. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mexico will also
ensure that The Grange Prize is promoted through their embassies and
consulates around the world.

Monitor Calibration and Profiling

NOTE: Many articles about monitor display calibration exist online, but please be informed that some writers don't distinguish between CRT and LCD monitors when they expand on any given technique. While both monitor types often use the same calibration techniques, some techniques are unneeded or cannot be performed on many platforms that carry LCD monitors.

LCD monitor tests
http://www.colorwizzard.com/lcdtest/index.html

  These tests require Internet Explorer 5.1 or higher, browser options must be set to allow for JavaScript and cookies support.

LCD monitor test images

Welcome to the Lagom LCD monitor test pages. With the test images on these pages, you can easily adjust the settings of your monitor to get the best possible picture quality. Additionally, there are a number of test images that can help you to judge the image quality of a monitor. You can check the images on this webpage or put them on a usb stick and try them in the computer store like I did when I created these test patterns. These test images are much more revealing regarding monitor shortcomings than ordinary photographs.
http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/

Monitor Calibration and Profiling
http://www.drycreekphoto.com/Learn/monitor_calibration.htm

How to Calibrate Your Monitor
In order to see images the way they were intended to be seen, your monitor might need to be calibrated. If you're a web designer, digital photographer, or graphic professional, this is especially important. You don't want to spend hours choosing the perfect subtle color scheme only to see a mis-matched mess on someone else's monitor or coming out of a printer. Here's how to calibrate your monitor so that what you see is what you get.
http://www.wikihow.com/Calibrate-Your-Monitor


Pantone
Digital designs demand accurate on-screen colors. Even the most advanced monitors require adjustment for different lighting conditions and environments to maximize their performance. Calibrating your display lets you control what you see on your monitor and ensures colors are accurate and consistent day-to-day, image-to-image, or on multiple systems for print, Web or video output.
http://www.pantone.com/pages/pantone/pantone.aspx?ca=2



Digital Focus: Calibrate Your Monitor
Dave Johnson
Apr 22, 2003 2:00 am
Feature: Calibrate Your Monitor for Digital Images
A friend called me the other day with a digital photo problem. "I just printed a photo on good paper, and it doesn't look like what's on the monitor," he complained. "Why not? How can I get them to match?"

My buddy's problem stems from the fact that the two output devices--the printer and monitor--are calibrated differently. If you want what's on the screen when you edit a photo to resemble what comes out of the printer, then you need to correct one or the other so they're in agreement. It's easier to adjust the monitor (printers don't come with calibration tools), so that's what we'll do.

If you don't mind spending money, there are a few programs designed to help you calibrate your monitor. Pantone's OptiCal is the mother of all such programs--but at around $200, it's probably better-suited for true graphics professionals. LightSurf Technologies' $50 Colorific is a much more affordable color-matching and monitor calibration system
http://www.pcworld.com/article/110070/digital_focus_calibrate_your_monitor.html

The Seven Levels of Photographers: A Spiritual and Satirical Guide.

The Seven Levels of Photographers

A Spiritual and Satirical Guide. I summarize this into 2 levels here.
© 2007 KenRockwell.com

Full text here

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/7.htm

[excerpt]

Artist: Top Level 7 (equivalent to "Heaven" in Christian mythology)

This is the highest level.

An artist fixes his imagination in a tangible form called a photograph. He captures the spirit of place or person, real or imagined, in this photograph and the viewer responds to this.

Whore: Level 6   

A whore is an artist who sells his soul by accepting money or drugs for his art.

By lowering himself to this level his vision is compromised.

Amateur: Level 5   

People who earn less than half of their income from photography are amateurs. This has nothing to do with the quality of their photography.

Snapshooter: Level 4   

This is my mom and most people. These people want memories, as opposed to photographs or cameras.

Professional: Level 3   

A professional photographer is a person who earns his entire living (100%) from the sale of photographs.

Rich Amateur: Level 2  

These are amateurs who, by having too much money, buy lots of equipment which can fetter their freedom of expression. They are mostly men, and many are old or retired.

Equipment Measurbator: Bottom Level 1 (equivalent to "Hell" in Christian mythology)

These men (and they are all men) have no interest in art or photography because they have no souls. Lacking souls they cannot express imagination or feeling, which is why their images, if they ever bother to make any, suck.

These folks have analysis paralysis and never accomplish anything.

Online Expert or Armchair Photographer: Level 0 (these guys don't take pictures so they aren't a level of photographer.)

This level never existed before the internet, because cameras were never as exciting as sports cars or missiles for men to research.

Flickr Creates New License for White House Photos

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/05/flickr-creates-new-license-for-white-house-photos/

Official White House photos are now officially in the public domain, thanks to a licensing change made quietly over the weekend by the Obama administration and the photo-sharing site Flickr.

The White House began posting striking photos of President Barack Obama from its official photographer Pete Souza to the Web 2.0 site in early May. The White House chose to license them using the ultra-liberal Creative Commons Attribution license that lets people reuse, reprint and remix the photos just as long as they credit the original photographers.

But as Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other online commenters noted, that license won't work — even for Obama's official photographer — because government works can't be copyright.

Someone must have been listening, because sometime over the weekend, the licenses changed, and now the photos are labeled "United States Government Work" and link to an explanation on copyright.gov. The White House, however, continues to use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license for all third-party content published on the www.whitehouse.gov site.

The change marks a first for Flickr, which to date has not had a license for government works, other than a "No Known Copyright Restriction" license that is used on photos from its Commons project, which includes photos from some of the world's greatest museums and libraries. Those photos include ones from the Library of Congress, for instance, that never were copyright since they were made or paid for by the federal government

Flickr, a Yahoo-owned property, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the change and whether the license will be available for other portions of the federal government.

As for ordinary web surfers, there is still no way in Flickr to add your work to the public domain — the Attribution license is still the closest you can get. Being president, it seems, still has its privileges.

See Also:

• Presidential First: White House Floods Flickr
• Obama to Get Back BlackBerry at Last, Toughened by NSA
• Web Will Be A Major Communications Tool Under Obama Presidency …
• The Obama Campaign: A Great Campaign, Or The Greatest?
• 5 Signs President-Elect Obama Is a Geek

Flickr Creates New License for White House Photos

Epicenter The Business of Tech
Flickr Creates New License for White House Photos

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/05/flickr-creates-new-license-for-white-house-photos/

[EXCERPT]

Official White House photos are now officially in the public domain,
thanks to a licensing change made quietly over the weekend by the Obama
administration and the photo-sharing site Flickr.

The White House began posting striking photos of President Barack Obama
from its official photographer Pete Souza to the Web 2.0 site in early
May. The White House chose to license them using the ultra-liberal
Creative Commons Attribution license that lets people reuse, reprint and
remix the photos just as long as they credit the original photographers.

But as Creative Commons, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and other
online commenters noted, that license won't work — even for Obama's
official photographer — because government works can't be copyright.

Someone must have been listening, because sometime over the weekend, the
licenses changed, and now the photos are labeled "United States Government
Work" and link to an explanation on copyright.gov. The White House,
however, continues to use the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license for
all third-party content published on the www.whitehouse.gov site.

The change marks a first for Flickr, which to date has not had a license
for government works, other than a "No Known Copyright Restriction"
license that is used on photos from its Commons project, which includes
photos from some of the world's greatest museums and libraries. Those
photos include ones from the Library of Congress, for instance, that never
were copyright since they were made or paid for by the federal government.

Yours truly....

_MG_0439, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

In Chelyabinsk, Russia on assignment for CESO ceso-saco.com
with
Yudin Andrey Nikolaevich
Chelyabinsk, Russia
Email: sunfoto@mail.ru
Telephone: 8(351)33-73-88 Fax:
Cell Phone: 8-908-080-23-88
Web Site: www.sunfoto.ru

Наш адрес: ул.Колхозная, дом 36, кв. 201 Ост."Ул.Краснознаменная" (проезд трамв.) или ост. "Пр.Победы" (проезд маршр.), начало Северо-Запада
Телефоны: 233-73-88 (моб)

Yours truly...

_MG_2697, originally uploaded by The MediaMentor.

In Russia on assignment for CESO ceso-saco.com

Photo by
Yudin Andrey Nikolaevich
Chelyabinsk, Russia
Email: sunfoto@mail.ru
Web Site: www.sunfoto.ru

Наш адрес: ул.Колхозная, дом 36, кв. 201 Ост."Ул.Краснознаменная" (проезд трамв.) или ост. "Пр.Победы" (проезд маршр.), начало Северо-Запада
Телефоны: 233-73-88 (моб)

The Megapixel Myth & Film vs. Digital Cameras

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/mpmyth.htm

[excerpt]

The Myth

The megapixel myth was started by camera makers and swallowed hook, line and sinker by camera measurebators. Camera makers use the number of megapixels a camera has to hoodwink you into thinking it has something to do with camera quality. They use it because even a tiny linear resolution increase results in a huge total pixel increase, since the total pixel count varies as the total area of the image, which varies as the square of the linear resolution. In other words, an almost invisible 40% increase in the number of pixels in any one direction results in a doubling of the total number of pixels in the image. Therefore camera makers can always brag about how much better this week's camera is, with even negligible improvements.

This gimmick is used by salespeople and manufacturers to you feel as if your current camera is inadequate and needs to be replaced even if the new cameras each year are only slightly better.

--------

Film vs. Digital Cameras

http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/filmdig.htm

"I find that it takes about 25 megapixels to simulate 35mm film's practical resolution, which is still far more than any practical digital camera. At the 6 megapixel level digital gives about the same sharpness as a duplicate slide, which is plenty for most things."

Vancouver 2010 invites Canadians to share their photos and words ..

Vancouver 2010 invites Canadians to share their photos and words ...
... Nunavut, Northwest Territories and Yukon. In addition to the Cultural
Olympiad's government and corporate partners, CODE is proudly supported by
the Canada Council for the Arts and the National Film Board of Canada. ...
<http://www.vancouver2010.com/en/news/news-releases/-/66648/32566/r4a56k/vancouver-2010-invites-canadia.html>
Vancouver2010.com - News Releases
<http://vancouver2010.com/>

Photographic best practices guides

Best Practices for the Business of Independent Photojournalism

This best practices guide, put together by the National Press Photographers Association in the U.S. is divided into two sections: the first for those who hire independent photojournalists and the second to guide photojournalists in their business practices. Each section has five clearly laid out points to consider and steps to take during business transactions to ensure fairness and professional respect. A PDF version is available at the link below. Link» http://www.nppa.org/professional_development/business_practices/best_practices/

Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines

Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines (UPDIG) is a group of industry professionals who are working towards creating worldwide standards for the commercial use of digital images. The introduction of the document states: "These 12 guidelines -- along with the accompanying Best Practices documents -- aim to clarify issues affecting accurate reproduction and management of digital image files. Although they largely reflect a photographer's perspective, anyone working with digital images should find them useful." Link» http://www.updig.org/guidelines/index.php