Mike DelGaudio

Create a unique “collage” from a single photograph. Choose one of two styles: a “joiner” style image without frames or an image created from simulated Polaroids. Every generated image is unique. This toy was inspired by the photo collages of the artist David Hockney.

Hockneyizer: Create a simulated collage from a single photograph

BridgePix says “Thanx for the pix” for my picture of the Greater New Orleans Bridge (now known as the “Crescent City Connector”.

My pleasure, Thad. I’m glad you liked it.

While I was very satisfied with how this one came out of the camera, I did Tune it in Picasa by adding a little fill light and adding some highlights.

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I am really enjoying the Scobleshow photowalking tours. In this episode Robert Scoble walks with Thomas Hawk of Zooomr and Heather Champ of Flickr as they walk through a park in San Francisco. The episode is a nice Photography dichotomy as Heather shoots with an old Polaroid sx70 and Thomas Shoots with his whizbang Canon 5d.

If you like watching geeks geek out with thier geeky photo toys, then check it out.

[tags]Mike DelGaudio, scobleshow, Zooomr, Flickr, Thomas Hawk, Heather Champ[/tags]

In this post, Documenting Picasa asks how popular Picasaweb is in relation to Flickr. I think it’s a fair question from a pure numbers perspective, but are Flickr and Picasaweb even remotely comparable feature-wise? Sure they both have pictures. But from a feature perspective, Flickr and PicasaWeb are miles apart. Not the least of which is the absense of PicasaWeb as a social application — Flickr’s most notable feature.

All of that said. I think Picasaweb is falling short on popularity because it’s a solution looking for a problem. It should be categorized with Flickr, Photobucket, Slide, ImageShack, Kodak Photo Gallery, and more. But, so far what PicasaWeb offered doesn’t exceed any of its competitors. On almost all fronts, it’s underwhelming. And one click upload from Picasa is not enough of a differentiator in any respect.

Googlified confirms this with it’s own analysis. Anywhere in the photo related space, PicasaWeb is taking a beating.

Google even seems to willingly forsake the Picasa brand.

So, the question I have, is why is Google seemingly not even trying to gain any mind-or-market-share with Picasa?

[tags]Mike DelGaudio, Googlified, Documenting Picasa, PicasaWeb, Picasa, Zoli’s Blog[/tags]

Penfolds, originally uploaded by delgaudm.

Thanks to Reed of RWJ Online for thinking enough of my photo for using it in his post about Shopping for wine.

Thanks Reed.

By the way, I used the “Subject Isolation” Picasa technique on this picture.

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You would even say it glows., originally uploaded by delgaudm.

My Submission to the DPBlogs Project of the Month, “Christmas”

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Go to Flickr. Add a note to a photo.

In the text enter “ho ho ho hat” or “ho ho ho beard”.

Thanks PhotoJoJo.

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Ocean Beach, Early Morning, originally uploaded by delgaudm.

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Get those uploads humming!

I’m a huge fan of Flickr, the super-duper photo sharing site. Great news for their free and pro users. According to the Flickr Blog, free users now get 100MB of photo uploads per month, and pro users get Unlimited uploads for the month. Previously you had a 20 MB and a 2 GB limit respectively for Free and Pro users.

That is really great news for high volume photographers, and now make Flickr a no-brainer option for using the service as a remote backup for all your photos.

I am a pro user (have been for a couple years now), and Flickr really is the best way to share, discuss, and expose your photos to your family and friends.