Archives for the 'Photography' Category
Selling Your Photographs Online
Published on 3 Sep 2007 at 6:24 pm.
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Filed under Internet, Photography.
For the last 9 months or so I have been selling my photographs online. It has taken what has always been an enjoyable hobby to the point where I am making enough money to buy better equipment.
For the amateur or non-professional photographer, there are many sites to sell from, and they differ with respect to their quality [...]
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Tutorial: Isolating Objects in Photoshop
Published on 24 Jul 2007 at 10:19 am.
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Filed under Note to Self, Photography, Solutions.
Note to Self: In the Shutterstock Discussion Forum, there is a tutorial on Isolating Objects in Photoshop.
http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3711
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Astrometry.net
Published on 17 Jul 2007 at 1:26 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Computation, Exploration, Internet, Photography, Research, Space.
The 2007 Data Mining in Aeronautics, Science and Exploration Systems (DMASES 2007) meeting was held recently in Mountain View California (June 26-27, 2007). Ashok Srivastava had asked me to chair the Science Session, and we were fortunate to invite a wide array of excellent speakers. Among them was Sam Roweis who is doing a sabbatical at Google, and presented [...]
GoogleSky at DMASES 2007
Published on 14 Jul 2007 at 1:34 am.
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Filed under Astronomy, Computation, Internet, Photography, Research, Software, Space.
Sam Roweis emailed me to explain that he is affiliated with astrometry.net
I have re-written this entry and corrected the errors.
http://www.huginn.com/knuth/blog/2007/07/17/astrometrynet/
Kevin Knuth
Albany NY
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Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Published on 15 Apr 2007 at 11:03 pm.
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Filed under Astronomy, Photography, Space.
The Astronomy Picture of the Day came as quite a surprise to me. It shows a movie made by J. Hartman of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and J. Stanek of Ohio State University of a Globular Cluster of stars, many of which are RR Lyrae stars. These stars fluctuate in brightness over a manner [...]
