Flickr in Education

Digital Camera World: the September issue is chuck full of helpful tips, including an introduction to something I'd never heard of: HDR or High Dynamic Range or Digital Blending.  Essentially, you take two identical shots of a subject at different settings, and then combine them, choosing the best parts of each of them.  The results can be fantastic.  Something very new to learn, at age 42.  I'm amazed at how my Mac journey, now almost 10 months old, as basically led me to learn something very new almost every single day I've used this machine.

There's two distinct steps to producing an HDR image. The first is to combine the multiple shots into a single image and the second is to tweak the display of that image to actually show all the data in a sensible way. The last part is the hard part and is called Tonal Mapping.

HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography is a technique that is becoming very popular at the moment, an HDR photo is created using software such as Photoshop or Photomatix and produces images with more detail in the highlights and shadows. Here we dug out the best tutorials and resources to help you get to grips with it.

For some unknown reasons, Nikon decided to skip the automatic exposure bracketing feature on the D40 and D40X DSLR cameras. For people who are interested in high dynamic range (HDR) photography using D40/D40X, this is a convenient feature that is missing. However you can still do HDR photography without it using D40/D40X. Here are two ways of doing that.

In image processing, computer graphics, and photography, high dynamic range imaging (HDRI or just HDR) is a set of techniques that allows a greater dynamic range of luminances between light and dark areas of a scene than normal digital imaging techniques. The intention of HDRI is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to shadows.

This looks like a pretty cool project idea and old photos might be found on Flickr.

Not directly Flickr, but sources of free photos, which might be useful.

Tilt-shift miniature style photos are pictures of real-life scenes that are manipulated to look like model photographs. Now you can easily transform your existing digital camera photos into tilt-shift style miniatures using tiltshiftmaker.com

Textorizer is a program that allows you to make pictures formed with text. Although there are many versions around, the only one that is continuing to supported is this one. Download app, need updated Java

create phot collages. Good for wallpaper

Do fun stuff with your digital photos. Create motivational posters, movie posters, magazine covers, badges, mosaics, collages, calendars, frames, and a lot more!

Find images for comps, inspiration or research.

A flickr photo essay. Make sure you read the notes left to right.

lots of useful powerpoint tutorials

The definitive list of Flickr tools, applications, plugins, mobile apps and games. If it uses the API, it should be here: I now have a total of 170 applications and plugins in the database, all of which utilise the Flickr API in some way.