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  • Got a Flickr Pro account? Then why are you still using Instagram?

    Flickr has been around a long time, one of the early “web 2.0” companies. But then they were brought by Yahoo and things went quiet. They went from an innovative exciting company leading the way in online photo sharing to stagnating and being overtaken by faster moving younger firms with fresh ideas exploring new opportunities. But…

  • What do you share with who? Web 2.0 is slowly being locked down.

    I often go through phases of using different social networks to update different people in what’s going on and chat to friends and colleagues. Each of my main networks (twitter, facebook, instagram, Flickr, Google+) is used by different groups of people in different ways, and it’s partly this that gets me active on one and…

  • Create a minature world with the tilt-shift maker

    I like the effect that a tilt-shift lens gives – turning a bustling city into a model railway set. The effect is created using a special lens which gives a very shallow depth of field on objects far away. It’s better explained in this article:  What is tilt-shift photography?. The lenses aren’t cheap (theonlinephotographer.typepad.com) but…