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Re: Photo Gallery of Oakleigh Futsal Competition Indonesia Vs. France :p

richardxthripp — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:33:25 -0000

You edited in the Lab color space in Photoshop, didn't you? These look great! The portrait at the end has especially nice colors and it is well framed.

Re: tr.im to be Community-Owned

ipubliis — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:39:27 -0000

Wordpress.com just made wp.me to be their url shortner of choice. Maybe others will plan to move in that direction

Re: Vampirism Unleashed! Experiment Successful

Augusteo — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:01:49 -0000

"lesbian vampire" reference? :P haha. who doesnt like girl on girl action

thanks for the compliments man, i'm looking forward to another great shots with these models :)

Re: Photo Gallery: Gothic Experimental

Augusteo — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:53:22 -0000

isn't that the point here my friend? make em look suicidal and tired of life :p

Re: How My Photos Get Printed in Magazine For the First Time!

Jordan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:50:40 -0000

A semester off shouldn't kill you, it'd be worth an afternoon of quick emails to reestablish your old connections. Get people out for coffee or lunch.. If they aren't possible to revamp, they probably weren't worth having in the first place..

I'd also encourage you to get out and meet people in your areas of interest that *aren't* connected with your schooling (try groups like the local chamber of commerce, or meetup.com or other special interest groups..) People that are actively involved in areas you want to focus on will be more helpful in the short term than school chums that are struggling to get established themselves..

Re: Photoshoot from The Nut, Stanley, Tasmania

richardxthripp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:08:53 -0000

Oh my, this is brilliant work. Eclipses everything I've done. I need to get out more.

The contrast is really good, you've picked good angles in all three, the colors are great, the lighting is beautiful, and the images feel very expansive because of the wide angles. Nice editing.

Re: Photo Gallery: Gothic Experimental

richardxthripp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:06:04 -0000

These are moody and eye-catching. The girls have too much mascara under their eyes though... in some shots they look awfully tired because of it.

Re: How My Photos Get Printed in Magazine For the First Time!

richardxthripp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:04:42 -0000

Networking is incredibly important. I'm trying to do a lot of it now that I started back at college today. My network basically fell apart when I took the spring semester off, though I had only a few close friends.

Make connections and you will get results, often unexpectedly.

Re: Tutorial: How To Use Rule of Thirds in Digital Photography

richardxthripp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:02:11 -0000

I rarely consider this rule now, but sometimes, I'll consciously use the guidelines in my viewfinder to position the subject as such. Usually I do it unconsciously or something close to it like the golden triangle. I put the subject dead center in only 20% of my shots.

Re: Vampirism Unleashed! Experiment Successful

richardxthripp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:59:59 -0000

Are we seeing some girl-on-girl action in photo 6? Laughing at "climax finale."

Anyway, I really like these. The fake teeth, lighting, desaturation, fake blood, and posing are all great, and the behind the scenes touch is a good addition.

Re: Tutorial: How-To Photograph Fireworks Without Tripod!

richardxthripp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:55:54 -0000

At night I carry around my 50mm F1.4 Canon lens, but the auto-focus is failing just like the Amazon reviewers said it would. What junk. The lens is good besides the auto-focus motor.

I can open up wide and pump it up to ISO 1600. Sure, it'll be blurry and grainy, but no motion blur.

Bracing against something is the best option.

Re: Lightroom Catalog Folder Error

richardxthripp — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:38:29 -0000

This is why I like IMatch, though I don't bother cataloging anything anymore. I track versions manually. I don't take many photos.

My operating system and programs are on a 40GB partition on my 320GB internal drive. My photos go on the 280GB partition. I have 117GB free, which at my pace will take a year to fill up. Not worried about it.

Re: tr.im Resurrected

ejw — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:53:33 -0000

It is no problem. Most of these negative comments are based on a lack of knowing me or us personally, which if people did they would think a lot differently. People project a lot of crap on to you when you are in the public eye for doing something stupid. I am fine with it, and take all the good comments equally with the bad ones.

The fact is tr.im is a small time service that currently has no chance of making any decent return on the amount of time it takes to keep it running. It is a bad spot. Not growing fast enough to reach any way to make more than $500 a month in revenue, but growing fast enough that it required a lot of work to take it further.

Re: tr.im Resurrected

richardxthripp — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:26:10 -0000

I'm retracting my comment because it's been nagging on my conscience. I commented it on your newer post but will post it here too:

This is good news. Sorry I was so nasty about your reversal before. Everyone makes mistakes, as I did.

I wrote a blog post called Egregious Failures, where I included the scathing comment I gave you, and cited it as an egregious failure on my part. If you read it, you'll realize I'm a hypocrite, because my URL shortening service Th8.us had a three day outage one month before. My service receives 1/1000 of the visitors that tr.im gets, but on principle my comment was wrong. Unlike my service, your service did not go offline at all. You just made an announcement which made people angry. TinyURL and Twitter have had major outages in the past few months. Your mistake was insignificant in comparison. If I did not read your blog or check your home page when you had the announcement up, I would not even know about it now.

Do you know what Twitter should do? Ditch all URL shorteners and just flag all URLs as 25 characters toward the 140, regardless of length. Problem solved.

Sorry and good luck,
Richard

Re: tr.im to be Community-Owned

richardxthripp — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:19:32 -0000

This is good news. Sorry I was so nasty about your reversal before. Everyone makes mistakes, as I did.

I wrote a blog post called Egregious Failures, where I included the scathing comment I gave you, and cited it as an egregious failure on my part. If you read it, you'll realize I'm a hypocrite, because my URL shortening service Th8.us had a three day outage one month before. My service receives 1/1000 of the visitors that tr.im gets, but on principle my comment was wrong. Unlike my service, your service did not go offline at all. You just made an announcement which made people angry. TinyURL and Twitter have had major outages in the past few months. Your mistake was insignificant in comparison. If I did not read your blog or check your home page when you had the announcement up, I would not even know about it now.

Do you know what Twitter should do? Ditch all URL shorteners and just flag all URLs as 25 characters toward the 140, regardless of length. Problem solved.

Sorry and good luck,
Richard

Re: tr.im Resurrected

Cyclosity — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 10:06:57 -0000

Richard, here's a personal development tip : none of your tips or photos could ever possibly be as useful as tr.im was and is as a service. sorry dude.

Re: tr.im Resurrected

ejw — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:55:08 -0000

I guess prudence suggests I ignore this, but it does not really appreciate the competitive landscape as it exists. I appreciate you are upset, think we are dumb, but it is always a little more complicated than that.

Re: tr.im Resurrected

richardxthripp — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:04:39 -0000

What is this bullshit? What kind of fools do you take us for, anyway? How dare you pull this shit?

First, you make a whiny announcement about how there's no point continuing tr.im with no way to make money and no support from Twitter. Then, you announce that you'll be breaking millions of links at the end of the year by turning off the tr.im servers. Finally, you tell us it was all a joke.

That's what this is, anyway. A joke. An insult to your users. Do you get some sort of sadist thrill out of pulling these stunts? You obviously had no intention of ending tr.im. This was just a publicity stunt. A very bad one at that, because it alienates your users. How can anyone take you seriously again?

Until recently, Twitter favored TinyURL. Why weren't you squawking then? Twitter shows disfavor to you now no more than they did then. GET OVER IT. If you can't make tr.im popular without sponsorship from Twitter, then you don't deserve to succeed. Do you hear Steve Jobs constantly complaining about Microsoft?

You were "overwhelmed" by the response? 300 comments and a handful of emails overwhelmed you? You have a popular service. When you announce that you will be shutting it down and breaking all your links, how can you not expect an overwhelming response?

A service like tr.im should not cost more than $1000 a month to host. If you need money, don't pull this shit. Ask for donations. You would have gotten them. But now, you'll get nothing, because you've proven what rotten people you are.

Re: Friending and Reputation

richardxthripp — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:26:19 -0000

I consider adding someone as a friend an endorsement of their authority, content, and respectability. The only social network I use regularly is Twitter, and my ratio of followers to following is 15 to 1. Most of the people who friend me I do not friend back, and most of the people I follow do not follow me. They may be quite popular and not know me, but I follow them because I enjoy their tweets and endorse their work. It's not a "me too" thing. You guys who friend everyone ruin the whole friend system for all us legitimate networkers.

Re: Facebook Sharer, Tweet-This and YouTuber - BVB27

richardxthripp — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:05:07 -0000

Good collection of plugins. Thanks for including Tweet This.

Re: We Create Because It’s Fun

richardxthripp — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:52:42 -0000

I've noticed many other people don't take joy in creating, or they even say what I create (photographs) is nice but won't make any money, meaning I should give up now.

Of course, we artists never give up!

Have you looked at WordPress MU? It's a good blogging platform, though not so good for building communities.

Re: Open Sourcing Your Creativity

richardxthripp — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 07:22:19 -0000

Awesome! See, I can just read minds like that.

Keep up the good work; I've got LifeDev in my feed reader!

Re: Open Sourcing Your Creativity

glenstansberry — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:29:25 -0000

Heh, you're exactly right! That's pretty close to what it was supposed to say. Thanks for pointing that out. I've fixed it ;)

Re: Open Sourcing Your Creativity

richardxthripp — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:55:29 -0000

The article cuts out at the end, but I think it would say "It takes a smarter person to develop that idea by sharing it with others."

The great point here is that anyone can have an idea, but actually doing something about the idea is the hard part. You can get others to help you, or you can go it alone. Sometimes, being the only artist is the best way to go, but usually it helps to develop the creativity through a federation of sources.

Re: A Quick Note About Product Launches

richardxthripp — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:48:11 -0000

Great work on those projects! Trendfo's graphs look interesting, and Web Jackalope has a lot of promise if you continue writing helpful and insightful articles.