Category Archives: Notice

I have been posting a Pic of the Day on Facebook, Twitter, and two of the digital photography forums I belong to. The next logical step is a Pic of the Day blog, where I can detail some of the why and how of each image, and, hopefully garner some discussion of techniques. 

So, without further ado, Steve Ingraham’s Pic of the Day. 

I have started filling in back to the my first Pic of the Day a month ago. The pictures are all up. I am adding the why and how as I can. It will probably take me a few days to work my way back. Current entries demonstrate the format.

Click the really big > or < to navigate forward or back a post, or use the Archive link to bring up any post you are interested in. 

At the bottom of each post there is a link to the Smugmug lightbox and gallery for the image. There you can see the image in any size up to the original file, and view other images in the same series. 

Please use the comment box. This is all about discussion. And let me know what you think of the idea as a whole.

This might seem like a strange post for a photography blog, but I suspect a lot of my readers use Flickr, and have stuck with Firefox because they are addicted to the SICI greasemonkey script which automates adding invite and vote codes to Flickr comments. 

Greasemonkey, for those who are not aware, is a Firefox extension that allows programmers to extend the functions of individual pages using Java scripts. In October there were reports that a development release of Chrome included greasemonkey support. About the same time, Greasemetal was released…a small program which exploited a “developers hole” in the Chrome armor to enable some greasemonkey scripts. The only trouble with Greasemetal was that 1) it was a kludge that depended on a hole Google could close at any time, and 2) you had to start Chrome using the Greasemetal icon/shortcut, which meant that you had no greasemonkey when Chrome auto-started (as in response to clicking a link in an email). 

So I have been eagerly waiting for the first official release of Chrome with greasemonkey support. 1.0 is it. 

There is still no official way to turn greasemonkey on. You have tack  -enable-greasemonkey after the last quotation mark in the Target line in the Chrome shortcut’s Properties box (that is space dash enable dash greasemonkey). You can copy your SICI script from the scripts folder in Firefox (C:/programs/Mozilla/Firefox/scripts) to C:/scripts (make the folder first), and you are good to go!

And why would you want to switch to Chrome? Well, that is hard to say, but easy to appreciate, if you are at all like me, once you have used Chrome for any length of time. Just say, I like it better…and I suspect you might too.

My new galleries at SmugMug

Should anyone be interested, I now have three books published by Blurb…at reasonable prices for sale to the general public. I am calling the venture Wide Eyed In Wonder Press. For links to the books at the Blurb book store, click on WEIW Press in the pages banner above.

The images in the books were all produced using either the Sony DSC H9 or H50 point and shoot cameras, or the Sony N1 point and shoot behind the eyepiece of a Zeiss Diascope spotting scope, or by the 4mp Zeiss Camera Eyepiece DC4 on the same scope.

Stephen Ingraham

A day in the Hebrides: S. Ingraham

Self published coffee table book of images from 36 hours in the Hebrides on North Uist, Benbecula, South Uist, and Erriskay. You can view the book (and order a copy should the spirit move you) at MyPublisher.com by clicking the image above, or the one below. Enjoy.

Gabh an lá

(which means: “seize the day” in Gaelic)

I’ve added a “Tools and Resources” section of links to the sidebar. The first entry is Digital ImageMaker, a great site covering all kinds of digital imaging. How-to and inspirational columns, galleries, forums, special interest sections, equipment reviews and news, etc. etc. A wonderful resource.

I’ve added a set of images taken at different ISOs to the article, as well as two samples of high ISO with noise reduction. Just for your viewing pleasure.