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DIMi runs two photography related sites: Digital ImageMaker World, which is Wayne's personal photography blog, and Experimental Digital Photography for photo work and processes that are a bit out there. DIMi also runs the new site A Writer's Quest, which focuses on writing, both fiction and non-fiction. I've included it here as many photographers also write to accompany their photography and since I have edited a number of photography magazines and written for many more over a long number of years, I feel there might be something here that is of benefit to photographers.
Here we have collected the RSS feeds for these sites of their most recent articles. More is on the individual sites.
So Enjoy
02/20/2008 11:17 PM
Samsung ML-1630: A Great Little Personal Laser Printer
This is a personal monochrome laser printer that is definitely worth having.
02/01/2008 09:14 AM
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft By Stephen King Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 2000 (Hardcover by Scribner, 2000) ISBN-13 978-0-7434-5596-1 ISBN-10 0-7434-5596-7 Whatever you may think of Stephen King’s writing, there is no denying his huge presence over at least the US and really the English-speaking world’s writing. This book as an interesting as its author.
01/23/2008 05:35 AM
I don’t know about you, but I make use of Microsoft Office to handle my mailing lists. I use Excel to keep the actual lists and then use Word to print address labels and do mail merge. This combination works extremely well.
01/14/2008 12:52 AM
Writing a book is a very substantial task. If you are going to get it done you will need discipline and defined targets.
01/13/2008 06:12 PM
James Herbert: Devil in the Dark
James Herbert: Devil in the Dark By Craig Cabell Metro Publishing, 2004 ISBN 1 84358 091 8 James Herbert is an author who is, roughly, the English equivalent of Steven King. Not because their writing is the same, or even their subject matter, but because Herbert is the best selling UK horror writer, he has had a major impact [...]
01/01/2008 07:30 AM
The Elements of Style By William Strunk and E.B. White Allyn and Bacon, Fourth Edition, 2000 ISBN 0-205-30902-X Yes, Strunk and White is a must read. It is not the most exciting but the advice is solid, the writing excellent.
12/28/2007 05:31 AM
The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile By Noah Lukeman A Fireside Book, Published by Simon & Schuster, 2000 ISBN 978-0-684-85743-5 ISBN 0-684-85743-X Noah Lukeman is a New York literary agent. He has represented many best selling and award winning authors and has been in a position to read a massive number of manuscripts; [...]
12/16/2007 10:09 PM
On writing horror, a book review
On writing horror Revised edition A Handbook by The Horror Writers Association Edited by Mort Castle Writers Digest Books, Cincinnati, 2007 ISBN 1-58297-420-9 ISBN 978-1-58297-420-0 If you are interested in writing horror, this 260-page book is essential. In fact there is a lot of good stuff in here for people interested in writing any type of fiction.
12/16/2007 10:36 AM
Keeping Organized, Part 1, To Do Lists
Writing of any type is partly an exercise in organization. You need to keep track of deadlines, research, contacts, trips, websites, characters, locations, timelines, etc. All of these activities can be well tracked on paper. But since I am a computer nerd and write directly with a word processor on my laptop, I look for [...]
12/16/2007 05:36 AM
My Interest in Writing Fiction
After so many years of writing and editing non-fiction, and technical non-fiction at that, why am I interested in writing fiction? I guess there are multiple answers to that question. One is that as an avid reader it is natural to consider writing some yourself. Another is that I feel I have something to say [...]
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05/04/2008 01:01 PM
I’ve been out doing more shooting with the Sigma 4.5mm circular fisheye lens with my converted for infrared Canon 350D. I’ve found that the best way to shoot IR with this fisheye, because of the size of the field of view, is to use exposure bracketing with the camera set on continuous drive mode so that [...]
05/01/2008 12:36 AM
Wayne reconsiders some of his recent photographs and explores how they look using a favored technique of his.
04/10/2008 11:36 AM
We are all human and a recent stuff up on my part makes that clear if I had forgotten it. I’ve been testing the new Sigma 4.5mm and 10mm fisheye lenses. Both lenses have strange lens caps, in that there is a normal lens cap, plus a lens shade-like extension so that the actual lens cap [...]
03/22/2008 11:19 PM
A recent trip away to test a couple of cameras, and the shooting of one scene in particular, really brought home the meaning of those camera numbers. Recently I combined the need to get away with the need to test a couple of cameras, specifically the Olympus E-3 and the Pentax K20D. The shooting of one [...]
03/02/2008 11:45 AM
Recently I was in Sydney for an Autodesk press event and since I had the afternoon free before my flight back to Melbourne I went out shooting with my converted (by MaxMax.com) Canon 350D. A gallery of my Sydney Infrared images can be seen in the Digital ImageMaker World Gallery.
02/13/2008 12:44 PM
Yes, you read the title right: the digital imagemaker returns to film. But not exclusively or even frequently. Lately I have been experimenting with long exposure photography. As we all know with our digital cameras the noise level rises with the length of the exposure. So I wanted to compare this with film. I dug out [...]
02/01/2008 04:17 AM
Size does matter. But not in the way it is commonly expressed. Recently I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mind who is also a photographer. We were talking about all the new camera releases at the current PMA show, and specifically the release of the new Canon 450D and the non-release of the [...]
01/16/2008 06:19 AM
I hadn’t shot a lot recently. Other commitments plus the silly season had tied me up and kept me substantially away from the camera. But, last week, we got away to the family beach house for a week and I managed to do a lot of shooting. Some experimental stuff didn’t work out. But that is [...]
12/20/2007 11:23 AM
Steve Ingraham’s Point and Shoot Landscape
Steve Ingraham’s Point and Shoot Landscape is a new photography blog that is focused on the value of point and shoot cameras as a creative choice for photographers. Steve has set himself an active publishing schedule and the content on the site already offers some stimulating articles on how to get the ost out of your [...]
12/11/2007 07:36 PM
There are times when, no matter what you do, life conspires to get in the way of photography. We have just been through one of those for about the last six weeks. A combination of sickness and injuries, sickness of other family members and ongoing car issues that have kept us to one car have all [...]
http://experimentaldigitalphotography.com
04/10/2008 06:29 AM
As part of my testing of the Sigma 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC CIRCULAR FISHEYE HSM lens I went out with my Canon 350D that has been converted for infrared shooting. I was curious to see how the lens would perform in IR. But in the previous attempt at this article I got caught by my enthusiasm [...]
04/09/2008 02:58 AM
You can see the corrected version of this article here. But I’ve left it so you can see the images. As part of my testing of the Sigma 4.5mm F2.8 EX DC CIRCULAR FISHEYE HSM lens I went out with my Canon 350D that has been converted for infrared shooting. I was curious to see how [...]
02/28/2008 01:18 PM
The Importance of the Eyepiece Shutter
Lately I have been doing a lot of long exposure photography, both digital infrared and visible light. In the process of doing this work I have had shots that have been spoilt by flares, fogging and other artifacts. It turns out that these effects were cause because I did not have my eye blocking the [...]
02/15/2008 11:37 AM
Lately I’ve been experimenting again with the use of time as a core tool in crafting the image I want. Long exposure photography has a variety of lovely effects. I have not only been exploring these but also the technical aspects of the process. These results will be reported soon on The Digital ImageMaker. This is a [...]
01/28/2008 08:42 AM
Keep Observant - Shooting Skywriting in Infrared
Today I wandered outside and offset against a pure blue sky was skywriting being done. Now I could have just looked at it and gone back inside, but I naturally grabbed a camera instead. The camera I grabbed was my 350D that was converted for infrared photography and my 100-400 f5.6 IS L-series lens. The [...]
01/16/2008 06:39 AM
Shoot Anything, and See What Happens
We often have expectations of what we can and cannot photograph. Usually these expectations are not only completely wrong but they also hold us back in various ways. I had this made clear to me last week. Last week we got away to the family beach out for a bit of R&R, which was desperately needed. [...]
12/11/2007 12:41 PM
Watch Out for Your Accessories
Mostly our camera accessories work for us, but sometimes they get in the way. The Solution is a bit of do-it-yourself. Over recent months I have been experimenting with long exposure photography. To do this in normal daytime lighting requires the use of a very heavy neutral density filter or something like an infrared filter. These [...]
06/24/2007 08:47 PM
A recent flight to Sydney to deliver some photography workshops at the Sydney Hilton had me sitting in a window seat. So I spent the flight happily shooting IR out the window. Here is one of the resulting images:
12/11/2006 10:28 AM
Creating Animations from Still Images
To teach my 9 year old daughter how animation can be done, we set about creating the two short animations you can see here by taking many still images with Lauren’s camera with small changes made to the models for each one. We then put these together in Adobe Premier or iMovie and [...]
12/03/2006 08:08 PM
A World of Photography Exhbition Opening
We had the official opening of the ‘A World of Photography’ exhibition on the 30th of November, from 7pm onwards. This was the second event that brought people into the exhibition, the first being a celebration of the accreditation of the new degree course the Australian Academy of Design. Both events were well attended, with the [...]