Photo Sharing

The SmugMug Tale: MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, ...

By Don MacAskill

A story of scaling, in today's world - using modern technologies like ZFS, OpenStorage, MySQL, and more, running one of the world's most popular photo sharing sites - SmugMug.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

David Pogue's "Top Ten Tips of All Time" for Digital Photography - O'Reilly ...

By Mary Rotman

If you're ready to jump into digital photography or would like to increase the skills you already have, David Pogue's Digital Photography: The Missing Manual is just what you need. In this brand new book, bestselling author David Pogue provides a no-nonsense guide to the entire process, including how to buy and use a digital camera, get the same photographic effects as the pros, manage the results on your Mac or PC, edit photos, and share the results with your adoring fans. Here are David's "Top Ten Tips of All Time" for digital photography.

[Publish Date: January 16, 2009]

iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual--New from O'Reilly: Answers Found Here!

Sebastopol, CA—iPhoto '09 makes it easier than ever to transfer photos from a digital camera, organize them, and publish, print, or share them. The latest version boasts loads of exciting new features--including automatic face-recognition, easier...

[Publish Date: May 14, 2009]

Venice Carnival Photos - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

By Rick Sammon

Hey All - Just back from Carnival in Venice. Here is one of my favorite photos. More to come. Just wanted to share a photo.It's a daylight fill-in flash shot. I balanced the light from the flash to the daylight - so it does not look like a flash picture. The technique: meter the scene with your camera on Manual and set the exposure. Turn on your flash. Set the +/- exposure compensation to - 1 1/3 for starters. Check your camera's LCD monitor. Fine-tune your flash exposure compensation until no shadows (from the flash) are visible.

[Publish Date: March 11, 2008]

Going Places on Flickr: The Significance of Geographical Information in ...

By Dan Catt

Dan Catt, senior engineer of popular photo-sharing community Flickr and one of the pioneers of geotagging, will discuss the significance of geographical information in photos and the trends in this area moving forward.

[Publish Date: May 12, 2008]

Rick Sammon shares his secrets - O'Reilly FYI Blog

By Kathryn Barrett

Last month photographer Rick Sammon, author of 28 books on digital photography, including his latest, Face-to-Face: Rick Sammon's Complete Guide to Photographing People gave a live webcast, sharing some of his top tips for taking great digital photos and answering questions from the audience. His pictures—including some from his latest trip to Papua New Guinea—are stunning and his knowledge is invaluable. If you missed the live show, you can still benefit from his expert advice—just watch the movie!

[Publish Date: August 05, 2008]

Speaker: Heather Champ: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2008 - Co-produced by ...

As the Director of Community at Flickr, Heather Champ oversees member activities for one of the world's largest and most popular photo sharing communities. She joined the Flickr team in May 2005 and has seen the community grow to more than 23 million members who have shared more than 2 billion photos.

[Publish Date: April 22, 2008]

Last Great Photo Adventure - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

By Rick Sammon

Hey All! Just back from Papua New Guinea (PNG) - one of the last great adventures left on the planet. An adventure due, in part, to the clan wars that have been going on for generations. The other parts? I'll share some stories at Photoshop World. Hint: has to do with two machetes!! Here is a favorite shot - which did not, like all my PNG shots, make my new O'Reilly Face to Face book, which was actually published when I was there...

[Publish Date: June 10, 2008]

MobileMe Gallery: Unleashing photos into the wild - Inside Aperture

By Dominique James

One of the things I really like about Aperture is how it changed, simplified and organized the way I share, show, submit, distribute, present, and output my final images. At one time or another, I must have, and I still...

[Publish Date: September 17, 2008]

Flickr's Burning Man Map Uses Open Street Map - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

Flickr is best known for its photo-sharing, but increasingly its most innovative work is coming from its geo-developers (Radar post). Yesterday they announced the addition of a street-level map of Black Rock City so that we can view geotagged Burning Man photos. Flickr got the mapping data via Open Street Map's collaboration with Burning Man. Flickr uses Yahoo! Maps...

[Publish Date: August 26, 2008]

Earthmine: Imagery for a 3D Geoweb - O'Reilly Radar

By Brady Forrest

The geoweb is going 3D. Google is bringing Google Earth into the browser via a plug-in. Photosynth, 3D photo collection creator and viewer, is moving into the Microsoft's Virtual Earth team (this was posted about on July 26th; the post was removed, but is still findable in the cache's of both Google and Live). Google's Panoramio, a location-oriented photo-sharing...

[Publish Date: August 01, 2008]