Do you macro?
I find that closeup major photography can be the most challenging photos I take. Focus and depth of focus are a constant challenge along with the fact that the breeze almost always picks up when I am shooting.
Digital Photography School always has the best advice and tutorials. Check out their entire site! — Douglas
This article will detail five camera settings that are essential and which all macro photographers should know. It was inspired by Will Nichols’ excellent tips Five Camera Settings Every New Photographer Needs to Know. You will notice two main themes in this article – ensuring a perfect point of focus and ensuring maximum sharpness. Both of which are critical in macro photography.
Included in the list of settings are Manual Focus, Manual Mode, Live View, the self-timer, and burst mode. By familiarizing yourself with these settings, your macro photography will grow by leaps and bounds.
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An interesting link found among my daily reading
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My Favorite Things: The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature Digital Archive
I am not sure exactly where I stumbled across this site, but it is amazing — especially if you are interested in or researching children’s literature. The digital archive allows you to page through books from the comfort of your own home without ever visiting the University of Florida’s Libraries. Of course, you could also visit and see the books up close.
Some example covers
The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida’s George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 130,000 books and periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day. The Library also has manuscript collections, original artwork, and assorted ephemera such as board games, puzzles, and toys. The Baldwin Library is known for comparative editions of books, with special emphasis on Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim’s Progress, Aesop’s Fables, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Library also has the largest collection of Early American Juvenile Imprints of any academic institution in the United States.
Other strengths and distinctions of the Baldwin Library include: marginalia and inscriptions, the Hans Christian Andersen Awards Collection, Little Golden Books, religious tracts, and illustrated editions from the Golden Age of Children’s Literature. Scholars worldwide use the Baldwin Library for research in fables, fairy tales, alphabet books, morality tales and religious tracts, conduct of life, gender roles, comparison of editions, adventure stories, and boys’/girls’ series books.
As always, let me know what types of interesting items you would like to see and I will keep an eye out for them especially. — Douglas
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Free art books online from the Metropolitan and Guggenheim Museums from MetaFIlter
Free is good. Free is even great, when the free items are of such high quality as these books from the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum. Yes, all of these are older and mostly out of print editions, but they are all evergreen publications that still retain almost all their value.
One standout item is this Tutankhamun publication from 1976 filled with amazing photographs and explanatory text.
You’ll need to poke around a bit in each site to find publications that interest you most, but there is something here for nearly everyone — from Impressionism and Illumination to Klee and Kandinsky.
From MetaFilter…
The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim offer 474 free art books online. 99 art catalogs from the Guggenheim. 375 MetPublications. An example: Masterpieces of Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A few of the exceptional gems to explore from the Met: Images of the first big museum blockbuster show (worth checking out): “Tutankhamun”: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 34, no. 3 (Winter, 1976–1977), Origins of Impressionism, The Art of Illumination, Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 …and more!
Previously on Link Focus:
Link Focus is a series that comments on some of the links I share on my social media accounts and here on the web site. To get these links as I find them, subscribe to me on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and elsewhere. Also look for the “My Favorite Things” posts that appear regularly in the blog. These include collections of links for each calendar month.
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As always, let me know what types of interesting items you would like to see and I will keep an eye out for them especially. — Douglas
Get new shared links as I find them via my social media feeds:
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- I have most of these apps on my various mobile and Macintosh devices. Found a few new ones to try, though
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- A good list of suggestions for the beginning podcaster. I agree with most all the equipment mentioned, although I am still an inveterate Garageband user for all of my audio podcast work.
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- Yet another photography app for the iPhone. Each one tries to find its niche and this one want to be a notepad replacement, in some ways. I still use the basic iPhone camera app as I haven’t found one that offers me additional value.
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- I love me my bubbly. This is quite a complex project, but gives some understanding of how carbonation works that you might be able to apply to simply projects.
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- For folks like me who design and maintain their own web sites, having a nice set of icons on hands, let alone 45 of them, can be very helpful. Free makes them even better and easier to try out.
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- I spend a lot of time with headphones or earbuds on, so it is good to see some nice alternatives from one of the pioneers of the audio world.
- New Media / 25 Ways to Improve Online Content
- Always looking for ways to improve my own online content, so I was almost sure to read this article. Found a few new things to try out, but also loved that podcasting was included. I wish more people would create podcasts. I think it can provide a lot of value. regardless of the type of work you do.
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- My gifted Chromecast has become my go-to media player of choice, so it only makes sense to read up on how to get the most from it.
- Food / The Year’s Best Cookbooks
- This post sent me scurrying to my local library’s web site to start placing some holds. I am greatly looking forward to what I will find when the cookbook arrive. Some might even be available as ebooks, too.
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- There are times when you just need to save that online content locally, especially since content disappears from the Internet every day. My college professor wife has been saved by a quick download on a number of occasions, as she has recommended content to her students, that has subsequently disappeared.
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- Gardening AND Beatrix Potter, need I say more! Find out more about the woman who created Peter Rabbit and a host of other wonderful tails. The tie in with gardening is an added benefit for me, too.
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- Want to dive in and learn a little about programming? Here are 5 great suggestions for places to start.
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- Amazing etchings. Since this work is out of copyright, I am thinking of doing a video reading of The Raven, illustrated with these etchings. Hmmm, maybe something for next Halloween?
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- Although I love the Chromecast, as I mentioned above, I have the need to stream other media files to my TV, too. I use XMBC right now, but I am always looking for alternatives with new/better features.
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- I love life-tracking and life blogging and this app keeps track of where your spend your time throughout your days and weeks. Interesting stats to look through, I think.
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- As I continue to work on losing weight and eating more healthy, I have expanded my tastes a little from my usually fussy habits. We love soup here and this one sounds like an interesting combination. In fact, this week I added chickpeas directly to our typical chicken soup and it was great.
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- It is hard to imagine what job a sociology major might look for after graduation, but this post provides 5 to get you started including social worker, human service specialist and even market researcher.
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- Managing is hard, but I think these 5 characteristics can help anyone do their best. I wish more of my manager had taken heed of #1: Be technically literate. You don’t have to know how to code, but at least have a basic understanding of the technology that helps your company do what they do.
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- Never hurts to look for alternatives to my own, typical recipes. Never know what special tricks, treats or spices you might find that can give your recipes a little kick.
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- As someone who shouldn’t be eating Mac & Cheese at all, but loves it, this might be a way to get a similar taste and flavor to scratch the culinary itch without exploding my waist line.
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- I have been eating a lot more salads lately, too, so anything that helps to mix up the flavors a bit is greatly appreciated.
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- My new life focus has gotten me more deeply interested in photography, so articles like this catch my eye. I learned years ago that “getting” close is often the secret to great photos and I often shoot a lot of detail shots no matter what the subject.
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- The entire family are history buffs and my wife has a History Doctorate. Further, we are all Anglophiles, so it was great spending a few moments with this post and learning one way which London was able to survive World War II.
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- Hackaday Meetup info for Los Angeles for the Makers in the city. Event might be past, but use the link to connect to more information.
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- I often put tickets, labels and other pieces of paper in my journals. I don’t think I could go whole hog with this stapler idea, as it make the journal itself too large, but it is an interesting concept that might work for some journal creators.
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- Sometimes the best to bring home you meaning is to reverse it and play it out to absurdity. Of course, we might be a little embarrassed to find ourselves in this article, but sometimes embarrassment can lead to some deep learning.
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- Arduino continues to fascinate me and I find myself collecting link after link of information on it. I am also passing on most of these to my son’s technology focus teacher at his high school.
- Food / lentils! (including in sweet potato shepherd’s pie) – A Way to Garden
- More healthy recipes and more ways to bring lentils into our diet. I first discovered i like them when having them as the traditional food of New Year’s Eve (Capo D’Anno) in Sicily.
- Food recipe: barbecue baked lentils, minus the grill – A Way to Garden
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- Even the most dedicated gardeners can fall into a rut. A great article to have in your garden journal for those time you need a like kick.
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- I have been playing with using high ISO in my photographs lately, and this article gives great reasons why to use it and also how to get the most from it. My trial and error produced a few nice photos but this gives me several more tricks to try out the next time I am shooting in low light.
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- Selfie made it into the Oxford English Dictionary this year, so why shouldn’t there be an app to make it even easier. I could see this also being useful in creating an iPad-based photo booth for parties and events.
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- Again, anything that gets media onto my big screen is of interest to me — and the simpler, the better.
- New Media / Sony’s 4K Camcorder: A YouTuber’s Dream
- 4K video is coming and here is an expensive, yet affordable camera to bring it into the consumer world. I can’t imagine how long it woudl take to edit and process 4K video, but I am sure it is amazing to watch on an compatible screen.
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- As a long time freelancer, I found myself nodding yes to each and every one of these items — especially on the one about not taking on too much work.
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- Setting this post aside for the next time I visit the UK. I want/need to hit up more gardens on our next trip. There are so many wonderful ones to choose from.
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- Bringing the pro down to the YouTuber, yet another device to help you deliver smooth and steady videos for your projects.
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- Several of Michael Pollans’ books have passed through my reading list and this one focusing on cooking promises to be a treat.
- Photography / The Best Photography Apps for iPhone: 2014 Edition
- Another list of iPhone apps to help you make great photos. To each his own. I am sure there is something here for nearly every iPhonographer.
- Technology / Kindle for iOS updated with flashcards, notebook filters and better search
- We have 2 Kindles here, and make extensive use of the Kindle apps on our computers. Joe even uses his for some high school textbooks. As a writer who has produced several Kindle books, it behooves me to keep up on the state of the art for Kindle, too.
- Food / Frugal Foodie Friday – Ramen Noodle Salad
- Adding pasta to a salad is probably not the bets idea for losing weight, but everyone needs a change now and then.
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- Creatives are a unique bunch and their works needs are often quite different than more typical job seekers. It is good to see someone focusing on sources for jobs in this niche area.
- Technology / EnLighten tells you when your traffic light is going to change
- An odd app for iPhone, but one I want to try out. Not yet available to work here in Los Angeles, but I like trying out a wide variety of apps, so this one has made it to my phone in preparation for its availability here.
- Technology / Getting Started with BeagleBone Black
- Like the Arduino posts linked above, I love keeping up on what is happening in the Maker work of Arduino and other small computer likes the BeagleBone.
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- I once read the textbook used at the Culinary Institute of America not because I was interested in becoming a chef, but because I was intrigued about how I could use their techniques in my own kitchen. This gave me a few more sauces to try out and some tips on how to make my typical sauces even better.
- Food / The Nightcap: An Old-Fashioned Ritual
- What’s the story behind the night cap besides being an easy come-on the end of a date. (LAUGH) Why the last tipple of an evening can sometimes be the best.
- Food / Slow Cooker Vegan Chickpea Chili
- I will probably never be a vegan eater, but there are recipes that tempt me out of my typical meat-eating ways. While I make my own special chili, this one sounded interesting enough to try at least once.
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- Food / Morning Glory Oats
- Photography / Perspective in Photography – Don’t just stand there move your feet!
- Career / Why Empathy Is Your Most Important Skill (and How to Practice It)
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- Technology / Nudge Tracks All Your Health Information in One App
- Art / Free books from the Getty
- Technology / All library audiobooks going to DRM-free MP3s
- Food / Make Your Own Baking Powder Next Time You Run Out
- Technology / Mother: adorable connected sensor network
- Garden / 7 Native Wildflowers to Make You an Awesome Butterfly Host (8 photos)
- New Media / iRig Mic HD brings a hand-held option to iOS and Mac recording for $99
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