100,000 + Hits on flickr

The Eastern Washington University flickr account has hit over 100,000 hits today. The first upload on the account occurred on July 8th, 2008 with a single photo of the front of Showalter Hall. Currently there are 2,745 images on the site.

The current methodology I am working with is to increase social networking by utilizing flickr as a image feeder. An example can be found here. It is an monthly newsletter sent to the University staff and includes photos fed by flickr and linked back to the photo on flickr.

With the posting photo sets to the University facebook fan page and the inclusion of flickr on the University's website redesign, the sky is the limit for the growth of this account.

Yoda's Brick

Here is a shot I did for EWU's Alumni Association. Their recent campaign to pave the Hello Walk in front of Showalter Hall has had a measure of success. It appears that Yoda of Star Wars fame was actually an alumni of Eastern Washington University. I thought it would make an interesting Stumble! so I flagged it and tagged it "Star Wars Yoda Brick Quote". As of a few minutes ago It recieved 1,524 hits. Pretty remarkable considering that the University's next most viewed photograph has a little over 500 and has been up for about nine months. Props to StumbleUpon and the power of Star Wars.

FamCam

Here is my favorite frame from I shoot I had today at the University. It was titled "FamCam" and is intended to be a photo message home to family and friends of students living at EWU. I used my favorite Balcar Mini Z1 with and umbrella until the wind knocked the thing over and damaged the brella. Hence this was shot with a bare bulb. I processed it in Lightroom 2. I didn't have to do much editing as the exposure was pretty decent from the camera.

Ivana

Here's a shot I took of a Music faculty member. Strobist info: two Norman strobes shot through Chimera soft boxes and a Balcar Mini Z1.

Theater Ad #3

Here is another theater spot I mixed using Apple's Soundtrack.

BeFunky

Found this cool online photo manipulation app at www.befunky.com. This is supposed to be an Andy Warhol effect.

Fitness Center

This is one of my favorite frames from a recent shoot I did at the Fitness Center at EWU. Using Lightroom 2, I color balanced the light and reshaped the tone curve to give it a more industrial look.

Turkeys

Here's a shot I took in the spring of 2008. The exposure was terrible. The white balance was shifted extremely pink. I used Lightroom 2 to pull a reasonable exposure. I cranked the vibrance up to pull some richness in the colors. I love what vibrance does to polarized windows, it turns them a beautiful shade of teal blue. It was exciting seeing wild turkeys foraging around on the front lawn of Showalter Hall.

New flickr Widget

Get this widget at roytanck.com

I found this cool widget at roytanck.com. It is pretty cool although it did take me a minute to figure out where to get the RSS of my photostream. I resized it to 400 pixels square to better fit this blog. The rotation of the globe is affected by mouse-over also. Pretty cool.