Pat McManus speaks at JFK

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Originally uploaded by ewuphoto

I shot this yesterday at the Pat McManus reading in the Kennedy Library on the Cheney campus of Eastern Washington University. The turn out was exceptional with approximately 350 people in attendance. The lighting in JFK is horrendous. Mixed lighting with overcast daylight streaming through the windows and a nasty mix of tungsten and fluorescents. I just picked a white balance that would give him the best skin tone. Pat McManus to see the rest of the set. for more photos.

A Bridge to flickr: Metadata Propagation

Here's a little table that is in beta. It is an attempt to determine what metadata fields Adobe Bridge inputs and flickr outputs. This can help with serialization of media content.

Data Sets	Adobe Bridge CS3	flickr.com
File Properties	Filename	*Information may be propagated from Filename, Title or Headline.
	Document Type	File Type:
	Application	Software:
	Date File Created	Date and Time (Original):
	Date File Modified	Date and Time (Modified):
	File Size	File Size:
	Dimensions	Image Width: and Image Height:
	Dimensions (in inches)	Dependant upon Dimensions and Bit Depth
	Resolution	X-Resolution: and Y-Resolution:
	Bit Depth	Bits Per Sample:
	Color Mode	Color Space:
IPTC Core	Creator	Artist: and By-line:
	Creator: Job Title	By-line Title:
	Creator: Address	Creator Address:
	Creator: City	Creator City:
	Creator: State/Province	Creator Region:
	Creator: Postal Code	Creator Postal Code:
	Creator: Phone(s)	Creator Work Telephone:
	Creator: Email(s)	Creator Work Email:
	Creator: Website(s)	Creator Work URL:
	Headline	Headline:
	Description	Caption- Abstract:
	Keywords	Keywords: and Subject:
	IPTC Subject Code	Subject Code:
	Description Writer	Caption Writer:
	Date Created*	Date Created:
	Intellectual Genre	Intellectual Genre:
	IPTC Scene	Scene:
	Location	Location:
	City	City:
	State/Province	Province- State:
	Country	Country- Primary Location Name:
	ISO Country Code	Country Code:
	Title	Object Name:
	Job Identifier	Original Transmission Reference:
	Instructions	Instructions:
	Provider	Credit:
	Source	Source:
	Copyright Notice	Copyright:
	Copyright Status
	Rights Usage Terms	Usage Terms:
	Raw Filename	Raw File Name:
Camera Data (EXIF)	Exposure Mode	Exposure Mode:
	Focal Length	Focal Length:
	Lens	Lens:
	Max Aperture Value	Max Aperture Value:
	Flash	Flash Mode:
	Metering Mode	Metering Mode:
	Custom Rendered	Custom Rendered:
	White Balance *Note this value is of the original image.	White Balance: *Note this value is of the original image.
	Scene Capture Type	Scene Capture Type:
	Serial Number	*Not displayed.
Camera Raw	Raw Filename	Raw File Name:
	White Balance *Note this value is of the adjusted Raw image.	White Balance: *Note this value is of the adjusted Raw image.
	Temperature	Temperature:
	Tint	Tint:
	Exposure	Exposure:
	Recovery	Saved Settings Parameters Highlight Recovery:
	Fill Light	Saved Settings Parameters Fill Light:
	Blacks	Shadows:
	Brightness	Brightness:
	Contrast	Contrast:
	Vibrance	Vibrance:

Flickr Slide Shows: An Easy Way to Show your Stuff

At Eastern Washington University, I am working to push the utilization and power of our online photo archive housed on flickr. Our site, ewuphoto, contains over 1,300 original photos and has accumulated almost 30,000 hits. What makes flickr cool is it built-in sharing functionality. You can download, link, email and embed approved content from our site but the killer app is its slide shows.

The slide shows are great. The content can be pulled directly from a bunch of different criteria including: photostreams, collections, sets and keywords. They look great, can be resized to fit different frames and can go full-screen with the single button click. Check out EWU's phototour for a great example of how this was implemented. In this case I made a set in flickr unique to the slide show. The slide show is Flash and it loads pretty quickly. The beauty of this is that if you want to change the photos in your slide show you don't have to go and rebuild the flash document, you simply go to flickr and update the set with the photos you want. Utter simplicity.

Score Me!

I just found a fun new way to interact with other people's photos on flickr. Score Me! (post 1, score 5) is a flickr Group that requires you to rate the photo of five other photographers in order to post your own. In return you get five rating on your own photo. It is pretty interesting to see how others view your art. It also forces you to evaluate others. I think I grade a little easily. Usually nothing lower that a 5.

The Other Father

I watched Coraline on Saturday with my family. I was pleasantly surprised in the fine quality of the story-telling. It may have been a little too deep for my 7 year-old, but the 10 year-old got it.

There is a cool flash builder on the site that allows you to upload a photo and put buttons over you eyes. Check it out.