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ok heres the deal. i dont really like livejournal, or more accurately, dont like how most of the journals are and the contents, etc. but really thats none of my buisness, but i do feel a little wierd doing this, but i want to try it out. ive written a script that automatically runs on my server once a day, it takes an photograph from a directory, puts it in a directory off the root of my webserver, then it posts a journal to live journal with nothing but that image. so the idea is that from now on, without anything to do with me, it will automatically have a new photograph post every day. and anyone who is interested can add this account as a friend and see it or whatever. i think the idea is kind of neat. its not a journal, blog, whatever, because if i really wanted that i would have it on my own site. i guess the thing is i am trying to see how something like this inside an existing system such as livejournal. so check it out, here the first picture was posted today, so there wont be a new one for 23 hours. but you can add me if you want. what do you think of this idea? |
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i like it. aw kitty |
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good idea. better than livejournal itself. full of emo .. emoness. |
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whatever man my livejournal rocks check it out: [May. 1st, 2005|12:32 am] dude i wish i could make a movie that was the a team but with all marvel heroes it would be like Hannibal=Nick Fury B.A. (Mr T)=Wolverine Face=i dunno Howlin' Mad Murdock=Spider Man Link 3 comments|Leave a comment |
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clever |
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mood: deeply thoughtful |
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i love all your photos on your website. wow. i really love your style. |
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hmm, thank you. i am in the middle of re scanning all my photographs from the negatives. they are honestly generally a million times better then the scans on there now which are from prints. ive also sort of finished up a new way of displaying the images which is nicer and without popups. this isnt even the best example but check out the difference: vs. |
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I'm impressed. |
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well when they make all the prints for a roll they apply blanket filters and stuff to whole sections, for instance a lot of pictures are outside they will apply a filtering process that generally makes your family holiday pictures look nicer a good example is (make sure you view it at 100%) so the exposure on that photo is pretty fucked, what with the direct into the sun, and its all pretty turqoise, so yeah the print has a nicer 'sky' blue, but its also over contrasty, lost lots of the detail in the darker shades, and also for reasons which i cant explain, is very blurry (all prints are when compared to neg scan??) and cropped for no reason! |
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yea, big difference. i love all the colors.. very 70's and raw. |
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i've got to get a scanner... |
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ill let you know when i get all the new photos up with the new site. basically its crazy because going through all my photographs ive picked out and scanned 680 so far, and am not really half way done. they wont all go up, but i am finding myself wanting to use a lot more because so many more are better then the prints. |
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dont use a flatbed and scan prints. if you can manage it (and it would be useful) get a film scanner. the ones that are a few years old now (but still top of the line) are pretty cheap because everyones into DSLRs. |
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ok. just out of curiosity - what's wrong with a flatbed? |
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wait, i misread your post. i would use a flatbed scanner to scan negatives, not prints. please tell me why this is wrong, if you do indeed think it's wrong. |
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r40f, nothing is wrong, i mean a flatbed is good for its just that i feel very decieved by years of scanning prints with a flatbed. i knew that neg scans would be better, but i didnt realize that prints (the ones you get back when a roll is developed) would be so terrible. i just mean that if you are serious about digitizing film, even though the cost is higher, i would fully recomend scanning from the source, the negative. make sense? |
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yeah, ok - we're on the same page then. i agree about scanning prints. thanks for the tips! |
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update: my plan is sort of working. i now have 8 people who have added me as a friend. i dont think any of you did. thats okay though. |
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I don't have a livejournal. |
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i'm on livejournal far to often, i'm going to add you because that's an interesting idea |
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this is exciting.. waiting for it to change.. |
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i've been staring at the page for hours now... i must find out what his next mood and music will be... it's live... |
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wait seriously, i can use my flatbed scanner to do scan negatives? |
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oh confusion. well basically some flatbeds come with an optional little adapter and they claim its for negs/slides. the problems with this are: resolution: if a flat bed is 1200dpi, the you can at best scan to an image 1200 pixels high. which is about one quarter of the height of an image i can scan with my 4000dpi film scanner. this is fine though, because often i only scan with my film scanner at 1000dpi anyways. so if you scan a print with the flat bed you can potential scan more image data because it is enlarged. but the print also sucks compared to the negative. colors: standard ccd sensors have trouble picking up all the colors in negatives. something about the cyan. also the scanner wont pick up the dynamic range at all as well as a film scanner. |
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that being said. if your scanner supports it, give it a try. hell the first negatives i ever digitized were with a 640x480 pixel capture card and a video camera, with the negs mounted between the lens and a lamp with tissues over it to diffuse the light. |
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i figured it was too good to be true. thank you for clearing it up. i might give it a shot anyway, though. |
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dennis is definitely the expert here. but my friend uses a flatbed scanner for negatives and they look really good to me. but i really don't know anything. |
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haha im not expert at all, and mimi you should deffinitly give it a try. it will certainly work to some extent, especially if you scanner has 'feature'. if it doesnt have a special holder or adapter it may or may not work. for instance my canoscan lide 30 will absolutly not scan negatives, no matter what i try. the way it scans the image it doenst pick up the colors at all. an older scanner worked to some extent if i mounted a lamp with something to diffuse the light over it above. sorry i really didnt mean to say that it can never work at all. |
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yay new picture! |
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yay indeed :D your LJ is now bookmarked. i really like this :) nice photos. |
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update: well it seems to be going well. i have just sort of left it to run free. i got a bunch of new 'friends' at the beggining but havnt really gotten any new ones in a while, i was hoping that my lj reverse-friend count would increase exponentially and i would eventually take over lj entirely. |
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