Episode 15

April 15th, 2008 · No Comments

With all of the controversy about the addition of videos to flickr, and the reformatting of group administration, this week’s show opens with a discussion about both of these issues. Members of the 365 Days group had the chance to weigh in last week on their feelings about video being included in the project, but the decision was fairly unanimous that video be kept out of 365 Days.

As far as the permissions, flickr is forcing us to either boot out members who are not deemed as ’safe’, or allow those members and make the group 18+, and not visible to the world outside flickr. This will also restrict our membership, and underage photographers will no longer be allowed to participate in the 365 Days group. Mav has been voicing his opinions on this issue pretty loudly, and appears to be getting his voice heard.

Stephen received some mail this week - a moo card from mickeysacks, who was on the show to talk about making photo books with Blurb, and a cool doodle from disco~stu.

After a tutorial on using diffusion, James Bruntz was back on the show with this week’s tip. With the help of his lovely wife, James discussed using cropping to improve composition, and create more dynamic images.

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

The podcast mini-challenge theme last week, Dramatic Lighting, inspired a ton of fantastic photos from members of the 365 Days group. The winner this week is a shadowy photo by dm74.

Our runner-up photo is from Mr. Fun., who used his dramatic lighting for a less intense effect.

We also had a viewer request a list of tutorials and the episodes in which they appear. This list will be up on the site as soon as we get the information together.

The show ended with a video Stephen put together over the weekend, to show that video on flickr can be a good thing.