Note the file number!
So it’s the 10,000th photo taken with my Canon 400D, I thought it deserved some sort of commemoration. I know that’s not such a crazy huge number considering I’ve had the camera three years, but hey I was half expecting something really exciting to happen since 9,999 is all the counter goes up to, but all it did was create a new folder and prefix (101) and start again from zero.
The photo? Taken in Sainsbury’s car park, Chester. The automatic white balance doesn’t work with streetlamps it seems from the histogram. I liked how the trolleys started off in regimented rowns then gave way to disruption. I’ll upload it or one of the others soon if they’re any good.
Incidentally this is the first post written, photo added and published using the WordPress Android app on my T-Mobile G1. It seems okay, bit of a clunky interface and not sure if it’ll scale the image but usable none the less.
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Ladybird 1 (IMG_9728)
I thought it might be a fun idea every once in a while to take a photo from my flickr photostream, and describe in a bit more detail how I got the photo. Today we’ll look at ‘Ladybird 1′.
This ladybird popped out of a lettuce, and I just had to shoot it. The lens was actually a Canon EF 18-55 mounted backwards to make a macro lens; a clever trick I found on the internet. It works very well, although of course with no autofocus you’re left swinging your head back and forth like a pigeon. The backdrop you see is actually our kitchen worktop, with natural lighting from the left supplimented with a plain paper reflector on the right and another sheet bouncing the camera’s flash from above. I love how the head on angle makes something normally thought of as cute and adorable frankly terrifying. Somehow this photo got quite a bit darker in the transition from Lightroom to Flickr, which is why it looks a little underexposed here.
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I hate to blab on about Helvetidoodle, but this is too funny – some Japanese blog has picked up on the similarities between Helvetidoodle and Helvetica and written what seems to be (Google translate isn’t ace) a quite praising comparison:
http://translate.google.co.uk/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://www.nutspress.com/2009/12/15/helvetica-and-helvetidoodle/&ei=GfZ1S_fqBoTw0wSM5sWmCQ&sa=X&oi=translate&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CBoQ7gEwBg&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhelvetidoodle%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla:en-GB:official%26hs%3DsLR
While we’re looking at other blogs, I was pleased to see my font got chosen for Font Friday in December at Poppytalk:
http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2009/12/font-friday.html
I don’t want to seem vain, but this is fascinating!
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So today you’ll notice teamtownend.com has a new homepage. As you can see, it features my blog entries front and foremost, so it’ll give you a lot more reason to return regularly! I’m still tinkering with the style so don’t get too settled yet, I think those big green stripes above need some work.
For those of you who never saw the old site, I moved the homepage to a subdirectory so you can see how it evolved!
For now I’m sticking with the old portfolio layout which you can see here, since I spent a whole day just last week squashing a little javascript bug in the popups, but eventually I may think about integrating it into this site.
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Actually, it’s been Creative Commons licensed for quite a while now but I thought I deserved some hyperbole.
Pigeon on roof (IMG_9025)
Under this license you may copy, distribute and display my photographs, and also edit or change them to make derivative versions, providing you give me credit for my part. I love the concept that I can trip over my photos in all sorts of places. That’s why I ask whenever someone used my photos that they email me.
You can find my photos for download at my Flickr photostream, or I offer higher resolutions upon request
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Quite amusingly, I recently received an email from an art student in San Francisco who wanted to tell me she’s using my typeface in a project for the San Francisco Art Institute. You can see how she and her fellow student used it at their website: www.loppedoff.com (It’s probably not really safe for work).
I particularly like the extremely tight cropping of the text, while still retaining readability, to represent the ‘lopped off’ theme. This is exactly the way I envisioned the typeface being used, with headers in Helvetidoodle and body text in Helvetica so as not to look too busy.
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The other day I noticed on my dafont.com profile that Helvetidoodle has passed the 20,000 downloads milestone, all within two months of it being released! This is way more than I ever expected to get – and I’m delighted with the ways it’s already been used by those out there. It’s even earned me 99p so far from a donation!
Helvetidoodle at dafont.com: http://www.dafont.com/helvetidoodle-by-ed-t.font
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Welcome to Edward Townend’s new blog! Here I’ll (probably) post updates regarding me, cycling, graphic design and anything cool I find on the web.
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