I liked Darcy’s Diana medium format camera so much that when I went to buy her a fisheye camera (with waterproof housing!) from the lomography site, I fell for a Holga. Very nice looking camera, and fun to take pictures with. Anyway, I got back my first two rolls yesterday, one square and one rectangle. Turns out that the included film was all slide film except one roll, so the squares are normal film and the rectangles are not. Here’s the ones that didn’t come out as black squares :-) Click through for a huge version.

I’m particularly fond of the double exposure of Darcy with the red and blue flash, the clouds and the blue flash mustang.

I’m taking a GUI design class right now and for slightly odd reasons he is having us do mini-projects in Photoshop and Flash. For the last bit of the Photoshop one we were supposed to cut Lance Armstrong out of a picture and put him in any background we wanted. I choose the gates to Mordor and I’m quite proud of the results.

Click through for the full size, it’s worth it I think.

I messed with F-Spot today. Or rather, from about 1:30 to 2:30 this morning. For those too lazy to follow the link, F-Spot is a photo manager, much like Picasa or that iPhoto garbage. Anyway, you can sort, view, crop, enhance and tag the living daylights out of your photo collection with it.

I really like the interface, it’s very intuitive and much like Picasa (or vice versa, I dunno which came first). The tags and filtering are great, and provide nice visual cues for your sorting. There are also numerous editing tools and they seem to work at very respectable speeds, and lossless no less.

My problem is that my pictures are a real mess of folders, and very few are tagged with the correct date and time in the EXIF info. It looks like I’m going to have to go through adding a folder at a time and weeding out dupes and stuff. That might take a while, but I think it will be absolutely worth it. I’m gonna get some sleep now.