Qtpfsgui

Like many linux applications Qtpfsgui has a stupid name – it isn’t catchy or memorable for any other reason than being daft. It seems like a bit of a waste because Qtpfsgui is a great little app for creating HDR images. It is completely free, available from the Ubuntu repositories and will accept most image files.

Results are a bit hit & miss and I must admit, I should get around to reading the manual (here -

…but you can’t really go wrong for free! Best of all, it’ll even allow you to Tone-map your images too.

A Change of Heart

I have to admit, I do have quite a short attention span. I don’t suddenly stop liking things after a short time, but I do get side-tracked by other things. I’ve always had a bit of a camera thing running in the back of my mind and after seeing a Nikon D80 in Jessops for a bargain price, I suddenly felt a renewed surge of interest.

Inspiration
The problem I have is now is inspiration. I often look at other people’s pictures on Flickr and wonder how it crossed the photographers mind to take a picture of that, or where they got the inspiration from to take it that way. Birds make it easy for you in a way – you rarely have enough time to think about how you are going to take the shot, so as long as it is close enough you shoot and go. Unfortunately the hard part is finding the bird, getting close enough, focussing and shooting in a way that avoids camera shake.

I’ve also been living in the same city for most of my life now and it is hard to see any of my surroundings as interesting enough to be worth pointing a camera at. I forget that where I post – Flickr – a lot of the locations may be new and interesting to the people looking at them. Still its a psychological hump I’m going to have to get over…

Still, at least the camera is awesome and the lens that inspired the upgrade from the D40 is pretty good too, although the same lens with VR would be nice! Would be cheaper to buy a monopod though!

I still love linux though and will keep blogging it – although possibly with a more photographic theme. There are countless free apps that aid your image editing.

Later!