Polaroid Week Fall 2008 starts tomorrow—Monday, 27 October, 2008! Shoot some Polaroids and upload them to the Polaroid Week 2008 group on Flickr—you can participate with a free account! About ‘Roid Week Fall 2008 It’s that time again…..POLAROID WEEK! This one is a little bittersweet — as you all know, Polaroid has

Shoot some Polaroids, head on over to the ‘Roid Week 2008 group on Flickr (a free account will do), and jump on in! This time I’ll be shooting expired 669 and Fuji FP-100C and FP-100B peel-apart/pack films and 600 & 779 with a Super Shooter, an Automatic 100, an SLR 680, a Spectra, and a [...]

Polaroid Week 2008 is a month away! Shoot 5 Polaroids and upload them to the Polaroid Week 2008 group on Flickr—you can participate with a free account! Get your cameras out, stock up on film, and get ready to shoot, Polaroid Week 2008 starts this Monday, 21 April, 2008! About ‘Roid Week 2008 It’s that [...]

Polaroid Week 2008 is a month away! Shoot 5 Polaroids and upload them to the Polaroid Week 2008 group on Flickr—you can participate with a free account! The quality of the work produced for this event has been extremely high in the past—a mid-week roundup from the last one is here. Don’t miss out on [...]

Shoot Polaroids and upload them to the Polaroid Week 2007 group on Flickr: Seven days. Seven polaroids. (or more if you’re so inspired, just not more than 3 a day) Starting on Monday October 1. So, dust off your SX70, Spectra, 600 or Polaroid weapon of choice this week and start shooting! Or dig out [...]

Flickr members Cate and Lori Baker (Lori just finished co-editing the now-available benefit photography book, Signs of Life: Surviving Katrina [blogged previously]) have declared 11–15 September, 2006, to be Roid Week! The idea is simple: shoot a Polaroid a day for five days and post them to the Roid Week group on Flickr. Roids! Cate! [...]

Photo sharing/community site Flickr launched a geotagging feature today that allows you to see where a photo was taken on a map. Details at FlickrBlog.

Strobist have just started a virtual boot camp for anyone interested in improving their lighting skills: The main point of SBC is to nudge those photographers out there who have not made the transition to actually trying this lighting stuff out to make the jump. Secondarily, we will hopefully all get a chance to see [...]

Some members of the NYC Social group on Flickr have started a "a photocentric, photolicious podcast featuring interviews with New York City Photoheads". While the Web site, newyorkflickr.com, is still a little rough around the edges, don’t let that stop you from listening to the engaging first eposide, which features a photo and history stroll [...]

Sean Scanlon of bluedot has written an open source Perl script that will add camera make and model EXIF fields to JPGs. EXIF is a standard for embedding exposure-related metadata such as camera make, model, lens focal length, shutter time, f/stop, etc. in image files. The data can be searched by image management databases, remind [...]