With all of the recent focus on one of my favorite sporting events, the Summer Olympics in Athens, I have been tying to find any photobloggers who are covering the event. Unfortunately, I haven't found any serious ones, but did find this brilliant Olympics Games At Home Series, via I'll Call You Zee. It seems there are some events that have been overlooked.

Also, if there are any photobloggers out there sharing the real Olympics or posts inspired by the Olympics, please share them with us all! Us Olympics Junkies can never get enough.

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I used to have the nasty habit of relying on the sharpening tool in Photoshop to "enhance" the detail of a digitial image.
The application of the shrpening tool, and sometimes the unsharp mask, would result in those ugly halos, which appear if hard edges are sharpened strong.

I recently left a comment behind at objective-view and the author of that fotoblog, Daniel, sent me an email reply referring to his tutorial on how to sharpen an inamge w/out getting noticable halos in the final edited image.

I though sharing it with the crowd was worthy, we all can use a tip to make us all more productive and better editors of our images...

Here is Daniel's tutorial. I hope you find it as useful as I did.

I wanted to spotlight a photo project that Mona Brooks is currently working on called Men & Quarterlife Crisis. She photographed 8 men in the Bay area and told their story with an interesting photographic twist. The portraits are stunning and amusing and are definitely worth checking out.

Also if you are in the Bay Area, Mona is looking for more males to shoot to expand her series.

Cheers
photojunkie

12 Months has just launched their first issue of their screen zine. Essentially it is a collaboration of various visual arts nicely packaged into a FLASH based episode.

Three new pictures of mine are included in this issue (The last three slides before the end credit) from the Abandon Whitby Mental Hospital.

Work has already begun on ine next installment. And they are always on the look out for new contributors.

Check it out.

We're getting together again this Saturday, 3pm:

Reverie Cafe
848 Cole St
San Francisco

(out back if the weather is good)

Parking can be a little nutty and if you find yourself circling the block one too many times, you can either head over to the Kezar Parking lot at the top of the Golden Gate Park or try heading up Clayton towards 17th. Public transportation might be your best bet as the N-Judah stops right at the corner of Carl & Cole.

Haven't posted in awhile and have had some time to look into some other sites, along with the motivation that Rannie mentioned some time back. I started looking at sites that have the California keyword in them, even though Crescent from Random Walk claims she lives in Boston now.

The two sites are...

Andy Clymer

and

Random Walk

I particularly enjoy Crescent's Black and White's

Two of my favorite photobloggers recently posted images that are quite different in subject matter, but strikingly reminiscent of one another. Check them out here:

Exposing Myself

Everyday Things Scene

In other news, check out this seriously analog photography project!

We have started a meme, FILE Magazine, that several of Photoblog.org's members have contributed to and which other members may enjoy participating in. You can see a list of our contributors here, and we have several others in the queue. We post a new image to The Collection every weekday, and we post new galleries as they are accepted.

The purpose of FILE is to collect and display photographs that treat subjects in unexpected ways. Alternate takes, odd angles, unconventional observations - these are some of the ways photographs collected in FILE reinterpret traditional genres. All amateur and professional photographers are encouraged to submit their work. You may submit as often as you like. FILE magazine accepts single images or multiple images with a unified theme. There are more specific details on submissions here.

Melange Magazine is looking for photo submissions. The theme for the upcoming issue is OF MEMORIES AND MEN. Feel free to interpret the theme however you want to.

If you would like an idea of how your submissions will look, click last issue's gallery.

Deadline August 25 2004.

If you would like to submit a photo essay rather than just photos, feel free to do so too. We are particularly looking for an interesting photo essay of a place. It doesn't have to be a foreign place; it could be the place you are living in now. In the last issue, Sara of jocund.org submitted a photo essay of her trip through Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This shouldn't bring up too many responses, but I'm still interested in what you have to say.

From seeing my site stats, I see that 71% of my viewers use dial-up, 88% use a 1024x768 resolution, 96% use IE, and only 52% have Flash installed.

I have wanted to post high quality, large shots of my photos. I've wanted to use some nifty image scripts to enhance the site. I've expiremented with Flash for my design. However, not everyone would be able to access or use them, the browser to make scripts work, or have the patience to have things load.

So what are the do's and don'ts of images on photoblogs? What are your recommendations for photo size; their file size; and just general things you like or avoid when it comes to photos or even their design on photoblogs? Should your site design be what you want, or what the general public wants (or can access)?