Shared Creation Magazine

High Dynamic Range (AKA HDR) photography is a post production technique that can produce startling bright, crisp and clear photographs using standard digital cameras. I recently came across an excellent tutorial on this subject and felt that it should be shared.

So to learn a lot more about HDR follow the link

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/high-dynamic-range.htm

Open Source commonly refers to software. Although in all truth almost anything that can be created can be open source, but that’s a diversion. Here’s the information.

The European Open Source Convention is an annual convention debating the changes and issues faced in managing free and open projects. Each year it attracts entrepreneurs, artists, software engineers, business people, and policy makers. This is a wide spread of people, and it is important. It runs between the 18th and 21st of September 2006.

It’s important because open source is a great enabler. Most of the Internet runs on Open Source software. Shared Creation runs on open source software. Open Source produces software for media creation. Right now on another computer I’m using an open source product to adjust some video footage as part of the Consumed project.

This is why we’re covering Open Source. Open Source can provide very low cost (potentially) free aids for all manner of creative projects. It is something that all artists and media creators need to be aware of. This is why it is worth looking at the output of the European Open Source Convention.

For more information take a look at the booking web site.
http://conferences.oreillynet.com/euos2006/

We’ll be taking a look at open source again in the future.

imagekind is a new place to have your work printed and sold. As usual you get to upload your own work. You also get to set your own sale price. If your price is over 100% of the wholesale price - imagekind gets a 5% cut.

So far not so different from over art sales sites.

Here though is where things do get a little new.

First of all the catalogue contains both members art and great many other commercial pieces, including quite a few classics. Then there is the interface - which is very easy to use. Finally there is a whole community going on with this site. So far members seem to be becoming fans of each others works and offering critiques to each other. Future plans include RSS feeds designed to make it easier to know when new work has been uploaded to various galleries.

This does sounds to me like a good combination of sales and networking. It could do very well indeed, both for itself and members.

imagekind can be found at: http://www.imagekind.com/

This years Usk Music Festival will be a celebration of 30 years of alternative music. The line up is very impressive and features

• The Damned
• The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
• 999
• Girlschool
• Spunge
• The Big
• Estevez
• Las Vegas Elvis
• Bitchpups

The festival is on August the 5th, starting at Midday and finishes around 11pm (ish). It will be held at the Agricultural College Grounds just outside of Usk.

For more information click here.

This looks like being a great festival and well worth a visit.