Today’s links, all photography related it seems…

• How to Take Great Photos of an Electronics Product with a Digital Camera

• Photoshop tutorial to make an angel from Jessica Alba

• Limburgs Museum exposeert kleurendia’s van Alphons Hustinx uit WOII colored WWII pictures exposition.

• Free image denoising, inpainting and resizing software e.g. removes overlayed text from images.

Sparklines

I’ve always been some kind of a fan of Edward Tufte since I discovered his beautiful exquisite books. You have to check it out if you are interested in visual representation of information.

Today I was searching for a blog by or on Tufte and I stumbled upon the sparklines idea, it’s already a few years old, but there’s now a new draft of the sparklines chapter from Tufte’s forthcoming book “Beautiful Evidence“.

Implementations:

• Computer implementation of sparklines on Tufte’s website
• Web implementations in Python, Javascript, Ruby
• Javascript and Photoshop
• Javascript and XBM
• Javascript and SVG
• Java and Javascript
• CSS (Python code to generate it)
• and more if you google for it…

Sparklines are apparently becoming popular. There’s even a Sparkline Wiki and sparklines.org directs to Tufte’s home pages.

today’s (and yesterday’s) links

Tim Berners-Lee’s post on creating a URI for yourself with FOAF

Unreal pictures of reality by Olivo Barbieri, the post’s comments have links to other unreal photographers like Loretta Lux.