Attila Acs

This is Byron Bay

2009-11-14T16:08:23Z

As part of my second 365 project, I did an extension of a t-shirt design:

This is Byron Bay - Photoshop Colour Drawing

This is Byron Bay - Photoshop Outlines

This is Byron Bay - Original TShirt

Finished my first 365 project!

2009-11-08T10:34:53Z

One year ago I set out to take one photo each day and this weekend I finished this project!

Yesterday I took the last photo of the year: I first wanted to take an appropriate big "summary" photo but then I thought a trip to Birmingham's "Music Live" would be a good opportunity to see one of my 365 photos in all its glory as a HUGE print. So here it is... And this is the image it was based on: Sound Knowledge

To wrap up, I gotta say that I learned so much even if most days were rushed or uninspired. And looking through the streams and discussions of 365 Community gave me so many ideas and helped me tremendously along the way. It's more work than I thought it would be but mainly it's a great exercise of getting organised and plan your days right. Having my camera with me (which I now know inside-out thanks to this project!) has come in handy a few times at work but I still don't see myself as a photographer.

I'll see tomorrow if I can go one day without a photo but if not then I'll just start my second year...

Now that I checked my other photos of today I think this is one of the weaker ones. Some nicer ones are here.

SAE Quicktips Intros

2009-11-01T15:44:26Z

I recently finished two short intros for SAE UK using 360 panorama photos of an audio studio and a film green-screen. Click below for a preview:

Celebrity Smilies

2009-10-31T15:09:07Z

After a few years of not doing any new smilies for my forum I decided to add a couple of new ones to refresh my pixel-art skills a bit. Here are a few I've been working on (including my old ones)

Slash (Guns n Roses, Velvet Revolver)

Duff McKagan (Guns n Roses, Velvet Revolver, Loaded)

Matt Sorum (Guns n Roses, Velvet Revolver)

Ozzy Osbourne

Fergie

Slide Frame and Film Image Download

2009-10-24T12:47:42Z

I've been taking photos of some old slides and thought I'd make some templates or frames for digital photos. You never know when you could need something like this as some sort of design element.

If you need it feel free to download these high-res png files with transparency to use for your project:

slideframes.zip

Search Result Design

2009-10-20T09:28:19Z

This morning my girlfriend looked up a word in the dictionary and couldn't find it (it was a small pocket dictionary). It made me think about what would've happened if she had one of those electronic translators.

By using a book she found other words while looking for something else and she might just remember those in the future. She learned something new even-though she couldn't find what she was looking for. A nice side effect when trying to learn a language.

With an electronic translator you usually only get something like "no result" or if you're lucky you get "did you mean XXXXX?". Thanks to search functions you don't usually have to browse for what you need. Of course it's a lot more likely to find what you're looking for if you're using an electronic device but I'd love to see search results that also give you the previous and next entries (not just the related ones) and let you browse near a word instead of only giving the 100% relevant result.

A re-launch & a treat for Internet Explorer 6

2009-10-18T11:58:17Z

After months (years?) of having the same collection of projects in the same website I got to a point where I decided that it's time for a change. This new site and blog is based on Movable Type which I learned to love in this transition period. It's unbelievably flexible and it seems to have a fairly solid backend.

Just like my last site, this is an experiment. Sure, there's a section with projects that is designed to be easily accessible but there are also bits and pieces that are purely there for testing and/or are not designed to be viewed by all browsers out there.

Talking about a certain browser takes me to another thing: I've ruined my homepage for Internet Explorer 6 users. They are taken to a page with blinking and moving text, horrible huge borders, "under construction" animations and other sins of the Internet from 2001. My normal front page did work in IE6 but I decided to add a different type of experience for people who haven't updated their browser in years. See below for the before/after:

Before:

After:

uhm.. yeah... Disclaimer: I think I prefer the proper version

Nodal Point NN5 with Pentax K200D and Pentax SMC 10-17 Fisheye

2009-01-17T19:44:57Z

I spent some time today trying to find the best possible setting for creating panoramas with the NN5L and my K200.

After reading about many ways of how to find this "point", I went with the one outlined here.

Here's how I set up my camera with a "basket" I found in the kitchen:

You can see my current settings here:

4.9 on the horizontal scale and...

9.7 on the vertical one.

I'm still trying to fine-tune the settings and if you happen to have a similar setup I'd love to hear from you! I found the settings for the K10D somewhere on the web but they don't work for me and that's why I put this up.

It might help one of you to get started. If I refine the settings or decide to try it with the 17-70 I'll of course post that on here as well.

One Photo A Day

2008-11-16T11:33:09Z

In the last week I started to take my camera with me every day to take at least one picture a day. I want to learn to pick what to take pictures of, how to select one picture out of a few and probably most importantly: delete the ones I don't want (that's probably the hardest part for me).

At the same time it forces me to edit the selected image and I try to test out different things and try to go for different looks every day. Only a week into this "experiment" I already noticed that it can get difficult to do everything right form start to finish. Sometimes I did something wrong while taking the photo and didn't notice until I got home (high ISO, bad focus, general blurriness...) or sometimes I just overdo processing... No matter what happens or how long I can keep this up, it's a new learning experience every day and that's why I started in the first place.

So here's last week's batch

Oxford Castle 360

2008-10-26T11:01:02Z

Yesterday we visited the Oxford Castle and went up the re-opened mound to enjoy the view of the city. As we later found out it was also the place where the public hangings used to be hundreds of years ago.

Click on the sphere below to open a 360 panorama.

Oxford pics, Paintings as prints and more

2008-09-21T21:03:30Z

I didn't update the site in a while. It's been busy and I'm trying to get some photos up in the next days. Check out my flickr for updates.

Also, due to a couple requests, I put up a print version of my Slash Goldtop painting on deviantart. Check out the painting here.

The "On Time" Airline?

2008-08-28T10:12:53Z

Waiting here in London Stansted for our flight to Leipzig which was meant to leave at 9:50am. So we had to get up at 3am to get the bus to the airport.

I love how cheap airlines (especially Ryanair) plasters their slogans and ads all over the airport. With their tagline "the on time airline" they certainly make a bold claim. And all we heard this morning (about 15 minutes after the gate was meant to be closed) was a calm "your plane is scheduled to arrive at 12 o'clock".

And a further 20 minutes later the screens updated the departure time to 12:30. Quite a few hours late without a reason or explanation. And I keep reading "the on-time airline"... Riiight... You get what you pay for.

Paris in HDR

2008-08-16T19:53:57Z

I've been playing with HDR and I posted some photos on my flickr account.

Here is a selection of more or less rough examples of HDR photography and editing:

Montmartre:

New t-shirts on shirtbar...

2008-07-24T15:27:47Z

I updated the list of t-shirts at the shirtbar after a few days without any new products. Go check out the new additions here.

Please proceed to gate G10

2008-06-23T01:07:04Z

I'm writing this at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. We're on our stopover from Melbourne to London with Malaysian Airlines. What a trip!! The kettle class in Malaysian is not bad. Spacious (!!!), acceptable food, movies on demand and very friendly staff. Noise-cancelling headphones are worth every penny if you're on a trip like this. I've never slept so well on any flight before! They block a lot of the engine noise (or aircon and mumbling at the airport) and some of the annoying other noises as well. You don't get out of a long flight feeling deaf and tired and you don't have to turn up the entertainment system too much. But here's one of the main problems with this:

The airline presets the announcement volume and while it can be adjusted separately, the lowest setting is still blowing your ears off! A solution could be some sort of volume control/attenuator in order to set the volume independently from the planes entertainment system.

It's on my wishlist for the next flight. But even without that, it's something you can live without because watching movies is less important if you can just relax and sleep or read. I didn't finish a single movie on this 8 hour trip!

Anyway... The airport in KL is getting a bit annoying. Nonstop announcements!!! There's no 5 second break between them. Seriously!?!

over and out... gotta check which gate we have to go to for our nice 14 hour hop to england