Vegas & The Aftermath - Diary

[horseplayer]

tikay there is a programme on bbc2 this tuesday called

The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track
Season 1 Episode 2 of 6


I presume this has already been mentioned?

[tikay]

tikay there is a programme on bbc2 this tuesday called

The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track
Season 1 Episode 2 of 6


I presume this has already been mentioned?

Don't recall it  being mentioned, but deffo worth another look even if I have seen it, thanks.

[tikay]

Explain this, please.

Those Shard photos. I had to rotate them 90 degrees before saving and uploading them, and they show "the right way " on my laptop, but on the ippy they show as un-rotated, as they were originally.

How that work?

The same thing has happened with the railway track photos.

[Royal Flush]

If this doesn't do it for you Tikay i give up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21428797

[Tal]

Superb pictures, Tikay.

A couple of book recommends/suggestions:

Sky Atlantic is raving about a new Kevin Bacon show called The Following, which is about catching serial killers and getting into their minds. Bacon plays a CIA chap who left and wrote a book about how he caught the villain.

It reminded me I've read a book about a true story version of this:

Inside the Mind of a Killer by Jean-François Abrigall is a compelling read. Translated from French, I hasten to add.

A quiet borough, Moulin Blanc beach, just outside Brest. Aline Peres aged 49 has been stabbed in the night. No forensic evidence. This is the story of the detective who got inside the mind of the most notorious serial killer in France:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Heaulme

It was a huge success in France (the book I mean)


The second book is one I've mentioned before: Captain Scott by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. It is excellently researched and powerfully descriptive as biographies go. Of course, the main feature is the fateful expedition, but it is far from the only one.

Thank you Tal, I'll deffo add the Sir Ranulph one to the list. Bit of an eccentric chap, I am led to understand?

More Sir Ranulph than Captain Scott but yes

[tikay]

If this doesn't do it for you Tikay i give up

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21428797

Superb!

Oddly, Matthew Chard ("lolraise" next door) Tweeted the very same thing to me this morning. People must think I have a thing about Railway Stations, can't think why.

Need to bell you later, or in the morning, we are supposed to meet in town tomorrow evening I believe.  We could meet at a Station.

[Jon MW]

...
My choice in books is extremely eclectic.


.... Non-Fiction only, please.

Quite eclectic maybe - if you're cutting out half the market then I think 'extremely' can't quite cut it

[simonnatur]

Couple of quick suggestions for your reading list:

Frank William Abagnale - Catch Me if you Can    Autobiography of fraudster, later a film. ( Tal's recommend of Jean-François Abrigall made the name pop into my mind btw)

Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene      ( Absolute must read, just in case you never have )

[tikay]

Couple of quick suggestions for your reading list:

Frank William Abagnale - Catch Me if you Can    Autobiography of fraudster, later a film. ( Tal's recommend of Jean-François Abrigall made the name pop into my mind btw)

Richard Dawkins - The Selfish Gene      ( Absolute must read, just in case you never have )

Two excellent suggestions, thank you.

[Tal]

I'm not sure there are degrees of eclecticism, technically. You either have a wide and diverse range of reading topics or you don't.

Wasn't going to ped, honest I wasn't.

[Machka]

Explain this, please.

Those Shard photos. I had to rotate them 90 degrees before saving and uploading them, and they show "the right way " on my laptop, but on the ippy they show as un-rotated, as they were originally.

How that work?

The same thing has happened with the railway track photos.

Most digital cameras these days have an orientation sensor so they know which way the photo was taken.

They then store this orientation information inside the JPG as something called EXIF data.

Taking a look at the EXIF data in two pictures I have taken I see

Landscape picture:

ImageDescription -
Make - Canon
Model - Canon PowerShot SX220 HS
Orientation - Top left
XResolution - 180
YResolution - 180
ResolutionUnit - Inch
DateTime - 2013:02:16 19:31:14
YCbCrPositioning - Co-Sited
ExifOffset - 240
...

Portrait Picture:


ImageDescription -
Make - Canon
Model - Canon PowerShot SX220 HS
Orientation - Right top
XResolution - 180
YResolution - 180
ResolutionUnit - Inch
DateTime - 2012:04:05 12:59:29
YCbCrPositioning - Co-Sited
ExifOffset - 240
...

Now the reason you laptop shows them all the correct way is because whatever software you are viewing them with on the laptop understands the EXIF Orientation information and uses it to auto rotate the picture before showing it to you.

It seems the Ipad doesn't understand or use this.


Edit:  I couldn't figure out why it was called Top Left and Right Top so went to find out.  This tells you why: http://sylvana.net/jpegcrop/exif_orientation.html

[tikay]

^^^^^^

Great explanation, thanks Aaron.

Weird though, as I rotated them into the correct orientation before I saved them.

[Machka]

^^^^^^

Great explanation, thanks Aaron.

Weird though, as I rotated them into the correct orientation before I saved them.

I'm guessing whatever you rotated them with didn't update the EXIF data so it still reads it and displays is as it was originally saved.

Just checked and viewing an image in Windows 7 and right clicking it and choosing Rotate clockwise / Rotate counterclockwise does the job and updates the EXIF data.

[tikay]

I rotated them with Paint, saved them to My Pictures, then Uploaded via Photobucket.

[Machka]

Yep, just checked and paint doesn't update the EXIF data.  I also noticed it's decreasing the quality of the picture when it does a rotation.

See if you can use windows explorer, like in the screenshot above, to allow you to right click and rotate.

That will save you having to

find the file
opening the image in Paint
clicking the rotate button
clicking left or right 90 degrees
then going through all the save dialog boxes

In explorer it should be

find the file
right click
rotate

Job done, and with no loss of quality.