For those that have been asking for new dev, or access to the code in order to progress it's state.

I've now loaded up the source code for the Loligo Tether application to Source Forge.

I'm not "sure" how it all works on there with regards to public access or editing etc, but I think you should be able to log on there and grab the code, and even push changes back in, would be nice to get this as a community project and get it off the ground.

There are some fantastic ideas floating around about features wanted in there, and i'm sure there are more than a few developers out there with cameras to have a play with this :)  

anyone who wants to grab a copy of it to test it would be making a great contribution towards helping to make this a more stable product too.

I will have time to put towards making changes and adding new functionality too, so if any feature requests or bug reports could be logged through the sourceforge project this should make it nice and easy to manage :)

this is the location of the sourceforge project

https://sourceforge.net/projects/loligotether

I think if you want to be a developer for the project you may have to request it, or email me and I'll add you.

Many thanks everyone for reading my posts and hopefully together we can build a very useful camera tethering tool.

Also, if there is any interest in my other projects I'm sure I could put some of those up on sourceforge too :)

Cheers

Mark Compton 

This is something I've been thinking about a lot recently, am I, and can I influence my inspiration and how I see a see by what music I'm listening too.

So far, I beleive that the answer is yes.   Which in theory is very usefull. More often than not i'll get to a place that I want to take photos of, but won't be in the right frame of mind to "see" an image there, but if I could push my mind in the right direction by listening to some music, to give me some inspiration and emotion to put into the scene.

Now i'm a great lover of music, so I don't know that this would work for anyone, and I'm pretty sure that how certain music tracks affect me wouldn't be the same for someone else, it's all down to personal taste, up bringing etc.  as an example of what I mean I've categorized some music into how it affects me and what it makes me think about. 

Using the right music can put me into the right mood to get the shot I want, or even beforehand give me an idea of what I want to acheive and then find somewhere to take that shot.

a lot of the tracks here are Pink Floyd, because personally I find a lot of variance in how each track affects me so I can cover a multitude of options with one album :)

Serine/Epic landscapes, Seascapes, rolling waters/waves.
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

Alone, peaceful, relaxed. alternating to feelings of conflict/war and anger.
Pink Floyd - Us and Them

Driving, Cars, Motorbikes, Roads - also, fighting(boxing etc) sports.
Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell

Emotions, ambivalence(the feeling of 2 conflicting emotions, specifically sadness and happiness in this case),  nostalgia, longing
Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb

Kids, School, banding together, Rebelling, crowds.
Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the wall

Work, Lack of accomplishment leading to a want to do more in life.
Pink Floyd - Time

The future, technology, Sci Fi.
Pink Floyd - One of these Days

Scottish or Irish Landscapes with a celtic male presence overlooking. Post battle feeling (Loss, Honour, Pride).
Pink Floyd - On the turning away

Anger, oppression.
Pink Floyd - Dogs of war

Loneliness, not necesarily in a bad way, an alone in the middle of nowhere and darkness creaping in. leading then to a rising determance to achieve.
Pink Floyd - Sorrow

Emptiness, Apathy. then eventually to sadness, then ambivalence(the feeling of 2 conflicting emotions, specifically sadness and happiness in this case)
Pink Floyd - Shine on you Crazy Diamond

Fun, Bouncy, Happy, Mates, messing around, feelgood vibe
Hoosiers - Cops and Robbers
Hoosiers - Goodbye Mr A

Parting emotions (someone leaving for good or a long time etc)
Hoosiers - Run rabbit Run

Love, longing, regret
Scouting for Girls - Heartbeat

Actually for me, most Scouting for Girls tracks fit into this same category.

Shifty, guilty, untrustworthy.
Queens of the Stone age - No one knows

What i'm not sure of yet, is how using an different track to what you want would acheive, ie listening to a track which gave you feelings of anger whilst in a serene landscape etc.

I'm planning on putting this more to the test and coming up with some results to hopefully show this works heh.  if anything, it just gets me in the right frame of mind.  so it has it's uses.

An update to the Loligo Tether application, which I have only tested so far with a Nikon D50 on Vista, but in theory it should work for other cameras on other operating systems.  It requires that the camera is set to shoot in Raw+Jpg (it will delete the Jpg off the camera when it grabs it onto the pc for preview)  it also requires that you have the camera in "P" usb mode, not "M".  if you change this setting on your camera, you'll likely have to turn the camera off, unplug from the computer, then plug back in and turn on.  do this before starting the Loligo Tether.

Here is a screenshot of what it currently looks like: 

No recipe today again, I know I'm a slacker.. I did actually cook, but made a pie using some pastry that was made for me by my mother on the weekend, it's a "Secret recipe" although I know it now, so will reveal all when I attempt to recreate it :)

So, i've decided to talk about shooting water droplets and how I achieved the above photo.

This was actually a very simple setup, a pan of water, a desklamp, some card to reflect light, and some paper to create a kinda snoot for the on camera flash.

The setup looked like this: