Luke Welling’s OSCON wrap up reminded me of an incident.
No, not about my battles with Tourette’s, or, should I say, people confusing honest fucking programming frustration with Coprolalia. 😀Continue reading
Category: arts and letters
HDR photography hits mainstream
The New York Times has a wonderful summary article of High Dynamic Range photography.
(I have a strong suspicion that the article is heavily influenced by discussion on the HDR Flickr group.)
This was a little serendipitous because I had a discussion at lunch where I heard the tired old line that “nothing new is in Photoshop since x came out” and I pointed out some of the features in CS2, of which HDR support was one of them.
Continue reading about High Dynamic Range photography after the jump
I look like my dog
Dassi sent me the winners of the “I Look Like My Dog” contest which was sponsored by Cesar Dog Food.
Clearly these were well produced and I have a feeling that this was not a “contest” at all.
I love the photography. I love the classic portrait lighting and the matching expressions the photographer managed to get out of the models. Excellent!
Koreans are Klingons
‘…it’s never a good idea to take military action, or the credible threat of it, off the table as you suggest. Our enemies understandably see that as a sign of weakness and act (or don’t act) accordingly.’
“Apparently, our enemies are the Klingons.”
—LITBMueller, in response to a threadjack on John Cole’s shadenfreude article
Wikiality
“Any site that has got a longer entry on Truthiness than Lutherans has its priorities straight.”
—Steven Colbert, The Colbert Report, The Word: Wikiality
Funny lens review
Here is a camera review where I lifted this summary from PhotographyBLOG.
“Bottom line, the Canon 24-105mm f/4 L is a really excellent optic, but one that struggles a bit along the edges and in the corners with full-frame bodies. As such, it’s an almost ideal candidate for use with DxO Optics Pro, particularly if you’re shooting with a full-frame dSLR.”
Translation: “This lens sucks for its intended market.”
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Chimping
Last week, Dave told me about “chimping”.
I am soooo guilty of this.
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A photosynthetic world
Microsoft is working on Microsoft Live Labs photosynth, which sounded like a version of AutoStitch on steroids, but is actually something else entirely.
Compact Flash madness
With two cameras now, I needed a third memory card. Now I have a Lexar Professional 133x 4GB CF card to complement my other two: a 2GB SanDisk Extreme and a 1GB SanDisk Extreme III.
With the announcement of the SanDisk Extreme IV I realized the whole deal has gotten quite confusing to the average photographer, and there are more of us every day.
We have a simple question: What CF should I buy?Continue reading
High speed D200
Well now that my D200 ownership cat is out of the bag, Caitlin posted some fun we had on it the first day.
