Someone is putting together a photographic height and weight chart.
The UI is really bad, but the idea is stellar.Continue reading
Category: photography
About taking pictures
Epson Photo Bank
Beanbags at Plaxo
Kawaii
Someone left an interesting one word comment on a photo I took:
First jeans
Valley Fair Shopping Center, Santa Clara, California
Valley Fair Shopping Center, Santa Clara, California
Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1
1/8 sec @ f/2.8, iso 400, 6mm (28mm)
The word was “kawaii.” (可愛さ)Continue reading
Argh!
I lost all my photos today.
The net result is I lost about one and a half months of photos permanently (around 1000 images), about six months of originals that haven’t been burned yet to disk, lost days of work, and shot up my entire backup regiment.
I’m also one crash/corruption from losing everything.Continue reading
Flickr + HotOrNot
The moon… hypersaturated
I noticed on digg an interesting thread on the color of the moon with an amazing photo taken by Noel Carboni:
Three new dSLRs and “camera feel”
David Pogue writes an article about three new dSLRs that I’ve been talking around in this blog.
They are:
- The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi ($800) with Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 kit lens ($900);
- the Nikon D80 ($1000) with AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6G IF-ED kit lens ($1300);
- hte Panasonic Lumix DMC-L1 with Leica D Vario-Elmarit 14-50mm f/2.8-3.5 O.I.S. kit lens ($2000)
I love the article because there is little bias and he explains the differences in terms most people can understand. (I delve into the technical too much to be a Dave Pogue.)Continue reading
Hatin’ Katie
Am I the only person in the world who simply thinks that the Katie Couric thing was just a pretty good retouching job?
(Some people say that this isn’t retouched and then go into a spirited defense involving anamorphic film. Haha you guys are funny! I bet you believe that those girls on the magazine covers at the checkout stand really look like that.)
Sure, I think as much as the next guy that someone as vapid as Katie Couric being anchorwoman for CBS is a sign of the Apocalypse, but puh-leez…Continue reading
Light Painting
This movie is simply amazing. To understand why, you still have to know what “light painting” is.
Basically, the concept is to take your camera and put it on a tripod and set it on bulb exposure. You open the shutter, then take a lighter, matches, or a flashlight and paint the scene (or doodle), and then close the shutter.
These people did that, did it again, and again, until they had made a stop-motion movie!
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