Category: Photography
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A panoramic of home amidst the pandemic
The pandemic has slowed and shrunk my life in pretty significant ways. It’s been months since I’ve left the county which is a stark contrast to my prior routine. One of the most profound effects of slowing down is that you see less, more. The resolution of the life around me has increased significantly. I…
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Three approaches to panoramas for the iPhone
Starting off in print photography, I learned that the standard photograph here in the States is 4″ x 6″. Just about every film camera takes images in that aspect ratio. The prevalence of digital cameras and digital media changed all that. Photographers are less bound by fixed print sizes and thus can be significantly more…
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Speed shooting for photographers
My employer has campuses all over the world. While on an extended trip to Sydney, I met up with a group of photographers there called the “Shutterbugs.” The Shutterbugs every so often explore the area around the office over lunch practicing their photography skills. When I came back to San Francisco, I wanted to start that…
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Portrait Photography: My First Studio Shoot
I decided it was time to update to a full SLR camera. My camera has been great for the past seven years. It had a full manual mode which gave a lot of creative control to me. It was also small and easy to take along on the motorcycle. The lens was fairly flexible for…
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Automate Everything
I’m preparing a set of images for upload for a future blog post and started to make the edits in Photoshop but quickly became frustrated with the work required. For each image I had to: The problem was not everything was clean when I expanded the images in step 2 so getting a smooth edge…
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Panoramic Software
A number of years ago I did a post on panoramic photography back in 2007. Stiching software has come a long way in the past 5 years. It used to be that packages were free/easy and limited in features or expensive and complex. Free solutions that had lots of features were buggy and complex. It…
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Batch Scanning Photos the Fast Way
Recently I had to take a set of slides exported out of PowerPoint and turn them into slides again. While the process was totally backwards, it generally worked for the purposes of the meeting. When PowerPoint exports slides, it puts 6 slides on a page in PDF form. So to get them back into slides, …
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Project 365: Trying it Again!
For those of you who don’t know what Project 365 is, the below link is a good site to learn about it: http://content.photojojo.com/tutorials/project-365-take-a-photo-a-day/ I discovered a lot about myself in the year I did Project 365 the first time in 2007. I started November 1st and finished on Halloween of 2008. In the end, I…
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Another Year, another project
One of the things I really enjoyed about 2008 was looking back over all of the photos captured in my Project365. I could look back and see something from each day and remember what happened that day. As I get older (and time passes faster) it’s nice to have some record of what happens in…
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Project365 commencement
I’ve started a new project in November called Project365. The idea behind it is taking a photo a day for one year. Being a leap year, it’s more like Project366, but 365 works better for me. Some folks do a theme each month or something of similar sorts to keep the project interesting to keep…
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My Replacement Friend is in
Thanks to the miracle known as eBay my replacement friend arrived about a week ago. What is it do you ask? A gently used Powershot S50. I paid $90 for the camera and $30 for an extended battery so I’ve got an essentially new camera for about 1/2 the cost of a new one. Yeah…
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Why can’t I just get the next Powershot S50?
It’s been a great camera. We’ve taken a lot of pictures together and have been a lot of places, but it’s time to move onto bigger and better things. The camera almost always comes with when I’m on the bike, so being compact is really important. An SLR is too big. I’ve looked for it’s…
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Panoramic Photography
Being one that likes to take landscape shots, at times you just cannot convey the depth of the scene in a 4×6 shot. You can’t really get a good sense for the skyline or how for instance the mountains fit into the mountain range…. The great thing about digital photography is that you can do…