Category Archives: photography


Fall colors


St Patrick’s in San Francisco

It was difficult to take a photo in the very dark church, get the full details, and not get a lot of ISO noise without a tripod. I bracketed, shot, and used Photoshop CS 3’s merge to HDR to get this image. Could have more pop, but it is a first try.

On color and exporting photos

I found today that doing a color check of photos when converting type is an important final step. For example, take a look at the thumbnail and then full rendition of the photo below:

The thumbnail exhibits the same dull colors and loss of vividness that I noticed today when browsing through photos converted from RAW [...]

.Mac iPhoto Gallery quality

I’m hardly a pro-am but I still want my photos to display well. It is argued that today’s consumers more than ever accept “just good enough” when it comes to audio and video and disregard any increase in quality, but I disagree. The quality of content is indeed heavily influenced by the quality of the [...]

Coit Tower and the Pyramid

Lower quality photos when uploaded to .Mac, but easier - and besides, it’s not like I’m Ansel Adams.

New Nikons announced

While I don’t have nearly the skillset to fully utilize the gear, it doesn’t mean I don’t still like seeing the kit. Engadget has the details on Nikon’s new D3 and D300. The former offers a full-frame sensor (23.9 x 36 mm), 12.1 megapixels, 3″ live LCD, and HDMI out for $5000 in November. The [...]

Air Canada

Took this on the way home from Hawaii. Yes, on top of everything else, I am a plane geek as well.

Hawaiian flowers


Tripod? Check. Batteries? Check. 400′ waterfall? Check. Camera? Oops

Went to Maui this weekend, and it was beautiful. Before I left Oahu, I made sure to pick up a Hoya circular polarizer. I also ensured my batteries were fully charged. What I forgot was packing the cameras on the drive to the airport. I had to make do with my 2MP camera phone. I’ll [...]

Relaxation