Category Archives: photography


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

More from HI

A memorial to someone near the Blowhole:

Some of the ocean and the sky - blue on blue:

A couple of HI

Not processed - just converted from RAW to jpg:

On photography and the law

Wired published an article about Thomas Hawk and is battle against the erosion of our civil liberties. This is old news to me, as I have read about Mr Hawk’s run-ins with security guards before. However, it bears bringing to my friends’ attention.
If you are going to photograph in a public place, be sure to [...]

Three photos with new glass

Just to make Tzvi happy. These were all taken with the VR lens. Click on the thumbnails for the link to the gallery.

f/4.0, 1/1250s, ISO 200, 27.0mm with the 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR DX Nikon lens

f/5.6, 1/30s, ISO 200, 200.0mm with the 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 VR DX Nikon lens
This one is cropped, and taken at full zoom. [...]

New glass

I picked up my 18-200mm f/3.5-5.6 G ED-IF AF-S VR DX Zoom-Nikkor lens yesterday from Ace Photo in Sterling, VA. Feedback was that it’s a solid lens, and perfect replacement for the stock kit 18-70mm, so I made it my first lens purchase. Not tested it yet, and it looks like it will be Sunday [...]

Aperture Intel-native, speedier

Macworld is reporting that Apple will be showing off Aperture 1.1 at the PMA Show. According to the scoop, Aperture is not only Intel-native now, but 2x faster on Powerbook G4s and another 2-3x faster on the MacBook Pro.
It’ll be interesting to see a revamped Ars review as a result of the update. Adobe’s RAW [...]

iPhoto 6 improvements

Right after I write this post about the way iPhoto 5 handles RAW images, I catch some good news regarding iPhoto 6. Derrick Story over at O’Reilly has been playing with the new version, and his first impressions are quite favorable. Of real interest to me, more than anything, was this tidbit:

Speaking of Raw files, [...]