Tag Archives: photography

St Patrick’s in San Francisco

September 5, 2007 – 12:42 am

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.

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On color and exporting photos

August 30, 2007 – 2:23 pm

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 [...]

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.Mac iPhoto Gallery quality

August 30, 2007 – 3:03 am

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 [...]

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Coit Tower and the Pyramid

August 29, 2007 – 2:11 am

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

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New Nikons announced

August 22, 2007 – 9:52 pm

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 [...]

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.Mac gallery

August 12, 2007 – 5:30 am

I’ve started posting photos to my .Mac gallery that’s a component of iLife ‘08. I’m pretty pleased with it so far. The ability to quickly and easily post photos from the iPhone is slick. It would be nice if the photos were at full resolution but I guess Apple figures the pain of EDGE is [...]

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