Why didn’t anyone tell me…

I took the kids hiking on the fourth, which for you who don’t know me well means an 8 year old, a 4 year old, and a 1 year old. We went to the bay area hiker web site and picked a hike, and off we went. 2 miles was the projected loop and we [...]

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I, like countless others before me, have found a need for the occasional HDR photo. Mine was showing off a particular piece of furniture with a lit lamp on top. But, I, having no desire to drop $100 for dedicated HDR software, was in a pinch. There are countless faking efforts, but then I remembered [...]

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As you can see, I use Aperture quite a bit. As with anything you use on a regular basis, you learn its ins and outs and start thinking about how you’d like it to be better.

“Vacuuming” the database made Aperture many orders of magnitude faster. I was honestly shocked when I realized how slow it [...]

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One of my photography related hobbies is the creation of panoramas. These are composed of many normal pictures rolled into one flattened picture, which can then be turned into something else like a QTVR or whatever you want. But when you take 7 pictures as RAW and then convert and stitch them into their largest [...]

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Looking at the library, there  were a number of mosaic-panoramas – things that weren’t ment to be 360’s. I stitched those (or the ones I marked anyway) this morning on the ride to work. PTGui Pro is what I used, but I could probably have gotten away with hugin just as well. I’ll put some [...]

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I generally survive the week on 5 hours sleep. Well, it caught up to me. I spent the weekend with a very minor headcold the could probably be written off to allergies. The wind was howling, the air turned dry, but the rain the previous week could be generating mold. There’s just no telling. Either [...]

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