Here are a couple new photos I made using a new technique called High Dynamic Range that I recently discovered. Be sure to click through to the Flickr version in order to view them at high resolution. The little versions on the blog don't really do them justice.
This first photo of Kirkland in the evening is a composite of 3 different exposures taken with different settings. Click here for a larger version:
I haven't written many reviews here lately. I'll try to get back on that...
A few weeks ago I was wandering around Elliot Bay Book Co. looking for something to read and just wasn't finding anything that appealed to me.
What I wanted was an adventure story... I looked in the literature section but found a bunch of award winning books about slowly slipping into insanity. I checked the science fiction section but found mostly books about cloning gone crazy. Poetry... no. Self help... no. Cookbooks... no.
Anyway, I finally came across two that looked ok. I just finished the first one, a historical fiction called Pride of Carthage about Hannibal invading Rome.
What can you say, war is depressing. Everyone suffers. No one wins, especially the women and children. I'm not sure what I expected, but I am too tired of real life war and human depravity these days to get much entertainment value from reading about it.
I thought I'd cross post this here from my Bee Docs' Blog. This is the icon that graphic artist Kenichi Yoshida and I designed for the next major version of my timeline software.
I'll be focusing most of my work energy towards designing and building this software over the next few months. I'm pretty happy with how the icon turned out. Hopefully all the other details will come together as well.
I just got my 3rd roll of Lomo pictures scanned in. This roll was the best yet, now that I had the camera on the right exposure setting! Check this one out for example (click for a bigger version):
We decided to visit the zoo instead of shopping on "Black Friday." We were rewarded with some great entertainment from the Lions!
Here are a few of the photos from the first role of film with the Lomo camera. Lisa and I took these on our weekend to Friday Harbor.
I've learned a few things looking at these first roles and I'm looking forward to refining my technique with this camera and seeing if I can get better results next time.
I've been having some extra fun with photography these last few weeks. I was charged with taking photos for the next major revision of the Exbiblio website. We've been playing around to find a photographic "look" that we want.
I suggested that we try Lomo photography which seems fun and edgy for a corporate web site. The Lomo camera has a great history that I won't go into here, except to say that it is an old school camera made in the USSR that takes photos that have lots of character. It also has a certain "shoot from the hip" attitude that surrounds this camera. Check out this BBC link and their Red, Blue, and Green galleries for examples of Lomo photos.
Lomo cameras have become something of a fad, and are expensive collector items now. Fortunately Lauren, a co-worker already had one (hipster that she is) and was kind enough to loan it to me for a few weeks.
I bought a variety of professional slide films known for saturated colors, and have been snapping photos of all kinds of random things (you are not allowed to think too much when using a Lomo).
I just took the first two rolls to the film shop. One is being developing normally and the other they are "cross-processing" for me which means that they develop the slide film using print film chemicals (another Lomo thing to do). I can't wait to get them back! It seems like forever since I had to wait to see my photos. It is kind of like waiting for Christmas (except less cider).
