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Entries from April 2008

Holiday Photos

April 30th, 2008 · 6 Comments

This week is Golden Week, when a slew of national holidays fall within days of each other and the entire country takes off work en masse. Unfortunately, this year next Saturday and Sunday are two of the four holidays, so the only days I have off are yesterday and next Monday. It's better than nothing, [...]

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Photoshopping lousy pics into art

April 29th, 2008 · 4 Comments

The original photos are here. Previous Next Close HDR, LucisArt Previous Next Close HDR, LucisArt Previous Next Close Holga Script, LucisArt, gaussian blur overlay Previous Next Close Loma-like effect Previous Next Close Loma-like effect Previous Next Close HDR, gaussian overlay, LucisArt Previous Next Close HDR, gaussian overlay Tutorials, etc: Fake-LOMO Adobe Photoshop Script Faking the [...]

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Weekend Photos

April 28th, 2008 · 5 Comments

On Saturday while the boys were taking swimming lessons I spent around 45 minutes walking around the neighborhood in search of stuff to shoot with my new camera and lens. It's been so long since I've used anything other than a point-and-shoot camera that my eye for photos is not what it used to be. [...]

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Musical Interlude

April 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

His cover of the Rolling Stone's Brown Sugar is pretty good too. An excerpt from his blog: Even though I'm a ukulele player I don't own a Hawaiian shirt. It's not like anybody made a rule that if you play the ukulele you have to wear one. I never wanted one so I've never bought [...]

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Tags: Oooh, Look!

360 degree panoramic photography

April 24th, 2008 · 3 Comments

When QTVR came out in the mid 90's I was really into it. I took many cylindrical panoramas in my free time and also for clients of the web development company I worked for at the time. The technology has changed only a little since then, but the big advancement is that it's now possible [...]

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