New Camera

Posted on April 10, 2005 | 1 comment

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One problem I have with my Nikon 5700: it’s a little Bulky. To address this, me and my wife got a Canon S410. It takes very good 4 mega pixel images and fits in my Jacket pocket. This makes spur of the moment picture taking easier.

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Playing with Photoshop

Posted on April 6, 2005 | Comments Off on Playing with Photoshop

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Above is an Image I shot Sunday. While reading a book Photoshop CS for Digital Photographers by Colin Smith, I came across the correcting perspective in cropping an Image. Above is the before and after results. I’m sure experienced Photoshop user will say “Big Deal”, but coming from a Darkroom perspective like I have, this is **Really** Cool.

Next I have to clean up the Contrast and selectively brighten the lower half of the image.

Update: I’ve brightened the image a little and played with the contrast too. It looks a little off, but it is a Work in progress.

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The life of Harry….

Posted on April 6, 2005 | Comments Off on The life of Harry….

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Yep, It’s definitely a tough life Harry lives…

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Downtown Manhattan on a Rainy Day

Posted on April 3, 2005 | Comments Off on Downtown Manhattan on a Rainy Day

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We spent the afternoon in Downtown Manhattan near City Hall and took some interesting pictures. This happens to be a pair of walkers we saw by the steps of the Tweed Building.

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Macro Mode on my camera

Posted on April 2, 2005 | Comments Off on Macro Mode on my camera

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It’s not often that I play with the Macro mode on my camera. In this case we bought a couple of “Party Flowers” at Maces, so I thought I’d take a close up. After some trial and Error, I took some OK ones with the aid of my flash. After this, I think I better get a Tripod sooner than Later…

The flower pots for these plants are small and not even the size of a small coffee cup. The Biggest Flower is barely the size of two thumbs put side by side.

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Things to do on a really Rainy Day

Posted on April 2, 2005 | Comments Off on Things to do on a really Rainy Day

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Take pictures, of course. Near my house is several spots for puddles to form, so I took some close up shots from my Window.

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Juggler on the Train Update: This is Tony Duncan

Posted on March 31, 2005 | 3 comments

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One of the cool things about New York: You run across interesting people all the time. We were coming home late, sat down and a man was practicing juggling 4 to 6 colored balls. He’d add one, subtract one, always keeping them in motion and putting 5 in one hand as he adjusted his Ipod.

He let me take his picture but I wish I put the camera in Movie mode. Unfortunately by that time, we arrived at his stop.

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Speaker Repair Job

Posted on March 27, 2005 | Comments Off on Speaker Repair Job

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Music is very important to me, so when I knocked over my PC speaker and broke the audio jack to the left speaker, I figured I could:
b.) Live with music coming out of one speaker
a.) Get a new set
c.) Fix it.

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Photoshop fun

Posted on March 26, 2005 | Comments Off on Photoshop fun

One of the things I’ve been doing is scanning old pictures that I’ve taken. This one was scanned in and seriously edited in Photoshop. Here is what it looked like originally.
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Yet Another Reason to use Firefox

Posted on March 26, 2005 | Comments Off on Yet Another Reason to use Firefox

One word: Extensions.

I go to a few Blogs and leave comments, but I can’t spell to save my life. So, I added: Spellbound as a Firefox extension. Very convenient.

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