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www.phoben.com/photos/people_and_places/2003Originally posted by Toshi
that picture is scary. to reduce contrast shoot raw and select lower contrast: hehe . also, link non-functional
my bad.
and no more 'you should shoot RAW' cracks. I sucked it up and switched to RAW long (2-3 months) ago... although you are indeed right.Originally posted by Toshi
that picture is scary. to reduce contrast shoot raw and select lower contrast
sweet. i like the pics. if you buy Adobe Camera Raw you can tweak the raw files even more. i dig it. how is alec doing btw? also, i think the low-angle balcony shot w/sky showing is effective, but they're all standing too straight up. also the rule of thirds off-centeredness is getting a little out of hand perhaps
alec is cillin' going to berkley and tryin to decide if he really wants to be a musician.Originally posted by Toshi
sweet. i like the pics. if you buy Adobe Camera Raw you can tweak the raw files even more. i dig it. how is alec doing btw? also, i think the low-angle balcony shot w/sky showing is effective, but they're all standing too straight up. also the rule of thirds off-centeredness is getting a little out of hand perhaps
problem with cameraraw is that I don't have ps7, and I'm not going to shell out $600 or whatever redic. price it is to buy CS. If you know of a cheaper way to upgrade I'm all for hearing it.
as far as the rule of thirds (I assume you're referring to the individual shots), it wasn't deliberate... I had actually planned to crop them so they were only half-faces in the frame, but when I got them on the screen I liked them the way they were so I decided to leave well-enough alone.
harvard has a keyserved copy of pshop 7 no? or just talk a ua into giving you a disc... ah, ok. if you meant to crop them close that makes sense. just with all the blown out background and a tiny sliver of face...
here are two of my efforts in this vein (the b&w one shot by ari at the boston common movie theater
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here are two of my efforts in this vein (the b&w one shot by ari at the boston common movie theater
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keyserved ver. is still 5.5 Maybe Thad can hook me up with 7
I like the BW
so i start work in about two hours. cool thing is that i have web access in my (hotel) room via my bluetooth cell phone and gprs. lame thing(s) are that i can't get file sharing access to my webserver, and ssh of all sorts doesn't seem to work over gprs. therefore there will be no new website updates until i find an apartment with real internet access. plus 4.4 KB/sec download is a bit slow methinks 
also lame is that i don't have a laptop. we'll see what hardware the company is going to let me use/what i'll have to buy... hmm.
also lame is that i don't have a laptop. we'll see what hardware the company is going to let me use/what i'll have to buy... hmm.
hey all. long time no post. since we're all holed up for the winter and posting pics, here are the two recent arrivals to my house.
thanks for the laptop info, thad. looks like i won't need one after all. they provided me with a hp desktop. not too bad of a setup, the lcd is only 1024x768 (and analog so kinda fuzzy compared to my adc/dvi apple at 1280x1024) but it's a pentium 4 and has firewire ports.
when i'm on the road the company will simply deal with my laptoplessness. haha
when i'm on the road the company will simply deal with my laptoplessness. haha
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so toshi, i missed if you posted it elsewhere, but what does this new job entail?
(i'm on lunch break now, back in my room)
i'm now a it guy for a hotel chain's corporate office. this makes me employee #7
. i haven't done anything too interesting, or even mildly interesting so far. but supposedly i will be in for much travel in the future, possibly to colorado next week. to fix things at one of the hotels, of course. but still.
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hmm, still sounds pretty cool though, i'm a sucker for most any travel (lots of time to read on the plane?) Oh and they DEFINITELY should be giving you a laptop.Originally posted by Toshi
(i'm on lunch break now, back in my room)
i'm now a it guy for a hotel chain's corporate office. this makes me employee #7
now that i think of it, it would probably be just as well to not have one
. just means i can be less useful on the road, woot.yes, i'm posting during working hours. on the second day mwahaha. it took this long because i didn't have a computer w/net connection until yesterday night
. also i'm waiting on openoffice to download.
that blows. (except for him not stealing the most expensive thing in your car) how's the insurance?Originally posted by Toshi
some vagrant broke into my car while it was in the public garage. broke the passenger window, stole my jacket yet left the valentine1.
28mm lens came today. looks like it's a had quite a bit of use but the glass is in pretty good shape, it came with a UV protector and seems to take decent pics.
Here's it is (if you look closely at the reflection in the lens, you can see how I bounced the flash. I didn't quite get the angle right to get it out of the pic):
one more of the lens and one with it
the flash is awesome btw, the last pic in the gallery was taken in a totally dark room.
Here's it is (if you look closely at the reflection in the lens, you can see how I bounced the flash. I didn't quite get the angle right to get it out of the pic):
one more of the lens and one with it
the flash is awesome btw, the last pic in the gallery was taken in a totally dark room.
or not. I really like the way it looks with the polarizer, and it's a really handy all-purpose lens.Originally posted by Toshi
coolness
eh, sell it and buy a s400. i found out my title today when i finally signed my contract, and i am "IT Director"
hehe. straight from being a UA to this. i also wrote a bunch of html and perl code today. the html works -- i can test this. but the perl is entirely untested. it seems that no one knows how to get access to the webserver... 
they even had the hosting company wrong at first. oh well. lazy afternoons + posting to this thread while at work == the new hotness.
what's the dollar figure on this lack of work that you do?Originally posted by Toshi
eh, sell it and buy a s400. i found out my title today when i finally signed my contract, and i am "IT Director"
so the band had a foosball tourney on sat night, and I brought the 28mm along to see if it would fill it's intended role in my camera bag (low light shots indoors without a flash). here's what I got:
and the rest:
http://www.phoben.ath.cx/cgi/pgal/galbuild.cgi?range=1459&style=gal1
makes a heavy P&S substitute, but way better in low light.
Ari might recognize this character
and the rest:
http://www.phoben.ath.cx/cgi/pgal/galbuild.cgi?range=1459&style=gal1
makes a heavy P&S substitute, but way better in low light.
Ari might recognize this character
hehe, sat night foosball tournament. oh wait, i used to do those (2nd place singles and doubles in quincy tournament, aw yeah)
i shot some frames with a D100 and sigma 12-24 and 15-30 lenses today. if the 12-24 shots look decent i am going to buy that lens (my first zoom! well, since the 70-200 f/4 L) after i get my first paycheck
hotness. also i signed a lease on an apartment. feel so grown up, ya know
oh, and one more thing: the cops called, and apparently they caught the guy who broke my window and retrieved my ski jacket. maybe i'll even be able to shake the bum down for the window replacement cost in small claims court if he is not totally broke, we'll see
(2nd place singles and doubles in quincy tournament, aw yeah)i shot some frames with a D100 and sigma 12-24 and 15-30 lenses today. if the 12-24 shots look decent i am going to buy that lens (my first zoom! well, since the 70-200 f/4 L) after i get my first paycheck
hotness. also i signed a lease on an apartment. feel so grown up, ya know
oh, and one more thing: the cops called, and apparently they caught the guy who broke my window and retrieved my ski jacket. maybe i'll even be able to shake the bum down for the window replacement cost in small claims court if he is not totally broke, we'll see
a zoom lens? Toshi are you okay? Housekeeping must have put something in that mint they leave on your pillow.Originally posted by Toshi
hehe, sat night foosball tournament. oh wait, i used to do those
i shot some frames with a D100 and sigma 12-24 and 15-30 lenses today. if the 12-24 shots look decent i am going to buy that lens (my first zoom! well, since the 70-200 f/4 L) after i get my first paycheck
hotness. also i signed a lease on an apartment. feel so grown up, ya know
oh, and one more thing: the cops called, and apparently they caught the guy who broke my window and retrieved my ski jacket. maybe i'll even be able to shake the bum down for the window replacement cost in small claims court if he is not totally broke, we'll see
but seriously...
what's the motivation? Just don't have anything to cover those lengths? 12-24 and 15-30 are pretty small ranges as zooms go.
i'm looking for the magic bullet, that is, a wide, sharp non-fisheye lens. unfortunately the 12-24 is _not_ it. the 15-30 beats it soundly in my informal comparison (which will be posted tomorrow since i can't post through my cell phone connection). agh.
maybe i should try out the 17-40 f/4 L. these lenses only are their sharpest around f/8 anyway, so having a fast max f-stop is not essential...
then why not buy prime? (god, I sound like you) sigma makes a 20 f/1.8
also procrastination:
er, i don't know quite what to sayOriginally posted by WTGPhoben
also procrastination:
yeah, i have thought about going primes. looks like i might have to do that, too. the thing is that even the 15-30 is wider than the decent non-fish primes (of which the widest i'd say is the 17mm tokina at-x pro. the 14mm ones are no good, so i've heard)
also i am thinking tonight that maybe i could get a cheap (under 5k) car instead of a motorcycle. what sports cars fit that bill, eh? might be safer...
what kind of shooting do you have in mind for this new not-quite-but-almost-fisheye lens?
i dunno, night shot stuff of buildings? maybe i can get arrested for being a potential terrorist if i keep that habit up
i have cooled on the idea after seeing how lackluster the lens was in real life btw. sample pics are up, file names should be self-explanatory:
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/miscellaneous/an informal wide angle lens comparison - january 25 2004/
also have pics of my apartment hunt mentioned a few posts back (from sunday) up
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/daily/apartment hunting - january 25 2004/
What ISO did you shoot the test pics at? They're super grainy. It still looks like they werent too sharp, but I wonder how much of that had to do with the lighting.Originally posted by Toshi
i dunno, night shot stuff of buildings? maybe i can get arrested for being a potential terrorist if i keep that habit up
i have cooled on the idea after seeing how lackluster the lens was in real life btw. sample pics are up, file names should be self-explanatory:
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/miscellaneous/an informal wide angle lens comparison - january 25 2004/
also have pics of my apartment hunt mentioned a few posts back (from sunday) up
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/daily/apartment hunting - january 25 2004/
also, testpic link is broken. I had to find it from the parent
ya, it's the camera's fault! shot them on the nikon d100 demo unit at the counter, the guy didn't have the 12-24 in canon mount. all were at iso 800. if you look at the sigma 15-30 f/8 shots you can see that decent sharpness was theoretically possible even given the shutter speeds and high iso noise.
makes one glad to shoot canon w/their nice clean cmos sensors, no?
i think the link might be broken b/c my computer somehow insists on removing commas from filenames before burning cross platform cds? oddness.
did you read the announcement about the 1D MkII? 8.2 megapixels, 8.5 fps and that smooth canon cmos look we've all come to love.
http://robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6451-6636
plus two new zooms, the 70-300 DO (DO being diffractive optics) and a 28-300L, both with image stabilization:
http://robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-6451-6676
finally, here is the hotel i visited on wed/thurs on business:
rest of images here:
http://tjclark.ath.cx/images/trips/estes park - january 27-29 2004/
and that smooth canon cmos look we've all come to love.http://robgalbraith.com/bins/multi_page.asp?cid=7-6451-6636
plus two new zooms, the 70-300 DO (DO being diffractive optics) and a 28-300L, both with image stabilization:
http://robgalbraith.com/bins/content_page.asp?cid=7-6451-6676
finally, here is the hotel i visited on wed/thurs on business:
rest of images here:
http://tjclark.ath.cx/images/trips/estes park - january 27-29 2004/
i moved in yesterday:
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/daily/moving in on superbowl sunday - february 1, 2004/
http://harvard03.ath.cx/images/daily/moving in on superbowl sunday - february 1, 2004/
so i thought about riding to work. it's only a mile or two at the most, walkable on nice days. but parking for the bike is a pain in cities, portland is just filled with bums pushing shopping carts around. and altho i doubt any would have an allen set and a proclivity to swipe bike parts i don't want to take that chance. as a result my bikes will be expensive yet pretty room ornaments in my living room partially making up for my lack of furniture.
also, now that i'm actually making money, i'm toying with reviving my get-a-private-pilot's license idea... perhaps instead of motorcycle, or in place of superfluous camera-upgrade schemes... hmm. an interesting time this is -- living is more fun when one is not unemployed and living at home.
partially making up for my lack of furniture.also, now that i'm actually making money, i'm toying with reviving my get-a-private-pilot's license idea... perhaps instead of motorcycle, or in place of superfluous camera-upgrade schemes... hmm. an interesting time this is -- living is more fun when one is not unemployed and living at home.
here's a fun link:
http://canonusapressroom.com/html/show_all_image.asp?ImageName=EOS-1D+MARK+II
also, for those keeping track, i've just about ditched the old idea of getting a pilot's license. too expensive (~$6k + seat time at $75/hr even after completion) for something i couldn't do all that often. so instead i'm going to soldier on and see if i can scrape enough money to get a motorcycle of some sort and this fancy new camera body, once it is actually available to the public...
other mesg of the day: girls suck. i am one bitter old man already at age 22
http://canonusapressroom.com/html/show_all_image.asp?ImageName=EOS-1D+MARK+II
also, for those keeping track, i've just about ditched the old idea of getting a pilot's license. too expensive (~$6k + seat time at $75/hr even after completion) for something i couldn't do all that often. so instead i'm going to soldier on and see if i can scrape enough money to get a motorcycle of some sort and this fancy new camera body, once it is actually available to the public...
other mesg of the day: girls suck. i am one bitter old man already at age 22
new riding pics for the first time in forever:
only these two tho. skating is "riding", right?
i only shot two because a) the burnside skatepark crowd is very tough and anti-photo "exploitation" and b) my d30's autofocus simply doesn't work at night when shooting outside the range of the af assist light on the flash, and with the 135mm mounted up tonight it certainly wasn't cutting it. putting on a shorter lens and getting close really isn't an option in such a big skatepark. i'm kind of sick of shooting people i don't know, i think i'll leave the camera behind next time i head out to the park (tomorrow i plan on visiting three, for instance), and relegate the d30 to urban architecture duty:
only these two tho. skating is "riding", right?
i only shot two because a) the burnside skatepark crowd is very tough and anti-photo "exploitation"
and b) my d30's autofocus simply doesn't work at night when shooting outside the range of the af assist light on the flash, and with the 135mm mounted up tonight it certainly wasn't cutting it. putting on a shorter lens and getting close really isn't an option in such a big skatepark. i'm kind of sick of shooting people i don't know, i think i'll leave the camera behind next time i head out to the park (tomorrow i plan on visiting three, for instance), and relegate the d30 to urban architecture duty:
