Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada Slot machines used to play in the key of C, since it was thought to be a pleasing sound to the human mind. Busy carpet patterns were intended to keep your eyes up so you could see the games. I’ve been thinking about the subtle ways that people are manipulated…
Last night, I decided to try using my Nikon Coolpix P7000 to get some auto-exposure bracket shots for HDR images. Think of this as a Proof of Concept experiment. The P7000 is capable of shooting brackets of five exposures, which is generally sufficient for HDR. Since my Nikon D700 seems to attract unwanted attention at…
If you’ve looked at some of the recent images I’ve posted lately, you may think that I’m on a grunge kick. That’s not quite where I’m going lately, though. I think of it more as an impressionist kick. I’m not trying to just show a photo that documents something I saw. Instead, I’m experimenting a…
Before I start discussing Aperture vs. Lightroom again, I just wanted to share the photo of the Pirate’s Den today. If you wander back into Adventureland in Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom, you may not notice this little area as you pass it. That is, unless you happen to find Captain Jack Sparrow out front….
I didn’t plan on ever showing this photo. In fact, I didn’t plan on ever doing any processing of this photo. You see, NASA has this way of simultaneously exciting and disappointing me. For instance, I wanted to get a photo of the Space Shuttle on the launch pad. Being somewhat anal-retentive about preparation, I…
