The Girl Who had Hair Like This
August 27, 2010 by Kivus · View Comments
The Scott Pilgrim comic series by Bryan Lee O’Malley is on the short list of my favorite comic series of all time. When it was announced they were making a movie out of the books, I was both excited and nervous.
At this point, the movie has been out for a couple of weeks, and there are number of stories about it’s particularly low box office (Vanity Fair even has a plea that you go see it this weekend). Personally, I don’t really care, since one of my favorite comic series was made into an unbelievably awesome movie.
The above picture is re-enactment of the party where Scott first meets Ramona, done with the newly available Scott and Ramona plushies.
Stand Up
August 25, 2010 by Kivus · View Comments
One of the major drawbacks of shooting with my Nikon P6000 is the speed at which I can take shots. It takes a bit to focus and then it takes about 5 seconds inbetween shots (when shooting in RAW) in order to get ready for the next shot. This means that I frequently have to anticipate what is going to happen. If it’s sports photography, it means I pre-focus on an area that I think something is going to happen in (which usually isn’t too hard since I’m pretty familiar with the flow of games). In this case, I saw a horse rolling around on the ground, looking ready to stand up. I focused my camera and waited. About 2 second later, I took this picture.
Quiet Night at the Clubhouse
August 21, 2010 by Kivus · View Comments
It was a quiet one night when I was walking by the Brier Creek clubhouse, and since there was still a decent amount of light out, I set down my tripod and took an HDR. They say photography is about compromises, and this is a perfect example. Photomatix handles lights in these kind of HDR shots better than any other program I’ve tried, but the Photomatix Aperture plugin’s ghosting correct is not up to par with Photoshop’s HDR Pro. So do I go for the cool lights with the ghosty flag or get the flag right and have slightly less than ideal lights? I decided the lights were more important in this shot.
Enter at your Own Risk
August 19, 2010 by Kivus · View Comments
The main reason for this snapshot posting is because I’m trying out the new Twitter Tools authentication system. Instead of standard username / password setup, it now uses full developer API integration. I guess that’s good if I ever decide I want to write my own twitter client on my website?
This particular photo comes from a trip I took to the Duke Gardens back during International HDR day. I thought this looked like some place that you’d walk into in a video game and then a cut scene would start and a boss battle would happen. Sadly, no one challenged me when I walked through it.
Outsourcing
August 17, 2010 by Kivus · View Comments
I’ve got major stuff on my plate from work and I’ve got a really cool photo spot that I’m taking Elyssa later this evening. Since I’m not sure I’ll have time to do any blog posting today, I decided to outsource those efforts.
