May 2010
May
31
2010
Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
My fiancée and I were recently in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and were fortunate enough to visit Rembrandt's House. What was even more amazing was that you could wonder around freely and take photos, rooms were not roped off.
That's how I was able to get this closeup shot, security at the house did not seem to mind I was taking a photo inches away from this work area with paints. The tricky part was that flash was not allowed and the light was rather dim.
May
23
2010
iPad App Review: LightTrac, Shows Outdoor Photographers Sun's Elevation and Direction
Ok, so I caved and got an iPad the other day. One of the first things I noticed, there are some stunning and amazing ipad native apps in the app store. As a photographer I am always looking for the latest and greatest as far as apps go. Before it would have been on the iPhone, now it's for the iPad.
And one of those pps is called LightTrac which can determine the sun's elevation and direction over any outdoor subject and show it to you on a map. For a photographer, this is ideal because you always want to know what the best time of day to photograph a landmark of specific location will be. LightTrac can help the photographer scout for new photo rich locations on a map ahead of time and the best times of day to shoot them.
May
20
2010
Rewriting Drupal Views Output for Custom Theming & CSS
I love it when we discover one of those wonderful Drupal gems that is not well documented and is very powerful in creating some nice Drupal Views theme customization. We were recently tasked with creating an events calendar that has a custom CCK field called "City". There's a drop down menu with a list of cities to assign the event to. So along with an event listing, you also see a city such as New York or Boston. The client wanted these cities to be color coded.
May
16
2010
Photo of Moat Gatehouse at Castle Heeswijk, Netherlands
It was a rainy, cloudy & foggy day when we visited this stunning 12th century Dutch castle so I tried to leverage the weather conditions to my advantage to create moody and artistic photos.
Canon EOS 7D, 3 shot HDR composite in Photomatix, post processed in Adobe Lightroom 3 Beta 2. Tameron 10 - 24 mm @ 10mm.
May
14
2010
HDR Photo, Castle De Haar in Haarzuilens, Netherlands (Front View)
Front View of Castle De Haar in the Netherlands. It was a picture perfect day. The castle was under construction but a little Photoshop magic helped the situation to get rid of some the construction eye sores in the photo.
Canon EOS 7D with Tameron 10 - 24mm ultra wide zoom @ 10mm. 3 shot HDR done in Photomatix, post processed in Adobe LightRoom 3 Beta 2 and touched and sized in Photoshop CS 3
