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The incredibly useful dpreview.com has an announcement for a new release of the image noise reduction program Neat Image. If you’ve got photos which are grainy because you are pushing your camera to the limits of its ISO setting, try putting Neat Image to work on it. I’ve blogged about it before, it’s very cool, […]

After yesterday’s post, I decided that I’d like to try to make some better reflection maps. So I shot this image of my office reflecting in a Christmas tree ball. The image is pretty noisy because my office isn’t brightly lit. (Addendum: I also had the camera set for outdoor white balance, which makes the […]

Video Thing has a cool experiment in shooting panoramic video using a Christmas tree ball mounted on a boom in front of a DV cam. An After Effects plugin turns the resulting reflection into a cylindrical environment video. Very cool. I did some experiments a while ago using this setup, only with still images instead […]

Carmen and I spent a short weekend at Reno/Tahoe, and I snapped this picture of her at the shore of Lake Tahoe. A nice trip, alas, all to short. Love you honey! Every moment with you is a vacation all by itself. Picture seems overblown because I used my cameraphone, and let’s face it, it’s […]

The article on the Dirkon Paper Camera reminded me of the couple of pinhole photographs I made using a simple cylinder of cardboard and some photographic paper.

Well, just got back from a day of watching robot combat at the Robogames competition in at San Francisco State. It continues tomorrow. You can look at my gallery of photos, and maybe even watch a Quicktime of a poor Robosapien competing in an event. More coverage on Slashdot. Even more photos, courtesy of Thomas […]

This is mostly just a test designed to try out Flickr‘s Post-To-Blog functionality. Still, it’s a nice picture of my lovely wife munching Dim Sum at the King of Kings in Oakland. I’m not the biggest Dim Sum fan, but this place is among the better I’ve visited. And of course, my wife is spectacular! […]

I just created a new gallery of Carmen and my Day in Marin in my brainwagon photo gallery. We marched around Muir Beach for a short walk, did a few mile loop at Muir Woods, and ended up searching for (and finding) a geocache on Mt. Tamalpais. Terrific day, but I’m worn out, so podcasting […]

Today I stopped by Cost Plus again, as they had 40% off their Christmas stuff. While wandering the aisles looking for last minute stocking stuffers, I saw the following description above the wine: Very ripe and round — almost like a Jolly Rancher candy. The plums, cherries and red berries jump out of the glass! […]

Well, today marked another nice trip to the Oakland Zoo. As always, I brought my digital camera so I could snap some pictures of the animals, and I managed to catch a nice photo of these two giraffes. It was a good day for photos, I got some more nice photos of the meerkats, and […]

As I mentioned in my audio blog today, I was diverted from my mornings appointments by this little guy who appeared on my windshield as I was about to drive off. I just had to fetch my Nikon 4300 and snap some pictures of him. Try clicking on the thumbnail to the right to get […]

Here is another picture from my weekend zoo excursion. Surprisingly, these little guys have proven to be very hard to photograph, largely because they blend into the background so my autofocus fails with disturbing regularity. This is probably the best of the batch that I took this weekend, but the focus is a teeny bit […]