There was some apple chucking.
These next few might need some explaining. It's called the frown wink, and apparently it's the thing to do.
She's right, you know. We all look pretty ridiculous.
Not all of us took cars.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
The Peoples in Rhode Island
Spent some time in Rhode Island this last weekend, and I took my camera along. This time I figured I'd break it up into a couple of posts. This first one is mostly pictures of the people that were there, mostly taken during an apple picking session. Once I figure out what to do with the scenery shots I took, they'll go up in the second post. Enjoy.
There was some apple chucking.
These next few might need some explaining. It's called the frown wink, and apparently it's the thing to do.
She's right, you know. We all look pretty ridiculous.
Not all of us took cars.
There was some apple chucking.These next few might need some explaining. It's called the frown wink, and apparently it's the thing to do.She's right, you know. We all look pretty ridiculous.Not all of us took cars.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
A lot of things happened
There's no point in me banging on about how I haven't posted in a while or how I can't really remember what happened when. All I know is that I've got pictures and I'll do my best to remember what they're about.
I'm going to start easy with one that I know for sure what went down. Hillary had a birthday.
Chris guarded the pizzas, while everyone brainstormed a way to get them from him. Carol looked especially focused. As soon as Abby saw the business end of my lens, things turned into a photo shoot.
Jeff even got in on the action, snapping a pic for his new line of scents.
This is the view from my boat as I arrive in America.
At some point, August perhaps, I went home to see the folks and enjoyed a game in the good seats. Unfortunately, despite traveling to the opposite side of the country, I was still surrounded by idiot Yankees fans and bankers. But the seats were nice.
This is what my home town looks like, though not all structures are covered in ivy and most have roofs.
This is the building I always think of when walking in to Carol's.
Here's that same part of town at night.
Turns out, my iPhone isn't too bad at taking sunset shots.
A fact which became more apparent the day that they decided to film Ghostbusters again. Seriously, I haven't seen ominous clouds roll in in such a dramatic way in a long time. Apparently, Venkman & Co. were victorious, as we were all treated to one of the best sunsets I've seen in a long, long time.
Collin and I also went to Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, which was enjoyable. Especially when the kid from the hood rolled through, making us all aware that he didn't know what kind of %$*# this was and, in fact, did not need any of said %$*#. The Bard himself never knew such eloquence.
The Navy was in town!
I rediscovered my love for tennis.
OK, if you've made it this far, I congratulate you. This is a very bad picture of a place that always makes me laugh. If you ever take the m15 bus through Chinatown, make sure to look out for this place on Madison St. It's called the Big Plot Co. I'm not sure what it is they do, but I like to think that it has something to do with world domination. If I ever make a comic book, these guys will figure into the plot. 100% guaranteed.
And finally, speaking of comic books, I had the great pleasure to meet Tim Gunn and Phil Jimenez and get them to sign a comic book for my mom. Let me assure you, it was an interesting afternoon, highlighted by a woman getting in line wearing nothing but body paint and a thong. The line moved slowly, due to the fact that Mr. Gunn is an incredibly nice person, who seemed more than happy to listen to the entire life story of every FIT student who got in line. Apparently I was the only person in line who bought their clothes.
And unfortunately, this isn't the Bat Signal, though I think life would be better if it were. As impressive as this tribute is, I've always thought it was more touching when it was cloudy.
I'm going to start easy with one that I know for sure what went down. Hillary had a birthday.
Chris guarded the pizzas, while everyone brainstormed a way to get them from him. Carol looked especially focused. As soon as Abby saw the business end of my lens, things turned into a photo shoot.
Jeff even got in on the action, snapping a pic for his new line of scents.
This is the view from my boat as I arrive in America.
At some point, August perhaps, I went home to see the folks and enjoyed a game in the good seats. Unfortunately, despite traveling to the opposite side of the country, I was still surrounded by idiot Yankees fans and bankers. But the seats were nice.
This is what my home town looks like, though not all structures are covered in ivy and most have roofs.
This is the building I always think of when walking in to Carol's.
Here's that same part of town at night.
Turns out, my iPhone isn't too bad at taking sunset shots.
A fact which became more apparent the day that they decided to film Ghostbusters again. Seriously, I haven't seen ominous clouds roll in in such a dramatic way in a long time. Apparently, Venkman & Co. were victorious, as we were all treated to one of the best sunsets I've seen in a long, long time.
Collin and I also went to Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, which was enjoyable. Especially when the kid from the hood rolled through, making us all aware that he didn't know what kind of %$*# this was and, in fact, did not need any of said %$*#. The Bard himself never knew such eloquence.
The Navy was in town!
I rediscovered my love for tennis.
OK, if you've made it this far, I congratulate you. This is a very bad picture of a place that always makes me laugh. If you ever take the m15 bus through Chinatown, make sure to look out for this place on Madison St. It's called the Big Plot Co. I'm not sure what it is they do, but I like to think that it has something to do with world domination. If I ever make a comic book, these guys will figure into the plot. 100% guaranteed.
And finally, speaking of comic books, I had the great pleasure to meet Tim Gunn and Phil Jimenez and get them to sign a comic book for my mom. Let me assure you, it was an interesting afternoon, highlighted by a woman getting in line wearing nothing but body paint and a thong. The line moved slowly, due to the fact that Mr. Gunn is an incredibly nice person, who seemed more than happy to listen to the entire life story of every FIT student who got in line. Apparently I was the only person in line who bought their clothes.
And unfortunately, this isn't the Bat Signal, though I think life would be better if it were. As impressive as this tribute is, I've always thought it was more touching when it was cloudy.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Here's a few more pics that I forgot to include from my trip to Cape Town. My boss ate two of those pies. Enjoy.
Oh, and there's a video too.
Oh, and there's a video too.Saturday, August 08, 2009
Bummer
I just woke from a dream where I was a part of a team that won the Super Bowl. I cannot tell you how disappointing reality feels right now.
Wednesday, July 29, 2009
The revenge of Jon Stewart
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
This is why your colors are gross
A friend of mine just got himself a fancy-pants new camera (and when I say fancy-pants, I really mean fancy-tuxedo-pants), and mentioned that Blogger had sucked the life out of his photos. That's always the joke right? You buy a nice camera, but then what goes on the net looks like it came from your Senior party disposable camera. I've been there too.
So, here's why it's important to make sure that photos you post to the web are assigned to the sRGB color space rather than the Adobe RGB color space that a fancy-tuxedo-pants camera might be set in (hint: because if you don't make the switch, all your colors will look washed out and gross). The reason why is more or less this: computers aren't the warm and feeling individuals that we are and instead of red-orange being red-orange it's a series of numbers (think 20,40,80 or 1,2,3). Now, you don't want numbers where there should be colors, so you must use some kind of table to decode them. Perhaps in the sRGB table 1,2,3 represents orange and in the Adobe RGB table it represents red-orange. The problem is that many browsers out there assume that all images are using the sRGB table, coloring your beautiful Adobe RGB tagged flower orange instead of it's original red-orange. Check out the examples below:
This first one was left in Adobe RGB. It's kind of washed out.
This photo was converted to sRGB. Notice the difference? It helps if you open these photos in separate tabs and switch between the two.
It turns out that some browsers (Firefox, Safari) can determine what color space is associated with the file, and assign the correct colors (in other words, they are "color managed"). If I were to give you the original JPEGs of these two shots, and you opened them in one of these browsers, they would look the same (Chrome, Opera and IE don't color manage and the photos would look different, like they do above). So, if you happen to be reading this post using Safari or Firefox and notice the difference you might be getting a little confused. Well, there's one more little point to discuss, and that is what Picasa does to your photos.
Since users of these two color managed browsers do notice the difference between the two photos above, I'm guessing that when you upload photos to Picasa (they host your Blogger photos, right?) it assumes that the photo has been tagged with the sRGB color space. So, regardless of your browser's ability to manage color spaces, Picasa has stepped in and outsmarted it by looking up the colors using the sRGB table and making your red-oranges orange. Boo. It would be nice if it left the photo as is and let the browser sort it out, but for whatever reason it doesn't. So, long story short, if you're going to post things to Blogger, make sure the photo is using sRGB before you upload it.
A little side not here - if you happen to own a Leica M8, the default color space should be sRGB, unless a previous owner has changed it. So if you happen to be taking photos in sRGB, and nothing else (like Photoshop) has reassigned the color space, I don't know what to tell you.
Oh, one more thing, if you shrink your photos down for the web, you might want to fiddle around with the Unsharp Mask, since you might have lost some of the sharpness. YMMV.
So, here's why it's important to make sure that photos you post to the web are assigned to the sRGB color space rather than the Adobe RGB color space that a fancy-tuxedo-pants camera might be set in (hint: because if you don't make the switch, all your colors will look washed out and gross). The reason why is more or less this: computers aren't the warm and feeling individuals that we are and instead of red-orange being red-orange it's a series of numbers (think 20,40,80 or 1,2,3). Now, you don't want numbers where there should be colors, so you must use some kind of table to decode them. Perhaps in the sRGB table 1,2,3 represents orange and in the Adobe RGB table it represents red-orange. The problem is that many browsers out there assume that all images are using the sRGB table, coloring your beautiful Adobe RGB tagged flower orange instead of it's original red-orange. Check out the examples below:
This first one was left in Adobe RGB. It's kind of washed out.
This photo was converted to sRGB. Notice the difference? It helps if you open these photos in separate tabs and switch between the two.It turns out that some browsers (Firefox, Safari) can determine what color space is associated with the file, and assign the correct colors (in other words, they are "color managed"). If I were to give you the original JPEGs of these two shots, and you opened them in one of these browsers, they would look the same (Chrome, Opera and IE don't color manage and the photos would look different, like they do above). So, if you happen to be reading this post using Safari or Firefox and notice the difference you might be getting a little confused. Well, there's one more little point to discuss, and that is what Picasa does to your photos.
Since users of these two color managed browsers do notice the difference between the two photos above, I'm guessing that when you upload photos to Picasa (they host your Blogger photos, right?) it assumes that the photo has been tagged with the sRGB color space. So, regardless of your browser's ability to manage color spaces, Picasa has stepped in and outsmarted it by looking up the colors using the sRGB table and making your red-oranges orange. Boo. It would be nice if it left the photo as is and let the browser sort it out, but for whatever reason it doesn't. So, long story short, if you're going to post things to Blogger, make sure the photo is using sRGB before you upload it.
A little side not here - if you happen to own a Leica M8, the default color space should be sRGB, unless a previous owner has changed it. So if you happen to be taking photos in sRGB, and nothing else (like Photoshop) has reassigned the color space, I don't know what to tell you.
Oh, one more thing, if you shrink your photos down for the web, you might want to fiddle around with the Unsharp Mask, since you might have lost some of the sharpness. YMMV.
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