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- What I did this weekendSeptember 27 2009
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- Thursday evening: Off to NYC, Ed's Lobster Bar, food coma
- Friday: B&H, Shake Shack, Georgia O'Keeffe exhibit at the Whitney museum, trek to Brooklyn for birthday celebrations
- Saturday: Balthazar, shopping, The Marriage of Figaro (Cherubino was amazing), La Esquina
- Sunday: Dim sum, back to Rochester, Cirque du Soleil, football
It's been a fun weekend.
- Tornado powering this blogSeptember 14 2009
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This blog is now running off of Tornado on App Engine. Tornado is an open source version of the web server and tools that power FriendFeed. I'm really excited that this code was open sourced, working with this server has been a pleasure at FriendFeed and I'm looking forward to seeing how developers will use it and contribute to it.
I haven't ported everything from my old blog over but once I get something feature complete I'll likely open source this blog too. Do you recognize the color of the header?
- Remove trailing slash on App EngineJune 7 2009
- class BaseRequestHandler(webapp.RequestHandler): def initialize(self, request, response): webapp.RequestHandler.initialize(self, request, response) if request.path.endswith("/") and not request.path == "/": redirect = request.path[:-1] if request.query_string: redirect += "?" + request.query_string return self.redirect(redirect, permanent=True)
- DIY cheap (or free!) macro photo studioMay 25 2009
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To celebrate memorial day I built a cheap DIY macro photo studio following instructions from Strobist.
If you have most of the stuff (and most of you probably do) it should be free. I had to buy the light source, in my case a 500 watt halogen lamp, but it only cost me $17 from Home Depot. I plan on buying another lamp so I can light the other side.
The setup:
The result:
I learned that I should definitely clean up anything I place in the box because it shows off all imperfections; look at all the dust on the SD880. And I should buy a second lamp to light up the other side as well.
- Requested: My Photography Workflow/Equipment - ApertureApril 26 2009
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Alex asked that I explain my workflow. It's pretty simple and rather short but this is how I post process my photos:
- Plug camera directly into computer (yes I don't own a memory reader...yet).
- Import into Aperture into an "archive" folder that has sub folders organized as YYYY/MM/DD. I do not let Aperture import photos into the Aperture library as I am worried about it corrupting. If the photos are just in a folder on the disk then I know they are safe (and can easily be backed up using Dropbox).
- I have a problem: I now delete most of my photos. If they aren't perfect I get rid of them.
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Process the best of the bunch. This is fast as I know the keyboard shortcuts and batch process things like white balance as much as I can. Usually I:
- fix the exposure and levels
- add some vignette (I love that look)
- a touch more contrast (I like contrast)
- and sharpen (using edge sharpen)