This is an image I may have made before, in a previous blog-life. But I liked it then, so I did it again. With my earlier arrivals at work, I park in a different part of my lot so I don’t walk through the Ethno Botanical Garden much anymore.
But what I really like about this photo is the RGB histogram …
Aside from winter, fall is my favorite season. Spring is okay, summer, too, though not here in Georgia – too damned hot. And winter only if it’s a really good one – 175 inches or more of snow, deep cold snaps that send you huddling on the couch with cocoa.
Thanks to Khoi Vinh’s awesome blog, Subtraction (I read it just for the design of the page sometimes), for sending me to this image of a real-world Photoshop canvas.
Every semester, I find a way to torture myself. Not in some metaphysical, psychological way (that I do daily), but in some truly pain inducing, sleep depriving holistic way. Saturday was this semester’s attempt.
I succeeded.
Given all the other stuff that I haul around, I don’t always carry one of my DSLRs. (I know, heresy …) But I always have something, usually this little Canon G9. It produces some amazing images and gives me a level of control virtually unmatched in the point and shoot realm.
Waiting in the media room for the start of the Central Michigan-Georgia game, a student asked me where I got my credential holder. Was given out at the beginning of last season, I think. He nods, looking longingly at it. Seated across from me is the director of photography from the local paper, a guy I like and trust. He confirmed it was given out last year, but said he couldn’t use it.
The camera war between Nikon and Canon, that is, as Nikon announced their next camera – the D700, a “full frame” chip camera that slots in just below the top-of-the-line D3. Aimed squarely at Canon’s full frame 5D, it looks likely to tromp it based on the specs published.
A lot of my students ask why I’m so interested in the full frame cameras (currently Canon’s 5D and 1Ds Mark III and Nikon’s D3). A lot of it has to do with having grown up with 35 mm film and part of it has to do with some esoteric bits of optics and physics.