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How Does This Happen? Note too, in the background, what looks to be yellow overspray...
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Cinema4D UV Mapping Sometimes I even amaze myself! ;)
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Cinema4D UV Mapping You continue to amaze me!
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Monthly Archives: June 2005
Geek Love
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More Interior Shots
Got a home for sale? Better call me. I can make any place look like a million bucks. Of course, that was very easy to do this time…
Posted in New Friends, Photography
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What a Shame
The owners of Andrew and Barbara’s loft will be painting over this awesome example of Andrew’s skill as a muralist. Andrew has a better understanding of perspective and of how to fool the eye than anyone I’ve ever known. His work is amazing. You can’t see it here, but Andrew even took the time to dab a bit of luminous paint on each of the bridge lights and on the city in the distance as well as on the moon in the upper left. The mural glows in the dark. It’s way cool.
I guess the sellers think the new owners are likely to be imaginitve types who would prefer off-white or eggshell or ivory. Whatever. Bleah…
Posted in Design, New Friends
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Home is Where the Hardware Is
Andrew and Barbara still have a lot of work to do, but they have come a l-o-n-g way on the road to making their new house into a home. Their beloved neon casts a warm glow into the living room – definitely a “good sign”. The walls and ceilings have been patched and sport a fresh coat of paint. Andrew is not afraid to put a bit of color on the walls, as you can see from Ursula’s bedroom.
The space is bcoming cozier with each passing week.
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Nice to See You, Ben!
Thanks for everything Ben. We had a wonderful time last night!
While the girls were making dinner, I tried something entirely new with my new camera and PhotoShop CS2. Stay tuned for details.
Posted in Food, New Friends
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I Missed One
I was looking at my Carnaval pictures again, and came across this shot. I’m not entirely sure what this guy is supposed to be. A mosquito? Some sort of green and red fish-thing? (Probably a mosquito, I guess… Ideas?) I do love the shot, though. He seems to be having such a great time… :-)
I did a google search for Carnaval pictures today and the results were pretty dang lame. I don’t get it – I saw dozens of professional-looking photographers at this event. Where are all the pictures???
Posted in Bay Area, Photography
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I’ll Take Mine RAW
It turns out that one of the greatest things about my new camera is the way it integrates with PhotoShop CS2. The RAW (NEF) file import tool is loaded with goodies. Below are just a few…
Starting on the left above, you can see that CS2′s NEF import tool includes the usual white balance adjustments.
The second screen shot shows the Detail tab. All of the adjustments here work as expected. Sharpening applied here seems to work better than unsharp mask and Luminance Smoothing is very nice indeed. Also note that I have changed the Size setting on the bottom of the screen to a whopping 6144 x 4081. Again, upscaling the image at this step seems to give much better results than upscaling with PhotoShop’s Image Size tools.
The third screen shot on the right above shows tools designed to correct for imperfections in camera lenses. These tools allow you to correct for Chromatic Aberrations and Vignetting. I use the Vignetting tool to ADD a subtle vignette more often that I use it to correct for fall-off. Fabulous!
Posted in Photography, PhotoShop
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