All Kinds of Pictures
Just a couple of spare-time projects to mention:
1. Finished the trailer for a friend's wedding that I shot recently. Apple's Color software has substantial issues, on top of the bugs inside Final Cut Pro itself... But they're also really powerful tools that are (sometimes) fun to work with. It was also neat learning about high-definition workflow for the first time. On the editing side of things, it's basically the same as standard-definition, but a lot slower. The harder part is probably on the shooting side, where you have to worry more about keeping things focused properly... Autofocus and video just aren't perfect, which is why all the pros use manual focus. (Every shot in every Hollywood movie you see is focused by a dedicated assistant called a focus puller, who walks alongside the camera and turns the follow-focus knob.) Oh, I'd also like to take this opportunity to flog my video production blog aggregator, for anyone interested in video/film tools and techniques who'd rather get it all in one place.
2. Over a year ago I went to Peru, came back, and posted pictures from the second half of the trip. I promised the sightseeing pictures from the first half, but never delivered. Instead of waiting for an infinite amount of free time to come along so I could polish everything up, I'm just going to post the sightseeing pictures in their semi-edited form, and see if anyone complains... Oh, and check out the panoramas too - half-baked, but still pretty cool.
Next spare-time project coming up is likely to be finishing up my brother's wedding video. It's getting close to a year and a half since that event - sorry, Martin & Sarah!
Work is going well; no news is good news. If you're interested in working on new ways to integrate host & guest OS's in a virtualization environment, feel free to join the open-vm-tools open source project that VMware is starting.
1. Finished the trailer for a friend's wedding that I shot recently. Apple's Color software has substantial issues, on top of the bugs inside Final Cut Pro itself... But they're also really powerful tools that are (sometimes) fun to work with. It was also neat learning about high-definition workflow for the first time. On the editing side of things, it's basically the same as standard-definition, but a lot slower. The harder part is probably on the shooting side, where you have to worry more about keeping things focused properly... Autofocus and video just aren't perfect, which is why all the pros use manual focus. (Every shot in every Hollywood movie you see is focused by a dedicated assistant called a focus puller, who walks alongside the camera and turns the follow-focus knob.) Oh, I'd also like to take this opportunity to flog my video production blog aggregator, for anyone interested in video/film tools and techniques who'd rather get it all in one place.
2. Over a year ago I went to Peru, came back, and posted pictures from the second half of the trip. I promised the sightseeing pictures from the first half, but never delivered. Instead of waiting for an infinite amount of free time to come along so I could polish everything up, I'm just going to post the sightseeing pictures in their semi-edited form, and see if anyone complains... Oh, and check out the panoramas too - half-baked, but still pretty cool.
- 2006 Peru sightseeing pictures from the first half of the trip
- Two spherical panoramas of Machu Picchu
Next spare-time project coming up is likely to be finishing up my brother's wedding video. It's getting close to a year and a half since that event - sorry, Martin & Sarah!
Work is going well; no news is good news. If you're interested in working on new ways to integrate host & guest OS's in a virtualization environment, feel free to join the open-vm-tools open source project that VMware is starting.
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Glad to know you're all safely moved! I'm still in Oregon and enjoying it. :)
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