Saturday, 24 October 2009
Shopping Trip
IKEA is an interesting place. From the quirky flat pack furniture, sprung wood laminate chairs and lighting components you don't seem to find elsewhere its a eclectic mix of interesting and sometimes innovative design. Other times its WTF? Did you know IKEA has named their cheap stuff after Danish places, while the more expensive and luxurious stuff is named after Swedish places? For example Noresskog, Mattlig and Karlstad are product names and one at least (Karlstad) is a Municipality in Sweden. Fascinating huh?
Thursday, 22 October 2009
iPhone Images
The Best camera is the one you have with you when you make pictures (see previous post)
The 3Gs camera's resolution is 3 megapixels with a 2.8 lens and has auto ISO and it will let you choose which spot you want to focus on simply by touching on the screen. It's reported to have so-so low light performance but the image below captured hand held in full night well after sunset is proof of its ability.
iPhone 3Gs 3.85mm @ ISO 70, f2.8, 1/470 sec
Sunday, 18 October 2009
Random Image
For my Black & White project I only took two lenses out, the Nikkor 35mm f2 prime and the Tokina 11-16 f2.8 wide angle. I found myself using the 35mm almost exclusively because the 35mm on a cropped sensor camera, the D300, is equivalent in its effective focal length as a 50mm prime would on a full frame camera (Nikon D3, D700 or a Canon 5D Mk II etc). That is its closest to what you see with your eyes. The 35mm is tack sharp and has great bokeh and has been on my camera a lot since I got it a couple of weeks ago. See post.
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 400, f5, 1/500 sec
Saturday, 17 October 2009
Black & White Project
Black & white images inspired the original term "photography" and was coined in 1839 by Sir John Herschel and is based on the Greek phos "light" and graphê "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light". Black & white photos seem to survive time maybe because black & white has an inherent dignity which is both the simplest, and the most sophisticated of the photographic disciplines. So this inspired my Black & White project and I chose city architecture as a good subject that offers pattern, contrast and in the morning light, you get lots of shadows in the deep city building canyons. So here they are below . . .
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 200, f2, 1/250 sec
Nikon D300, Nikkor 35mm f2 @ ISO 400, f5, 1/250 sec
Monday, 5 October 2009
Augmented Reality
Augmented reality is a term for a live direct or indirect view of a physical real world environment whose elements are merged with or augmented by virtual computer generated imagery creating a mixed reality. Source: Wikipedia.
Basically for the iPhone and Google Android devices when you look at the camera view in these apps it overlays points of interest or other information on the screen in the direction you are pointing the camera.
Point the phone down the street and it may tell you how far the next pub is and give you a visual of what it looks like, as well as other pubs in that direction giving distances and contact information.
Other apps will tell you, when you point the camera at say a bank, the services provided and where exactly they are in the bank. When you click on icons overlaid on the camera's view you can source related information.
These applications take advantage of the phones' GPS and compass features and access to wireless networks to mash up local Web content with the world that surrounds you.
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