Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Test DCP 435 1.1-Please describe in one sentence what users can do with your software
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Nice neighbourhood
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada at sunset. Toronto cityscape with its iconic CN
tower is also seen across the lake.
Hamilton at sunset
A cliche - cityscape at sunset...
Toronto and its CN tower are seen across the lake.
HCS everyone!
Monday, April 2, 2012
Test DCP 422 1.1-Describe en una frase qué pueden hacer los usuarios con tu programa
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Mist-erious forest
Morning fog at the top of the escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. On the
right side, the cliff goes 100m down sharply. I used my new lens - fisheye
Samyang 8mm - which produced an interesting effect of curved trees at the
edges of the frame.
Here is a full sphere panorama from that spot (beware - it is huge, 38 MB, so
it might take a while until you see it in color):
www.physics.mcmaster.ca/~syam/_MG_7998-_MG_8005.html
HSS everyone!
Friday, March 23, 2012
Foggy escarpment - panorama
A full-sphere panorama (rectangular projection) of Hamilton escarpment on a
foggy morning. Stitched out of 9 photos made with the Samyang 8mm fisheye
lens and my DIY zero-parallax tripod head. (The 9th shot was made hand held
without tripod, to patch the nadir.) Stitching was done using free software
Hugin. The resolution here (16 megapixels) is slightly reduced compared to
the original shots.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Speed chase in the fog
Made with fisheye lens Samyang (Rokinon/Bower/Opteka...) 8mm.
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Samyang fisheye for street photography: de-fished
De-fished (rectilinear) version of my street photo with Samyang 8mm fisheye
lens. Faces and figures are very distorted here - check the face of the girl
on the left side, and the right leg of the person walking on the right side.
The original version (see below) produces much more naturally looking faces
and figures, making the Samyang lens very useful for street photography.
Testing Canon135L lens with AF extension tubes
First test with my new cheap (from China) macro extension tubes with electric
wiring (allows AF and aperture control of the lens) with my Canon 135mm f2L
lens. The magnification of such a combo is 1.1:1. I used a flash (Canon 580
EX) attached to the camera with a DIY softbox. The aperture was f/16 -
probably too small, as diffraction effects were pretty obvious. The shot was
slightly cropped.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
A cold day
Experimenting with my new lens, fisheye Samyang (Rokinon, Bower etc.) 8mm
with a unique, stereographic projection.
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Palm OS Emulator 3.1-Palm OS emulator (v1.0 to v4.0) for Windows
Wassup 1.2-View your obligations, tasks and emails remaining for the day on one screen
BomberMan 1.0-All of the addiction of BomberMan, now for PalmOS!!!
Little Empire 1.5.1-Rule a little empire from your Android phone!
Android.
In this game, you're in charge of...yep, you guessed it, a Little Empire!
It's a lovely-looking game, with funny medieval music and lovely, detailed
graphics. In Little Empire - which the developers says is *a cross between a
tower defense and strategy game* - you'll have to build castles, wage war
against your enemy and, of course, raise the funds and resources that you'll
need to do this. Money is called *Mojo*, and although you'll start out with a
certain amount, you'll have to buy or earn more.
Gameplay in Little Empire is a little complicated. There's a very quick
tutorial when you start, but from there on in you'll need to click around in
order to find out what you need to do. The main aim is to build profit-making
ventures to gather resources, recruit an army, kit them out and march into
battle. You can play one of 3 main characters, each with their own strengths
and weaknesses.
Little Empire takes a long time to get into. It's real time (unless you pay
to speed things up), so there's a certain amount of waiting around for your
strategies to take effect. There's also a strong social element to the game -
supposedly, Little Empire is the first location-based 3D mobile game - and
it's certainly got lots of opportunity to meet other players and share your
victories and defeats.
*If you like MMOs, and you have time and money to spare, Little Empire is a
great way to waste time on your Android phone.*Download *Little Empire 1.5.1*
in Softonic
Friday, February 17, 2012
Samyang 8mm fisheye test 1
Manual focus Samyang (Rokinon / Bower / Vivitar etc.) fisheye lens with a
unique (stereographic) projection. I describe here how one can fix the
chromatic aberration of this lens in Adobe Camera Raw (Lightroom, Photoshop
etc.), and optionally to make the photo rectilinear:
photography-on-the.net/forum/showpost.php?p=13869849&... As a basis I use the
lens profile created by akry, akry.livejournal.com/781417.html .
Saturday, January 7, 2012
Nightmare
My first attempt at "levitation photography". I spent many hours working on
this one. I am afraid the concept is not original - I was inspired by the
great work of Luke Takes Photos
(www.flickr.com/photos/lukesharratt/5487140983).
HSS everyone!
Sunday, December 25, 2011
Two sisters
My two daughters.
My first experiment with "vintage" post processing. I followed this tutorial:
Happy holidays, and HSS!
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Kobo Vox disassembly
The new 7" tablet/ereader Kobo Vox inside. It is relatively easy to
disassemble (all held by snaps, no glue), but you have to be very careful.
As you can see, the internal ROM is on a removable micro-SD card - so
presumably you can swap it with another one, with an alternative OS image
(CyanogenMod etc). Also, you can see a small button "rst1", which is
presumably a full factory reset button. I haven't tried it yet.
UPDATE: The RST1 button simply reboots the unit. Someone heard from Kobo
developers that there is no special button or combination of buttons which
would reset the unit to the original state. But one can always make a clone
of the internal micro-SD card, to another 8GB micro-SD card. You don't even
have to disassemble Kobo to do that: if you are a bit familiar with Linux,
simply install a busybox and shell apk's on Kobo, insert a new 8GB card in
the external card slot, run the shell, and execute the command "dd
if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/dev/block/mmcblk1". (You might need root access for
that; if so, run first the Gingerbreak v1.20 apk.) Only if you totally
bricked the device, you'd have to disassemble it, and swap the internal SD
card with the copy.
There is a good discussion forum on Kobo Vox hacking here:
www.mobileread.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=246
Saturday, September 24, 2011
Serenity at 2km altitude
Probably the one million first photo of the beautiful Moraine lake uploaded
to Flickr - definitely a cliche!
Happy Cliche Saturday everyone!