No Running on the Couch!!

Fidel's Tortilla Soup

Fidel's tortilla soup is by far the best Mexican dish I've ever had. Smoked peppers, cubed cheese, avocado, chicken, and tortilla strips all in a spicy broth.

I've been using a few new apps for photography on my iPhone.

1. camera+ - generally better camera app, allows for selective focus and exposure (set separately), provides some settings for processing the image for white balance, cropping, straightening. Allows you to take multiple rapid pictures without saving them to your iPhone's camera roll.
2. Dynamic Light - good for doing high contrast or high dynamic range processing (HDR). Still working out the kinks there.
3. Instagram - if I want to do any "film" processing

The only thing I can say is that, whatever apps you use, if the original composition is crap, doing a film filter doesn't make it better.

Column K

Just a quick shot with my iPhone. Processed using camera+.

The Alpha and the Omega

Seven months after it ended, I need to reflect on what I accomplished by taking a picture every day for 365 days.

My subject was my son, and I have definitely set a precedent for myself. Our second child will require the same level of photographic evidence, and the exceptions of the amount of pictures I want to take as we all grow as a family are high.

A Reboot

My last blog entry was from ... let's see here... oh? Oh. December, eight months ago.

So, I'm going to try to refocus my original intent on the free, and surprisingly robust, Blogger platform. I have to pay good money to host a WordPress blog, so all of the posts have been migrated here in advance of my service expiring.

When my domain comes up for renewal, I plan on paying the $10 or so, but have it point to Blogger. The WordPress site will languish and die.

Thanksgiving from Above

I spent a week thinking about how to shoot a Thanksgiving meal. After shooting my son for almost a year, I've learned that changing the altitude of the shot changes the perspective so much. I came up with the idea to shoot the Thanksgiving meal from above.

Strobist: Specular Portrait

It's been a VERY long time since I've posted anything to the main site. In keeping with my strobist assignments, here is a specular highlight portrait.

It was much more difficult to do than I thought. I tried with people and things with very little success. As the assignment suggests, the difficulty was finding the right angle and relationship between camera, subject, light source, and background. I took this picture at Toronado down in Normal Heights, San Diego. The subject are two rare beers which are apparently hard to find in the "wild."

Here are two "bonus" pictures from the same bar.