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Virtual Tour – Demo House

Brian — Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:26 +0000

To navigate the tour click on the image and drag the mouse. Areas you can navigate to will appear as pop-up boxes. When over a labeled box you can release the mouse to go to the area the mouse is hovering over. You can resume control of the virtual camera again by clicking dragging the mouse again, even when over-top a labeled box. As long as you don’t release the mouse over a labeled box you will stay in the current area. The scroll wheel on the mouse allows you to adjust the focal length of the virtual camera, even up to a very wide angle.

Props to Lightroom 3 Noise Reduction Upgrade

Brian — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 02:06:12 +0000

Well I’m happy with the results of the new Lightroom’s noise reduction upgrade. Figured I’d post some quick test. Took a slightly overexposed shot at 6400 iso into the corner of my dark-lit living room. Here’s the original, which the D90 did a reasonable job controlling really for the iso level.

And here’s a version with the noise reduction settings really cranked up about 3/4 full.

And here’s just a couple close up crops of close to the original 1:1 size.

Pretty sweet, now I just need to set aside some time to setup a detailed lens correction profile for my d90/tokina 11-16 combo so I can take advantage of the new automatic lens correction in Lightroom 3.

St Paul Como Zoo

Brian — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:30:34 +0000

A few images taken at the Como Zoo in St. Paul.

That new macro I got looks right through wires!

Okay not really from that distance but it’s always good to keep up on your clone painting skills.

Curious as to what this little pineapple looking plant is? Guess I should have took a picture of it’s label.

This one has a nice bokeh.

These little fish are so fast but I got lucky and caught one in focus.

Wish I would have gotten one with a better focus on these cool dudes too.

One chill Sloth.

Tamron 90mm 2.8 Macro

Brian — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 04:18:23 +0000

Went into a camera shop in St. Cloud looking for a few small accessories and walked out with a new (used slightly) macro. Ha, what can I say… it was a good deal. Here’s a few I’ve taken trying it out this week.

I used this focus stacking software called CombineZP to get a larger depth of field on some of these. I thought the results turned out good considering I used a not very scientific way of calculating the different focus planes while shooting the stack. In other words I just eye-balled it. It’s a really cool program though, mostly because someone wrote it and decided to give it away for free for all us nerds! Check it out… http://www.hadleyweb.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/CZP/News.htm

Looking forward to getting outdoors and trying to find some little buggies to take some macros of!

Amerikan Junk at The Rox.

Brian — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 06:35:33 +0000

Well turns out fast moving punk rockers in low ambient lighting makes for a tough shot. But I was able to catch a few!