Photography

The nice thing about digital cameras is that photographers can finally delete out of focus photographs without having to pay for them to be printed. However, out of focus photographs are sometimes all one has if capturing a moment on the fly.

This sadly leaves only using Photoshop to render a blurry snapshot sharper in the hopes of preserving the image and the moment. Wouldn’t it be great if digital camera technology could advance to the point where out of focus photographs became extinct from the photographic process?
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I take a look around my work desk and often let out a long sigh. Surely in between the keys of my keyboard lies thousands of colonies of thriving bacteria and other unmentionable microbes which are invisible to the naked eye, but when put under the scrutiny of the USB Digital Microscope from ThinkGeek, the entire picture changes. Chances are I will probably have to turn in my current keyboard into the incinerator and pick a new one up, preferably a model with an anti-bacterial coating on. Like they say, ignorance is bliss - hence I’ll follow that good advice and save myself a fair amount of money in the process without killing off entire nations of unseen life on purpose.

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Almost everything that you buy these days appears to be a multi function device, meaning that you go out to buy a phone, and come back with a camera phone, even though you may never use the camera! These products are normally designed to work in conjunction with each other, like media devices, kitchen appliances and actually almost anything that you should care to mention. However sometimes a product comes onto the market that is multi function, yet works so well it makes you think why didn’t they do that before, that can be said about the DXG Roadster digital camera.
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So if you’ve been reading here at all for a while, I’m a Ferrari and F1 fan. 

This weekend in Sonoma California there was the Ferrari Challenge, the series where they race 355s and also do runs with the FXX race series (they’re the Enzo in race shape,, amazing!).  There were also vintage races as well (separated by drum and disk brakes).

It was a great event and I finally got to see actual recent F1 cars in person and all the accompanying technology with them.

The really cool part is that the Piloti Corsa group was there(Ferrari’s in house group they send whenever someone with one of their old F1 cars goes out and drives).  It felt really cool to see a bunch of Italians (they were kind of stand-offish, I asked how the plane trip over was and got the “my english no good” from one of the engineers, so I didn’t push it) all in Ferrari Red (and their cool Puma white mechanics gloves, it was really cool. I don’t think they wear anything more than once, they were all so red and clean.)

to get to see all the gear that they use was awesome!  The lifts, the telemetry laptops, and all the air guns were awesome (there, gadgets, its an official post).

Go look at my flikr post here, there are a ton of pics I took so go check them out!

As we don’t get F1 out here on the west coast someday I’ll make it to Indy, Montreal, or Monaco, it was the next best thing. I can’t wait for next year!

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Red eye. What a pain in the ass. I have so many great photos in my iPhoto Library which have been ruined because of red eye. Sometimes I use the red eye tools iPhoto or Adobe Photoshop to fix problematic images, but unfortunately they don’t always do a good job.

Luckily red eye is very easy to fix manually in Adobe Photoshop (US, UK). You just need to know how. Here’s a tutorial on how to remove red eye using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 or higher.

Tutorial: Remove Red Eye In Adobe Photoshop

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The second digital cameras became popular; your basic Polaroid land camera became the 8-track tape deck of the new millennium. Seeing the handwriting on the wall, Polaroid executives began to branch out and embrace the digital age. Sure, they still make instant print film for those who can’t give up their habit of flipping a photo back and forth to make it dry. But Polaroid also now makes digital cameras, printers, dvd players, digital photo frames, digital, Printers, Scanners … just about ANYTHING with the word digital in it!
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Have you ever had to ask that stranger in a strange land to take a picture of your family for you, wondering if they were going to run off with your new digital camera? Well, the Quik Pod extendable handheld “tripod” makes taking those once in a lifetime pictures that much easier. I have no clue why nobody thought of this great idea sooner. I’m always turning the camera around to take a shot of my beautiful mug. Now with the Quik Pod I might actually get a decent picture out of the deal.

For $29.95 you can get a Quik Pod, carry bag, hiking clip, pocket clip, wrist strap and adapter legs. You can use it underwater snorkelling or at concerts stuck behind a guy with a large head or just about anything else you can think of…that’s not illegal! Read the rest of this entry »

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If you take a lot of digital pictures, and want to simplify the process, the answer is the new groundbreaking Ultra® II SD™ Plus Cards from SanDisk. These flash memory cards can turn into an USB adapter and plug directly to your USB port, eliminating the need to carry an extra cable.

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