http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog The Photography of Brian White Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:00:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As I mentioned previously, two of my many hobbies are construction and video editing. I finally found the time to finish the time-lapse video of the deck I built in the fall of 2006. Enjoy! http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2008/02/01/the-deck/ Merry Christmas!!! Google Earth now has entries for GigaPan. This is an amazing way to experience some places within Google Earth, but you'll need v4.2 or later to see it. In short, by placing a panoramic at the correct coordinates and specifying field of view, elevation, tilt, etc. it becomes possible ... http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/25/more-punishment/ It's taking me a while to go through all the photos I took while I was in California at the start of the year. Rather than wait until I'm completely finished, I've posted some of them in my gallery and will add to it later. I've also increased ... http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/07/color-vs-black-and-white/ Sometimes I think I should retire. It's not that I don't like my job because I do! It's fantastic, really! I get to turn dials on the production systems of a computer network that has no equal anywhere on Earth... and that's pretty cool. No, I need to retire because I ... http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/18/too-many-hobbies/ I've finally updated my gallery to include photos from Ireland and Switzerland. Here is one that wouldn't fit: It's a panoramic HDR image taken at night, which doesn't sound so difficult. I certainly didn't think it would be very difficult while I was taking the 33 shots that went ... http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/17/night-panorama-hdr/ I think there is a bug in Photoshop CS2... Photographing architecture is difficult unless you have a shift/tilt lens because a photographer usually has to point the camera upward at an angle to capture the entire building. Unfortunately, this causes the normally parallel vertical lines to tilt inward toward the ... http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/09/23/photoshop-lens-correction-bug/ No! Not those kind of night moves! I'm talking about things you can do with your camera at night. There are two important elements of photography present at night that most people don't expect: light and color. It is, after all, dark and "dark" is defined as the ... http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/03/12/night-photography-tips/ All across time, there have been epic battles. David vs Goliath, Intel vs Motorola, RAW vs JPEG. And of course, film vs digital. Everybody has opinions on this, so why should I be any different. I took pictures on film for about 20 years before I had my first taste ... http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/23/film-vs-digital/ I'm a big admirer of photographers who can capture good images of people. I wish I had the talent, but I don't. I think the biggest part of it is the connection with your subject. If you're the kind of person who can go to a party and by the ... http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/02/12/portrait-photography-howto/ What makes good weather for photography is often not what people consider good weather in general. A bright, sunny day usually makes for poor photographs because of the deep, harsh shadows that appear. Our eyes and brain compensate for this automatically when we look around a scene but ... http://www.backgroundexposure.com/blog/index.php/2007/01/29/cloudy-day-photographs/