The Professor's Notes

I am making a select few of my images available for digital purchase, in full, original image size.  Check out the “google store” on the right hand side, and if you see an image you would like, go ahead and purchase it.

At $2.99 an image, how can you go wrong?

Photo: Did you get a new digital camera for the holidays, like many of our listeners at Real Tech for Real People? Is it all tricked out and lets you make all the adjustments? Spend time getting to know the “noise profile” of your digital camera. The sensors on the cameras will show “noise” when used at higher ISO ratings (you know, in film the 100, 200 and 400 ratings?) Today’s digital cameras are quite good, and the noise is relatively low even when the sensor’s sensitivity is dialed up quite high–as high as 6400 for some of the pro-sumer Nikons and Canons. But they still have “noise” or “Grain.”

Learn more about this tip, and many others, in Episode 69 of Real Tech for Real People.  You can subscribe to our podcast on iTunes–simply search for RTFRP.

Things are beginning to turn here at the lake, and I am enjoying taking the panorama photos with the Samsung Captivate Android-based phone.

From Drop Box

Literally…

I took this photo on the 30th anniversary of the “event” that shook the US, if not the world.

I have been spending time up at the lake again, and enjoying the winter weather.  And, as usual, I have been making the rounds with my camera (the Sony Digital SLR Alpha 100.)

One of my goals is to photograph the area around Rose Valley Lake here in PA.  You can find many of my photographs from around Rose Valley on Flickr in the “Around Rose Valley” photoset.

I also have been continuing my exploration of HDR, or High Dynamic Range, imaging along with “tone mapping.”  While I have, in the past, used HDR and tone mapping to simply enhance the tonal range of an image to more closely match what the human eye can see, I have lately been exploring some of the more “intense” image manipulation options available.

Here are a few samples:

Taken actually out on the lake.

“Early in the Morning”

Starting the walk.