Just a quick note — My Gallery2 appears to be having lots of issues at this point. Not sure what happened. I can imagine it was something stupid I did when moving content for the new Footlighters site from my server to Case’s server!
I’ll try and get the gallery back up ASAP! (Thankfully I’ve got a backup dated 07.03.08!)
Ooops!
*** Update ***
I restored the DB and filesystem from earlier this month and got everything back up without a hitch. Todo List: More backups.
Its been a while since I’ve written on my blog… perhaps its because I’ve been really busy with work. Speaking of work, everything is going pretty well with the Urban Challenge here at Case.
This weekend, the Case Alumni Association is having its annual summer reunion. I’ll be covering a lot of their events tomorrow and Saturday for the CAA and will be publishing the resultant photos in the gallery.
If you aren’t familiar, the CAA is an alumni organization that is tightly integrated with the Math, Science, and Engineering departments at Case. They fund many things on campus — including the SOURCE funding that is letting me do research this summer. The CAA also supports an array of scholarships… I don’t know a single student that doesn’t appreciate everything they do! Thanks for everything, CAA!
Team Case is giving a demonstration of Dexter this weekend for the CAA and their reunion attendees. It’ll be happening Saturday morning between 9:00am and Noon at Case’s West Quad parking lot. If you’re interested in going, give me an email and I’ll get you more information.
More to come after the reunion festivities and demo.
Three things that I want to talk about somewhat briefly are processing, my new walkarounds folder, and a fun panorama I made the other day.
I started shooting in Canon RAW format — and let me tell you, incredible. I personally think you gain such a better image. You can take the image to Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop and control every part of conversion to JPEG. Obviously — the caveat of RAW images is disk cost — they run about twice as large as a high resolution JPEG. One of the most useful things I’ve found RAW images for is in low light — they record a much larger amount of information, and allow for a lot better brightening/post-processing. The picture at the right was post-processed to be sepia tone, and is looking towards a musical group that performed before the Case Music Department’s concert in Severance Hall just a week ago.
Since I got the new camera, I’ve been carrying it everywhere with me to take pictures here and there… I don’t know how else to organize some of these photos except to start using a Walkaround folder sytem. Every day that I transfer pictures from my camera, they’ll be sorted into that day’s Walkaround folder.
A few days ago, I took the camera up to the village and took a series of 36 shots that I used in conjunction with PTgui to create a panorama. Its pretty cool. Check out the full resolution version of the pan in the Panorama folder… I plan on taking some more panoramas when time permits… so keep an eye out!
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