Don’t Shy Away from Social Media, Embrace it

CommunityThe age of hiding behind aliases for your various online accounts is behind us. With the exception of private information such as your bank account of course. Social Media is one of the best ways of performing PR for yourself and managing the content that’s found about you when you’re searched for online. Instead of letting others decide what’s posted about you, why not take it upon yourself to actually post relevant information about yourself under your own disgretion. Every social media platform has preferences that allow you to limit what’s available to the public and what’s picked up by search engine queries.


Additional Fun with HDR Photography

Chrysler BuildingPreviously I’ve discussed the steps in configuring your DSLR camera for taking a series of photographs of the same scene with different exposure in order to begin crating a HDR image. I went back to my photo library within Adobe Lightroom and decided to let the software recreate the various exposures needed for that first initial step. One among many advantages of shooting RAW is that you’re free to manipulate your original shot image without actually compressing and destroying pixels that compose your photograph. Each time you apply additional modifications to your jpeg images within Photoshop, and continue to resave your changes, you’re actually deteriorating the quality of your image. The act of saving your image as a jpeg actually compresses the pixels within the image.


HDR Photography and Workflow

HDR WilliamsburgIf you Google search HDR photography you’ll be absolutely amazed by what you’ll find. HDR stands for High Dynamic Range. It’s a process of taking simultaneous photographs with your DSLR camera, while having each photo set with a different exposure. Depending on your DSLR camera, there are a variety ways of setting your camera to shoot under a different exposure. Personally, I choose to utilize a tripod, take 3 consecutive photographs with the first one set to -EV 1, second to EV 0, and the third EV, 1.


1 Billion Apps downloaded off iTunes

iPhone 1 Billion appsJust a few minutes ago, 1 billion iPhone/iPod Touch applications were downloaded off of Apple’s iTunes. That’s pretty impressive considering that the iPhone 2.0 software upgrade enabling developers to build applications for the device only happened 9 months ago. I myself have downloaded quite a few of them, as well as bought a couple which I found either useful or entertaining. I’m still addicted to TouchGrind, which I wrote about a few weeks back.