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iPhoneography

blog — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:56:13 +0000

It’s official. I’m a dork. I was all excited to have the geniuses at the Apple Genius Bar fix my iPhone camera yesterday. So I hand my iPhone to the genius guy and tell him my camera doesn’t work. He looks at it, says hmmmm, and tells me he’s going to the back to take a look. Genius guy comes back a couple minutes later and says “the good news is that the iPhone still works, but there’s been some water damage causing the camera to fail.” I politely inform him that I didn’t recall the iPhone ever getting wet except for maybe some rain. He said the water line had a brownish color. Dammit! The hazards of coffee in the car caught up to me. Again. I sometimes put my iPhone in the cup holder next to the coffee. Dammit! Genius guy said I could replace the iPhone for $200. That’s a very expensive cup of coffee. So, I thanked Genius guy (who was a really cool guy) and left.

Not wanting to miss out on all of the iPhone photography fun – I decided to pull out my twice-dropped-badly-cracked original iPhone and use it as my iPhone camera. Problem solved. Here are a couple iPhone clicks from this morning.

Our shy cat Tyler covers his junk (or should I say unjunk) so he doesn’t end up as a centerfold on some kitty porn site.

Our doorbell button broke and when the wind blows it actually rings the doorbell. Go figure. Since I haven’t fixed it yet and the noise drives my son Zak crazy – he took matters into his own hands and silenced doorbell man. Good thinkin’ Zak.

If you’d like to see some good iPhoneography, check out these guys – Chase Jarvis, Sionfullana and fellow photodude Chris Ralston.

photObama

blog — Tue, 05 May 2009 14:26:08 +0000

The Obama team has reinvented everything about political branding. This morning I ran across the The Official White House photostream on Flickr. How cool is that? Not only does it feature great photos by White House photographer Pete Souza, but they post full-res images and you can even order prints (for flickr members). You should check it out along with the nifty White House website.

be like bruce

doug — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:56:00 +0000

My photo buddy Bruce is the king of high ISO. The higher the better, nothing scares him. For the 6A State Football Championship game in late November – I decided to “be like Bruce.” It was a very cold, rainy, dark Saturday at Washburn University. I didn’t find out I could shoot from the sidelines until minutes before the game. I ran back to my car, grabbed my gear, and headed to the field. Of course, all of the other photographers had rain gear for their cameras. Not Doug. It was just a slow drizzle, and I knew the D300 and D200 were sealed – so I threw caution to the wind. How often does your kid get to play in a State Championship game, right? A couple of hours of drizzle and then steady rain was a true test for the Nikons – but they held up like champs.

The game started at 3:00 PM – but it was already dark. My first shots were wide-open, 1/640 at 800 ISO. I never like to shoot football at less than 1/1000, but I was cheating to keep the ISO a low as possible (not “like Bruce” yet). But, it just kept getting darker. By the start of the second half I was up ISO 1600 (more like Bruce), and finally I had to go for broke at ISO 2500 (now, that’s like Bruce). And the images held up pretty well. Thanks Bruce.

While we didn’t win the game, the guys left it all on the field. My son Connor had his best games of the year. And the writer from the Lawrence Journal World noticed:

Unsung hero: A tip of the cap goes to Free State junior Connor Stremel, a seldom-used wide receiver who came up with two of the game’s biggest catches on Saturday. Stremel, whose only other memorable catch this season came on a 20-yard touchdown late during a 35-7 loss to Olathe North during the regular season, caught the first pass of the game for a first down on Free State’s opening drive and added an even bigger grab on a second-and-10 during the Firebirds’ first scoring drive. Stremel soared high into the air to rip down a Torneden bullet with two hands before falling flat on his back after another first down.

Here are several high, high ISO images. The one with #20 catching the ball is Connor. It was an incredible catch, but I missed the actual catch because I was behind the yard-marker-guy. I don’t imagine Sports Illustrated will be calling anytime soon. See more photos here.