Archive for the ‘Hobbies’ Category

Learning to use my camera

Work asked that I go to a local mall and try to take some ‘retail’ pictures that could be used on flyers/brochures/ads.
Requirements:

No truly detailed faces
No seasonal decorations to place the ‘time’
No store names

Since I had to make sure no faces were in ‘focus’ or filled out in detail, I tried being further away from the [...]

Down by the Lake

Decided to take the new camera for another test drive out by Lake Benson this afternoon. Was very windy, but nice and bright making for a gorgeous day.
So on to the pictures:

A couple of neighborhood snapshots

I recently picked up a new camera, a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ28K. It’s snazzy and takes nice pictures, and even does them in RAW format, though I’ve recently learned Adobe’s Camera Raw doesn’t support it yet because it’s still too new. Rolls eyes. Oh well, the JPEGs are still very good quality and hopefully sometime soon [...]

3D Modeling For Free?!

I’ve been interested in the 3D editing, etc within the new Photoshop CS4 and I knew Google 3D Warehouse had lots of pre-created items that had been exported out as Collada (CAE) files which Photoshop can work with. Recently, I’ve also learned that it can work with Google Earth 4 (KMZ) files, which the free [...]