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Muir woods

Friday, July 7th, 2006

The extreme contrast between sun rays and dark forest were a bit much for my camera. I had to use Aperture’s shadow enhancement to give this shot a little more balance. I feel like it could use a bit more contrast as well, but I like it quite a bit as it is.

Saved

Friday, July 7th, 2006

A friend suggested to me that I look into filesystem recovery tools for my recently lost photos.
It turns out there are tons of them, especially for lost photos on memory cards. Of the many available for the Mac, I chose PhotoRescue (which appears to be made by the same people who make the legendary IDA […]

Diving right in

Tuesday, June 27th, 2006

A surfer heads for the waves as we sit and watch him on the Carmel beach.

Grad school dorm at Princeton

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006

It always seemed nicer to me than the undergrad dorms. Aside from the fact that it was really far away from campus.

Crashing waves

Wednesday, June 21st, 2006

What’s the trick to capturing waves crashing on to rock? I took so many pictures of this scene, and yet this mediocre shot was the best one I got. Do I need to be closer? Do I just need to frame it differently? (this one is cropped already.)