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Every time they took a portrait of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, "Did someone blink?" No one had. "I thought the camera was broken!" Wang, 33, recalls. But when her brother posed with his eyes open so wide that he looked "bug-eyed," the messages stopped. </p><p> Wang, a Taiwanese-American strategy consultant who goes by the Web handle "jozjozjoz," thought it was funny that the camera had difficulties figuring out when her family had their eyes open. So she posted a photo of the blink warning on her blog under the title, "Racist Camera! No, I did not blink... I'm just Asian!" The post was picked up by Gizmodo and Boing Boing, and prompted at least one commenter to note, "You would think that Nikon, being a Japanese company, would have designed this with Asian eyes in mind." <span><a href="http://techland.com/2009/12/09/the-top-10-gadgets-of-2009/" target="_blank">(See Techland's top 10 gadgets of 2009.)</a></span> </p><p> Nikon isn't the only big brand whose consumer cameras have displayed an occasional — though clearly unintentional — bias toward Caucasian faces. Face detection, which is one of the latest "intelligent" technologies to trickle down to consumer cameras, is supposed to make photography more convenient. Some cameras with face detection are designed to warn you when someone blinks; others are programmed to automatically take a picture when somebody smiles — a feature that, theoretically, makes the whole problem of timing your shot to catch the brief glimpse of a grin obsolete. Face detection has also found its way into computer webcams, where it can track a person's face during a video conference or enable face-recognition software to prevent unauthorized access. </p><p> The principle behind face detection is relatively simple, even if the math involved can be complex. Most people have two eyes, eyebrows, a nose and lips — and an algorithm can be trained to look for those common features, or more specifically, their shadows. (For instance, when you take a normal image and heighten the contrast, eye sockets can look like two dark circles.) But even if face detection seems pretty straightforward, the execution isn't always smooth. </p><p> Indeed, just last month, a white employee at an RV dealership in Texas posted a YouTube video showing a black co-worker trying to get the built-in webcam on an HP Pavilion laptop to detect his face and track his movements. The camera zoomed in on the white employee and panned to follow her, but whenever the black employee came into the frame, the webcam stopped dead in its tracks. "I think my blackness is interfering with the computer's ability to follow me," the black employee jokingly concludes in the video. "Hewlett-Packard computers are racist." <span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/0,28757,1934027,00.html" target="_blank">(See the 50 best inventions of 2009.)</a></span></p><p> The "HP computers are racist" video went viral, with almost 2 million views, and HP, naturally, was quick to respond. "Everything we do is focused on ensuring that we provide a high-quality experience for <i>all</i> our customers, who are ethnically diverse and live and work around the world," HP's lead social-media strategist Tony Welch wrote on a company blog within a week of the video's posting. "We are working with our partners to learn more." The post linked to instructions on adjusting the camera settings, something both <i>Consumer Reports</i> and <i>Laptop Magazine</i> tested successfully in Web videos they put online. </p><p> Still, some engineers question how a webcam even made it onto the market with this seemingly glaring flaw. "It's surprising HP didn't get this right," says Bill Anderson, president of Oculis Labs in Hunt Valley, Md., a company that develops security software that uses face recognition to protect work computers from prying eyes. "These things are solvable." Case in point: Sensible Vision, which develops the face-recognition security software that comes with some Dell computers, said their software had no trouble picking up the black employee's face when they tested the YouTube video. </p><p> YouTube commenters expressed what was on a lot of people's minds. "Seems they rushed the product to market before testing thoroughly enough," wrote one. "I'm guessing it's because all the people who tested the software were white," wrote another. HP declined to comment on their methods for testing the webcam or how involved they were in designing the software, but they did say the software was based on "standard algorithms." Often, the manufacturers of the camera parts will also supply the software to well-known brands, which might explain why HP isn't the only company whose cameras have exhibited an accidental prejudice against minorities, since many brands could be using the same flawed code. TIME tested two of Sony's latest Cyber-shot models with face detection (the DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1) and found they, too, had a tendency to ignore camera subjects with dark complexions. </p><p> But why? It's not necessarily the programmers' fault. It comes down to the fact that the software is only as good as its algorithms, or the mathematical rules used to determine what a face is. There are two ways to create them: by hard-coding a list of rules for the computer to follow when looking for a face, or by showing it a sample set of hundreds, if not thousands, of images and letting it figure out what the ones with faces have in common. In this way, a computer can create its own list of rules, and then programmers will tweak them. You might think the more images — and the more diverse the images — that a computer is fed, the better the system will get, but sometimes the opposite is true. The images can begin to generate rules that contradict each other. "If you have a set of 95 images and it recognizes 90 of those, and you feed it five more, you might gain five, but lose three," says Vincent Hubert, a software engineer at Montreal-based Simbioz, a tech company that is developing futuristic hand-gesture technology like the kind seen in <i>Minority Report</i>. It's the same kind of problem speech-recognition software faces in handling unusual accents. </p><p> And just as the software is only as good as its code and the hardware it lives in, it's also only as good as the light it's got to work with. As HP noted in its blog post, the lighting in the YouTube video was dim, and, the company said, there wasn't enough contrast to pick up the facial shadows the computer needed for seeing. (An overlit person with a fair complexion might have had the same problem.) A better camera wouldn't necessarily have guaranteed a better result, because there's another bottleneck: computing power. The constant flow of images is usually too much for the software to handle, so it downsamples them, or reduces the level of detail, before analyzing them. That's one reason why a person watching the YouTube video can easily make out the black employee's face, while the computer can't. "A racially inclusive training set won't help if the larger platform is not capable of seeing those details," says Steve Russell, founder and chairman of 3VR, which creates face recognition for security cameras. </p><p> The blink problem Wang complained about has less to do with lighting than the plain fact that her Nikon was incapable of distinguishing her narrow eye from a half-closed one. An eye might only be a few pixels wide, and a camera that's downsampling the images can't see the necessary level of detail. So a trade-off has to be made: either the blink warning would have a tendency to miss half blinks or a tendency to trigger for narrow eyes. Nikon did not respond to questions from TIME as to how the blink detection was designed to work. </p><p> Why these glitches weren't ironed out before the cameras hit Best Buy is not something that HP, Nikon or Sony, when contacted by TIME, were willing to answer. Perhaps in this market of rapidly developing technologies, consumers who fork over a few hundred dollars for the latest gadget <span style="font-style: italic;">are</span> the test market. A few years ago, speech-recognition software was teeth-gnashingly unreliable. Today, it's up to 99% accurate. With the flurry of consumer complaints out there, most of the companies seem to be responding. HP has offered instructions on how to adjust its webcam's sensitivity to backlighting. Nikon says it's working to improve the accuracy of the blink-warning function on its Coolpix cameras. (Sony wouldn't comment on the performance of its Cyber-shot cameras and said only that it's "not possible to track the face accurately all the time.") Perhaps in a few years' time, the only faces cameras won't be able to pick up will be those of the blue-skinned humanoids from <i>Avatar</i>. </p> <p> <span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1949453,00.html" target="_blank">Read "Sony's Robot-Cam: Partying Without a Photographer."</a></span></p> <p> <span><a href="http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1946595,00.html" target="_blank">See the best pictures of 2009.</a></span> </p> <p> </p><div> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1954643,00.html?xid=rss-topstories#" title="Print this story">Print</a></li> </ul> <li><a href="http://pathfinder.com/r0/venue/partner/out?/cgi-bin/mail/mailurl2friend.cgi?path=/time/emailFriend&url=http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1954643,00.html&group=time&title=Face%2DDetection+Cameras%3A+Users%27+Racism+Charges+Explained+%2D+TIME" title="Email this story" target="_blank">Email</a></li> <li><a href="https://s100.copyright.com/AppDispatchServlet?publisherName=TIME&publication=TIME&title=Are%20Face%2DDetection%20Cameras%20Racist%3F&publicationDate=01/22/2010&author=&contentID=1954643&orderBeanReset=true" title="Order reprints " target="_blank">Reprints</a></li> <ul> <li> <a href="http://digg.com/submit?url=http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1954643,00.html?iid=digg_share&title=Are%20Face%2DDetection%20Cameras%20Racist%3F&bodytext=Why%20several%20consumer%20cameras%20and%20webcams%20are%20being%20called%20out%20by%20customers%20for%20failing%20to%20recognize%20non%2DCaucasian%20features%20and%20faces" title="Digg this story" target="_blank">Digg</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1954643,00.html&t=Are%20Face%2DDetection%20Cameras%20Racist%3F" title="Add to Facebook" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li> <li><a href="http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=time&guid=http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1954643,00.html&targetUrl=" title="Vote for your favorite stories on Yahoo! 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I've always been a Nikon-ian, until now that is ... kidding.</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://pchaupham.posterous.com/face-detection-cameras-users-racism-charges-e">pchaupham's posterous</a> </p> </div> patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-21752102876146556812010-01-22T00:12:00.001-05:002010-01-22T00:12:28.897-05:00Global Internet Crash Would be 'Doomsday Scenario'
<div class='posterous_autopost'><div class="posterous_bookmarklet_entry"> <blockquote><div><p>(FOX25, myfoxboston) - In 1969, Nixon became President, the Beatles released “Abbey Road”, and the first transmission over the earliest version of the Internet was recorded. Things have changed a lot in 40 years, what began as a connection between two university computers, now rules the world. Just the thought of life offline is enough to send some off their rocker. Worldwide internet failure would mean faxes instead of emails, maps instead of GPS, cash instead of credit cards, and social networking would actually require face to face meetings.</p> <p>E <strong>EXCERPT FROM TED'S BLOG:</strong> <br /> <em>"It's sounds like a plot for a sci-fi movie. It's a peaceful day all over the world. People are emailing, facebooking and watching youtube when all of a sudden (insert scream) the Internet stops working. People start walking around the streets in a daze as the world comes to a grinding halt."</em></p> <p> <a href="http://community.myfoxboston.com/teddaniel/blog/2010/01/20/is_the_internet_headed_to_a_crash" target="_blank"> <strong>Read more here</strong></a> </p> <p>“Within three weeks we would be back to 1840,” says Boston-based computer security analyst, Robert Siciliano, of <a href="http://www.IDTheftSecurity.com" target="_blank"> <strong>www.IDTheftSecurity.com</strong> </a> <a href="http://realtysecurity.com/" target="_blank"></a> , who paints a doomsday scenario about the potential crash of the web. “The internet controls electricity, it controls running water, it controls commerce, we have become to rely on the internet in a way. If it were to cease to function today, life as we know it would cease to function,” Siciliano says.</p> <p>It has been more than 20 years since the last major overhaul of the internet, and the core architecture hasn’t really every changed. Nearly every day there are outages, some bigger than others. Last year an explosion and fire at a large data center in Houston shut down thousands of websites. Hundreds of thousands in the Middle East and India were knocked offline when several underwater telecom cables were damaged. Youtube.com was unavailable for 2 hours when a Turkish telecom company mistakenly claimed their IP address.</p> <p>“A lot of people who don’t know how the internet is built under the hood will always have fear,” says David Berlind, the Chief Content Officer and Editor and Chief of <a href="http://www.techweb.com/home" target="_blank"> <strong>TechWeb.com</strong></a> . He says complete internet failure is not just unlikely, it is nearly impossible.</p> <p>The internet is a de-centralized system of routers and networks owned and operated by many governmental and private organizations. He says even if there’s an outage or problem in one area of the world, there are millions of other paths the information can travel. Berlind says the companies that provide internet service also have a vested interest in maintaining the infrastructure and the advances are being made to increase capacity every day. As the internet celebrates it’s 40th anniversary, we can remember localized problems will always occur, but a global failure of the internet doesn’t appear likely, at least anytime soon.</p> </div></blockquote><div class="posterous_quote_citation">via <a href="http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/special_reports/global-internet-crash-would-be-doomsday-scenario">myfoxboston.com</a></div> <p>interesting scenario to consider, how would we react and survive?</p></div> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via web</a> from <a href="http://pchaupham.posterous.com/global-internet-crash-would-be-doomsday-scena">pchaupham's posterous</a> </p> </div> patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-56350935533243837502010-01-04T00:35:00.003-05:002010-01-04T00:43:12.061-05:00middle of the day snack: gyozai was bored and hankering for homemade potstickers/gyoza, here's the <a href="http://icannotfocus.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-am-addicted-to-dumplings.html">recipe from before</a> except this time, i modified the recipe a bit as well as the cooking technique. i added very very finely chopped savoy cabbage as well as leeks and jalapeno's into the mixture. i also browned them on both sides and used less water to steam. gave the potsticker a chewier texture and much enjoyed. i also picked up a few store-bought gyoza's from the store to do a compare and contrast. those were tasty too, but homemade clearly hit the spot.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4243098109_4d8bb7fcb8_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2786/4243098109_4d8bb7fcb8.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-71037509611782670212010-01-04T00:17:00.004-05:002010-01-04T00:26:57.297-05:00homemade vietnamese nem nuoung ...i love nem nuoung, and for those of you who don't know what it is, it's essentially a vietnamese sausage/meatloaf patty that's sliced and rolled up like a summer roll. contents include cucumber, cilantro, lettuce, sometimes a shrimp spring roll for crunch, chives and then the roll is dipped into a spicy peanut sauce (light on the peanut flavor though). <br /><br />my mother usually makes me a large batch, it's put into the freezer and i slowly enjoy the fruits of her labor. well, a short while ago, i decided to make them myself, and during my two weeks off i re-stocked the fridge. i of course bastardized my version, my mother already shakes her head at my variation. in addition to the pork, garlic and spices, i add in chopped cilantro, chopped and sliced garlic, both granulated sugar and honey, and green onion directly into the mixture, definitely a big no-no in terms of authenticity. i enjoy it, i think it's a good addition.<br /><br />the pork patty is put under a hot broiler, the outside becomes sticky, sweet and crisp, and when cut, snaps like the casing of a good hotdog. if you want the recipe, you'll have to ask, but i may not give it to you ... it does involve: pork, garlic, cilantro, garlic, fish sauce, garlic powder, sugar, honey, did i mention more garlic ...<br /><br />here's the final product before being rolled up:<br /><br /><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4243007737_6a23d28b36_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4022/4243007737_6a23d28b36.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-34078383377417810382010-01-04T00:13:00.002-05:002010-01-04T00:15:45.520-05:00kitchen doorknobs: fudgevisit <a href="http://kitchendoorknob.blogspot.com">kitchen doorknobs</a> for this month's fudge challenge ... white chocolate peanut butter oreo fudge. sticks to the top of your mouth goodness:<br /><br /><a href="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4243002373_2d5c846e1f_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4064/4243002373_2d5c846e1f.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-33917963822036233542010-01-03T00:53:00.005-05:002010-01-03T01:10:14.403-05:00a spot of pho ...a quick review: pho so 1, dorchester, ma ... at the corner of dorchester ave and adams street on the south side of boston. a couple of weeks ago, i took a quick road trip down to the dc area and when i'm in the area, i usually always hit up eden center in falls church va. it's the mecca in the dc area for all things vietnamese. thousands upon thousands of square feet of edible vietnamese goodness, it's like an amusement park of food. i usually always have a good time there, and leave with a very fully belly, but for some reason this time, something was quite lacking. i cam back to boston still hankering for vietnamese, and when that's the case, pho usually hits the spot. i went searching, and ended up on yelp. there are a number of pho/vietnamese places in boston - specifically in allston or chinatown, but there's also a large concentration in dorchester. i took a ride down to dorchester one monday during the week and found pho so 1, from a picking of about 5 different places on yelp. it was a cold bitter day, pho hit the spot, pho so 1 definitely hit the spot. the restaurant itself is pretty clean, tables are set, and my feet don't stick to the floor, nor the chairs, a good sign. the menu itself isn't as expansive as other vietnamese places i've been, worrisome? i think not, it may just mean they do the few things they serve well, at least i hope. the pho came out, and i had no complaints, broth was clear, aromatic, thinly sliced top round mixed with the right amount of beef balls. the obligatory plate of bean sprouts, asian basil were crisp not wilted ... i of course consumed this xlarge bowl of pho with reckless abandonment ... and subsequently came back a few more times for more. i've tried a few other things on the menu, worth trying but stick to the pho.<br /><br />if you want another place for pho not in chinatown, head for pho so 1.<br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2722/4208138496_a8c77fd863_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2722/4208138496_a8c77fd863.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-40029792595224873532009-12-14T20:54:00.003-05:002009-12-14T21:02:41.773-05:00hdr tidbits in washington dc ...took a quick trip down to dc late last week/this past weekend and did the tourist thing with the little munch. took a bunch of pictures and two random shots in hdr ... here are the results ... 2/3 +/-ev on both images ... seemed to work out well enough.<br /><br />sunset at the baltimore inner harbor:<br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4186584238_e4429b5c9f_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2700/4186584238_e4429b5c9f.jpg"></a><br /><br />inside the air & space museum from the top floor:<br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2693/4185832103_aef3586142_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2693/4185832103_aef3586142.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-72261054152275688492009-11-17T20:36:00.005-05:002009-11-17T20:43:51.836-05:00hdr versus non-hdr with d700while leisurely talking to george today at work, i noticed the sun quickly fading and the lights of the genzyme building lighting up, quick chance to grab camera and grab an experimental shot with d700. to hdr or not to hdr - that's what i was wondering and how the camera would process colors.<br /><br />stock image straight out of the camera (iso200, f/7.1 1/6sec shutter, 0ev)<br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4113876146_217ff482f5_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2718/4113876146_217ff482f5.jpg"></a><br /><br />same image run through photoshop, +40% saturation, +2.5% contrast, +2.5% brightness, +10% gamma<br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4113120399_33c9cfa5d6_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2799/4113120399_33c9cfa5d6.jpg"></a><br /><br />now here's the same image, same settings, bracketed +2/3ev and -2/3ev into hdr:<br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2683/4113879384_2acbe8d66b_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2683/4113879384_2acbe8d66b.jpg"></a><br /><br />i actually happen to like the non-hdr version better (processed, not sooc) ... might need to go a little lower iso, testing will continue, this was a 5-min test.patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-2570475267041585632009-10-06T23:27:00.002-04:002009-10-06T23:30:57.529-04:00time lapse on longfellow bridge boston ...catching the sun, always catching the last rays of sun. setup camera on westbound side of the longfellow pointed at the zakim bridge just as the sun was setting ...<br /><br />before, during, and after ...<br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2603/3988534405_8848cfdf1a_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2603/3988534405_8848cfdf1a.jpg"></a><br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="500" height="281" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=573ff50ca1&photo_id=3989288520"></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"></param> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=573ff50ca1&photo_id=3989288520" height="281" width="500"></embed></object><br /><br /><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3513/3989289196_e0195cd8dd_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3513/3989289196_e0195cd8dd.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-5261071795473593122009-10-05T22:18:00.002-04:002009-10-05T22:22:21.280-04:00headlight with last glimpses of light ...this was one of my most favorite photos of the weekend, it's a headlight off of a harley parked on the corner of arlington and newbury streets, sun was setting and caught bits of the chrome.<br /><br />shot with d700 with f/2.8 70-200mm @ iso200, magical how well that sensor works with the fleeting light ...<br /><br /><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3437/3985720370_f92bb529a5_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3437/3985720370_f92bb529a5.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-7630464864482307902009-10-05T20:41:00.002-04:002009-10-05T20:44:35.086-04:00two musicians playing at sunset ...playing within about 50 feet of each other, two musicians in the common as the sun was starting to set ...<br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2625/3984959599_dffd54815e_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2625/3984959599_dffd54815e.jpg"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/3985721212_8e77cd2be2_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2470/3985721212_8e77cd2be2.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-20692021923159382502009-10-05T20:34:00.003-04:002009-10-05T20:36:52.539-04:00mini protest in boston commons ...while trekking around boston yesterday with the gear, amidst the komen walk, abortion rally and other random happenings around boston, quietly near the part street t-station was the weekly gathering of chinese americans protesting the communist regime and humanity issues ... this woman just stood there quietly for quite a while, had to snap a photo ...<br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/3984958679_e9a2c5ac33_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2449/3984958679_e9a2c5ac33.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-11739612852469531312009-10-04T20:27:00.003-04:002009-10-04T20:32:31.734-04:00got some more ...decided late last week to get an additional body, ordered a d700 and thanks to <a href="http://www.adorama.com">adorama camera</a> it literally was delivered the next day without overnight shipping. not much to say, hundreds of reviews out there ... i just need to say the shutter sound is just awesome and matted to my nikkor f/2.8 70-200, it's just perfect (aside from a bit heavy)<br /><br /><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3443/3974593291_612559a986_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3443/3974593291_612559a986.jpg"></a><br /><br />(shot with my d300)patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-80017927797709831232009-10-04T19:57:00.004-04:002009-10-04T20:12:22.656-04:00first attempt @ time lapse photography video ...i've seen numerous videos on flickr etc and that are composites of multi-framed shots combined into a video. sure i can use a video camera or have bought a dslr with video capability, but frankly i'm not a huge fan and that seems - too straight forward/easy for my geeky-self?<br /><br />went out in boston today, my first attempt at composite/elapse photography video, picked the corner of the copley plaza hotel pointing at boylston street and the boston library. this was 606 frames shot over a period of 30 mins at 3-second intervals. <br /><br />all settings were maintained at iso200, f/12, with the d300 @ 18mm on a tripod. i shot in aperture mode, left the shutter speed to the camera as the light conditions slightly changed with passing clouds, etc<br /><br />no post processing of the images themselves, they were sent into imovie to be combined at 1/10th of a second/frame, here's the result (original files were not re-sized, imovie imported them as-is 4300+ pixels each, quicktime movie file is much higher quality) ...<br /><br /><object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="600" height="337" data="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"> <param name="flashvars" value="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=fd9ee364be&photo_id=3981315001&flickr_show_info_box=true"></param> <param name="movie" value="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377"></param> <param name="bgcolor" value="#000000"></param> <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://www.flickr.com/apps/video/stewart.swf?v=71377" bgcolor="#000000" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="intl_lang=en-us&photo_secret=fd9ee364be&photo_id=3981315001&flickr_show_info_box=true" height="337" width="600"></embed></object><br /><br />couple of lessons learned ... not touching the camera, I did a few times - be it with my foot touching the tripod, hand resting on the neck strap or whatever ... need to bring a stop-watch, was using my iphone that proceeded to get very hot ... going to try some night photography with this instead next time, but i'm content with my first pass results.patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-41299265684603591782009-09-28T22:48:00.002-04:002009-09-28T22:51:37.742-04:00catch up blog post: caprese salad ...as part of the <a href="http://kitchendoorknob.blogspot.com">kitchen doorknobs</a> end of summer challenge with tomatoes, i subsequently made a variety of things with the tomatoes pictures below. caprese salad was my favorite, because who doesn't love very fresh mozzarella, heirloom tomatoes, basil and a tangy balsamic vinaigrette on a muggy hot summer afternoon ... gratuitous close up makes you hungry picture ...<br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3873093270_7a8d634765_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2575/3873093270_7a8d634765.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-72508572677158985802009-09-28T22:26:00.005-04:002009-09-28T22:42:37.231-04:00non-photog post, my thoughts on os3.1 for iphone ...it all started about 2 or so weeks ago, i downloaded the latest version of itunes 9.0 because with all apply hype, i liked the new interface, family sharing and the other bells and whistles the smoked in my face. yeah, that's when it all started. downloaded the package and started the install, all went fine (my iphone was plugged in at the time) when my iphone made some wonky noise. i looked at the screen and i can't remember what it said, but it clearly just had some icon, subsequently it had the "plug your iphone into your laptop to sync or you're fried" icon. i did that. nothing. i tried again, nothing. grumbling and a few hard re-starts, nothing. at this point i didn't really have a choice except to recover my iphone back to factory settings.<br /><br />very annoyed, thinking i would be losing everything on my iphone, i was partially right.<br /><br />itunes recovered and reverted my iphone back to its factory settings. there was no personal data on it. luckily i recovered from an iphone backup. still annoyed. it recovered my data, but had to re-install all my apps.<br /><br />45 mins later. it's still installing. it finally finished about 25 mins later. finally have my phone back. slight bit of relief, but still quite annoyed. and now i've got itunes9 and iphone os3.1; i thought all was well aside from the minor inconvenience.<br /><br />had to take a hop to the west coast, iphone starts to act wonky again, a bit sluggish, re-boot it twice, it seems ok - false hope. phone proceeds to freeze ... i.e. pushing the home button does nothing. did i mention nothing? pushing the home button repeatedly does nothing. pushing the top screen on/off button does nothing, absolutely nothing. after trying a few more times, i give up. 30 seconds later the screen lights up ... what's going on? swipe the slider and everything seems ok ... that is until i push the mail icon, screen freezes again, nothing. try to push the home button and the camera sound goes off, it's taking a picture, of what? nothing. do it again, camera sound goes off again, whiskey tango foxtrot. lather, rinse, repeat. come to find out i took 25 screen shots of my phone without using the home/top button combination. finally able to get out of it, so i shut it down and reboot it. all is well, for the time being. of course this happens again and again. <br /><br />i'm not sure what is up. it hasn't happened for about a week - seriously what's up apple with os3.1, seriously. questioning whether or not to download the mms upgrade, i havent been this annoyed at this phone, but i am. rant over.patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-55694163452430694772009-09-16T23:44:00.001-04:002009-09-16T23:44:13.318-04:00#1 animal style ...
I can't really complain ... it's been odd that the last few trips to LA I haven't fed my In & Out addiction ... well I decided not to pass it up this round before the awful flight back ....<p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pchaupham/6qGgrX5YQKqE5wfFyLCIf1BsAlt7qXdLa55QcIHK2UAWXoeyTjvIyBq3UMjP/photo.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pchaupham/1gyVOHneNrsoOLQCPJlYIdPAzE8Hv6BDCKsODfISDjlqahzyCA9v41lGzSPV/photo.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> </p><p>Sent from my iPhone</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pchaupham.posterous.com/1-animal-style">pchaupham's posterous</a> </p> patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-84275347049822970132009-09-04T20:08:00.001-04:002009-09-04T20:08:04.605-04:00Brilliant tip of the day ...
Them Hooters folks are pretty smart ...<p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pchaupham/Z1Uhqz9wwjSXEWAgBwCyoVSCnLzaaGcYOx9Z0e3zURdolv0R1y2iGmp846rd/photo.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pchaupham/8hLcEfZv9vMt2ZiPo4hnrNlhkUvez486IYNbWivQjtUVUnDoJDAFaqr1rAaH/photo.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="667"/></a> </p><p>Sent from my iPhone</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pchaupham.posterous.com/brilliant-tip-of-the-day">pchaupham's posterous</a> </p> patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-45123860312505004422009-08-28T12:52:00.001-04:002009-08-28T12:52:23.238-04:00Umm yeah bumper boats ...
... equals bad idea, Patrick is soaked, attacked by a bunch of 7 year oldsters ....<p><a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pchaupham/ovs0gxx7lcwuVJzhy3dkJtjG0sr9TklxtoELc53My8YKQT29MBqbjgmISeul/photo.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pchaupham/MWnRryE8RcDM0oXkZCWKqIjP6aQmHEshJGBSc1oR8LNS51UZkXn1MFABoLeF/photo.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="375"/></a> </p><p>Sent from my iPhone</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pchaupham.posterous.com/umm-yeah-bumper-boats">pchaupham's posterous</a> </p> patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-65051522399937444382009-08-22T22:54:00.003-04:002009-08-22T23:00:14.002-04:00what to do with tomatoes ...summer is rolling to an end and unfortunately, this summer's increased amounts of rain is taken it's toll on tomatoes. haven't seen as much of a selection at farmer's market's until this week, the 3rd week in august. i won't complain too much though because i was able to get quite the selection - now i must figure out what delicious summer recipes to make with all of these. <br /><br /><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2527/3846645209_9e5907b81f_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2527/3846645209_9e5907b81f.jpg"></a><br /><br /><a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3528/3846644423_f2cc1d716c_b.jpg"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3528/3846644423_f2cc1d716c.jpg"></a>patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2420814092941310948.post-28551076294974927022009-08-09T16:01:00.001-04:002009-08-09T16:01:02.548-04:00Do people actually eat this stuff??
<a href='http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pchaupham/9ukK2Xu88imu6PBErEnXoDtBTrRNFSPuJpRMp8h6voTdn2Vh4QvtkwHv70hj/photo.jpg'><img src="http://posterous.com/getfile/files.posterous.com/pchaupham/MR71R3hiMK5zktCBUFyMRqznwm3pOCpKmobrWLDMta6u3DbkUwYJBCI2u70p/photo.jpg.scaled.500.jpg" width="500" height="667"/></a> <p>Sent from my iPhone</p> <p style="font-size: 10px;"> <a href="http://posterous.com">Posted via email</a> from <a href="http://pchaupham.posterous.com/do-people-actually-eat-this-stuff">pchaupham's posterous</a> </p> patrick c.http://www.blogger.com/profile/14221268349625810488noreply@blogger.com0