Phil on October 16th, 2009

…cheesecake?
Is it a bad thing if your very first cheesecake ever (and its twin brother) come out looking like Chicago-style deep-dish pizza?

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Phil on January 22nd, 2009

I’ve seen this effect in a lot of slideshow software, but never knew what it was called.  
Really, I’m not a fan.  The problem that I’ve found is that most of the panning and zooming that these effects do is entirely random and pointless – it adds nothing but a false sense of motion.
 When it’s [...]

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Phil on October 30th, 2008

…from Wyoming.
 
I’ve the loan of a Nikkor 75-300 lens for a while to see if I want to buy it off of a guy here at work.  Last night’s mail included a set of replacement mounts for my tripod.  I did a mad-scientist thing and combined the two together.
300mm of zoom on a DX sensor [...]

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