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Category: Mobile Blogging
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Archive for ◊ November, 2008 ◊
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Nov
2008
Fancy + Rod: The Nuptials Slideshow
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Category: events, Videoclips
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Fancy + Rod’s Wedding: Entrance + Ceremony from Gail Edwin-Fielding on Vimeo.
Fancy and Rod came over on Friday night to have a look at their wedding photo collection and take it home on DVD. I put together some slideshows for photo-viewing purposes, but I tend to get caught up in the process of video-making (yes, I suffer from Too Many Hobbies Syndrome) and have to pry myself away from it to focus on the photography.
You might think of videos and photos being very similar to each other, but my approach to each is a bit different. Photographs must stand on their own to tell a story, while video frames individually don’t hold as great a value, but work together along with music to provide the narrative. One reason why I don’t throw away the ‘outtake’ photos is because sometimes they make interesting slideshow videos by digital stitching; they make motion and flow when helped along by music and timing. Singularly they may be lacking, but videos have smaller resolutions so the technical flaws are less noticeable, especially when shown for only a second or two.
That said, video hosting sites like Vimeo and the worst culprit, YouTube, have compression engines that lower frame rates and resolutions so your video comes out looking a little worse for wear. But hey, they’re free… so there’s not much room for complaint.
I made five slideshows out of Fancy and Rod’s wedding photos, and uploaded the one where they make it official. A little disclaimer: the slideshow is a little unpolished, I might replace it with a better version later. The song is “Marry Me” by Amanda Marshall.
Update: Dec 10, 2008 – Fancy + Rod’s Wedding: The Dancing Slideshow
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Nov
2008
Just In Time For Seasonal Stress Flying
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Category: Linkage, Travel
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From Tripso.com, we bring you:
Most miserable airports in the U.S. by Charlie Leocha
An excerpt:
We have all long known that air travel and time spent in airports is not a stressless walk in the park. However, some airports are more stressful than others. The most stressful major airport in the U.S.: Chicago’s O’Hare, followed closely by Newark and San Francisco.
US News & World Report crunched the government and airline numbers including on-time performance and load factors to create what they call the “Airport Misery Index.”
The Index’s Top 10 lists have separated major airports from regional ones. (There’s a link to the methodology of the index as well, if that interests you as much as does me.) I’ve flown through five of the majors and none of the minors, and I completely agree with the list order of the ones I’ve experienced, except for Las Vegas — but I flew that one only late at night.
And recently, on a related note, Forbes has released THEIR list of the top 10 most stressful U.S. airports.
America’s 10 most stressful airports by Charlie Leocha
An excerpt:
Last February, we noted the US News and World Report Airport Misery Index. Now, just in time for Thanksgiving, Forbes has released their list of the country’s most stressful airports.
Only four of the airports that were in the top 10 on the US News list made the Forbes list. US News used a more complex algorithm that included load factors. Forbes focused on on-time performance. Some of the differences may be increasing delays in the New York/Philadelphia airspace.
Although it’s a different list, I’ve flown through five of the airports on the Forbes list, too. And after using it multiple times, I agree that Philadelphia is #1. As in, it is the most stressful, and has the worst on-time performance record. My theory is because PHL is one of the hubs for U.S. Airways, which is AWFUL. I think every one of my U.S. Airways flights was late, and the one from PHL was late by HOURS because they ran out of fuel circling because they couldn’t land — due to some other delay — and ended up being rerouted to another city’s airport (it was another Class B airport–Boston?) to refuel before they could return to PHL! What a fiasco!
Anyway, for all the Americans out there: Happy Thanksgiving and hope your travels are safe and stress-free.
26
Nov
2008
This Morning’s Sunrise
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Category: Working Life
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Shot through the kitchen window with the Panasonic Lumix, because I left the Nikon in the office. I wouldn’t normally be awake at sunrise (here, anyway), but I crashed last night around 9pm for a nap before going back to work, and that nap turned into a full night’s sleep plus an extra few hours.
I’ve been fighting off a cold since Monday with plenty of Vitamin C and various other means, and this morning I felt like it was going to win. Breakfast and half a litre of orange juice later, I’m feeling somewhat better. Fingers crossed it doesn’t go full-blown…
25
Nov
2008
March Of The Dumpling Brigade
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Category: Critters + Creatures, Food + Drink
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I’ve posted about Eliza’s freakishly uniform dumplings before, but their perfection deserves another mention. On Sunday night Eliza picked me up from my dad’s apartment building and we chatted while the cats played and she chopped vegetables for the filling. 10 years of Eliza’s legendary dumplings have spoiled me for any other…
Oh, and I did some further testing of the D300′s handling of high-ISO shots (both of these shots are JPEGs straight out of the camera), and this time my guinea pig was the camera-shy Ebi. I’m lucky I got this close to him, as he usually turns away with disdain. He’s beautiful, but he knows it!
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