I have some very exciting news! A few of my photos of Midtown Atlanta Georgia are now featured as the backdrop of the WSB-TV Channel 2 news station! Though most people viewing don’t think too much about the “generic” city images on display behind newscasters, I now understand some of the behind-the-scenes of how that picture gets selected. … Read more
Today Google released an app “Cardboard Camera” for Android in the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.vr.cyclops A free app to create 3D virtual reality photos (stereoscopic 3D 360° panoramas). VR Photography The app takes a three-dimensional panorama you can view in the Google Cardboard app. The result is a 360° image where near things look near, far things look … Read more
YT Mobile Android App Are you tired of YouTube stop playing when turning off your screen or minimizing the app? Don’t want to pay for YouTube or Google Music? Try: Summary This app provides a convenient place to browse the mobile web version of YouTube, and allows you to play YouTube in the background! … Read more
Tags: gimp, image editing, lightroom, photography, plugin, portfolio, projects, scripts Export image to Gimp plugin/template for Lightroom + This post will show you how to easily setup lightroom to export a photo from Lightroom to Gimp for external editing. (Note these instructions are for Mac OSX, but can be translated to Windows also) Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o8yixdzhgg3rcco/Gimp.lrtemplate.zip?dl=0 … Read more
Low on disk space? You might need to check your macports space usage. I’m always tight on space since I primarily use SSDs in my machines. Here are some tips I use to help clean macports. The following are some shell commands you can use to help reclaim disk space from macports. I’ve gathered these from around … Read more
In this post, I compare the Samsung Galaxy S6 SM-G920 (Release date: April 2015) against the Samsung Galaxy S5 SM-G900 (Release date: April 2014). Notes: I’m not trying to compete with dedicated phone review websites, rather I just wanted to share my two cents on how these two phones compare. Also, I currently own an S5 since it was released … Read more
In early 2012, I invented a way to easily mount my phone in my car, via velcro: If you don’t mind using strips of velcro on the dash of your car, you can create a very easy DIY car mount for your phone, right on your dash! After a few phones, I’m still using the … Read more
As mentioned in my previous post, A little book made for you, I’m a fan of inspirational quotes and motivational sayings. Over time, I have collected quite a few bookmarks of the ones that I enjoy. I’ve decided to create a gallery website dedicated to sharing lots of motivating quotes and inspiring pictures: I will … Read more
This post is dedicated to my sister Erin. Erin made me a diy scrapbook of inspirational quotes about life, funny images, and some inside jokes. This is by far the most thoughtful gift I’ve ever recieved in my life. I truly treasure the book and her very dearly. Thank you, Erin. Every time I flip through the … Read more
What can you do with an image that has a depth value for every pixel? Try out this 3D WebGL image processing viewer to see! Use the sliders/controls below, and mouse over + click the images! Loading… [WebGL capable browser needed to see this content] There are an order of magnitude more possibilities of new … Read more