Jeremey's Weblog

Christmas Cards!

Our Christmas cards from Apple arrived, very cool! (designed in iPhoto using a template... I didn't color correct or anything on these pics of the cards, apologies)

Americano

Just gotta say... I love a good americano. I basically don't brew drip coffee anymore, if I want a cup of black coffee (which I do, frequently), I make an americano. A proper americano is made w/ hot water in your cup and then you pull your shot onto the water. That's it. It is NOT a shot pulled for a really long time; that will massively overextract the coffee. Just a normal shot as if for a latte, pulled into a cup of hot water (not too much water).

P.S. you do want to pull the shot after you put the water in the cup... that way you get all that delicious crema on top. YUM.

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coffee, espresso, americano

Poladroid: Fully Awesome

Go check out Poladroid! It's so cool... it takes time developing an image that you drag onto it into a polaroid... and you can save it mid-development for different effects. Examples (same image, first mid-development, second post-development):

LOVE.

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photography, polaroid, poladroid

Engaged

I shot most of yesterday with a Lastolite TriGrip diffuser, or in actual shade... but this one was in the open sun, and I love how it works with the toned B&W (tritone in PS CS3).

Definitely worth viewing large, on black to really appreciate the tones.

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photography

Game Changer: Canon 5D Mark II

The 5D Mark II is groundbreaking in a bunch of ways... a 21MP full-frame sensor than can shoot at ISOs up to 25600 (!!!) for $2700? That's amazing.

But what I'm blown away by is 1) it shoots 1080p video, and 2) how good the video is, especially in low light. THIS is game changing. Go watch the movie Vincent Laforet made with a prototype. Keep in mind this is unedited footage and it was shot at ISOs 1600 and higher (the only change is being re-compressed at lower resolution).

The movie (on Canon's site): http://www.usa.canon.com/dlc/controller?act=GetArticleAct&articleID=2086

Now go visit Vincent's blog and read up on the whole thing... it's pretty incredible. You can also download original raw footage and stills.

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Downtown Fog, Two Views

"Ghosts"

"Breaking In"

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houston, photography

My Boys

Judah

Iain

Gabriel

Me... On An Apple Poster!

I taught an Aperture workshop at the Memorial City Apple Store, and they made a poster for it, with my photo on it! Pretty fun.

HMNS Meetup!

The Assignment Houston meetup at the Houston Museum of Natural Science was a big success! Thanks to Erin from the Museum and Laurie from Assignment Houston for organizing a very cool event.

A TON of photographers showed up... I was enlisted to take the group photo, I did a merged/stitched panoramic (visit the photo on Flickr to see the full size version, if you dare):

9 Months Old!

Judah turned 9 months old recently!