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I swapped out my old camera for Teri’s newer Casio. Looking at the camera display the images looks amazing. But after uploading to my computer the where a little under exposed (not bright). So I may need to retake the photos. Also I took the shots from two different camera zoom positions (without Digital zoom on). The problem with Teri’s camera is that adjusting the focus is a pain and not very exact. I know I can get better results with an easily adjustable zoom/focus. I am looking to get a Nikon D60. The better the picture is from the point of taking it, the less work that needs to be done in photoshop and elsewhere. With the D60 I hope to not have to do any photoshop touch work.

But as for now the results are better. Here are the best results I could get with Teri’s Casio 10.2 megapixel camera. I did all the parts provided to me (these following examples have been cropped, resized, and touched in photoshop to make up for the lack of exposure from two shot of a shutter speed):

Floater

Pool Sweep Hose

Pool Sweep Cog

Lighting

The Purchase

I am attempting to take photos of pool parts for General Pool and Spa Supply to be use for the Website as well as Parts Catalogs. I am an amateur photographer at best, and as such am very limited on taking studio quality photos. I know from school at UCSD that the minimalist setup is to arrange lighting in three points around the point of interest to reduce shadows on and around the object/subject.

I first looked around for a cheap lighting system available on ‘the web’. There were none of course. Each light I stumbled upon ran about $300 dollars or more for the cheapest product. For my budget and needs I felt this was over-kill. So I ventured out to my local Home Depot to see about getting some flood lamps. To my surprise I found reasonable prices. I ended up leaving Home Depot with a $40 receipt for three 250watt Halogen flood lamps for use in outdoor construction as my lights.

The lighting I am using for the parts photos consist of 3 Construction Flood Lamps with 250watt bulbs.

The Setup

My Setup is pretty basic. Right now I have the lights setup on some books. I may purchase some cheap multipurpose tripods that I can mount the flood lamps to in the future, but for now this should suffice as most the parts are rather small.

The Verdict

But because I am going cheap (Read more…)

While at UCSD, I was introduced to the world of HTML version 4.0. Back in that time, around the year 2000, I began my coding for web content with something that looked similar to:

HTML 4.0 example:
<center>
 <table width="400px">
  <tr>
   <td>
    <p><font face="arial" size="2" color="white">Here is some white text in Arial font at a 12 pixel size.</font></p>
   </td>
  </tr>
 </table>
</center>

Granted at the time I was being educated through the Art Department (specifically ICAM Department), which tended teach a less-technical and more ‘what ever means necessary’ method of programming. So HTML basics were all I knew.

Little did I know that at that time the W3C had issued the new and ever more elegant XHTML. It wasn’t until the end of my undergraduate education that I had discovered how archaic HTML 4.0 had become.

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It has been quite a long time since I have posted to my wonderful blog. I figured since I have changed the look of it I might change the way I post as well. And so in the future I WILL BE POSTING HERE MORE. Hopefully my post will be meaningful… everyone knows this one isn’t.

You can find me on myspace at http://www.myspace.com/59595372Teri has pulled me into the world and existence that is myspace. I am not a fan of it. I especially do not like how poorly coded/executed it is for layouts and what have you (see Mike Industries for his rant on myspace… he puts my thoughts into words on the subject).

On the positive side of things, myspace does allow me to keep in touch with people I haven’t talked/written to in a while; after all I am poor at contacting people (I hate my cell phone and am currently looking for a better Email solution over my Yahoo account) I have a new iPhone which I love and am using a new @mikegelhaus.com IMAP email account, life hasn’t ever been this easy. So hopefully now I may improve upon that. We shall see.

On a side note. I truly think that myspace may find more user-ship if they created a Flickr-esque web object or an RSS feed for your friends list so that people like myself can add to our own sites as well. Just a thought.

Well today is the start of a new life for me; A life of a blogger. I am not really sure how to begin this blog, so I figured I would just “wing it”.

I first thought I might talk about me, but I figured that can be taken care of in my about page. So if you want to know more about me take a gander over that page as well as my Resume and Portfolio pages.

So instead I figured I would talk about this blog itself…

I am not particularly sure what topics I may produce in the future, nor what direction it may go, I just know that in the end of it all, I am doing this for me. Sure I may have some subscribers/readers (with some hopefully insightful and creative feedback and criticisms) in the future, but as I said before I write everything here to speak my mind.

When I do speak my mind, I will do the best to censor my vocabulary, as well as maintain a reasonable grasp on grammar and spelling as I write. If you are offended or irritated by anything I may write I would love to read your feedback. If you see any grammatical/spelling mistakes I will gladly fix them (as long as they are brought to my attention).

To all future readers, I say welcome!

Cheers,

Mike