This past weekend was the big yearly planning session for the officers of the Pi chapter of Kappa Kappa Psi at Auburn. Our retreat is basically where we lock ourselves in a somewhat secluded place and discuss business for the upcoming year. This year, we stayed at a cabin in the mountains of North Georgia. Between the discussions of meeting times and discretionary funds, we were able to have a little fun swimming, fishing and taking in the beautiful views.
I recently got Adobe Photoshop CS3 for all of my photo editing needs. One of the coolest features of CS3 is the ability to merge several images of the same subject with different exposures into one image to give definition to the highlights and the shadows of an image (called High Dynamic Range). Unfortunately, Photoshop doesn’t give too many options to easily change the compression of highlights and shadows so I bought Photomatix to solve that problem. To test it out I went around Auburn’s campus and snapped photos of various picturesque places at night. Here are the results:
I have finally finished it. After 3 years of wanting to get it done and about a week of hard work, I now have my first photo book in my hands. The subject, as you can see from the cover, is my trip to London back in the summer of 2005. I’ll post some pictures from the book in a later post.
So shooting fireworks on Independance Day is without a doubt an American tradition, especially when theyre particularly explosive. However, as it turns out, it is not a good idea to put two large mortars on one small unstable platform. In today’s case, it almost blew up my parents, friends, and in fact did blow up the neighbors’ yard. So just don’t do it…ask Sarah.
I’ve been watching the development of Spore a little bit lately and finally bought the creature creator. It’s not a terrible buy; for just $10, you get a fully functional program that is fun for a little while. It only takes a couple of minutes to learn to create a pretty weird looking creature. One of the coolest features is the ability to make videos and then upload them directly to YouTube. So i decided to make a strange creature (the object of the entire game) give it a few children and have them dance for YouTube and post it here for you.