Used for shots with high-contrast.  The camera evaluates various aspects of the scene and applies the appropriate processing: reduces exposure highlights, shadows and mid-tones are then adjusted achieves optimal brightness “Active” will adjusts the exposure before shooting to optimize the dynamic range, whereas regular D-Lighting option in the Retouch menu optimizes dynamic range in images [...]

My friend and photographer Julian Brayson sends me email forwards from time to time and they are usually related to photography and usually pretty good.  Check out my favorites from his last email: Julian does some amazing artwork himself.  His current mood is painting people’s pets.  You’ve gotta check out some of Julian Brayson’s work.  [...]

Last year I attended a conference in Seattle where 4 local business celebs had an open forum to discuss small business and the lessons they have learned over the years.  They were Mike O’Brien of O’Brien Auto Group, radio personality Bob Rivers, Flip This House creator Richard Davis, and Schick Shadel’s Pat O’Day. Here are [...]

OK, so Tom Perkins autobiography is a bit of a yawner.  Or maybe I was just in the mood for some fiction for a change… whatever excuses I can come up with, I’ve gotta admit, I really enjoyed reading Twilight.  If you haven’t heard of this book/movie yet, you are officially out of touch with [...]

Wow, I’d love to play this one!  You can only get to the tee box via helicopter…

Surprisingly more challenging than I would have expected, it’s nice to have this working now so I can just use Facebook to broadcast what I’m doing. Of course you don’t want to post your status manually to both Facebook and Twitter, and there are plenty of free services out there to help you do this [...]

It seems to happen on a daily basis lately. Usually in the second half of the work day, I will get stuck on something and progressively “spin my wheels”, not able to solve the problem and getting really frustrated and flustered.  When this happens, I typically get into “grind mode” and really dig in.  And [...]

I’ve known about TubeMogul for a while but today was the first time I have used it, and let me tell ya, I’ll be using it again! TubeMogul lets you post your video onto many websites at once, versus having to manually upload your video to a bunch of different sites. The entire upload process [...]

I still haven’t gotten tired of this one yet. Not a huge fan of Heineken, a bit too skunky for me. But this commercial is my all time fav. Remember David Elsewhere? He’s the first guy that really gets down dancing. Any party is instantly cool when Elsewhere is busting his moves. A few other [...]

Being a software developer and lover, I can’t help but put this video on my blog. Conceptually, this all makes perfect sense. But the fact that a software team was able to pull this off is very inspiring!