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Senior Design Video Project – Scene 1
So one of the final stages of our senior design project is to create a “professional” looking video that focuses on the project’s research contributions. We spent most of the weekend working on this and too my surprise this takes significantly longer than I originally thought. All the video was shot with a Canon D550 using either the Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II USM lens or the Canon 70-200mm f/4.0 L USM lens. We are using Final Cut Pro for our post production which is kind of a love-hate relationship right now. Here is a rough version of scene...
Read MoreSenior Design Project – iPad Multimodal Rummy
So my Senior Design team has been working nonstop for the past few days writing our multimodal multi-touch card game. The game uses iPhones as private displays and an iPad as a communal display. The private displays allow the players to manage (sort and group) their cards on their private display as well as aid the user on when they can/cannot laydown – which we found in user studies was a common problem for new players. The iPad acts as a communal display allowing players to perform common actions such as drawing, discarding and laying down. But we’ve also implemented advance features that allows players to race for a Joker once another player puts...
Read MoreWhere’d the blog go?
Wow, last semester kicked by butt; I’m glad it’s over! It’s sad to think that I didn’t write a blog post all semester. I’d recommend you add my Flickr photostream to your rss reader instead of my blog feed , at least I always post to Flickr and you’d know I was still alive. I put together a collection of my favorite images from my first year of photography over on my Flickr site. It’s crazy to think I’ve only been doing this for a little over a year, but it has become one of my favorite things to do; I just need more time to do it. Brandon and I went to a Joe McNally lighting seminar in Houston; it was awsome! I’ve...
Read MoreBonfire Memorial Photoshoot
Monday I got this wild idea to wake up before the crack of dawn and shoot the Bonfire Memorial as the sun came up. Wow, it was not a wild idea, it was a great idea! Only problem was my brain doesn’t work so well at 5 AM. It was one of those “I can’t brain today i have the dumb” moments. I took some great shots that looked awesome on the LCD screen but I didn’t realize until later that I had three major problems: I left the ISO at 800, I had my McDonald’s coffee cup in a few of the pictures, and I had my camera back in a few other pictures. Doh! Right before the sun came up (~5:30) I was able to dial the white balance down and make...
Read MoreRing Dance
Well Megan was nice enough to let me bring my camera to Ring Dance. We had a great time, but my pictures are really bad. Just goes to show you that you can’t buy your way into a great shot. I have all the gear and I screwed up on exposure 101 that night! Still a few of the pictures are interesting and I told people I would post them.
Read MoreLong day
What a long day. I’ve spent the last 20 hours developing a custom django app and it lost its appeal after 4 hours. Playing with the wordpress app on my iPhone and it’s kind of nice. Maybe I’ll start bloging more, or maybe not It looks like we might hire a director for my group at work which would be nice due to some of the crap we’ve been putting up with lately; everyone should strive for excelence at work not half-assing things! My 2 cents…
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