365Project-Day 8: A night with Indy

January 29th, 2012 Comments off

Wetmore Road at dusk

I try to walk Indy (my dog) daily. Most days I don’t have time until the evening. I enjoy walking around Tucson Auto Mall, which is a good 1.3 mile loop. I also get to take a look at the new vehicles from the different manufacturers. I was there at a great time tonight, it was dusk and you can still see a little blue in the sky.

365Project-Day 7: Family of T-Rexes

January 25th, 2012 Comments off

3 RC helicopters stationaryI’ve heard about a event to introduce people to RC aircraft sponsored by the Sonoran Desert Flyers. It was held at Naranja Park in Oro Valley, Arizona. I love helicopters so I went there to check out the RC planes and helicopters. And also to take a few photos. These 3 RC helicopters are the Align T-Rex. They are all electric and very cool.

365Project-Day 2: Architecture Photography

January 8th, 2012 Comments off

Living room and Dining roomOne area of photography I am trying to start a business in is Real Estate and Architecture photography. I’ve had a chance to visit a friend who has a beautiful home. This is just a quick test shot from my iPhone 4S but I’ve took a bunch with my Canon 7D. Coming soon, you can check out those photos on my new business website.

365Project-Day 1: Canon Powershot S100

January 8th, 2012 Comments off

black Canon Powershot S100 point and shoot camera
I just got a Canon Powershot S100, it’s been a hard to find camera that’s been sold out at most places. Other places I’ve found on the web are charging over MSRP. It will be a camera that I’m going to try to carry around daily. It will be one of the cameras I will use for 365 Project and other photography interest. The other cameras I will use are Canon EOS 7D and iPhone 4S. I haven’t decided if I want to retire my old Canon Powershot SD750 point & shoot. For now, I’ve hack it and install CHDK (Canon Hack Developer Kit)

365 Project

January 8th, 2012 Comments off

Happy New Year!
Last year I heard about 365project.org where you take a photo a day and post it. I was interested in participating last year but I felt I wanted to start at the beginning of a year. Well here I am and a couple of days in. I’ve been thinking daily what do I need to shoot. Well after a few days of posting photos and descriptions, it looks like a blog. I thought to my self why am I leaving this blog in limbo with only 6 post a year. I need to post everything here too. So hopefully if I survive this task you are going to see a post a day for the next 365 days. Well, some days, you will see more than one post which is good because I need to catch up in posting my 365Project posts here and I still want to show some of my other work. You can also see my photos at http://365project/danielyu If you ware interested in starting, it’s not too late. Join me and add me as a friend.

Black River

November 15th, 2011 Comments off

Black River from forest road 25.
The new iPhone 4S has a great camera for a smartphone. With a app or two, anyone can make amazing panoramic photographs. Four vertical images of the Black River were taken on iPhone 4S using Camera+ app with about 25% overlap in each image. The images were merged together with the AutoStitch iOS app.

Black River cutting through the canyon

Ground Hog

November 13th, 2011 Comments off

Ground Hog chopping away on a piece of grass.
Ground Hog eating grass