Who Yu?

I’ve just attended an Arizona Diamondbacks versus Milwaukee Brewers game at Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona. I’ve originally wanted to take my Canon EOS 7D to capture some action shots of the game. After browsing on the D-back’s website about what their cameras regulations were, I decided to only take my Canon Powershot SD750. On the D-backs website it states, “…non-professional still cameras for personal use may be brought into Chase Field…”(http://bit.ly/9S3SKu) Apparently the regulations vary with the different ball teams in the MLB. I would recommend that you check the teams website to find out what they allow, before you bring out your DSLR and have to leave your valuable camera in your car during the game.

With only my point and shoot, I decided to not take action sports shots and play around with panoramic photos. I’ve photographed 4 photos for this single image. I like to rotate my camera to take panos portrait style to capture a greater vertical range. Which I end up cropping parts of it. I usually use Adobe Photoshop CS3 to stitch together my panos. I just happen to have a demo version of Adobe Photoshop CS5 which has an awesome feature called “context sensitive fill”. After stitching together the photos and cropping a portion of the image, I “fill” in some of the missing areas using the “context sensitive fill” and ba-ba-bing, I have my panoramic of Chase Field stitched together from four photos taken by hand holding my point & shoot SD750.

Unfortunately for the D-backs, they lost the game 3 to 17.

While traveling around Arizona for work, I had the opportunity to work in the Big Lake Recreation Area located in the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona. I was even more fortunate to be there in October, with the leaves changing colors.

Wonderful lights along Nathan Road in Kowloon, Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is constantly growing and changing. A portion of the ocean near the Central District of Hong Kong Island was reclaimed as part of the Central and Wan Chai Reclamation. This will be used to construct the Central-Wan Chai Bypass and other transportation needs.

it’s been a while since I’ve posted to this blog. i am going to attempt to post a lot more this year. However, my post will probably be mostly photos with a small amount of text.

This photo is of the Hong Kong skyline at night. The photo was taken from my iPhone and it is actually several photos stitched together with the iPhone app, AutoStitch.

Webinar has been rescheduled to Monday, October 5, 2009 from 2 PM to 3 PM EST.
Bogen Imaging is offering the webinar, Capturing the Brilliance of Fall on Friday, September 18, 2009 from 2 PM to 3 PM EST. The free webinar has professional photographer Adam Barker as the guest speaker. He will be speaking on how to take photos of the beautiful Fall foliage including composition, exposure, filters and lens selection.

All attendees are eligible to win one of three National Geographic Earth Explorer Large Shoulder Bags. For more information and to register for this free event at Bogen Imaging.

After the morning photography, we headed back to the hotel and download the photos. We had to choose five photos to submit for critiques and one photo to be printed on a Canon imagePROGRAF iPF5100 large format printer. The images that everybody had printed were beautiful. Even though we were all in the same areas, everybody had different photos. As the day progressed, we learned about hyperfocal distance and using reflectors. In the evening we drove out to Mt. Tamalpris and took photos of the area. From our location on Mt. Tamalpris, we could see the marina at Sausalito and the city of San Francisco over the Marin hills. Afterwards we, drove a little further to Bollus Point on Mt. Tamalpris to take sunset photos. After the sun set, we all headed back home to conclude our extremely long day and great workshop.