VistaQuest VQ1015 ENTRY Review

By On November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment

A review of the VistaQuest VQ1015 ENTRY keychain camera, also known as the “digital LOMO”. How to best describe it? It’s the “Roger Corman” of the photography world: low budget but fun as heck.

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My Top Eleven Free iPad Apps

By On September 16, 2010 · 6 Comments

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No, this isn’t link bait or one of those “earn pennies by typing Google fodder blogs for me”-type articles. I’ve had use of an iPad for about 5 months now and [...]

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Taiwan Storyland, Taipei

By On June 10, 2010 · 6 Comments

It almost sounds like the name of a fantasy-themed amusement park, doesn’t it? Even the entrance, pictured above, invokes mental images of fairies flitting about in an enchanted forest. I fully expected to encounter scenes based on the Monkey King and other figures from Chinese children’s mythos.
But i didn’t. In fact, it became clear at [...]

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Addendum: Image Editing on the iPad

By On June 2, 2010 · 3 Comments

With regard to what seems to be a OS limit on file size, I think I’ve figured out why. The iPad utilizes a version (v3.2) of the operating system designed primarily for the iPhone (currently v3.1.2). The maximum image size limit is the same as the resolution of the camera in the iPhone 3GS. If [...]

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Image Editing on the Ipad

By On June 1, 2010 · 7 Comments

What’s the iPad? Well, cynics would say that it’s an oversized iPod Touch. Add in a faster CPU and an HD screen and the cynics are absolutely correct.
And that’s a good thing.
Viewing images on an iPad is a wonderful experience compared to the iPod Touch. Photographs look better presented on it then on a physical [...]

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Lighting Workshop and Breaking My Comfort Zone

By On June 1, 2010 · 1 Comment

Street photography and studio photography are polar opposites. With street photography, the challenge is finding the composition and the moment from what already exists. As such, street photography is a twig in the same photography branch as other genres such as photojournalism or documentary. On the other side of the tree is a branch called [...]

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