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HDRs from Las Vegas

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

I just got my hands on processing a series of bracketed exposures I took in Las Vegas this spring with the Promote Control and my Nikon D3. It was the first serious workout for a final production Promote Control unit, and it performed beautifully. Set the tripod, press one button, and have the full series shot. Pick your tripod and move on to the next location – press a button there and have another series. Sweet :) Here is one pic:

Click here or on the image to view a few more of these. I had a lot of fun walking around there that night!

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A Fuji Pearl Print… WOW

Monday, May 11th, 2009

I rarely print my photos. I’ve had all sorts of trouble trying to get good prints from the labs, and going into the trouble of color matching every single print machine just didn’t really appeal to me. So the whole concept of printing has been somewhat distant… until today.

What was new that happened? Not much. I just got the following shot printed on Fuji Pearl paper:

From 2008-08-11 Hiking in Altai Region, Russia

I can’t describe how much better it looks than any other prints of this same shot I’ve tried before. Costed me $35+tax for 12″x18″ in a local print shop (Houston Photo Imaging), and was worth every penny.

P.S. I’ve got a few more pics posted from the hiking trip where I took the above shot – click here to check them out. I had a pre-production version of the Promote GPS for beta testing in that trip, and most images in that album have geotags in them. The place is a Belukha mountain region, about 5 miles from Russia-Kazakhstan border. What a place… I gotta get myself back there some day.

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