EWU Athletic Lettering

I found a tutorial on creating athletic lettering at The Design Playbook . I created an example of my alma mater Eastern Washington University in Cheney, WA.

Merchants Use flickr to Feed Sites

Here is an example of an online merchant that uses flickr to propagate their web pages. In this instance Bike Mate uses it to feed a flash rotator. Using this technology, a business could make an online catalog of current products using item numbers as metadata tags within flickr. You could start with an excel spread sheet of current products with quantities and item numbers. You convert the spreadsheet into an html table and have the item numbers pull in the photos.

Kittitas Sunset Over the Oats

Here is a series of photos I shot in Kittitas this summer. Kittitas is the epitome of rolling hills and wind-swept prairie. I shot it with a slower shutter speed and from a tripod to emphasize the movement. My Nikon D60 captured the oats as they flowed in the breeze. In Lightroom I did something I seldom do which is to reduce the Clarity of an image below a value of 0. Clarity values below 0 create an edge softening effect reminiscent of old large format board cameras.

URC Architectural Details

Here is a photo I shot yesterday while walking around campus. I was asked to get photos of architectural details for the back cover of our alumni magazine. The concept is to use small thumbnails of various buildings to form a grid. Then the reader must guess where the photo was taken.




Here is a shot of Monroe Hall. The giantic Sugar Maple towers over the hall.

Fall EWU Photo Walk

I shot this on a photo walk last week. It is of an architectural element of the University Recreation Center at EWU. I used Lightroom 2 to pull out a more punchy, dynamic exposure. The cranked Saturation and Vibrance make this pop.



Here's a shot of Showalter Hall. I love the way a 17mm lens distorts the perspective.



Here's a shot of Patterson Hall. The oak trees turn a nice orange color in the fall. The 80mm lens setting forces the background nicely out of focus.

Candid Portraits

A candid portrait of Dr. Rodolpho Arévalo I shot during a faculty awards ceremony. The mixed lighting gave a bluish halo to the subjects.I like this kind of photography I like. It shows a subject engaged instead of staged.

Audio Post Work

I just finished another audio mix for a television commercial to air regionally in the Inland Northwest. I mixed it on Apple's Soundtrack.

100,000 + Hits on flickr

The Eastern Washington University flickr account has hit over 100,000 hits today. The first upload on the account occurred on July 8th, 2008 with a single photo of the front of Showalter Hall. Currently there are 2,745 images on the site.

The current methodology I am working with is to increase social networking by utilizing flickr as a image feeder. An example can be found here. It is an monthly newsletter sent to the University staff and includes photos fed by flickr and linked back to the photo on flickr.

With the posting photo sets to the University facebook fan page and the inclusion of flickr on the University's website redesign, the sky is the limit for the growth of this account.

Yoda's Brick

Here is a shot I did for EWU's Alumni Association. Their recent campaign to pave the Hello Walk in front of Showalter Hall has had a measure of success. It appears that Yoda of Star Wars fame was actually an alumni of Eastern Washington University. I thought it would make an interesting Stumble! so I flagged it and tagged it "Star Wars Yoda Brick Quote". As of a few minutes ago It recieved 1,524 hits. Pretty remarkable considering that the University's next most viewed photograph has a little over 500 and has been up for about nine months. Props to StumbleUpon and the power of Star Wars.

FamCam

Here is my favorite frame from I shoot I had today at the University. It was titled "FamCam" and is intended to be a photo message home to family and friends of students living at EWU. I used my favorite Balcar Mini Z1 with and umbrella until the wind knocked the thing over and damaged the brella. Hence this was shot with a bare bulb. I processed it in Lightroom 2. I didn't have to do much editing as the exposure was pretty decent from the camera.