Finals Again – Winter 2010

Week before finals… *sigh* Week 10 of last quarter this is what I was working on:

B-Trees!

Been making a lot of short, mostly picture posts lately. There will be a new article after finals are over. A continuation of the prime vs zoom article.

Till next time…

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Janice Jann as 1st Princess

Had the pleasure of doing a shoot with Janice Jann as 1st Princess (Miss Chinatown LA 2010). The shoot was very impromptu and I didn’t have any assistance (I know, the insanity!). Kept the lighting setup as simple as possible. Didn’t have to do much, Janice would look good in any kind of lighting.

Janice Jann 03

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I Love My 35L

Need I say more:

I love the rain...

Walking around in the parking lot of HK Plaza.

Walking around in the parking lot of HK Plaza.

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My Days at School

Engineering Job Fair at UCI.

Engineering students showing off their projects in front of the Engineering Gateway at UCI.

Engineering students showing off their projects in front of the Engineering Gateway at UCI.

A lone bike outside the ICS2 building.

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Time Flies

The world goes by in a blur.

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Happy Chinese New Year!

Not much to say again in this post. So here’s some shitty pictures:

It's Chinese New Year!

Cricket on the floor. Taken with my 40D and 35mm f/2.

A door. With a sign. At Diamond Plaza.

Two students resting outside the Engineering Gateway.

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Random Shots – 02/14/10

It’s been awhile since I posted anything so here’s some pics:

Shopping carts in front of T&S Emporium (sic). Taken with my phone.

Couldn't sleep so I took a picture.

Sea lions or seals (I don't remember) resting on a buoy. I'm pretty sure they're sea lions though.

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Bored in Class

Instead of paying attention in class this is what I’m doing:

You can probably tell by what's projected what class I'm in.

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Good Times With an Old Friend

Was looking through my “backup” hard drives and came across some old HDRIs that I did couple of years ago. Oh how I’ve progressed…

One of my first attempts at HDR back when I was still at Mt. Sac. I put the camera (Rebel XT w/18-55 II) on the roof of the car to get this shot.

I don’t remember how I processed this. I’m pretty sure this was done in Photoshop but I don’t remember.

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Battle Over h.264

I’m too lazy to type up an article so here is some articles that explain things:

h.264 for Internet Video

No, you can’t do that with h.264

I’m planning to write an article soon about the importance of open technologies which relate directly to this. It might actually be an audio netcast (or podcast if you’re so inclined). I don’t feel like typing lately…

UPDATE: Google has acquired On2 Technologies and the Free Software Foundation has sent them an open letter urging them to open VP8 video codec. Link to letter: http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/google-free-on2-vp8-for-youtube

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