Butterfly on yellow flowers
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Umphrey’s McGee
A couple weeks back I went to see 100 Watt Mind and Eric McFadden at the Historic Ashland Armory. I didn’t bring my camera that evening. The sound for that show was, once again, disappointing. The Eric McFadden Trio still put on a great show.
Fast forward to a few nights back and Umphrey’s McGee performed on the same stage. I don’t know if it was the fact that they brought a ton of their own equipment or if it was putting the mixing board on the floor, but the sound was fantastic–a first for the half dozen or so shows I’ve seen at the Ashland Armory.
Jake Cinninger of Umphrey's McGee
I was unfamiliar with Umphrey’s McGee, but that didn’t matter. They were fantastic. I especially enjoyed the cover of Pink Floyd’s “In the Flesh.” I’ll be seeing Roger Waters perform it again in less than two months.
Brendan Bayliss of Umphrey's McGee
Kris Myers of Umphrey's McGee
For more photos of Umphrey’s McGee from the same performance click here.
mOcean Volleyball Club season over
These past 10 days have probably been the longest consecutive non-volleyball days we have had in a year. Beach volleyball and lots of college volleyball camps (OSU, UofO, SOU) coming up soon…
Ryan Stasik of Umphrey’s McGee
I had never even heard of Umphrey’s McGee until a few days ago. The show they put on at the Ashland Armory last night was nothing short of amazing. I have a few more photos I’ll post soon.
Brown Mountain Trail
I walked on this trail late last summer for several hours and didn’t encounter a single person. It was wonderful.
Rugby animation
The above is my first attempt to animate a series of images. The color and texture got messed up on conversion. In addition, I made it too large so it doesn’t work at any resolution other than the original. If you are on a big screen, though, click on the above image for the animation.
Here is one of the files used to make the animation sequence.
Another jpg vs. RAW comparison
from jpg file (about 30 seconds of processing)
I still use jpgs for most of my images even though I shoot in both RAW and jpeg. Whenever I try to process a RAW file, and the photo was taken in decent lighting, my jpg either looks better or it is indistinguishable from the RAW file which took many times longer to process. However, in low, poor, or weird lighting I still, sometimes, try to process the RAW file to see what I can come up with.
I don’t think there is much comparison in today’s photo. The jpg simply does not look better. I could have processed that jpg for hours and still not got it to look remotely as good as the RAW-processed result.
from RAW file (about 5 minutes of processing)
Wave upon the rock
Today’s photo is from Bandon, but I took a somewhat similar picture in Brookings (a couple hours farther down the Oregon Coast) several years ago. Which image do you like better?