I had been meaning to upload some of my experiments in photography I’ve just been a little tied up learning XNA and HLSL shader languages. But no more excuses!

Visualizing Ideas

Photo Montage

For this picture I combined cubism with photography. I extruded the cubes of each of their portraits based on their relative distance to the camera: accentuating the z-depth. The subjects of this photo were my two band mates Roger Lane and Seppi and we had a blast shooting all sorts of ridiculous poses before coming up with some usable shots.

Panoramas

Every Year New Media Club has an annual apple picking event at a local apple orchard. The owner let me come onto the grounds before opening so I could get some nice unobstructed shots. Shooting at around 5:30AM also gave some great effects with light rays breaking on branches and the dew-drops still on the leaves.

This road panorama was also taken at the orchard. In retrospect the scene was in the shade and a bit darker than I would have wanted. Taking the panorama in the sun and positioning myself so that they entire road across the image would have made this more successful.

I am by no means a photographer, but after playing with it a little more I think I’ll invest in a camera in the near future hopefully something that records HD video too.