Check out the fresh vegetables. Cheap.
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The CBC.ca radio interview about the Water Buffalo movie is here. 10 minutes, 9 megs, MP3. Enjoy.
WATCH VIDEOWhatever feeling this evokes, the Chinese system of handling and selling meat seems to work. I never get sick, or food poisoning. So. Maybe I’m just used to all those little fritters crawling in the food. Yum.
Video Notes: 4.4 megs, 35 secs, Flash video
ENLARGEI hiked up about 400 feet above where we were staying and got myself in (I believe) a little wheat field, set up the Italian tripod, manual setting, exposed for the sky, and shot six portrait shots.
PS CS3 stiches them together very well, much better than CS2. This is the result, just to give you an idea of what the rural part of China looks like.
I’ll be posting GPS coordinates soon.
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People asked some questions, I went out and relayed the questions to Chinese farmers, took photos and videos of things, and returned with answers.
WATCH MOVIETitle says it all. I just wanted to get a clip of this road that I’ve been telling people about. It’s a 5,000 foot drop off on the right side there.
Update: This POS Sony T-33 digital camera uses multiplexed MPEG-1/2 encoding. The Sony saved this 11-second clip as 15 megs. Converting it to FLV is 1.4 MB and, well, it’s about the same quality.
Next P&S digital I buy must have H.264 or On2 encoding, or I ain’t buying it.
After this latest trip to E Jia I took about 800 RAW format photos. Now I’m faced with the task of selecting a few, editing them, exporting, creating galleries, making prints, etc. I’ve found that by converting them to DNG format I can save space while keeping the RAW format options available.
Adobe DNG Coverter is a useful app to “compress” your RAW files down a little (but keep the RAW functionality) and at the same time is creating a standard for all those different camera types.
Some stats: DNG compressed (loseless) some NEFs down about 35%, and some CRW down about 18% (average of 800+ files).
I found a detailed web site explaining the benefits of DNG.
onOne’s Mask Pro 4.0 is hella cool. Masking software, I know, it’s been around forever, but I never used it until now (someone was showing it to me when it was still Extensis, and it was cool then.)
It has about a 5-minute learning curve, but if you watch their online tutorials, it’s very easy to use and works very well. Their tutorials are inline with what I would make if I were a developer trying to sell software. Anyway this app is very useful, well worth the $150+ USD.
I hope these two little apps will help me along with this major photo project.