March 30, 2008

Digital Imaging Reset Week 8

This week we talked about High Dynamic Range photography.

You simply take 3 or 5 pictures altering the exposure from under to over exposed in steps.

Then you combine the images which will have more information on the shadows and light areas which would normally would be too dark or too light to see detail.

Here are some results:

I also took some pictures along the bike ride up to the George Washington bridge:

March 30, 2008

So I’ve decided to really dive in into the iPhone Application development for my iPhone Classroom thesis project. What I had up to now was a web version – a prototype of the interface and user interaction. It did not give me the full extent of the iPhone’s interface capabilities, not to mention that you cannot turn the camera on from it. Pretty basic feature for a photography tutorial!
So I have been studying Apple’s Cocoa development environment (Objective-C) and the iPhone SDK. Slowly wrapping my head around the frameworks and how objects are handled and talk to each other within the iPhone environment. Very interesting and powerful.
I created these screen mock-ups to help me understand better all the elements I am going to have to build: