Archive for August 2013

Mount Timpanogos Photospheres

Lately I have been having a lot of fun taking some great spherical panoramas and turning them into Google Photospheres! This allows me to upload these 360 degree panos on Google Maps so that others can view the panos from anywhere in the world. I will write a follow-up post in the near future on…

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YouTube Trick – 1980

YouTube 1980

  Google is famous for putting “Easter eggs” in their products. I found a fun one this morning. If you are on watching a YouTube video simply pause it and type in the numbers 1980. It Brings up a battle game where you have to defend rockets from blowing up your video. It’s pretty fun…

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A Little Post Editing Goes A Long Ways

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Hi all, Most people who think about photography think that all photographers just use Photoshop. It comes with the synonymous term of “can you photoshop that out?”, “will you photoshop my face?”, or whatever other ridiculous question someone could ask us.  I want to address two items today. First of all, most photographers don’t start…

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Photographing Rivers & Motion in Water

moving water

For those beginner photographers out there that are interested in shooting rivers, waterfalls, or streams, this post is for you. The other day I went with my family up Big Cottonwood Canyon that is just outside Salt Lake City. There is a great river that runs down the canyon and I knew that I would…

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Timeline of Google Street View

It seems that most people nowadays have at least seen Google Street View. It always baffles me how we take the things that we have today for granted – things like Facebook, YouTube, Google Maps, and Street View (to only name a few). All of these things didn’t exist in the 90’s, and now 10…

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