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Atlanta Steeplechase 2013

Scott Slade — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:12:49 +0000

I went to the Atlanta Steeplechase on Saturday. Beautiful day finally, we've had a very wet and cold Spring. I was able to snap some nice shots during the day:

Atlanta Steeplechase 2013

The mirrorless camera continues to impress.......

Scott Slade — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:58:03 +0000

I went to see Pink in concert recently here in Atanta. I thought I would take along the mirrorless Nikon 1 V1 to see how it would fare in crazy low light situations. The camera did extremely well, much better than I imagined. The hybrid autofocus system in this camera is very impressive, it can focus amazingly fast. I shot most all the pictures at ISO 3200 so there was some noise in the shots but I was able to easily take care of that issue in Lightroom. So far, very pleased with the results of this camera, I’m getting some very high quality photos with just about everything I shoot with it. Here is a link to the shots from the concert:

Pink Concert

NFC Championship

Scott Slade — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 16:24:46 +0000

Well it was a lifelong dream to see an NFC Championship game in my hometown. It was a chance that doesn't come along very often in a sports fan's life. The Falcons have only been to the big game one other time and that was in the 1998 season when they upset the Vikings in Minnesota. This was a huge game for the city of Atlanta, the fans showed up, the offense was on fire and the defense showed up at least for the first quarter and a half. Ahhh the disappointment, being up by 17 points and then losing is a horrible feeling. This was just about as bad as the come from behind loss the Falcons suffered at the hand of the Dallas Cowboys in 1980, we were the #1 seed in the playoffs that year as well. Here are some photos from the game, I experimented with a mirror less camera, it was a Nikon 1 V1 w/30-100mm zoom, the camera focuses really fast so I was able to capture some pretty decent shots. Really makes you excited to see where camera technology is going to be in about 5-10 years.

NFC Championship

Braves Photos

Scott Slade — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:54:05 +0000

I recently got the opportunity to take a short class about Sports Photography, the best part was the field trip to Turner Field. Quite a treat to get some behind the scenes access to photograph the Braves players and scenes around the stadium. Below is one of the shots I took from the top of the stadium, click on the link below to access the full gallery of photos.

Braves Photos

Photo from Hana

Scott Slade — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:05:39 +0000

Cool photo that I took from the Seven Sacred Pools in Hana. This is a very secluded part of Maui, few people around and very peaceful. It takes a while to get here, from the airport it is about 53 miles and takes about 4.5 hours to drive that far, about 40 miles of it is on a one lane road where the speed limit is 15 mph. I took this photo with Powershot S95, 3 exposures merged together with Photomatix Pro to create and HDR image:

iOS Multitasking Facts

Scott Slade — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:13:45 +0000

Very good read on the facts about how iOS multitasking works, there appears to be quite a bit of confusion on what is actually running in the background....even from the Apple Genius Bar.

There is one iOS "tip" that I keep hearing and it is wrong. Worse, I keep hearing it from supposedly authoritative sources. I have even heard it from the lips of Apple "Geniuses" in stores.

Fraser Speirs - "Misconceptions About iOS Multitasking":

Mobile Flash dies..........

Scott Slade — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:05:16 +0000

Adobe gives in.....finally.

Today Adobe announced:

Flash to Focus on PC Browsing and Mobile Apps; Adobe to More Aggressively Contribute to HTML5

Took them long enough, at least everybody(Android, Blackberry...etc) wins, Apple was already winning!

Flash Focus

Cool new site......

Scott Slade — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:31:50 +0000

Joshua Topolsky: Welcome to The Verge

We're focused on bringing you — our extremely savvy and frankly very handsome readers — the best and most comprehensive coverage of the consumer technology world. Not just the nuts and bolts, 24-hour news cycle stuff, but more in-depth coverage, bigger stories, and content that goes further.

There is this really cool new site called: The Verge The site has a very slick look and feel. The tech news coverage seems to be very comprehensive. I look forward to seeing if they bring out a mobile app soon.

Steve Jobs 1955 - 2011

Scott Slade — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:58:46 +0000

Quite a loss of words tonight, the world has lost one of the best innovators of our time if not ever. Here are some very good tributes that I have seen tonight:

Vladimir Putin, Action Man

Scott Slade — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:44:42 +0000

Vlad the man! Really? Well at least his personal photographer is good! According to this propaganda I think he would make James Bond a little nervous!