Fountain

Posted on July 27th, 2006 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Personal.

“Hi, I’m Ken and I have a thing about this water fountain”
—Hi Ken—
Guess I need a 12-step group.

I love this fountain and for some reason can’t resist shooting it every time I’m at Nazareth College…
I think it’s the color of the tiles, how vertical they are running all the way to the floor. Maybe it’s how the fountain gets more beat up each time I see it. Who knows.

And, bonus, I was able to get this shot, right by my fountain this week!

4 Comments (from my old Blog)

Lisa
I feel like it should have a “Vote for Pedro” sign hanging over it….
Thursday, July 27, 2006 - 09:49 PM

lidie girl
i like the dog. nice photos.
Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 05:02 PM

Travis
Hi, Ken. Your obvious love for this water fountain aside, I was wonderng if you could clear up a mystery for amateur digital photographers everywhere. If I shoot a picture and Photoshop tells me the photo is 180 DPI, can I alter that to 300 DPI without degrading the quality of the picture? The reason I would do this is if a printer said a photo should be 300 DPI to ensure print quality. Thanks for your advice.
Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 05:08 PM

Ken
Hey Travis. Excellent question.
I cover it in (boring) depth in the ‘Learn’ section of my main site www.HuthPhoto.com
the specific messages about DPI/PPI are here

…and I’ll update it to include your specific question about doing it in Photoshop.
cheers,
ken
Sunday, August 6, 2006 - 08:17 PM

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Roseland Water Park

Posted on July 25th, 2006 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Personal, Rochester NY.

It seems like our family is the guinea pigs on the whole Roseland Water Park thing in Canandaigua. Man, everyone is asking how we liked it and saying ‘We’ve thought of going, but never have…’
Roseland was great. A tad expensive for what it is, but they make up for it with little things… Lisa could go in and stomp around with Oliver for only $5 and Oliver was free. We were all able to eat a good burger meal for $18 total which was cheap. They have a nice variety of rides so that Lydia (only 8 and not too adventurous), even found a slide to enjoy. The wave pool was the biggest hit. Not really crowded at all. Nice small size so you could trust the kids being on a ride while you watched… Colin, Lydia and I got sunburned :-)

We’d definitely go again; the kids are already begging us to. It would be good to hook up with a few families, since the group rate is only like $11 instead of $18+.

They have a very informative web site HERE. We really could plan out what the kids wanted to try and knew about lockers ($5/day)… be warned, if Lisa couldn’t have kept some of our stuff with her, we never could have fit it all in one locker… maybe get two.

Lydia loved the Mammoth Raft Ride where you can have up to 4 people. It was cute seeing Colin and Lydia walking off hand-in-hand later for a solo ride…they are so close.

The Adventure River is a nice way to get started. It was cool that most of the rides you could also use double-person tubes.

Oliver did a bit in the Splash Factory and just loved splashing around. It would be nice to have a ‘big kid’ version of that. The cutoff was just over Lydia’s height and I’ve seen other places have those areas for big kids as well (but the separate one for Oliver’s ages is terrific).

So that’s my report. Shout if you are going and we’ll make a group, eh? Or post your opinion under the comments after you go.

lydie says:
the water park was great! they had wonderful food, wonderful rides and a wonderful gift shop! there is something for everybody.

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Ron & Margaret are Hitched

Posted on July 17th, 2006 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Personal.


Saturday was a great day for Ron, Margaret & Annie. I’ll be posting more photos over time, but since they snuck off to the Catskills for a week (and Ron without a computer!), it will be a bit later in the week.
It was fun to use my Publication Shooter skills to capture the event. Ron had another photographer booked, but they had to leave the country suddenly (OK, I’m just being dramatic, they are going on a church missions trip that turned into a full blown video job) and so I helped out by taking the photos.
I knew Ron & Margaret were happy, but they just glowed on Saturday… and Anne was vibrating with excitement.
God Bless the Cronks in their new family!

OK, Ron’s still a *bit* wired… he just e-mailed me from his phone that he’s shot a couple of gigs of nature photos so far on his honeymoon.

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Delivery Guy Rumble

Posted on July 12th, 2006 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Apple, Podcasts, ApertureCast, PhotoJava.

(Or how I got my Podcast mic)

Whew, we just averted a major incident here in little Williamson. The FedX guy and the UPS guy both delivered to the house at the same time!
I shouted for them to remain calm and not start a gang turf war.
They were cool about my acting like an idiot and the best part is they delivered Colin’s big Lego order and better still, my Blue Microphone.
ApertureCast here I come.

By the way, if you are the Avon Lady that had her box left in the rain in Wolcott… it was neither of these guys.
Must be DHL ;-)

Some Comments from my old Blog about this post:
Travis
Hi, Ken. Nice Web site. It appears you’re using the iWeb program to create and publish Web pages on a Mac. I recently bought a Mac and started playing with the iWeb software - are you pleased with it?

Also, it appears that your iWeb pages are presented cohesively as part of your huthphoto Web site. I didn’t feel as if I’d left your professional site and gone to a .mac site to view your family pages. If you integrated .mac pages with your professional Web site, how did you do it?

For instance, here:

I’d like to have my main page hosted, say, by Yahoo!, which then would point to .mac pages, but I was concerned it would be too abrupt to be cohesive. You seem to have mastered that problem!
Friday, July 14, 2006 - 09:45 AM

Ken
Hi Travis, thanks so much for checking the site and blog out (and the nice comments too.)
I use RapidWeaver for the main frame of the site (it’s a Mac only program that makes it easy to create very nice sites using CSS)
http://www.realmacsoftware.com/

RapidWeaver lets you create a pretty flexible kind of frame around any external page. So, you are right, you caught me using Apple’s iWeb for my kids sites and this blog. I use iWeb because of the awesome look of the pages and control of the Blog. For the kids, it’s easy to use and totally hooks them up with iPhoto for photo galleries and GarageBand for Podcasts.

RapidWeave comes with ‘themes’ like PowerPoint or Keynote, so it’s extremely easy to change the look of your site, and not to look too cookie-cutter like other template sites.

Enjoy the new Mac and shout again with any questions. Post the link to your site here when you get it online, so we all can check it out.
cheers,
Ken
Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 10:50 PM

Ken
One more thing… companies are coming out all the time with themes for RW like this:
Elixer Graphics

So you can pick amazing looking themes for around $10-$20.

Also, RW has is just releasing version 3.5 in Beta, so it keeps getting better and better.
Saturday, July 15, 2006 - 11:06 PM

Travis
Hi, Ken. Thanks very much for the information regarding RapidWeaver! That was a new one to me, so I read about it, and purchased it. I’m having all kinds of fun working with it, trying to learn it from the beginnng. It looks really easy to use.

Why is it that I always seem to stumble upon these cool software applications at the end of the weekend? Thanks again for the great tip, and I’ll be back with more questions before you know it.
Sunday, July 16, 2006 - 07:27 PM

lidie girl
hey dad! nice thingy.
Tuesday, August 1, 2006 - 05:00 PM

MicMan Ken
Now I’m using my cool new mic for Podcasts!

(geeks can skip this section)

What’s a Podcast? Its an easy, internet way to get audio and video info to people… kind of like internet radio that you can subscribe to and have delivered to your computer daily.
Please check out the Podcasts link at the top of this page to see how you can listen online or subscribe.
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 - 02:40 PM

Travis
Hi, Ken. I enjoyed listening to your podcast. The technology is mind-boggling these days. If I didn’t have an actual job, I’d stay home all day and master these software options!

A question about your Blue Snowball mic… Is that what you used for the podcast? What are your thoughts about the mic? I’ve read lots of praise, but also lots of criticism about regular voice recording with the mic - people saying the playback level is too soft… apparently Blue is coming up with some sort of software patch.

One last question to get a handle on the quality of your podcast audio. Were you using a pop filter? Thanks!
Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 10:17 AM

Ken
I really love the Blue Snowball. If anything, I think it’s too loud and I have to keep it down in the setup (on Mac, under System Prefs/Sound I had to lower it to the mid-level default setting, compared to my previous (Griffin Lav mic)
I think the sound quality is similar to pro mics I’ve used at radio stations. Really wonderful and rich.

I still haven’t totally figured out the best sound. I didn’t use a pop-screen, but plan to fake one (the pantyhose on hanger trick!). I tried not to pop and had the mic a bit to one side. I use Garageband to record and the ‘Radio voice Male’ is the setting I choose.

I’ve searched for a better mic for ages, and when I had the Apple $$ they rebated us early Aperture adopters, I jumped at the chance to get the snowball from the Apple store.
It’s also very versatile, with 3 switchable settings. I prefer #1 (the cartoid, not Omni) for voice.

Oh, and I do see an update on their site

Thanks for asking! Tell your friends about the podcast. The client one will be out by the end of the week and I’ll get iTunes listing.
Thursday, August 10, 2006 - 10:35 AM

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Bus-Ted

Posted on July 10th, 2006 by HuthPhoto.
Categories: Shoots, Photoshop.

I just wrapped up (no pun intended) the YMCA bus wrap project.
I think that Carrie Greno (formerly of Normal Communications) did a terrific job on the graphic design. She worked to amplify the logo and ‘seasons’ concept that Patti Keirsbilck created for the Y’s annual report.
The wrap includes 17 of my recent images for the Y. It’ll be fun seeing that driving around Rochester for the next few months… only wish HuthPhoto.com could be on their somewhere!


Bus wraps are like billboards. They print low-res (since you don’t put your nose up to them like a 4×6” snapshot), but they’re still HUGE… I mean, the size of a bus, pretty much. So the specs were minimum 80” high @ 75 PPI… Files were around 156 megs.
Add a comment when you see one and let me know what you think.

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