Photography: Getting close

An early lesson of being a yearbook photographer in high school was the need to get close to our subjects. I spent far too many hours trying to salvage a close crop from a photo I'd taken from too far away. In the days of B&W film photography there was only so much latitude if you wanted the whole book to have the same look photo to photo. This weekend I had the opportunity to do some photography while underway for the Flotilla 73 Crew/Coxswain academy and tried to focus on the close shot. 

There is one big advantage I have when framing these shots... we have our organization name emblazoned across the back of our life jackets, exposure coveralls, and SAR vests.

Applying vinyl decals

It has been two years since I created my original vinyl application video (http://bit.ly/div7vinyl) and it is time for an update. Hope you find this useful.

Make 8760 (2013:2239): A decal for my MacBook

A few weeks ago Nilofer Merchant [@nilofer] posted a photo of Mitch Joel's [@mitchjoel] "Talk to me about" TED button. Mitch listed "you", "your art", "how I can help" in the provided spaces. It really captures a great spirt of generosity and collaboration. I replicated the thought on my laptop.

At least a dozen great thoughts from John Seely Brown

Long form video

I usually try to keep my videos down to under two minutes. Long videos loose viewer attention quickly. I do find it useful to video longer form presentations for self critique and to for use of participants as a reference. Here is one example from our District Meeting in late February. This was my first time out with a new presentation and new messaging. Room for improvement but overall it went well.