Got my new Iphone 5
I stayed up until midnight last Friday to get my order in right away for my new white Iphone 5 before they ran out. Well I got one of those limited Iphones and they ran out of pre-orders within about 45 minutes. Last night I was in Chicago and there was a line around the block at the Iphone store there. Here is a little video of me unboxing the iPhone 5. I got the white color because I have had the black Iphones for so many years that I wanted to try something new. My first look at the phone and it is really nice. I think Apple did really good with this one.
Back from Chicago
Just got back after a week in Chicago. I was there for work. It is a really beautiful city. I took this shot from the Willis Tower which used to be called the Sears Tower. This place was surprisingly beautiful from the top floor. I will be posting more pictures later as I go through them, just wanted to post a few along the river front. It certainly is a beautiful city with some of the best architecture of any city that I have been to.
Funny videos
I have been doing a few silly video’s lately. Since I haven’t had time to take a lot of photographs this week, I thought I would put a couple of them up.
This first one we did last week when we gave Geno his present which was a world record peanut butter and jelly sandwich
This one was a funny little video of Halsey (my niece) who made the funniest Three Stooges face. We turned it into a little funny video and it just cracks me up
And this one was some long lost footage of me taken by my dad. He took some old film of me playing violin and it didn’t sound so good.
Some black and white portraits of Geno
I haven’t been taking enough black and white photographs lately and that’s a shame because I really love black and white photography. Well Geno came to the rescue and provided me a great opportunity to take some black and white photos of him. You actually never shoot in black and white anymore now that film is gone so I guess the only thing that I am doing is processing the photos with some black and white software that I purchased. It’s called Silver EFEX Pro and it’s pretty much the best software that you can out there for black and white processing.
Geno, as always has been a great model.
Make your photos look like Instagram
Everyone loves Instagram. Instagram became extremely popular because they developed a standard set of filters that could instantly be applied to photographs taken on a smart phone and make them appear to be very vintage and cool. They basically created the Polaroid of the new generation by making people’s smart phones like polaroid cameras. Instead of waiting for the cool photos to be developed however , those little heavily retro’d square photos could be shared with everyone on the internet. Some professional photographers feel that Instagram debases photography by making even crappy photos look good. I disagree however and think that Instagram is very powerful because it gives people a way of capturing their memories in a beautiful way.
I created a quick tutorial that you can use to help achieve that Instagram look in photoshop for all your other photos. It’s a simple 3 step process that anybody can do with virtually any picture to make it look more vintage and cool.
Sea Lane Skimboard
Sunset was beautiful tonight. The beach was calm. The tourist have left. The locals have the beach all to themselves again.
Oceanside
The last beach stop north out of San Diego is the beautiful city of Oceanside. Oceanside is north, north San Diego and just south of Camp Pendleton where Marines train. Oceanside was packed today as people were taking advantage of the last day of summer. The pier in Oceanside is the longest pier in California and it stretches out about a half mile into the Pacific. Oceanside is another great San Diego beach.
Church Mouse Marlin Invitational Aerial Photos
The 22nd Church Mouse Marlin Invitational just finished in Catalina this last weekend and it was a massive success. Bill McKenna, my brother and owner of Sea Hunt Yacht which is moored in Catalina took some aerial photos of various boats that participated in this annual event.
If you participated in the tournament, congratulations. If we managed to catch your vessel on the final day, you can find your photos by paging through the gallery link below. The full resolution photos can be downloaded by selecting the download icon which appears on the right hand side of the photo. Enjoy.
http://www.frankiefoto.com/People/Church-Mouse-Marlin-Tournament/25128690_3LBK5F
