Moving on from SparkFun Electronics 08/04/2010
I really enjoyed my time working at SparkFun Electronics, learning tons about embedded electronics, open source hardware and software, UAVs, Arduino, programming and the DIY electronics community. I will miss working in an office with arcade buttons on the front desk, a tweeting kegerator, automated nerf gun with an infrared trip-wire, LED Tetris board, a Giant GPS wall clock, and has a dog to person ratio of about 1:7. Most of all I will miss all the great people still working there and hope to collaborate with them again in the future.
SparkFun definitely lived up to it's name by sparking my interest in electronic prototyping, open source hardware & software, and most importantly the confidence to believe I can make anything I dream up.
My only regret is that I was hired to be a photographer/videographer instead of a job that allowed me work full-time creating electronic and/or software projects.
I'm now hoping to find a career that allows me to actively work on creative human-computer interfaces that push the limits of what people thought was possible.
SparkFun definitely lived up to it's name by sparking my interest in electronic prototyping, open source hardware & software, and most importantly the confidence to believe I can make anything I dream up.
My only regret is that I was hired to be a photographer/videographer instead of a job that allowed me work full-time creating electronic and/or software projects.
I'm now hoping to find a career that allows me to actively work on creative human-computer interfaces that push the limits of what people thought was possible.
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Currently working on a little experiment combining a multi-touch screen showing an After Effects animation, taking a shot of each frame, then doing the same with the same scene lit with a softbox. Then combining and inverting the projected image in After Effects.
Kinda looks like a large animated e-ink display. More to come later.
Kinda looks like a large animated e-ink display. More to come later.
Practical Arduino Cover Photo 03/15/2010
Just realized I shot the image being using on the cover of a book called Practical Arduino. I forgot all about it until I saw the book in SparkFun's break room.
FreeDay at SparkFun 11/25/2009
Had fun today at work shooting the FreeDay Banner for SparkFun.com. Thanks TJ for always being willing to be photographed.
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Exposure Tunnel 09/26/2008
Using a projector, wireless strobes, and a Canon 5D camera tethered to a mac book pro, the Exposure Tunnel Experiment shows a time lapse of every previous exposure projected in the background.
The projected area was about 12' wide by 7' tall, guests to the gallery would walk in front of the projections and see a tunnel of all of the previous exposures.
What I didn't realize would happen is the interaction between exposures and that people would use the sequence of exposures to make it look like they were moving. Also it was really interesting to people to scroll back and forth in time to see who had been in the photos previously, that seemed to give people a lot of confidence to jump into the strange projection and become the next exposure in the tunnel.
If I were to do this again, I would use spotlights with a narrower beam and black out all of the ambient light with black curtains so that there was no light spill. I believe it would look a lot richer as it did in real life and it would be fun to have the guests trigger the flashes.
The projected area was about 12' wide by 7' tall, guests to the gallery would walk in front of the projections and see a tunnel of all of the previous exposures.
What I didn't realize would happen is the interaction between exposures and that people would use the sequence of exposures to make it look like they were moving. Also it was really interesting to people to scroll back and forth in time to see who had been in the photos previously, that seemed to give people a lot of confidence to jump into the strange projection and become the next exposure in the tunnel.
If I were to do this again, I would use spotlights with a narrower beam and black out all of the ambient light with black curtains so that there was no light spill. I believe it would look a lot richer as it did in real life and it would be fun to have the guests trigger the flashes.
