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		<title>Creative Vision: An Exhibition on Vision and Perception</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:38:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[San Joaquin Delta College in Stockton, CA just completed an exhibit of blind and visually-impaired artists in Creative Vision: An Exhibition on Vision and Perception. At the College&#8217;s Delta Center for the Arts, Creative Vision: is ran from February 26 to March 27, 2009. Note from the Gallery Director, Jan Marlese: I first became aware of artists working with vision impairments through one of the exhibiting artists, Mr. Scott Nelson, through his work as founder and curator of the touring exhibition, Art of the Eye. Following in my mentor’s footsteps, this exhibition presents the art of blind and visually impaired artists working in a variety of mediums. The concept of the exhibition is to illustrate the influence vision impairments have on the artists’ creative processes. What may appear to be works of art about restricted vision is ultimately seen to be enhanced expressions of available sight, visual memory, imagination, and dreams. Limitations from the artists’ vision impairments are presented as an important, creative force—breaking the barriers visually impaired artists have faced to be defined by their work, not by their disability. The exhibition presents learning opportunities that support serious consideration of the importance of seeing differently. That vision exists beyond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Computer Access Tip: Use a Black Background</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A fun way to liven up your computer screen is to add a favorite photo as the desktop background. The problem is the your family portrait or pet collage make the icons difficult to make out and the text hard to read. Moving to a solid color background, such as black, makes for a boring, but easily understood screen. In Windows Vista, you can easily set the background to a solid black. In the Personalization control panel, the desktop background option shows the foloowing screen, where you can selct a &#8216;solid background&#8216; color: Both Windows XP and Mac OS offer similar background settings, though XP does nto offer a simple solid color option. A simple workaround is to take a picture with your camera lens completely covered. The resulting photo is a simple black picture that you can set as your background image. This tip also works for any device where you can set a background image, including your computer and most cell phones. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Do You Dislike Notepad? Go for EditPad Instead.Save Energy, Save Eyestrain &#8211; Try a Different Color SchemeHigh Contrast and Dark-on-Light [...]]]></description>
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		<title>slideshow &#124; up in flames</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 00:45:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is s slideshow from my firefighter training shoot. Seven more images will be added over the next week. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:tim in print: Fighting Fireslideshow &#124; Summer Softball PlayoffsFighting Fire with Photographyslideshow &#124; my personal favoritesslideshow: Youth Triathlon]]></description>
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		<title>Sight of Emotion Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Sight of Emotion project displays hotography by blind and visually impaired people. AIM: To aid blind and visually impaired communities to create a dialogue with the seeing world, creating awareness and educating public audiences of the needs and experiences of the visually disabled. I do not know what the status of the project, though I know that they put on an exhibit in Cardiff last fall. The gallery has some nice images. Check it out. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Sensory Photography: Exhibit and SlideshowBlind Photographers: The New York Times on Kurt Weston and Blind PhotographyBlind Visitors Photography Project @ Victoria and Albert Museumblind photographersThe Seeing My Images Project]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing iPhone Maps: Accessibility of the iPhone Maps App</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google Maps is a great thing. There is no question about it. But it is not perfect. Surprisingly, it suffers from the same gripe I have with map books and atlases. I can not read the print. It is simply too small, no matter how much you zoom in. This is true both on a computer and on an iPhone. On a PC, the proper balance of Full page and text zoom can help, but there is no similar solution on the iPhone. As you can see here, no matter how much I zoom into Chapel Hill in the iPhone&#8217;s Maps app, the text size stays tiny. The screen stays uncluttered, but I am still lost. How could this be fixed? One option is to to allow for adjustable font sizes. If a cluttered map with overlapping text a serious issue, how about some kind of pop-up box when a street is tapped? There must be a creative solution out there. Google just needs to find and implement it. Until then, iPhone maps are just some pretty pictures for me. Hmmm&#8230; That last sentence gave me an idea for a workaround. Screenshots, where you take a picture of what is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Me. Moody.</title>
		<link>http://www.timobrienphotos.com/2009/03/me-moody/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in an odd humor this afternoon. I took my camera out, which I have not done in a while, to try and capture the mood, so to speak. As usual, it did not work out as planned. My tripod and light stand were in the parking lot at my wife&#8217;s work in the trunk of our car. The camera remote trigger is missing. But I persevered. I got one decent image before I surrendered. I used Lightroom&#8217;s Clarity control to generate these three versions. Which works for you. I had my Vivitar on a chair in front of me bouncing off a biege board. I used an optical trigger with an on-camer diffused sb400 at low power. Not a perfect setting, but wht can you do? The glasses are my thick low vision reading glasses and the wires are my headphones. I never go much of anywhere without either of them. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Mebane OuttakesSportsplex OuttakesCombine Line JumpMore Wildcat Outtakestim&#8217;s portfolio]]></description>
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		<title>Accessing Twitter from the iPhone</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 14:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twitter calls itself a a microbloogging service. What the heck is a microblog? Basically, it is a mix of blogging, text messaging and emailing. The New York Times&#8217; David Pogue offere his take on Twitter in Twitter? It’s What You Make It. Pogue is right. Twitter is in the eye of the beholder, so to speak. I will delve no further into Twitterology. Twitter accessibility has attracted much attention. There are a multitude of ways to access Twitter from your desktop. The most obvious is through the Twitter web site, but there are dozens of widget, apps and plug ins that do the job, each with it own accessibility issue. A popular new access point is through Accessible Twitter, which has a clean, screen-reader-friendly interface. How accessible is Twitter on the iPhone? Besides receiving tweets as expensive text messages, there are multiple iPhone apps that access your Twitter stream as well as Twitter&#8217;s mobile web site. Here, I will compare the accessibility of two of the more popular iPhone apps, Twitteriffic and TwitterFon, with that of the mobile web site. TwitterFon, as you can see in the first image, has a fairly standard visual look with black font on a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Insights 2009 Call For Artists</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The LightHouse is currently call for submissions to its 20th Insights exhibition. &#8220;The LightHouse is accepting up to five submissions of original works by artists who are blind or visually impaired for consideration for Insights 2009.&#8221; Submissions are due by Friday, April 24, 2009. Chosen entries will be shown in Fall 2009 at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery&#8217;s &#8216;Art in City Hall&#8217; program. Artwork for consideration can include, but is not limited to: paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture and mixed media pieces. Distinguished jurors will select work from all two and three-dimensional media except video. Touchable art is encouraged. Works will be selected on the basis of original concept, expressive use of media and artistic excellence. Learn more and find the artist application at the Insights 2009 exhibition page. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:Lighthouse&#8217;s Insights Shows off Art by the BlindEnter the APH InSights Art Competition2010 InSights Art CompetitionFYI: Shared Visions Art Exhibit 2009-2010 Call for EntriesCreative Vision: An Exhibition on Vision and Perception]]></description>
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		<title>Model-morphosis @ NYTimes.com</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times blog,]]></description>
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		<title>Wrestling in the Paper</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wrestling marathon that I blogged about last night in Wrestling Outtakes paid off. The best image from the last match I shot made it into this morning&#8217;s paper in black and white. The original color version is below. In this shot, Corey Mock, headed for a fourth straight state championship, dominates the championship match in his weight class. Mock pinned down Sanderson&#8217;s Justin McElreath to win the 135 pound weight class. The image is still too dark for me, despite some work in LightRoom. You can see Corey&#8217;s face, despite the angling away, so it was a keeper. I submitted two other photos for consideration. This one features Chapel Hill High&#8217;s Joshua Craig wrestling Leesville Road&#8217;s Trevor Kamens in the championship match of his weight class. Craig took second place. The wrestlers are overexposed relative to the background and it is a bit grainy, but otherwise not too bad. In this last image, Devin Solow of Chapel Hill wrestles into third place in the 112 pound weight class. Solow beat Patrick Waivers of JH Rose in a 3-0 decision in the final match of the consolation bracket. The idea behind this was to capture the intensity of the moment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Basketball Lens: Wide or Long?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:12:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I still have not figured out which of my two lenses is best for shooting basketball games. I have now shot two b-ball assignments, a game last November and one this past week. I have used both of my lense, changing them hurriedly every fifteen minutes or so. I have the two most basic Nikon lenses for the D40x, the Nikon 55-200mm f4-5.6G ED AF-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens and the kit lens, the Nikon 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED AF-S DX Nikkor Zoom Lens. The wider lens is better when the player are under the net, but not so good at any distance. As you can see here, the wider lens requires too much cropping. Cropped images have too much grain at high ISOs in these dim conditions. With the wide lens, it is also difficult to capture the emotional moments. You may want to catch that close up, but you can not get on the court. The longer lens gets action that is further away. With this lens, there is less need to crop the image later. On the filp side, some of the action is almost always cut off in the frame. Also, with one strobe, I often find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildcats v. Falcons: Cheering</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While shooting the women&#8217;s basketball game last week (see Wildcats v. Falcons in the Paper), I took of few pictures of the cheerleading squads. Despite not having thrown enough light their way, several shots came out reasonably well. This one above is the best of the cheerleader series. It is popular on Flickr as well, though possibly not for the same reasons. I wish I had more separation in the top half, but the light works for the bottom havlf of the imae. Ther is good color contrast and vertical and horizontal lines that catch the eye. The dark uniforms do not stand out well in this shot against the dark panel on the wall. The cluttered backgroud does not help here either. I kept swiveling the light stand in the second half, hoping to get this shot right. It proved to difficult to adjust the lighting for the cheering squad in the stands and still have it back when the ball returned to the near half  of the court. I will return to this puzzle in a later post. This final image is my second favorite cheer photo. There is something about the Faclon squad&#8217;s unifrom that created some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iPhone Tap Dance: Just Tap (Twice) to Zoom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:34:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The NY Times offere a great iPhone (or iPod Touch) trick in their Tip of the Week: Easier iPhone Zooming: While the iPhone’s Safari Web browser can bring the full versions of most sites right to the palm of your hand, it can be a pain to pinch and spread your fingers all over the screen to make the tiny text legible. To zoom in more efficiently, just tap twice on a column or section of text to zoom in and tap twice again to zoom back out. Unable to resist the temptation, I grabbed my iPod Touch and tried it out. Success! I thought I would share the tip and add some value of my own. Here are some before and after screen shots using the web site from my local paper, the Chapel Hill News. After tapping twice on the left column, the screen conveniently zooms in to column width. This is an idea that someone out to implement as a Firefox plugin. Seriously. [More on this idea tomorrow.] Read more about iPhone accessibility here. P.S. Taking screen shots on the iPhone is surprisingly easy. Just click on the sleep button while holding the home button down. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wildcats v. Falcons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:17:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned a couple of days ago, I shot a local high school women&#8217;s basketball game last night. The assignment, for the Chapel Hill News, was to shoot the East Chapel Hill Women Wildcats&#8217; basketball game at Jordan High on 2/6/09. ECH won easily, taking them one step closer to the league championship. The editors have the best shots from the day. Once they put the paper out, I will post those shots up here. In the meanwhile, I have a few outtakes. I shot an ECH men&#8217;s b-ball game for the News just before Thanksgiving. I have learned a few lessons, but have just barely scratched the surface. In the image above, the Jordan High Falcons honor the national anthem prior to the start of the game. Fortunately for this shot, though the assignment was to shoot the other team, I had set my Vivitar 285HV on stand at the corner by the stands, which gave me enough light in the right area to get this shot. Despite the fact that luck had me in the right area to catch this moment, experience with this type of assignment would have put me in the right place as well. [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Out of all the shots that I have taken, this is one of my all-time favorites . We were sitting at a restaurant with wonderful floor-to-ceiling windows. My niece sat across from me and we were at the end of the table next to the windows. While the family was chatting, I pulled out the camera and started shooting. I caught my niece here in profile, looking out the window. I tweaked the image on the computer, darkening the photo, to remove the distracting background. This was the end result. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.Related Posts:tim o&#8217;brien photostim&#8217;s portfolioB&#38;W Profile ReduxShooting an EscuincleThanks Given]]></description>
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