Sunday, January 30, 2005

Schenley Park near CMU

Sunny day, on my way to skibo gym playing basketball.







Unsharp Mask(USM)

Experience value of USM in ps (from http://article.xitek.com/showarticle.php?id=2098)

Generally, portrait: .2-.3 radius, landscape: .7-.8 radius

Radius Amount Max
.2 100 500
.3 80 300
.5 50 170
1 20 90
2 10 50



Friday, January 28, 2005

Ahwa's Birthday Party

-- excerpted from ahwa's invitation mail. :)

Following are the presentations of the night:

1. real time gossiping via Internet (presented by H., Zhong et. al.)
2. the optimized solution of whipping an egg (presented by Y. Gu et. al.)
3. **** dacing and fitness (presented by Y. Li et. al.)
4. guideline of latest entertainment (presented by S. Sun et. al.)
5. how are we going to mop our floor (presented by H. Yan et. al.)
6. Two ways of being run into when dating (Part A: how to be run into when dating at daytime)
7. Two ways of being run into when dating (Part B: how to be run into when dating at night)
(both presented by the special guest Y. Jiang)
The special program is going to be celebrating the birthday of ahwa, which will have been passed for 4 days, in case you don't know. Please go to kitchen and hit your head 6 times if you don't know who the heck ahwa is.
Drinks and food for refreshment will be served. Dancing pad, Karaoke machine, vidoe game console and cards will be provided. You are not required to attend but your presence will be highly recommended and appreciated.
To simply summerize:

WHAT TO DO: basiclly just come. However, you are welcome to bring any food or drink which is about to expire or any entertainment device you are not worrying about being smashed by enthusiastic guys like Roi. No dish is allowed because no dinner will be served. (The very kind host Hong and Yang seriously demand me emphasize this.)

please reply the email or call 412-xxx-xxxx if you have any questions or want to donate.
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Ahwa and his gf.
小二黑结婚?

他家表叔?

Which girl are you looking at?

丁香花?



喝高了吧

慢点吃,这里头还多着呢

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麻姑献寿?


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热舞中,那么,爱呢

Sunday, January 23, 2005

hoho, it is time for Portrait Practice.

Finally it was a sunny day after a snowy night. Both girls, Shen, Yanna and Xu, Jie are my roomies. They are from cs@pitt and are really hardworking Ph.D students, ;)
All pictures were taken with nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens.






The one below was shot a week ago in a cloudy afternoon. You may notice it was snowing then.

Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Cool Ski Photography Links!

Monday, January 17, 2005

Snow

Today is Martin Luther King Day. Here are a few shots at the top of Schenley Park. A lot of children are playing there with their parents.












Saturday, January 15, 2005

Sport & Action Photography links

Ping Pong Shots...

Yan, Hong (in white, pen-hold grip), my roommate, does well in varied and heavily spun service, fast attack and close-table defense. Guo, Wei (in black, hand-shake grip), my friend in ece@cmu, is good at backhand stroke and forehand long drive. Both are strong ping pong players to fight with. :) We played on Saturday evening at University Center.

The first 3 were taken by Nikon D70, 50mm f/1.8 lens, iso 640

Close-table chop.

hehe, a good chance for forehand long drive.

The one below was taken by Lens 50mm f/1.8, iso 200
Nice backhand!

The others were taken by Lens: 18-70mm F/3.5-4.5 G, iso 1600
Two wide angle shots.


End of a drive?

Kong Fu? hehe


Winner's smile?