我不禁想问：你们中间有谁看的多数为网络视频？有线电视几年前咱就不看了，现在基本上都是在网上看电视：Google TV, Roku, 还有 Apple TV。虽然没有一站式的服务，不过已经不赖了。你对这种视频革新怎么看？你又是怎么玩的呢?
这条路我已经走了N多次了，不过之前一般都是在早上，而且是从纳帕开往佩塔卢马。一般都是先睡在妈妈家，然后再去找Leo Laporte做节目。这回呢，恰恰相反(嘿嘿，有点吧…但我木有和Leo睡哈)：先做节目，然后开车去纳帕找妈咪吃饭。
Tom跟我一同去，两个人目光犀利四处搜寻漂亮的日落景色，路过此处时我总算瞅到了好机会，两个人赶忙抄家伙跳下车……
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就在今晚！很多人都希望它能成为一档定期节目，现在终于实现啦！
演播室实在太酷了！在那里有着不同的“布景”，用以制作不同的节目。这张圆桌就是Leo Laporte制作其多档主要节目的地方，比如： This Week in Tech, MacBreak Weekly, This Week in Google等等。他经常就近随机邀请一些人进演播间观看现场制作过程，有那么多奇形怪状的设备，肯定也有意思极了！
就在当天，我妈妈来当观众(之前还给走丢了，多亏Tony解救她！)。她来时带了好多软糖，大家都乐坏了……还从Leo那里得到个大大的拥抱
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非常荣幸能将我们的节目带上Leo Laporte的TWIT！自打Screen Saver开始我就是Leo的忠实粉丝。简直太难以置信了。他的新节目取得了巨大的成功，而他的团队也成功打造了未来主流。
什么是 TWIT Live？它们每周推出超过40小时的直播视频，收看观众每月达400亿。有大家的帮助，也许我们也能参与其中。
“老Trey露一手”第19弹是否怀念我们的第19弹在线节目？我们一同展望了单反与无反射镜相机的未来。很精彩的一期……你也可以到我的YouTube频道瞅瞅之前的节目。现在又上了TWIT，我想我必须更上一层楼啦！ 第19弹请来了Zack Arias还有 Frederick Van Johnson，他们都来自This Week in Photo；还有来自CameraLabs.com 的Gordon Laing，来自凯尔比传媒的 RC Concepcion，来自Life Through The Lens的Kelli Seeger Kim还有来自数码摄影学院的James Brandon。 再次感谢 Dave Veffer出任制作，以及Keith Barrett制作的分享！
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几周前我去了佩塔卢马，在那里拜访了Leo，还参加了他那档由Catherine Hall主持的节目。和往常一样，这是经历十分愉快。我提前到达制作间，为的是拍些他录制MacBreak Weekly with Alex Lindsey and Andy Ihnatko 的照片(又是一档值得放上博客的节目)。这里奉上分享第一弹。
明晚敬请期待“老Trey露一手”第20弹……本人准备了特殊猛料哦！
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This was shot with a Nikon D3S and the Nikon 50mm 1.4 Lens. This particular one was shot at f/5.6 (f/1.4 would have made the sign blurry beyond recognition). Other particulars are: ISO 800, 1/500 sec exposure.
EDIT: See the video recorded here.
On Sunday, tune in to live.twit.tv and join up the chat (click Popout Chat at the bottom) to join in the fun! I’ll be answering photography questions, HDR stuff, and the like.
I’ll be on with Leo Laporte on his big show, The Tech Guy, which goes to over 100 US Cities and XM Satellite. Leo is a real photography enthusiast — plus, he’s cool because he’s into a lot of my other interest areas of science/tech/emergent sociology/etc. If you are looking for some good podcasts, check out some from his network!
For those of you that don’t know, Leo has established an incredible lineup of podcasts, all of which eminate from this unassuming cottage in Petaluma, California. I’ve been over to the cottage twice, and I grabbed a few photos on my most recent trip.
Most of his guests come in via video skype, but sometimes they come there to the cottage. I was on The Tech Guy a few weeks ago, and while I was there, I took these photos.
In the larger one down below, you can see some of the fudge my mom made for Leo. She said, “He seems like a very nice man.”
And he is! You always wonder… if these people are actually jerks in real life. But he isn’t… just as nice as your instincts hope he is. It’s a good indicator that talent + good karma is a winning combination for the future. Back in the olden days (especially in media), talent and good karma were practically useless. Now, thanks to the internet, clever guys like Leo have no need to succumb to the Machiavellian nonsense of corporate media structures. Even better, he has a direct feedback loop to the audience he serves. Smart.
This photo below is a 5-exposure HDR. It was shot with a Nikon D3X (see my Nikon D3X Review) in aperture priority. The five shots were at -2, -1, 0, +1, and +2. Of course, Leo was moving around betwixt the exposures, so there are some tricks to fix that. It’s all there inside the free HDR Tutorial.
But you don’t need a big expensive camera like that to make HDRs. I have good/better/best suggestions on my HDR Camera recommendations page.
Chat Room friends who like all the details can click to zoom into the original sized version. Just click on the "O" (for Original) on the top of the SmugMug page.
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Are you just getting into photography and want to see how to take some HDR Photos? I have a bunch here on the site! Just check out the HDR Videos link here and there are several to choose from.
I know many people want to see my actual workflow, and we do have that coming up soon in the HDR DVD. It’s getting closer and closer to release!
This is the second photo I have released from Petaluma. I stopped there while visiting my mom up in Napa. I didn’t get to spend a lot of time in the little quirky town, but I did take an hour or so to randomly walk around the town and find interesting bits.
Taking photos near ground-water can be very interesting. And hard! Getting near that puddle is tough because you have to splay out the tripod. Even worse, you gotta kneel down in the muck (since puddles usually involve nearby muck). But, these are all relatively high-grade problems, all in all.
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If you are like me, you don’t have a lot of spare time in the week, so you try to hyper-compress and optimize your media consumption. To that end, I now listen to a few podcasts on a regular basis. You can subscribe to them all via iTunes for free, or go right to the webpages below. I have many that I sample from time to time, but the following are some great “regulars”.
When I was there, I grabbed a quick photo that I put in this previous post about visiting Petaluma.
A few days after the talk at Google (I think the Authors@Google *LINK to video are adding subtitles now, for those of you that have trouble hearing), I went up to Napa to visit my mom and my grandmother. Besides getting a bunch of homemade fudge (which I brought to the Stanford photowalk), I also stopped on the way back south in Petaluma at Leo Laporte’s “cottage”.
I’ve always been a big fan of Leo’s! Beside just seeing out of one eye (a strange bond I feel with him), I’ve really gotten a kick out of the way he approaches and discusses technology. In fact, I listen to his podcasts so much that my wife often says, “If I have to hear that Leo ONE MORE TIME, before jamming the radio to get off AUX to FM.”
Leo was in the middle of a podcast when I walked in to watch his operation in person. We didn’t really get a chance to talk, but he was gracious and said hello quickly while in the middle of the broadcast. I think he’s very clever with his media powerhouse there. I was fascinated seeing the operation — everything from the logistics to the electronics – smart.
His whole team was out in the front part of the college, and, while there, I also met Dr. Kiki (Dr. Kirsten Sanford is probably what it says on her degree). She was as nice as I expected as well – her show is called “Dr. Kiki’s Science Hour” — another nice podcast for your lineup!
After leaving, I stopped in downtown Petaluma to grab some lunch and some internet. Whilst there, I went over one of the bridges to grab this shot. I don’t know if the water is always this brown and muddy, but it certainly was this day!
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