HDR of the view from the house
06:55 PM on Friday 27 September 2013
Did a HDR using Nik HDR Efex Pro 2 which I recently brought as part of the Nik collection for HDR work. With Photoshop on the cloud and on a subscription basis, I wanted to move away from expensive Photoshop and Google was having a special for the entire Nik collection. So I brought that and the HDr ...
More macro fun
06:52 PM on Friday 27 September 2013
Had another play with the macro len. This time with the dinosaur that I made using clay and my watch. Played about with effects provided by Nik collection.
Listing the packages on a debian based system
11:23 AM on Friday 27 September 2013
Having a couple of Ubuntu servers around for testing and development means that their packages can get out of sync and cause problems. Use the following command to list out the packages so that they can be synced. For details and more information, see http://askubuntu.com/questions/17823/how-to- ...
Day at Bukit Batok Nature Park
09:02 PM on Tuesday 24 September 2013
Went to Bukit Batok Nature Park with the kids to get some fresh air. Took some photos along the way.
Parallelization in R
08:16 PM on Tuesday 17 September 2013
I have been having pretty large data set for statistical testing recently. Large as in millions of comparisons which is really taking a lot of time. In the past, I have used plyr and the doMC parallelization backend. That took a lot of time. The tests themselves seem to finish fast enough, but the a ...
Loop
08:07 PM on Monday 16 September 2013
Loop is a iPad app that allows one to create simple animated GIFs like the ones we used to do on our textbook pages. Esther created the one below of a bouncing ball. I created the one below of a badminton match. Isn't it cool. The best part is that it is really simple. Kids should have no problems ...
Evil bird
12:38 PM on Sunday 15 September 2013
I was hopping to catch this bird in flight so I waited with the camera aiming at him. But it seems to know and refuses to take off for the longest time. And when it did, I missed the shot :-( So what I had was couple of test shots of the bird and I thought that I might as well make the best of it.
Colorful staircases
12:36 PM on Sunday 15 September 2013
Ever noticed the colorful staircases at Bugis? Wife and I only noticed them recently. They are kind of nice in a very retro kind of way.
Chili sauce
12:33 PM on Sunday 15 September 2013
Interesting close up of chili sauce. Ernest created the little hill using a french fry :-) Another one below which is perhaps a bit more interesting due to the reflection of light.
Eyes
12:30 PM on Sunday 15 September 2013
They say that the eyes are the window to the soul. Well for the following shot, it is more of a reflection of the world. Continuing on the subject of eyes, here is a shoot of Esther's playful eyes (the above image was also of her eye).