Category Archives: Personal

Tone Mapping: OK Images from Bad?

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 2 March, 2009. Filed under Personal, Photography, Technology. Tagged , , . 2 Comments.
I went to Matlock and Matlock Bath on the weekend, both being Victorian towns in the Derbyshire Dales, the latter being an old spa town now very popular for motorcyclists to visit. The weather was lovely and some of the scenery great. Unfortunately, my photographs were nothing to write home about. Board with trying to [...]

Birmingham

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 26 October, 2008. Filed under Friends, Personal, Photography. Tagged , . 2 Comments.
A former student (and now friend) of mine is spending a semester in the UK as part of his PhD studies in Australia. We met in Birmingham and wandered around a little to see the sights while talking about teaching and research. The cities in the English Midlands are useful places to visit for those [...]

Grey days

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 22 October, 2008. Filed under Personal, Photography. Tagged . Comments Off.
In my breaks and the odd evening, I have slowly been playing with Aperture some more to tinker with my photographs. I covered the distinction between photography as documentation or journalism and photography as art in an earlier post (see here). To match my rather grey mood, I have been reducing the intensity of colour [...]

Multimedia Experiments

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 7 October, 2008. Filed under Media, Personal, Photography, Technology, Work. Tagged , , . Comments Off.
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I have slowly been getting back into some experimenting with multimedia. Some of this has been prompted by my experiments with podcasts and subsequent attempts to think about adding supporting text and interactivity to them (all without spending 3 days a week to produce 10 minutes that will only be used once). Some has been [...]

Google Maps and Google Earth

Written by Darryn Mitussis. Posted on 2 September, 2008. Filed under China, India, Japan, Personal, Technology. Tagged , , , . 1 Comment.
In my (precious little) spare time I have been experimenting with Google Maps and Google Earth. Things have gone well, except for working out how to embed the maps into my blog posts. Now, if you happen to be using Firefox (I’m not sure about Internet Explorer), below is a map I made using Google [...]