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iPhone 4 Camera Off Axis

by Derek on 07.1.10 in Apple, iPhone, Photography, Technology with 2 Comments
iPhone 4 Tilted Camera

That's just because you're only wearing one shoe

It seems like the hits keep coming for Apple’s latest product. Maybe this is an isolated incident, or maybe it’s been like this for all the previous models, but I’ve never noticed it on my prior iPhones.

My iPhone 4′s camera appears to be off axis by 2.4 degrees. I laid the camera on it’s right side (the side without the volume buttons) on a flat surface and took a picture of the back of my keyboard which was also laying flat on the same surface and there was a noticeable slant to the resulting image.

Is anyone else having this same issue?


Los Angeles Crime

by Derek on 03.10.10 in Photography with 1 Comment
Los Angeles Crime

At Least They're Honest

As I was driving down Sunset Blvd the other day, I saw this filming location sign hanging on a street light. It said “CRIME” and had an arrow pointing right. Maybe it was for CSI or maybe there’s a movie filming called “Crime”, but I thought about all the people who might not know what the yellow signs around LA are for, and all the tourists that probably saw that sign and thought to themselves, wow, I guess I won’t go down that street.

Jesse Is Like A Modern Day Robin Hood

by Derek on 03.8.10 in Photography with No comments
Double Dart

3 x 2 = 6

A modern-day Robin Hood with bad aim. However, he did manage to throw a few darts at a dartboard and practically split one of them in half. The picture you see above is the actual outcome of two consecutive throws and was not set up manually or altered in any way. The tip of the second dart struck and wedged itself into the plastic fins of the first dart. The only thing that would have made this more awesome is if it hit any number higher than 3. At least he’s consistent.

iPhone App: Cross Process

by Derek on 02.23.10 in Apps, iPhone, Photography, Technology with 2 Comments

Cross Process iPhone App Test, originally uploaded by GBMB.

Nick from GreyScaleGorilla released a new iPhone app today called Cross Process. If you were a fan of his other app ShakeItPhoto, you will probably dig this one. It emulates the look of cross processed film and adds a nifty little white border. It has settings to choose which colors to process and also allows you to process new pictures or photos from your photo library, much like his last app.

Here are a few more examples of pictures from the app when used in daylight, night time, and tungsten lights respectively.

Salt and Pepper Hollywood and Vine Pat

Katrina’s Medieval Birthday

by Derek on 02.22.10 in Photography with No comments

Katrina's Birthday

Let the games begin!

The night started off very promising when a girl scout came to Mike’s door selling cookies. We bought out her entire supply that she had with her and she had to go back to her mom’s car to get her reserves. We eventually made our way up to Medieval Times and were promptly ushered into the lobby and handed our Black & White crowns.

There was an hour of hanging out and drinking until we were allowed to go out tables. By then, most of us were feeling good and ready to enjoy the dinner and tournament. Our confidence led us to begin chants of “Red Knight’s going down! Down, down, down.” Believe it or not, you can’t trust movies from 1996 to predict the outcome of a fixed fight. B&W Knight was the first to go down, and Red Knight was the victor. I call bullshit.

Flickr Set: Katrina’s Birthday at Medieval Times

Self-Centered

by Derek on 01.28.10 in Creative, Film/Video, Photography with No comments

I have been sitting on my URL of derekdoi.com for quite some time now. For the past 5 years or so, it has just been cloning whatever was on goodbyemailbox but I figured it was about time to use it as a portfolio site. If you follow the link, you will find stuff I have worked on, old and new, videos and photos, and maybe some random graphics from time to time.

Photography, Motion & Design | The Creative Portfolio of Derek Doi

Farewell Mike

by Derek on 01.17.10 in Photography with No comments

The Top Bunk of the Star Suite at The Ivy Hotel

Pictures from the party

Mike is leaving for Europe so we all journeyed down to The Whale’s Vagina to celebrate in style (style doesn’t require class does it?).

Amtrak hooked us up with our own train car on the way down and turned a blind eye to our cases of beer and bottles of booze. I believe it was for the safety of the other passengers and not because we deserved our own car.

Mike reserved the Star Suite at The Ivy Hotel in the Gas Lamp District in downtown San Diego which turned out to be pretty awesome except for the noise complaints at 6:30 pm. We pre-partied in the suite and then hit the city.

Drinks and dancing at Voyeur and The Bitter End followed by more nonsense in the suite.

And just hours later, we were on a train heading back up to Irvine to cap off a pretty awesome 24 hours of mayhem.

Via WordPress iPhone app

by Derek on 01.12.10 in iPhone, Photography, Stage, Technology with No comments

Dave Attell @ The Hollywood Improv

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