Neothoughts

Point Farms Flora

Derek van Vliet — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:30:54 +0000

Taken at Point Farms Provincial Park. Near Goderich, Ontario, Canada.

We Started an iPhone Game Dev Company – Get Set Games

Derek van Vliet — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:35:28 +0000

I’m happy and excited to announce that along with 4 friends, I have started a game development company called Get Set Games. We are going to be focusing on the iPhone platform to begin with, which I have been dying to develop for since I first laid eyes on it.

The 5 of us have worked together for years in various ways and participated in every TOJam event as well as this year’s record-setting Global Game Jam. You may remember us as Team Awesomo. It is the spirit of game jams that we intend to focus into iPhone game development. “If we can do Flock U in little more than 30 hours, imagine what we could do with with 60.”

We are already well under way on our first project, seen above. Stay tuned to the Get Set Games site for the latest developments on our developments.

Weekly Photo #5: Water

Derek van Vliet — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:30:39 +0000

I should have taken a picture of the rig I set up to do these shots. I used an aluminum lasagna pan with a pool of water in it to catch the water droplets. Then I hung a plastic bag filled with water above it by clamping the bag to a piece of spare wood that was secured to a wooden stool.

I had the camera on a tripod and set to Manual mode. After pricking the bag of water, I focused the camera on the spot the water was landing by placing a knife in the spot and auto-focusing. Then I switched the lens to manual focus mode and also disabled image-stabilization. I would have liked to have a speed-light to do this, but I had to settle for my camera’s built in flash.

Once I was done, I fiddled with the white-balance to add the blue tint.

The Tower in the Trees

Derek van Vliet — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:13:36 +0000

Photo taken near Casa Loma in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Relaxing Under a Banyan Tree

Derek van Vliet — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:51:03 +0000

Photo taken in Banyan Tree Park, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.

Sunset From a Cruise

Derek van Vliet — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:44:15 +0000

Photo taken off the coast of Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii.

No Going Back

Derek van Vliet — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 06:22:23 +0000

Taken at Kaanapali Beach, Maui, Hawaii.

The Silhouettes of Maui’s Trees at Sunrise

Derek van Vliet — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:03:29 +0000

Taken at Oneloa Beach, Kapalua, Maui, Hawaii.

Weekly Photo #4: Panning

Derek van Vliet — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:28:44 +0000

After a one-week break, we took on the task of doing a panning shot at the A&J Project. I had another extremely busy week, so I had to get creative. For my shot I took one of our dog’s toys and tied it to my iPhone with some twine. Then I spun around taking pictures of it until I was dizzy.

Weekly Photo #3: Stairs

Derek van Vliet — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 01:32:41 +0000

This week’s A&J Project assignment was Stairs. In my search for photogenic stairs I ended up at George Brown College near Casa Loma.