Some pictures taken this summer with my Canon S90 (as discussed here), post-produced with DxO, as usual now.
Surely not the sharpness of my Canon 5D MarkII with the different lenses, but very convenient (size, weight, manual setup).
Note for me: here the list of Software to install for new setup
Yes, already 3 years that we have founded Innoveo!
That was such a dense period, with so many experiences, wow.
As we are now used to, we have celebrated this special day with a good lunch near Zurich. Very good time indeed :-)
Warm thanks to the whole Innoveo team for making all this possible!
Cross-posted on the Innoveo Blog
We are searching for an excellent and motivated Software Engineer, with a focus on Java and Web Development, to support us in the development of our standard Software product -Innoveo Skye- at our office in Zurich, Switzerland. Some more information:
More information in this pdf (in German).
Do not hesitate to contact me if you need more information. And to spread the news!
Thanks in advance ;-)
Cross-posted on the Innoveo blog.
Condé Nast Traveler has published a very interesting article about St. Barts in June 2010. A very emotional article from a journalist who *really* knows St. Barts and its specificities, its “soul”. Not the St Barth (I prefer The French term ;-) of the magazines and TV shows, the one we have also discovered the last years, and that make this destination so unique. No show off, back to the roots.
Some abstracts:
And over the years, I have discovered a parallel, private universe on St. Barts, a completely different world from the one you see splashed all over the pages of magazines. […]
I remember the local vicar, Charles Vere Nicholl, saying years ago that St. Barts was more like a village in Provence than an island in the Caribbean, and he was right. Geezers playing pétanque, pastis, baguettes, Jacques Brel on the radio, every Peter Mayle cliché, but delivered without any of the stuffy uptightness of the mainland French. Imagine the laid-back, barefoot, sixties, hippie-ish spirit, what the French call décontracté, served up with just the right amount of impeccable taste, good food, and ridiculous attention to quality—perfection, non? […]
The stain of slavery, the sense that something truly evil happened, the seething resentment of injustice, is something you can still smell on other Caribbean islands but never on St. Barts. Here, the lingering darkness of history does not exist. […]
The island remains what it has always been—a place for libertines, hippies, and people who have inherited that early pirate spirit. "Except," noted Piter, "the hippies have grown up and smoke cigars now instead of joints." […]
One of the things I love most about St. Barts is the way the language weaves and flows with the division of the island. The windward quartiers (St. Jean, L’Orient) express themselves in a kind of Creole. The leeward side (sous le vent—places like Corossol and Public) speak patois. […]
The unadulterated joy and hope of our first trip had, over the years, been tempered by pain. The hope remained, strong as ever, and now some kind of wisdom had replaced the joy, which isn’t such a bad deal after all.
After Saint Tropez, the Porquerolles Island and our Bed & Breakfast location, let’s have a look at the fantastic village of Bormes les Mimosas. This was really a great day, worth a visit if you are near this place.
We have positively experienced our first Bed & Breakfast at Hyères, at La Buanderie. Nice place with nice people, very comfortable, great garden with old big trees. Really cool!
We like very much the TV show “House”. I have seen a quite old news from May 2010, telling us that the whole season was filmed with a Canon 5D MarkII. Wow, interesting….
A Canon 5D Mark II has become the first video-capable DSLR to film a whole episode of a US primetime series. Greg Yaitanes, director of FOX broadcasting company’s medical drama series ‘House’, used the camera, a selection of Canon’s prime lenses and, the 24-70mm and 70-200mm lenses to shoot its season finale. Speaking via Twitter, he said that this was to achieve a shallow depth of field and a ‘richer look’. He also said he ‘feels it’s the future’.
You can find also a Twitter-interview of Greg Yaitanes, the director of the show.
What is the difference in how it looks on a TV screen compared to a regular camera?
Greg Yaitanes: richer. shallow focus pulls the actors faces to forground [sic]
How many frames per second and why a Canon 5D Mark II?
GY: 24p and wanted it for ease of use in tight spaces.
Ok, seriously. Can you tell us something about the lenses you used?
GY: all the canon primes and the 24-70 and the 70-200 zoom
Did you have to change any of your working practices to fit in with differences between the 5D and a typical setup?
GY: some. focus was hard with these lenses but more “cine-style” lenses are being made as we speak.
Were you using CF cards for storage or some sort of mass storage mod? seems like you would need a lot of cards :)
GY: some 18gb or something like that card. gave us 22 min of footage.
How was the quality as compared 2 the traditional camera used in shooting?
GY: i loved it and feel it’s the future. cameras that can give you these looks
How did you manage to stabilize the camera in tight spaces? Any special kind of brackets?
GY: no. mostly gave it a hand held feel. or on a small tripod
I was very focused (!) on the “normal” usage of my 5D MarkII in the last months (enough to do technically ;), but this was definitely a good reminder that I can also do some videos.
I have forgotten to continue to publish my portfolio about our trip to Hyères, south-east of France in the Provence region, trip we have done mid of April 2010… So after the first pictures in … June about Saint Tropez, some views of the Porquerolles Island we have visited by bicycles.
As you may know, Oli (our VP Product at Innoveo) and myself participated last week to the 2nd “Lean, Agile & Scrum” Conference in Zurich, also called LAS 2010.
The topic this year: From the Scrum project to lean enterprise.
Interesting, isn’t it?
The illusion of a “good tool”, Don’t blame the tool
Good tools are helping to:
Using the wrong tool vs. using the tool wrong (both have nothing to do with the tool itself)
The aim of going agile has to be linked with the vision and values of the company => be careful to solve the right problem, i.e. the root causes and not symptoms
Agile is simple but hard!
Why changing to agile?
Why Scrum?
Bbv favors (manifesto):
Scrum works only with:
HR:
Mary Poppendieck, presentation
Key Success Factors for successful projects:
In other words:
Schedules based on experience are reliable. Schedules summed up from task breakdowns are guesses, hypothesis about the future.
Optimize Throughput, not utilization (coming from Queuing theory)!
Level the workload:
Limit work to capacity
Cross-posted on the Innoveo blog.