Photos from Tech Ed IT Pros: Bob Muglia Keynote, part I

My first batch of snapshots from Bob Muglia's keynote this morning, including a selection of programmatically stitched panoramas.

Photos from TechEd 2008 Devs: Party at Universal Studios Orlando

This panorama comprises five horizontal photos. (Somewhere, Encarta's copy chief is smiling. Even after all these years, I remember the ESG's recipe: "pancake batter comprises butter, milk, eggs.")

 

 

This very weird panorama comprises six horizontal photos. It isn't totally successful but it's sure fun to look at.

 

 

 

 

Photos from Tech Ed 2008 Devs: Carl Franklin plays the show floor

Sunday now and I'm finally finding time to catch up on all the pictures I shot during Tech Ed Developers last week. The co-host of .NET Rocks!, Carl Franklin has a fine voice and plays guitar with exceptional skill.  Many of us milling the conference floor ceased our schwag-collecting and stopped by to hear Carl play.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 Developers | Panoramic images from Bill Gates' keynote

Programmatically stitched panoramic images. I shot these pictures during Bill Gates' keynote on Day 2 of Microsoft Tech Ed 2008 Developers.

Empty. Stitched from ten vertically-shot images.

Full! Stitched from six vertically-shot images.

billg takes the stage. Stitched from ten vertically-shot images.

Lineup for the Q&A with billg

Quizzing Mr. Gates.

This one's an uncropped mess but I sort of like it anyway. Next year maybe I'll bring a full-frame fisheye lens to shoot the keynote.

General call to conference organizers on technology topics: I am happy to exchange unrestricted rights to the thousands of photos I invariably shoot at these events for comps on conference registration fees.

Tech Ed 2008 Photographs | Monday | Jeff Prosise and Panoramas

I returned to Tech Ed 2008 Developers determined to take a picture or two. I took the photographs below during Monday's pre-conference sessions. Many of the images below were programmatically stitched into panoramas from several pictures, a technique I've been playing with recently to communicate the scale of things and to combat the grain associated with shooting handheld in low light.

Inside: Orange County Convention Center entrance.

Outside: Orange County Convention Center entrance.

Most denizens of the IT world will appreciate this bus-borne commentary on organizational teamwork. Nice to start Tech Ed with a smile.

Colors!

Jeff Prosise hard at work during his Silverlight PreCon.

Jeff Prosise

Jeff Prosise, looking contemplative as he confronts the existential crisis of Q&A.

Jeff Prosise with us Q&A groupies

Orange County Convention Center at dusk. This panorama comprises eight vertically-shot images. I'm not satisfied with this -- but I've got the rest of Tech Ed Devs and Tech Ed IT Pros to do better!