This site is the digital home of Eric Appel, a web developer and photographer in Portland, Oregon.
Included in this site are tech related blog posts, my photography, and recent items from my digital life.
I currently work for Intel as the Lead Application Developer on Intel's Corporate Product Catalog.
My primary fluencies are in the Micrsoft stack (ASP.Net, C#, Silverlight, MS SQL Server, etc.), but I keep it fresh with platforms like jQuery/javascript and Expression Engine.
I've developed a number of sites that are live at the moment including ark.intel.com, EricAppel.net, AjaAppel.net, and SmartSetr.
Thank you to those who are willing to share their work with the community.
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It is just a coincidence that I was able to buy these two lenses in the same week . . . I definitely will be waiting a while to buy more. The lens that arrived today is a Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L. I have been waiting a long time to get a telephoto zoom lens and this one should not disappoint.
Being able to shoot in low light situations is important to me, which is why I chose to go with the f/2.8 instead of the f/4 which is half the price. Tonight I went out and took many shots around dusk on a cloudy day and most of them were taken at f/2.8 or f/3.5 with a 1/320 sec. shutter speed. With a 200mm lens and a 1.6x crop factor, 1/320 is cutting it close. If I didn't have the f/2.8 I would have had to bump the ISO way up.
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