Here are a few pictures of baby Branson’s first hour outside the womb:

Branson Gallery

and a few of my favorites.

He’s healthy and peaceful. They had the neonatal intensive care nurses in for a bit because they were worried about his tough birth (something like 40 labor hours!!) … but they said he’s fine, and he’ll probably be sent home with mom.

Branson finally decided he’s ready, and arrived at 7:23 pm on 13 March 2007. I, being the “5th wheel,” am waiting in the lobby, but I heard him crying over the cell-phone call from my Aunt. Apparently Branson wasn’t breathing when he came out, so they whisked him away and got him going real fast, but everything is fine … he was crying pretty loudly from what I could hear.

Pix are coming within the hour … by 10pm PST … so stay tuned.

While I’m waiting in the hospital lobby, I wanted to see if anyone out there had seen any good techniques for recreating the effects in the movie “300.”

The directors talked about the post-processing of the film as “The Crush,” where they crushed the blacks down to increase contrast, then enhanced the saturation. But it’s clearly more than that … they’ve also color-graded the film, lit it specially, etc. Here’s a good sample:

I was inspired to create something similar. So I played around in photoshop Read the rest of this entry »

BabyWatch2007: My sister started her “serious” contractions about 36 hours ago …. and has been in the hospital since 8pm last night … but we’re still waiting! It should be anytime now, but then again, I’ve heard that before…