I‘m Luis Murillo, a Technical Consultant and Photographer. I specialize in the Tape and Optical storage area and also in software support for a big international company. Besides my passion for technology I’ve taken up photography as a serious hobby and shoot primarily on film.

I currently live in Costa Rica, Central America. I work, play and live here. Most of my photography is done in the natural scenery that Costa Rica is so famous for, there are some photography from other locations like the US and Taiwan.

I specialize mostly on portraits, event photos and artistic photography. Making photographs using film, 135 and 120 format, has really helped me to slow down and think more about the image than the technical details thus improving my artistic photography and vision.

Why was this blog created?

This blog was originally created back when I was still taking my programming courses in the university, I would just write about the projects and explain the issues and solutions, but after the whole university was left on hold there were no more projects to post and to be honest I have been busy with other things and have left programming a little bit on the side, so I went on to writing about anything else that bothers me or that I consider good enough to write an article about. Also, since I’ve gotten into photography, I’ll be writing about the photos that I take or new things that I learn from the subject.

Why is it that you take a long time to post some new content on your blog?

Well, that’s because I’m not much of a writer when it comes to…well, anything really. I have written some material before but nothing that complex or interesting. I also have other things to do and my blog is just a space and something I like to do sometimes so that’s basically why I don’t update everyday or every week. Though I’m working to getting a post at least twice a week.

Can I use your photo for X or Y?

Well you can use my photos as long as you give credit where it’s due and don’t use it for profit or any public advertisement. If you would like to use any of my photos for commercial ads or related reasons please contact me previously to get a written permission from me. If you would like to link the photo on your blog or would like to print it feel free to do so and if you post it on a blog just write to me so that I can visit your post and link to it from my blog.

Can I get a photo is a bigger resolution?

Sure, just write to me and I can process the photo at a bigger resolution. Once again the above applies so please also state the reason for the request.

What photography gear do you have?

I have 3 cameras I use mostly

• Kiev 88CM (120 format)
• Nikon FM10 (135 format)
• Nikon D60 (digital format)

I have the following lenses

• Nikkor DX 18-55mm G lens
• Nikkor 70-300mm G lens
• Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 prime lens
• Nikkor 55-200mm lens
• Arsat C 80mm f/2.8 Pentacon-Six

To edit my photos I use my Windows machine with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2 and Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended. I use Boutwell’s Totally Rad Actions.

I shoot using the following film brands

• Ilford HP5+ for B&W photos (135 and 120 format)
• Ilford Delta for B&W portraits (135 and 120 format)
• Fuji Superia for color photos (135 format)
• Kodak Portra for color portraits (120 format)

When shooting digital I save the images to RAW files.

How can I contact you?

Well if you must ask I can be contacted through the following methods:

My e-mail address lmurillo{at}codebeta{dot}net will probably be the best and fastest method plus you can use it to look me up in myspace and facebook in case you want to add me

I also use the MSN messenger and Google Talk which you can also add me using my e-mail address above. On AIM my username is tenshilm. I use mostly Google Talk so that’s the best way…just that when you add me remind me that you found me through the site

Credits

Well a lot of hard work has been placed into making this blog a reality and most of it, specially the website design and coding have been done by other very talented people who deserve recognition.

First of all and most importantly I must thank the creators of WordPress since that’s the software script that’s being used throughout the Code|Beta site.

The theme of the site was specifically designed for this site.

For the Photography section I’m using the NextGen Gallery plugin for WordPress.

The slideshow of images in the header of the site is done with the NextGen Smooth Gallery and with the NextGen Gallery.

Commenting is done through the IntenseDebate service.

All of my photographs can be viewed on the Photography section or the Flickr photostream.

All of the writing in the posts and the photography shown on this site is Copyrighted unless otherwise noted.