Posted by Doug
Mon, 21 Feb 2005 00:39:00 GMT
I bought Carla a small bouquet of flowers for Valentine’s Day. Today I noticed that one of the whatever they’re called had opened up. Upon Carla’s suggestion, I shot a couple photographs of Valentine Flowers. I only got two good ones. I went ahead and used my tripod and remote. Actually, this is the first time I’ve felt the need to go into full manual mode. I even did manual focus.
That other flower is the prettiest of the bunch right now, but I couldn’t resist shooting this second one. All droopy like this it’s kind of sad. When I saw it I thought, “Ah, too bad. Valentine’s Day is past…”
So here I am all excited about my flower photos and posted them to
#photography looking for some praise and critique. I got a nice comment on how sharp the second shot was a the center. The other observation was that the colors seemed a little flat. Here’s two links on photographing flowers close up that was suggested:
How To Photograph Flowers and
Flower and Close-up Photography. I’m still pretty happy with my photos, but those articles are good reading. Maybe I’ll reshoot…
UPDATE: I’ve reworked the photos in Photoshop. I think these versions are definitely better than the previous two. I really felt like I had a good image in the camera, I just had to work a little harder to get it out.
I also went ahead and
posted the droopy flower to the “Nature & Wildlife” forum on
http://fredmiranda.com.
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Posted by Doug
Mon, 14 Feb 2005 15:09:00 GMT
I knew this feature existed, but I never did anything about it. In the
Mozilla browser (and any of it’s derivatives I’d guess), you can assign keywords to entries in your bookmarks. If you assign a keyword of ’/.’ to
http://slashdot.org then you can simply type that in the location bar and it will open that bookmark. Cool for sure.
Here’s why keywords
ROCKS! You can pass arguments to your keywords. So, I have a bookmark for my main twiki page with a keyword of ‘lathi’. I modified the bookmark to accept a parameter like this:
http://lathi.net/twiki-bin/view/Main/%s
Now I can type ‘lathi
PhotoContests’ in the location bar and jump right to that page. Since a lot of my TWiki pages are kindof launching points to other places on the web, this makes finding them a lot easier.
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Posted by Doug
Sat, 12 Feb 2005 02:49:00 GMT
I saw a bumper-sticker on the way home that made me go, “Hmm.” There’s no secret, I really don’t like divorce. Jesus’ teaching on it clear. There are a few exceptions, but in general God hates divorce and I pretty much do too. I’m not going to apologize for that; it’s just where I am. I know marriage is hard. You don’t make just shy of 13 years without knowing that.
One of the things I hate about divorce is what it does to the kids in the family. I’ve seen enough divorces to know kids aren’t unaffected by it. I had breakfast one morning with a guy (from church) who ended up divorcing his wife. “My boys will take it OK. They’ll still turn out alright.” I agree his boys will cope and adjust. But why give them that extra battle to fight. As parents we should be helping our kids as much as possible; not throwing up trauma for them to deal with.
Anyway… the bumper sticker. It was about 4” x 6”, green on black stuck to the back of a black Jeep Cherokee. “I’m still mad about my parent’s divorce.” The girl driving looked to be in her mid 20s. I wish I would have snapped a picture of either the bumper sticker or the girl. I don’t know what to think about the girl putting that on her
SUV to drive around. I don’t know if it was even her
SUV. It could have been a joke. But that the bumper sticker even exists says something about the impact divorce has on kids.
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I bought Carla a small bouquet of flowers for Valentine’s Day. Today I noticed that one of the whatever they’re called had opened up. Upon Carla’s suggestion, I shot a couple photographs of Valentine Flowers. I only got two good ones. I went ahead and used my tripod and remote. Actually, this is the first time I’ve felt the need to go into full manual mode. I even did manual focus.
That other flower is the prettiest of the bunch right now, but I couldn’t resist shooting this second one. All droopy like this it’s kind of sad. When I saw it I thought, “Ah, too bad. Valentine’s Day is past…”
So here I am all excited about my flower photos and posted them to #photography looking for some praise and critique. I got a nice comment on how sharp the second shot was a the center. The other observation was that the colors seemed a little flat. Here’s two links on photographing flowers close up that was suggested: How To Photograph Flowers and Flower and Close-up Photography. I’m still pretty happy with my photos, but those articles are good reading. Maybe I’ll reshoot… 
