LadyCrimson

Panasonic's rule.

It's because the sun is behind the subject (backlighting). Fill-flash is great, I use it all the time in macros. It's also good sometimes for creating a black background in close-ups during the day. Heh, yeah, my husband never smiles when I take his picture. In fact, half the pictures I have of him don't show his face. Oh, I take my camera. I just don't often post them on the net, since I take pics on the sly and don't ask for release forms. But if their face isn't showing or I can easily fuzz it out some, it's fair game imo. Fishing nets as lightsabers? Gotcha! Outhouse bandit?

I like that sig pic. Only problem is it's dark, and the forum color is dark ...

What? Only 30fps? I'm shocked.

I don't like rear projections much. Not that they're bad, but just not my thing. We paid about $1900 for our 50" plasma - I think because it was 'last years' model maybe, that they still had some stock left.

Yay! Pictures! I was actually thinking about that - with cheaper but better quality digicams and cellphones having cameras in them, many more can take easy pics w/no special equipment - I think it's great. I don't think those are that bad for being off a cellphone. I wish I had a creek like that by my house. All I have is this dirty pool that always needs cleaning. One more from me then I have to go to bed. This one had a bad exposure and wasn't working as a color photo, so I tried sepia. Still blown out but better than full color. heh *shrug*

Out of curiosity, does anyone else besides me and mkreku like to take pictures? I miss the days where photo threads were really active. Anyway, going to use this thread to post this sheet of the silly cat pictures I took today. A lot of them are blurry full-size (hard to focus/aim with one hand) but since I'm horribly biased, I still think they're cute.

You and me both. I had a lovely day pestering people I haven't seen in a long while, and I'm going to do it again tomorrow. I also spent an hour poking my finger at one of my cats and trying to take pictures while holding the camera and it's 5.5 inch lens with only one hand. A feat that's never wise when one has the wrist strength of wet spaghetti. But some were still pretty darn cute.

I have flat feet and they give me trouble sometimes with walking/running, even with arch supports. But that's mostly an excuse. I'm kind of odd, as I find exercising outdoors - for the pure sake of exercising - too distracting. ie, I'll start a vigorous hike up a hill, see some insects, or a cool cluster of massive bamboo, or people doing something weird, and next thing I know I've spent 15 minutes in one spot watching/exploring instead of exercising. So I usually exercise in the garage or something, where I keep my focus and don't waste time.

Since you read it in four hours or so, I assume it's not a very long book? I see they're making a movie already. :D

Sounds like good news, Walsh. Must feel good to achieve goals like that. Lately I do enough exercises to keep the muscles that help support the spine limber, but my cardio capabilities the past year has gone into the toilet.

Some of the bits of the character jumping/flying around were cool. Kinda frenetic for my tastes - by that I mean, it gives my eyes a headache. Still pretty cool tho. And ... "Funded by No One." Haha, that made me laugh!

I'm not sure? There was a guy who said his whole personality changed and he lost most of his friends because of it. And the kid who was knocked out of his shoes while wearing an ipod and mowing the lawn. They did some recreation tests and think the ipod saved his life.

I was going to say that. The Disciple/Atton cutscenes in Kotor2. Dungeon Keeper1's intro movie. ...I know there must be others I enjoyed when I saw them, but my brain usually stores such things in a temporary storage folder and then deletes them after a few days.

That's a horrible anchorman.

Tonight I watched some show about people who've been hit by lightning. It made me glad I don't live in a place that gets much of it. Got some 11x14 and one 16x20 test prints back from the printer today, which was a lesson that I need to sharpen my photos a bit more when it comes to larger printing. I'm still such a dufus when it comes to figuring out all the digital-development end of things. It was easier when you just sent in a roll of film with no digital steps required in the middle. Sometimes I feel like I spend more time post-processing for printing than I do taking pictures. Edit: 16x20, btw, for some reason seemed bigger than I thought it would be. Which is cool.

Decided to split the discussion from the Community Resources sticky to its own thread. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2nd and 3rd pics are very nice. Yeah, I said there was more to it than just fstops. The true technique-geeks - of which I am most assuredly not one - can go on and on about formulas and all that. But there are three basic factors: the apeture setting, the focal length of the lens in use, and shooting distance. With that in mind ... if any two of these things are equal, then the third is what you'd want to change to try and achieve a desired DOF. In this day of digital cameras, another factor appears to be coming into play, and that is sensor size, which varies from full-frame SLRS to 1.6 SLRs to consumer cams. You can read all about the tech jargon on that on this page. But I think it essentially boils down that digital DOF is inversely proportional to format size - many smaller digicams, for example, have sensors 1/6 the size of 35mm film, which can result in such a large depth of field that's it can be almost impossible to get blurred backgrounds from them. The following are examples of my own, showing how if focal length is the same and your distance from the subject remains the same, the f-stop does affect DOF. I hope it's obvious these aren't meant to be examples of fine photography. All 4 were shot using 100mm focal length.

Well, most of those are new to me, so I find them entertaining. Poor kitty. The seagull one makes me think I'll skip breakfast.

Sounds like a complaint about the round-based combat and computer AI, not graphics? I do agree that it's always a bit odd when enemies are standing around "waiting" for their attack round. But altering that would affect other things about how the game is played/feels - might be good, might not. Hard to say.

Well, I certainly don't see much point in a move like that. If they're concerned about patrons getting too excited/drunk and raising a ruckus or accosting the dancers, or something to that effect, a 6 foot rule isn't going to change much of anything, unless the dancers are enclosed in safety cages. But if they were in cages, then the 6 foot rule wouldn't be needed for that purpose anyway.

That's awesome. I think Bruce Campbell's desk should sport one.

"Who wants to be bulletproof?" I'd rather be drown/suffocation & shark proof. Then I might go windsurfing and stuff.

I don't have any facts, which I know y'all like *grin* but I think that the "me" generation concept isn't likely the real root of the problem. I'd suspect there have been "me" generations in other civilizations of the distant past, just not ones with cell phones, video games, and Porsches. There may be other possible explanations for increasing noticable incidents such as these - overpopulation/city-crowding, better news media coverage/record keeping of incidents that makes percentages vs. "the far past" seem inflated, increasing stressful 'modern' lifestyles/restrictions/financial pressures that may (emphasis on may) trigger violence in people who under milder circumstances might not have their internal "time-bombs" go off. Anyway, definitely a tragic event. My sympathies for the families of those lost.

The worst of the series, but I still kind of enjoyed it. But then, during that time we were on a heavy TR kick, buying 2 copies of almost all the TR's so we could play at the same time etc. Maybe it's more fun when you can holler/laugh to your spouse about something in the game.

I spent 30 minutes touching up a cropped section from a photo, where I thought I had managed to catch a "smiling" cow chewing a piece of grass. Seriously. But then I went away for a bit and when I came back, my eyes shifted focus or something, beause I suddenly realized what I thought were teeth was a reflection off the cow's wet nose. I actually freaked out a for second - the illusion of smiling cow has been so convincing I thought my files were suddenly all corrupted. Moments like those make for weird mornings.