I decided I wanted to get some use out of my tripod, so I took a few nighttime long exposures over the weekend. None of the photos turned out very well, but it was a productive shoot nonetheless.
Since then my camera hasn’t left the top of the tripod, so I decided to take unnecessarily long exposures indoors for no reason. 13 seconds for the above shot.
And Bonnie sat still for 1/8 second for this one.
Still working with Lightroom, and I’m getting a bit more used to it.
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The fall colors in Boulder are so nice. Planning on venturing into the mountains this weekend before the weather starts kicking their ass.
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Bike maintenance. Apparently when you clean bearings that were coated in gummy-bear consistency grease, they stop squeaking. Good to know.
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I downloaded Lightroom today. I had it a few years ago and didn’t like it then. But today I saw a how-to video on timelapses, and they used Lightroom to do batch edits. It was pretty slick so I figured I’d give it another try.
The interface border-lines on cluttered, but only because it packs a million and half features all onto one screen. There are so many on/off switches, hover states/actions, buttons, icons, pulldowns, sliders, and menus. It’s almost overwhelming.
Its features are mostly split into two main categories: photo organization & storage, and photo editing. Most of the extraneous organization features are lost on me, probably because I’m such a casual photographer and I don’t have massive archives of images that need organizing. I don’t ever need to change metadata, add keywords, color-code, or otherwise categorize my images. In the past, the only similar Bridge feature that I’ve used is the color coding to mark to-do’s and potential come-back-to’s. Though I have no use for the rest, I can definitely see their possible usefulness. Just not for me.
As for the editing, the power is incredible. I’m still learning how to coax the look I’m going for out of the program, but a learning-curve is to be expected. Again, the editing tools border-line on cluttered, and I think that’s due to them all being available at one time in a single really tall sidebar. Each section of editing tools does expand/collapse, but that only makes finding the right tool harder. At this point, I feel like Photoshop Camera Raw’s tabbed interface is much more user-friendly. But maybe I’m missing something in Lightroom. Perhaps in time I’ll find the advantage of its UI.
I only ever hear great things about it, so I’ll keep giving it a chance. We’ll see how long that lasts.
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Incredible show. Up there with NIN as being the most visually compelling concert I’ve ever seen. The music was epic.
Here’s the encore shown in two parts. It was shot from my iPhone, so the sound and video quality are shit. There are much better recordings out there, but you know, incessant record keeping.
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The WordPress iPhone app is pretty terrible, especially for mobile photo posting. Back when I had a tumblog, I remember really liking their app’s user-friendly interface. But for conciseness, I’d like to only have one blog with all of my online content.
As a result, I’ve added a plugin that’s pulling in all of my tumblr posts and displaying them here. It’s a good compromise between having the versatility of WordPress, and having a mobile blogging platform. It’s not perfect (the titles are often generated using the posts’ content, so it gets a bit redundant), but it’s easy.
Woo mobile blogging!
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Went to the Rockies game last weekend with my Dad, Brian (Ally’s dad), and Jeff. Good times. I tried all day to get a photo of a ball coming off the bat, and this was the closest I got. And what do you know – it was the first homer of the game. Zing!
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Crappy pseudo-HDR:
