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Categories: all aviation bicycle gadgets misc motorcycle theater Thu, 29 Apr 2010I stepped outside today, and immediately turned right around and went back inside. I had to get a camera.
For those following along at home, this is cropped, turned to black and white with the "red filter" preset, and a very very slight purple-blue tint added. I need to pick up a red filter for the 5x7 camera, clearly. This, by the way, is why you never want to use any of the black and white or funny-color presets in your camera. If I'd shot this in black and white in the camera, I never would have been able to apply the red filter, and get this striking effect -- it depends on color data being there. It's always better to take a perfect, balanced picture in the camera, and then adjust it later. You'll have way more latitude, and will almost certaily be able to get better results. Update: And, because I'm a big ol' nerd, I just went out and tried again, with the camera set to Fine instead of Normal. I'd previously thought that I couldn't tell the difference between the two, but I think that's because I hadn't found the right situation. Taking pictures of clouds definitely suggests that Fine is a better choice for big enlargements, but RAW would be an even better choice, and is what I should have been shooting with in the first place. Anyway, I thought the second picture came out well enough to be worth posting, as well.
Same treatment, but a slightly different tint, and a little bit less of it. Posted at 13:46 permanent link category: /misc Tue, 13 Apr 2010Tom Parker spent some time wandering around the track with a video camera last year, talking to racers, filming bikes, filming races, and generally making a delightful nuisance of himself. He was producing a documentary on Vintage 160 racing. The documentary is finally done, and he's presented his video to the world: The Fowler Formula from Tom Parker on Vimeo. Posted at 11:49 permanent link category: /motorcycle Wed, 07 Apr 2010I posted this over of Ye Olde Tome of Faces, but I figured it was worth further exposure. Ian's Theory of Antagonistic Causation: any action taken in anticipation of a given outcome virtually guarantees the opposite outcome. Ian's Corollary of Antagonistic Cancellation: actions taken in conscious anticipation of the Theory of Antagonistic Causation instantly negate it. This, of course, explains the following situation: you're waiting for a bus, and all you want in the world is a cigarette. You look at your watch. There are at least 5 minutes left until the bus is supposed to arrive, and they're never early. Within 20 seconds of lighting up, the bus appears. This also explains why hopefully lighting a cigarette when you don't really want one absolutely never makes the bus magically appear. A similar situation: you're desperately hungry, and waiting for your order to arrive at your table. You decide to go to the bathroom, which seems to have the near-magic power of making the food appear. When you get back, the food has indeed appeared, but is also lukewarm and rapidly cooling. I was originally going to call them Murphy's instead of Ian's Theory and Corollary, but then I figured, why give that dude credit? Posted at 08:39 permanent link category: /misc Categories: all aviation gadgets misc motorcycle theater Written by Ian Johnston. Software is Blosxom. Questions? Please mail me at reaper at obairlann dot net. |
