Posted by
David – June 25, 2009
I've been making an effort to get back into photography this year -- I had a lot of fun with it in the past, so I'm trying to get out and do more of it again. I'm also hoping to get some opportunities to combine that with my swing dancing hobbies, but we'll see... I don't really have the flash gear that would be necessary to pull off those photos in most dance halls.
Speaking of gear, I did replace my aging Canon Digital Rebel (300D) with a brand spanking new Canon Digital Rebel XSi. I'm pretty satisfied with it -- it has double the megapixels, a nicer screen for doing quick shot reviews, and more features in general. I particularly like that it shows the current shooting settings on the LCD screen; I wear glasses so it's nice not having to squint into the viewfinder to see that info.
I've also decided that I'm no longer going to host my own gallery -- it's just too much of a hassle. As a result, I set up an account over at smugmug and I'm quite happy with it.
I took a trip to Cincinnati recently, which had two nice results:
Unfortunately, the panorama still needs a bit of work -- I don't think all of the colors are matched up quite right, and I think I'm going to have to spend some time in Photoshop getting that all matched up -- I screwed up when I took the photos and used aperture priority instead of full manual, so they all metered a bit differently... live and learn, I guess.
Posted by
David – March 9, 2008
So, we got a monster snowstorm here in Ohio this weekend. Columbus was hit hardest with just over 20 inches of snow, but we got dumped on here in Akron as well with 15" reported at the local airport.
My roommate has a snow blower so we didn't have to break our backs shoveling out a ridiculously long driveway. Best. Invention. Ever.
Anyway, have some photos:
Crazy stuff, but we do seem to get most of our heaviest snows later in the winter. At any rate, we've had a proper snowstorm so now I'm definitely ready for spring. :)
Posted by
David – March 13, 2005
I've been amusing myself adding photos into my photo gallery of late. It's kind of sad really; all I've done is add old photos into it. I haven't really made time lately to go out and do some photography. Of course, it's also late winter here, which means everything is brown, muddy, and boring.
In a few weeks I'm hoping to head down to Cincinnati again to visit Steve, and this time I will be remembering to take my camera along. :) Last time I was down there we went to Devou Park in Covington. It had a pretty sweet view overlooking downtown Cincy. I held my hands to my face and went "click," but it's just not as satisfying.
Speaking of not-getting-photos, I went to my sister's show choir competition in Wapakoneta this afternoon. I haven't found out yet how they placed, though. I didn't even bother taking my camera along since I knew they were not too keen on people taking their own photos; apparently they want you to pay entirely too much money for lousy prints from their hired photographer. Oh well.
In other news, Ubuntu's preview of their "Hoary Hedgehog" release is now out. I downloaded the ISO last night... now I just need to get around to installing it on the Lifebook. Warty ran pretty well on it, so I'm hoping this will be even better. I'm also looking forward to trying out netapplet or NetworkManager; from what I've seen they will (once finished) bring end-user networking configuration in Linux up to the standards of MacOS X in terms of simplicity and ease of use. This also means it will be miles ahead of Windows XP -- XP SP2 has improved things quite a bit, but it still has too many oddities and quirks for my taste.