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| Ooof... | Sep. 3rd, 2006 06:37 pm | |
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My legs appear to have packed up again - and I was afraid I'd not get enough exercise this weekend. I've just been to watch the Tour of Britain on Hampstead Heath and The Mall. I took about 320 or so shots. I will upload a select few of these once I can find the motivation to go through them all on this laptop... ETA No, apparently my brain's decided to upload them now, 'cos the browser software's not too slow if you don't try and task switch. Here you go... For the moment however I'm going to go mess about in Second Life; if I feel brave later I shall attempt to cook cauli cheese. ETA2 Damnit, I have no mustard... (This is kind of a "not dead" post, really) mood:
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| Photos, aka "Could you please stop stroking that?" | Aug. 20th, 2006 10:48 am | |
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As promised, images from yesterday's meetup. At some point during the day I really started to get my head around the SLR's controls and am starting to feel much happier with it. http://www.phase.org/filestore/album/90 The downside however to hanging out with a crowd of photogeeks is that your mental shopping list grows alarmingly. ( A few samples ) | ||
| Impressive skies today... | Aug. 13th, 2006 08:34 pm | |
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  I decided to take pot luck today, given the random nature of the weather forecasts, and headed out to experiment with some black and white photography. I just about managed to keep myself and my camera dry, although I got a bit of a surprise when I was sheltering under the Millenium Bridge and it started leaking. Comments welcome - please take a look:   I must admit I've always been somewhat sceptical about black-and-white photography, in much the same way I mistrust "classic" literature. If they're black-and-white, "classic", or "arty" then things tend to get presumed to be good irrespective of their actual merit. But I was recommended to try it as a way of concentrating on light and composition, and as such today's shoot was quite interesting. I'm still getting used again to composing shots through a small viewfinder and trying to pick out the appropriate detail; exposure compensation and metering are still confusing me (ok, so if I set [] rather than [()] or [(o)], in what way will the camera get confused and how do I compensate?). And I can never remember what those symbols mean anyway. But; I know some of the effects I want to acheive and the methods to do so (grain=4xND filter + high ISO, B&W sky contrast=yellow/red filter), and I'm slowly getting to grips with the whole combination. The results are reasonable, and I think I can take them a lot further. | ||
| PC World - terrorist target? | Aug. 10th, 2006 11:49 am | |
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 Of course they're all completely ignoring the poster anyway. (ETA: and I note what it actually says is "Please leave your bags unattended") Update: all apple wireless kit withdrawn from sale after reports of "attacks on airports". | ||
| A fairly restful weekend | Aug. 6th, 2006 09:31 pm | |
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Containing family, roast dinner, and some light photography*. Mum was trying out my ixus and I was learning a little more about the EOS. It also turns out that my brother (who was around this weekend, but taking it easy today as he'd been racing yesterday) is somewhat accomplished with a camera: http://www.cantabphotos.com/view_photog (* that being the normal type, I'm told) mood:
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| A Great British Fowl-Up | Jul. 30th, 2006 07:27 pm | |
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OR: A Vile Canard OR: A Comedy of Errors OR: Two Double Bacardi And Cokes, Please OR: What The Hell Made You Think That Would Work Anyway? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lond The Duck Race was a farce of truly British proportions; I've not the strength to give you the full de tails of de ducks, but suffice to say it was, in the words of the announcer, "A bit of a disaster". And that was the bit I missed. No attempt was made to place the duck-containing booms (having 20000 rubber ducks escaping into the wild Not Being An Option) before the tide turned at 1:30; probably logical, but some previous testing would not have gone amiss. They layed the booms. They tangled and sunk. They disentangled them, relayed them, and they sunk again. One floated away down the river. They unrolled a new one, layed that, and it Somehow they managed to call some winners; I suspect they just made the numbers up. I managed not to see, or take a picture of, a single rubber duck. However I did get a bunch of pictures of people which are here. And yet, I rather enjoyed it all ;) | ||
| Far too hot for coherent thought | Jul. 21st, 2006 03:51 pm | |
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| ( So here's a picture of a chicken ) | ||
| Today's photography practice | Jul. 16th, 2006 05:40 pm | |
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was at Spitalfields Green Fair and City Farm, and included lots of lens-swapping. Need to RTFM on this camera more, but starting to get to grips with it & apply some techniques. Comments welcome. | ||
| I miss all^H^H^Hsome of the fun... | Jul. 15th, 2006 07:16 pm | |
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Sorry to have missed b-movie last night, but Thursday's blackout left me convinced that I should do something about my exhaustion levels, so I was in bed at about 9:30. This meant I could get up at 8:30 this morning having already had a good night's sleep, and actually make it to Bourough Market. Via Pimlico; oops, don't *read* when you're only going one stop from Brixton. Only planned to pick up a couple of things, but *that* never works, so I had to come back home afterwards to empty the rucksack before heading back out to the day's main plan; a trip to the London Wetland Centre. Via Jacob's photographic; no point trying to photograph wild waterfowl with a maximum lens of 55mm (x1.6). Well that's my excuse. Anyway, *very* fine afternoon down at the LWC; distinctly warm, but very pleasant and worth an afternoon's visit. Then back via only Sainsbury's, and roast veg shortly. I'll try and get some photos out shortly - but I promise nothing as regards quality as I'm entirely new to this camera/lens. ETA Pictures at http://www.phase.org/filestore/album/70 Some crops, no other retouches. Frankly life's too short; even *browsing* 8Mpx images on this laptop is painful. ETA2 Descriptions added to images, comments welcome. A couple of events for your diaries upcoming: Tomorrow: Spitalfields Green fair August 1-5: Great British Beer Festival. Featuring, I'm told, a cider bar with 60 options. | ||
| Today... | Apr. 15th, 2006 09:32 pm | |
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The second day of a weekend draws to a close, and there's two more left! This should happen more often! Quiet one today, as befitted the weather - woke late, did some shopping, cleaned the place up a bit. Dr Who ( [minor spoilers] ) B-movie was pretty good last night - lots of good friends - although my hearing issues* put me at a slight distance as ever which was irritating. And I'm still mentally blocked from dancing. Smirked at a few cameras though (it's hard-wired now). No, I won't be at Whitby, but I still need to do some hand-washing... Got home via Clapham North on pretty much the last tube and had to tackle the Long Trek, which is getting DULL! Damn you, LUL! I've uploaded a few more pics from daytime on Saturday: http://www.phase.org/filestore/album/60 * (my hearing is inadequate to make out conversations in clubs or loud pubs unless I'm impolitely close, so I'm either in people's faces or detached from any group - this is why I like music-free clubs, and gaming meets) PS: anything happening tomorrow or Monday? | ||
| B-movie? Maybe a bit later... | Apr. 14th, 2006 07:54 pm | |
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There will now be a post-dinner pause before I manage to peel myself off the sofa; I spent most of the day wandering around Regent's Park and London Zoo (most of which, it seems, is being rebuilt) and all that relaxed fresh air and exercise have left me comfortably flattened on the sofa. Some pics will follow shortly. ( A few here, cut for bugs ) | ||
| As mentioned | Feb. 16th, 2006 10:15 pm | |
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http://www.phase.org/filestore/album/30 | ||
| As requested | Feb. 4th, 2006 08:03 pm | |
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 "If only I'd known..." | ||
| No great content... | Jan. 8th, 2006 11:20 am | |
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| ( A few pics from yesterday ) | ||
| A few from last night | Nov. 26th, 2005 12:49 pm | |
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http://www.ch3.org.uk/filestore/album/3 (plenty more to sort through) ION: note to self: http://www.newscientist.com/podcast.ns | ||
| Whitby | Nov. 4th, 2005 10:18 pm | |
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I suppose I'd better put in my Whitby update before it slips my mind... ( Wed-Fri ) Report from further days will follow... | ||
| Ill-conceived marketing of our time... | Oct. 16th, 2005 04:54 pm | |
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| Fun cold this one | Sep. 30th, 2005 11:28 am | |
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Lets you feel fine - and thus like a complete slacker - when you sit watching TV, and then bloody awful when you try and move or think too hard. Still, when I did get up for some tea, I found a return visitor: 
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| Much 'otter today | Jul. 29th, 2005 06:25 pm | |
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| ( Read more... ) | ||
| Today's visitor | Jul. 23rd, 2005 10:45 am | |
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