So… after a little more than a year with my first digital SLR - I decided the take the plunge and go from a camera that was just beyond my ability to one that is WAY beyond my ability. Hopefully I’ll give this one a bit more time to catch up to it.
There [...]
I took this picture a few weeks ago (along with this one) had originally marked this photo as rejected - but I hadn’t deleted it yet - and in the process of showing some of the features in Lightroom -
we spotted this cloud formation:
It’s no Mother Theresa in a sticky bun or anything - [...]
About a month ago I wrote about Adobe Lightroom’s Direct Positive effect and the dramatic effects it had on several of the pictures I had taken.
Well, I should have been shooting in raw. Applying the Direct Positive settings to Raw photographs has a much more understated impact - at least for some of [...]
The brown-eyed girl and I managed to get out for a walk along the trails at Yates Mill County Park today.
¶
Posted 11 March 2007
† jayoung
§
Uncategorized
‡
°
Also tagged:
Set the correct time on your cameras. Which I unfortunately failed to do for a bunch of pictures taken today.
But chalk one up for yet more things I don’t understand - my D80 knows about time zones and DST - why the heck doesn’t it automatically change?
(unless of course I had [...]
¶
Posted 11 March 2007
† jayoung
§
Uncategorized
‡
°
Also tagged:
I took the training wheels off my Nikon D80 yesterday.
You see, I’m a graduate of the point and shoot camera. I’ve had decent P&S digitals to this point, and my entire photographic way of being has consisted of having a sometimes decent eye for composition, and hoping that the camera would get everything [...]
¶
Posted 04 March 2007
† jayoung
§
Uncategorized
‡
°
Also tagged:
I had the opportunity to go to lunch with Ben and James earlier this week and for the first time in recent memory, our lunch conversation was actually not about work. Instead we talked for a bit about Photography.
There was curiosity about what the “Direct Positive” settings did that I mentioned for this photo: [...]
¶
Posted 22 February 2007
† jayoung
§
Uncategorized
‡
°
Also tagged:
Okay, so it got the lightroom “direct positive” treatment - but it worked well for it.
(better large)
¶
Posted 18 February 2007
† jayoung
§
Uncategorized
‡
°
Also tagged:
I think this one turns out to be my favorite of the weekend:
But is just me - or are carousel animals completely scary?
¶
Posted 11 February 2007
† jayoung
§
Uncategorized
‡
°
Also tagged:
I think it’s this one:
But I enjoyed taking a number of pictures this weekend and other than busting my rear on the rocks at the old lassiter mill (”save a camera, fall on your elbow”) - I was happy with a few of them.
Have I mentioned I really like Adobe Lightroom recently? [...]
So I have way too many IT and Computing syndication feeds filling up my newsreader and not enough photography-oriented ones.
However, I’ve seen a paucity of photography-oriented sites with syndication feeds (most of them seem to prefer to lock up most of their content in forums without feeds) but I think I’m just looking in the [...]
¶
Posted 10 February 2007
† jayoung
§
Uncategorized
‡
°
Also tagged:
I’m still working on figuring out exposures. The D80 is definitely not a set it and forget it camera.
¶
Posted 27 January 2007
† jayoung
§
Uncategorized
‡
°
Also tagged:
So in completely non-system administrator news, I have decided to buy a new digital camera. It’s been a little too long since I’ve spent some time pursuing any semblance photography hobby. My current camera is a Nikon Coolpix 5700 that I’ve had for for almost 3 years now and that seems [...]
