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I did not make it to the 48 Hour Film Project meeting roughly 34 miles away. The closest freeway is 5/I-96/I-275/I-696. I started out and discovered too late that the part I needed to take was closed. Long story short I suddenly began to think that perhaps overnight I had been transported to an alternate reality in which I was not allowed to leave the city where I am currently. I eventually ended up contacting the "leader" of the group and told him I just could not make it in time. Fortunately, there is another meeting tomorrow. I WILL get out of the city and make it to the meeting. In other news, James Moran who has written an episode for Dr. Who, Primeval and two for Torchwood (most recently Day 3 for the current series) among other shows is on Twitter. I felt bad for him because he ended up spending several hours trying to explain that he was not personally responsible for an episode he did not write but in which he still received a lot of backlash. Today there was discussion about ghosts. I'm not entirely certain how it originated, but there it was. JM tweeted about everyone shouting for the Ghostbusters and "tinkle the top two notes on the piano- apparently ghosts hate that". I passed to him the links for my videos of the Masters of Lightning playing Ghostbusters and the Dr. Who theme tune with the musical tesla coils telling him they were best versions ever, although I did not tell him they were my videos. I had absolutely no expectation whatsoever of him even seeing it but I figured what the hell. Not only did he see it, he watched them and responded back to me: "That rocks. Hard." Tags: adventure, link, tesla coils, tv, twitter, video
Current Mood:  dorky
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 This really is a follow-up to the discussions here yesterday about the relative merits of compacts vs DSLR's, and their respective abilities to produce decent images with ease. So I experimented. The subject in each case is a clivia that sits in our basement two-thirds of the year, but flourishes on our porch, right by the front door, during the simmer months. We've had it for over twenty year and it flowers every June. Anyway, both images were taken within seconds of each other, so the lighting conditioins were the same This first one was taken on my little Lumix LX-2. Frankly I don't mess much with this camera. It's usually on one of the automatic setting, in this case close-up. I chose to exploit its ability to capture a no-nonsense image, whose merit I suppsoe is that it plays on the symmetry of the subject. It's the kind of shot that's easy to pull off on a compact. The EXIF data shows it was shot at ISO 22, f4.9 at 1/8. The second shot is from the Nikon D90; I went fully manual on this one, deliberately under-expsoing it. I don't think I could have done this easily on the LX2 (at least without heavy post-editing); although the compact has full manual settings, the issue here is that the poor viewfinder makes it hard to see what you've just shot, so it prevents you from thinkering with the exposure after each shot, which is generally the way folks do manual. Because the ISO was pushed to 3200, you'll note that grain has set in, but I'm OK with that here. Other settings: f10 at 1/80. The next logical step would have been to convert this image to b/w perhaps, but I didn' go there, as it would have made comparisons all that more difficult.  I guess this exercise just reinforces the fact that interesting images can be taken on all kinds of cameras. You may in fact prefer the one taken here on the much cheaper camera of the two. It doesn't really matter. The point, I think, is that whatever camera you're using, there are ways to exploit its strengths and cover off its weaknesses. What do you think?
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This is nice: The German version of The Last Colony has been nominated for the 
