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[moominmolly]

Taking 90 minutes to drive a 20 or maybe 30 minute commute is not my idea of a great morning. On the bright side, now that dilletante has spent an hour rubbing my lower back just so for the past 2 evenings, I am feeling a lot more like getting up and walking around than I had been. This is great.

I clearly need to get back into the camera habit.

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[ivorjawa.livejournal.com]

That's an awesome icon.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

I have to agree :)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Thank you both! :)

[bluepapercup]

I got to see it get painted!

[kungfoogirl.livejournal.com]

I miss your pictures, hon.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :) I miss being a picture-taker. That's my goal, to get back into daily photos by the end of July.

[bluepapercup]

Dude, YEAH. Traffic was hellacious this morning, what's up with that!?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

No idea! I kept expecting to see an accident or something, but no. Was a little bit of drizzle really that horrifying?

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Looking down on Storrow Drive from the bridge I was walking over, I could see that all the drains had backed up and the puddles were gigantic. This was when it had only been raining for an hour, too. I also passed a stalled bus, which might've slowed things down even more.

Also, nice icon!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yay! It was taken at Firefly (http://firefly.chaoshacker.org/), where my belly was painted by a wonderful woman whose name I've forgotten.

[bluepapercup]

I know that near the city there was flooding, but as far as I know, up where you and I travel, there wasn't any. I think Boston drivers really are just that boneheadded in the rain. (and the snow, and...well, you know.)

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

Yuck! My commute was not bad, especially for a rainy day, but I also drove veeeeery early :)

[coraline]

maybe i'm not unhappy that i picked today to unintentionally sleep in til 9... there was no traffic at all then.

and... yay photos!
i need more rebel practice. got any tips or hints?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

tips or hints! Hmmmmm. Other than "bracket all your shots" and "use the histogram", not really. You have a staggering eye for the nifty, already. :)

[coraline]

bracket?
i know of this bracketing thing, but not really how to use it. you just always have shots set to take at 3 exposure settings? or?

and i also don't really understand how to "use" the histograms.... i should bug you and make you show me what knowedge you derive from them :)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Without the camera in front of me I can't picture how to do it, annoyingly. But I'd love to talk about histograms! Let's sit around and play with cameras, some time. :)

[coraline]

ok! i'll move to email and try to pick a date...

[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

huh, interesting! i never use the saturation histogram, except when cleaning pictures up in photoshop. but i cheat. i set the exposure about a quarter-stop underexposed from its default, so there's always enuf color left in too-bright areas to fix them later.

i also think i've got the metering set funny... probably center-weighting rather than area weighting. have to look at home, tho.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

But it's so rewarding to look at the histogram while you're taking the pictures, to get an idea of where all of the information is in a shot. I mean, it looks the same as a histogram you'd see in photoshop or the gimp, but you see it instantly. :)

I guess I don't know if it's *useful*, really, but I do use it.

[twoeleven.livejournal.com]

oh, yeah, there's much to be said for knowing whether the picture is any good right away. otoh, i've had a certain success :) with the brute force approach. for every picture i post, i take between three and fifteen shots of the subject. the latter was that bridge. so many choices, so little time between dodging cars. :)

oh, and i just got a fancy-ass tripod with a pistol-grip dealie for aiming the camera -- so much easier than setting each axis separately. one more thing i'll corrupt you into getting. ;)

[maighread.livejournal.com]

Yah for less back pain!

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

*does a little dance*

[maighread.livejournal.com]

WhoooOOoo! Shake it momma! (Whoops...that was out loud wasn't it?)