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APhAD Recap: Month Four

Journal Entry: Thu May 1, 2008, 8:03 PM
Mixed Blessings This month went pretty good, all things considered, quite a surprising number of keepers (in my opinion), and not only that, even though for two and a half weeks I was without my D50, I managed to gain something useful from that experience.



Ten images, thirty days, thankfully, I don't even need to get the calculator to work out the percentages, exactly 33.3r% in the 'keeper' range, there were a few other 'near misses' too, however, a 1/3rd hit rate is nothing to be sniffed at.

This month, as mentioned, I was without my D50 for two and a half weeks and I was relying on a £100 video camera (that thankfully recorded to SD memory).

The camera itself had no manual controls, save for exposure compensation (which is only really useful in bright light, in lower light, the camera had a bottom shutter limit of 1/11th of a second, so using exposure compensation to increase the exposure length would not have worked).
In addition the quality of its files left a lot to be desired, the JPEG's were not compressed that well (rather, they were, they were compressed too much), and the lens, being fixed focal length, didn't help matters much either.

Still, one shouldn't blame his tools, and I didn't, the camera itself did have a few advantages that my D50 doesn't have, the three main ones being that it's small (not really, but it was jacket pocketable), it was light and it has an articulated LCD display (obviously).
All of which meant that I was able to take the camera to places I'd normally not be able to take a camera, and that, when it did come to taking the photo's, I'd have more framing opportunities (despite the lack of a zoom lens) because I was able to shoot from the hip, or above my head or what-have-you without contorting my body to get into those positions.

In addition to this, I managed to work around (somewhat) the limitations of the file output of the camera by making the camera upsize the image when it came to save the image, and then, in processing, I converted the file to 16bit and downsized it to the 5MP that the camera is supposed to capture.
Granted, upsizing and downsizing decreases the quality of an image, but all things considered, the resizing didn't make much of a difference to the image quality (primarily because it wasn't that good to start off with).
Still, with that extra computed data, I had more leeway when it came to manipulations which more than made up for the difference.

I was also forced to change other aspects of my image processing.
For example, on my D50 files, I would normally apply my image manipulations directly to the image itself.
However, with the limitations of the images I was getting from the video camera, that would have been impractical, so I had to use adjustment layers instead, now that I have the D50 back, I am still using those techniques, since they allow much greater flexibility with my image editing, and my image editing can be more easily done in stages if necessary.

In short, while I didn't necessarily have the tools I'd have preferred to use, the fact that I had a change of pace meant that, this month, I learned just as much about photography than I have done, so far, during the entire time of this challenge.





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To Do



  1. Write a To Do I actually get around to doing :bucktooth:

  2. Get the gallery system for ^cooley's website done and dusted - Done as much as needed

  3. Write Phobos, for APhAD, in time for the new year - working, not feature complete

  4. Write or find a hit counter system thingy

  5. Learn to take pretty pictures

  6. Learn that the outside really isn't that scary

  7. Write a novel, or five

  8. Finish reading Prophet Without Honour - Pretty good book given that it's based on a Free MMO :bucktooth:

  9. Pop in to dAmn

  10. Get a Life, maybe - psh, yeah, like that's going to happen, done because it's never going to happen :B

  11. ?????

  12. PROFIT!!


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Devious Information

Lewis Upperton
Twenty Two
Brighton, UK

Website Developer
Photographer

lewisupperton.com
sineout.com/blog
aphotoaday.sineout.com

Me and My Life
I live in Brighton in the dark and gloomy south coast of Britland.
I am pretty left brained so I like basically anything that has a technical tilt to it. I have multiple hobbies which are listed below but my primaries are Photography and Website Development.

The usual stuff applies, I like long walks on the beach, and curling up in front of a roaring fire with a laptop and an internet connection to keep me going.

dA
My main task is to get in the way of everyone doing their jobs and generally to be a pain in the back side.

On the off chance that I try to do something effective, I can and will generally be found wandering the forums to look for prey (threads) to kill (lock).
Alternatively, I can also generally be found in #devart or in #MNAdmin.
  • Current Age: Twenty Two
  • Current Residence: Brighton, UK
  • deviantWEAR sizing preference: Mens XL
  • Print preference: Lustre preferably, Large as is Feasible, Frameless
  • Interests: Music, Photography, Physics, Computers, Web Development
  • Favourite genre of music: Music
  • Operating System: Windows Vista Home Premium x64
  • MP3 player of choice: Winamp
  • Favourite cartoon character: Road Runner
  • Tools of the Trade: Nikon D50, Photoshop CS2

Devious Comments

=realillusions:iconrealillusions: 1 day 15 hours ago
:lol:

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:sing: they say a man should always dress for the job he wants, so why'm I dressed up like a pirate in this restaurant? It's all because some hacker stole my identity, now i'm in here every evening serving chowder and iced tea. shoulda gone to FREECREDITR
=realillusions:iconrealillusions: 1 day 16 hours ago
making me lose the game :shakefist:

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:sing: they say a man should always dress for the job he wants, so why'm I dressed up like a pirate in this restaurant? It's all because some hacker stole my identity, now i'm in here every evening serving chowder and iced tea. shoulda gone to FREECREDITR
=realillusions:iconrealillusions: 1 day 17 hours ago
:|

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:sing: they say a man should always dress for the job he wants, so why'm I dressed up like a pirate in this restaurant? It's all because some hacker stole my identity, now i'm in here every evening serving chowder and iced tea. shoulda gone to FREECREDITR
=zombierap21:iconzombierap21: 2 days 15 hours ago
HERRRO :B

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YES,no maybe i dont know can u repeat the question?
crazy parodies songs composers
the giffle creator
@sine-out:iconsine-out: 2 days 18 hours ago
I've never claimed to be a real artist, so everything works out just fine :aww:

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!myartisgood:iconmyartisgood: 2 days 19 hours ago
why did you lock my post?

real artists don't lock posts
=NathanofCanada:iconNathanofCanada: 2 days 19 hours ago
O, oohhhh! Oops, sorry *d'oh*. Sorry, it's like my first time posting on the forum thingy, I got mixed up.

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[link] to my photographs.
[link] <- if you dare
@sine-out:iconsine-out: 2 days 19 hours ago
No, I totally didn't know, how silly of me :roll:
We have separate forums for a reason, deviants is general forum for anything that can't be categorised into any of the other forums, since yours could be categorised into the gaming forum, it should go there.

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=NathanofCanada:iconNathanofCanada: 2 days 19 hours ago
Gee, thanks. You know that it was an open forum, right?

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[link] to my photographs.
[link] <- if you dare
~Kwench:iconKwench: 5 days 5 hours ago
Oooh, bitch!

You just made me lose the game!

I was going for about 4 months as well!
:iconcryingplz:
*Comrade-Kelly:iconComrade-Kelly: 6 days 14 minutes ago
:heart:

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that works harder than my heart.


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=distancexkills:icondistancexkills: 6 days 2 hours ago
:blowkiss:

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<UnusTurpisOrdo> she's like zombierap21 with a college education sometimes.
<schmaltz> UnusTurpisOrdo: or zombierap21 with a huge set of tits
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=rakastajatar:iconrakastajatar: Apr 30, 2008, 11:16:42 AM
your the first @ i've seen

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=Oasispegasus:iconOasispegasus: Apr 29, 2008, 12:39:59 PM
Beautiful gallery

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=distancexkills:icondistancexkills: Apr 28, 2008, 12:37:08 AM
:hug:
Have a nice week

:heart:

:blowkiss:

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Q:What's your favourite animal?
A:ZOEY

<UnusTurpisOrdo> she's like zombierap21 with a college education sometimes.
<schmaltz> UnusTurpisOrdo: or zombierap21 with a huge set of tits
=Torsten85:iconTorsten85: Apr 25, 2008, 8:50:40 AM
:iconrudeboyskunkplz::iconrudeboyskunkplz2::iconrudeboyskunkplz3:

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=sugartwat:iconsugartwat: Apr 22, 2008, 12:42:29 AM
Thank you for putting my forum tab idea in your collection. =)

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=distancexkills:icondistancexkills: Apr 21, 2008, 10:44:17 AM
have a lovely monday
:icongromp:

:heart:

Z.

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Q:What's your favourite animal?
A:ZOEY

<UnusTurpisOrdo> she's like zombierap21 with a college education sometimes.
<schmaltz> UnusTurpisOrdo: or zombierap21 with a huge set of tits
=frozenpandaman:iconfrozenpandaman: Apr 19, 2008, 3:32:21 PM
Where did your watch from me go? :0
~Yehire:iconYehire: Apr 17, 2008, 8:21:16 PM
to be honest,they are real good!:)