I’ve been reading Strobist all day at work, and got all inspired by this entry on apparent light size. I was up at mum and dad’s last night and made a DIY reflector (link for instructions), and used that tonight in place of an umbrella for these photos. I’m very impressed with how they turned out! I did a very slight brightness bump and a crop in Aperture, other than that they’re exactly how they came off the camera.
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I took a couple of macro photos of the barbecue at Mum and Dad’s at the end of last month, but they weren’t particularly interesting. I did some adjusting of the curves in Photoshop today, and this is the result. I’m quite pleased!
EDIT
I’ve uploaded the two original photos, before I adjusted them.
Yes, I’ve been up and mum and dad’s for Sunday lunch, and yes, I took way too many photos of Lily!
Lily is taking after me!
Some Lily!
Phew! That was a good weekend.
Friday night we went over to a friend’s for random drinking and talking, although we down to the local pub after that. I’d forgotten how much I hate the pubs that are packed full and have obnoxiously loud music where you can’t actually have a proper conversation without shredding your throat shoating.
Last night everyone came around to mine for drinking and Rock Band, as my roommates were both out. Great fun was had by all! And I’m actually not nearly as bad on the drums as I thought I was, although I have zero hand-foot co-ordination. I can do easy difficulty on the drums pretty well, but medium adds a whole lot more foot pedal and I can just can’t get the hang of it. Hand-eye, no worries, but hand-foot? Fuhgeddaboudit.
gypocalypse came over this evening to pick up his Rock Band stuff, and we were playing some Guitar Hero World Tour. We unlocked the three Tool songs (Schism, Parabola, and Vicarious)… holy. Fucking. Shit. They are INSANE, and I was only playing on medium! My hand totally cramped up by the end of it.
Once kungfupolarbear is here we are totally having regular Rock Band-slash-World Tour nights at my house! It will be excellent.
A few photos of Lily I hadn’t gotten around to uploading yet.
I am really looking forward to going back to Boston!
scarydan mentioned he’d seen a show at what I’m fairly sure is the theater kungfupolarbear and I saw Pineapple Express in when I was visiting (Brattle Theater, for those wondering). I’ve been looking around on Google Maps and looking at all the places we visited and going through the street view in the area around kungfupolarbear‘s house. I can’t wait to see everyone there again too. 🙂
Some Lily!
Some Lily!
She has an unholy obsession with Shrek 2 at the moment. Thankfully my copy is digital… no wearing out VHS tapes like we used to when we were kids!