Yet More Random Photographs from the Back Garden
Posted 12 September 2008 in Random Photographs by Catriona
But there’s a different reason this time. Nick arrived home this afternoon—where I was lying on the sofa finishing off Diana Wynne Jones’s Conrad’s Fate, which I’ve owned for three years but hadn’t read before, and generally feeling sorry for myself, with this cold—with a shiny new camera.
He’s been dropping hints about this for weeks; it’s a gift for completing my Ph.D. successfully. (I have a nagging sense of guilt that I’d bullied him into a present by being rather cranky when I found out he hadn’t even told his parents about the thesis reports coming in.)
But it’s an awesome camera:
Significantly better than my old one, as the macro shots of flowers show most effectively:
So I spent the evening, before the unexpected storm came roaring in, anyway, running around the garden photographing as many flowers as I could find. I used to love taking macro photographs of flowers, and this macro function is a thousand times better than the one on the old camera.
So I’m rather afraid there are going be more photographs on the blog from now on. But at least they’ll mostly be photographs of flowers and other interesting objects, and not self-portraits.
That’s one thing I can promise: it’s highly unlikely there’ll ever be a self-portrait on this blog.
Share your thoughts [7]
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Matthew Smith wrote at Sep 12, 11:29 am
Aaww, what a brilliant present!
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heretic wrote at Sep 13, 12:07 pm
Welcome to the S5 club ;) It’s an awesome camera.
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Catriona wrote at Sep 13, 12:13 pm
How on earth did you know what sort of camera it is, Heretic? Can you tell that just from the pictures? Or has Nick been taking advantage of the fact that I don’t subscribe to his Twitter feed?
(It is an awesome camera. It’s actually the sort of camera I could use in my work—it’s sufficiently high end that I could take effective photographs of manuscript material and Victorian periodicals with it, which is often the fastest and best—and cheapest—way of replicating them.)
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Nick Caldwell wrote at Sep 13, 12:59 pm
Camera model information is in the image metadata. You can find out a lot about how a picture was taken by invoking Get Info on an image file.
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Catriona wrote at Sep 13, 01:00 pm
Wait, people can invoke things on my image files? That sounds a bit . . . weird. I’m not sure I like the sound of that.
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heretic wrote at Sep 17, 08:26 am
I had a specially trained water dragon hide in the bushes taking surveillance photos… ;)
Nick is right, Opera displays JPG EXIF metadata when you view image properties. It’s pretty cool. Flickr uses the same info. Depending on the camera you can get everything from exposure settings, whether the flash fired, capture modes, etc. Quite useful when working out “what did I do?” later on.
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Catriona wrote at Sep 17, 08:33 am
I’m strictly a point-and-shoot photographer, though, and I doubt I’ll ever be good at the technical side of it—I get confused by that sort of thing too readily.
Still, if I do want to explore that side of it, at least I have an awesome camera with which to do it.