Category Archives: Photo Stuff

Life lately

Posted on by

Life has gotten another update, bringing it up to today. Yay life.

I also got inspired to start working on the RPG Get! CCG again. I got the website up after about an hour of playing around with CSS and figuring how to hack stylesheets so IE does what I want it to (stupid non-standards compliant IE7). No cards yet though… still finishing up the base set.

Didn’t go to Capture the Flag with Stuff in the park today, and I’m very glad I didn’t go. Instead had a nice quiet day by myself (making tasty chicken and rice and beans for lunch, and working on RPG Get!) and then had some social activity at Sharon/Charles/Matt’s housewarming party. CtFwS would have been too much crazyness.

This is basically a dump of photos from the past few weeks:
Played with the zoom on my 18-200mm lens.

Went to the SCS picnic.

Went to Dim Sum with coworkers.

Went to Trisha’s to watch movies. Saw Smart People (finally) and decided it was a horrible movie. Dueled with Alfred with my new (very slow to reload) camera.

Had Sharon, Charles, Justin, and Mark over for games.




Went to Sharon/Charles/Matt’s housewarming, where there was Space Munchkin and N64 and Wii and lots of tasty food and wine.

Camera

Posted on by

I bought myself a new camera today.

It’s the Samsung SL30 in Silver (because they sold out of Black literally 30 minutes ago).

I paid $69.99 for it, plus about $12 shipping and taxes (because the retailer is located in California and so must charge tax on items shipped within the state). Overall not a bad deal. After the shipping and taxes, it’s around $17 less than other places online.

I’ve been wanting a compact point and shoot for a while, and this one has some pretty nice reviews. Hopefully soon I’ll actually suck it up and plop down the money for a new SLR body, but this thing should tide me over for a while.

Photo Firsts (Zach)

Posted on by

Life has gotten an update that finishes it up until yesterday (May 1, 2009). Now I’ll need to go back and tag high school photos to keep updating. Bleh.

My first photo of Zach:

July 8, 2007 in front of Purnell/Warner.

Also, I’ve gone through and updated stats for everyone who has photo firsts so far and switched over to the new 4-month block format.
Edit: Those stats can be found here

Poor camera

Posted on by

Remember my senior year when my camera started creating black gradients at the bottom of photos when the shutter speed was too fast (over 1/60 or so, depending on the focal length)?
It’s doing it again now, noticibly so with the flash when zoomed. Ugh.

If you see me taking photos with my camera upside down this next week, that’s why. For some reason, doing so eliminates the problem. I will also likely shoot buggy this way since 1/200 at 300mm = half the frame is black.

On the bright side of this… the last time I had my camera repaired, I told myself it would not get another repair. As it seems to be on its way out again, I will be buying a D80 at some point in the near future. Yayz.

Also, in unrelated news, I did a test shoot of photos of 8 today, and it was interesting.

Photo Firsts (8, Em)

Posted on by

Life has another couple months’ worth of updates.

Here’s my first photo of 8:

March 26, 2005 when he came for CtFwS and stayed in my room, on the way to late night diner food.

Here’s my first photo of Em:

September 9, 2005 during the Underground Tour. It’s a really bad photo of her… apologies to her.

I’ve changed up the stats a little from previous posts. I figure that, since I graduated in December 2007, it doesn’t make sense to break up photo stats into semester + summer ranges. The stats will therefore be in 4-month chunks starting with January 2008. I’ll go back and redo all the stats that I’ve posted already when the current range ends (April 30, 2009). Life will start breaking up the same way once I get through December 2007 (and we are getting close… up to October 2007 already).

    8: 2819

  • August 1, 2004 to December 31, 2004: 0
  • January 1, 2005 to May 31, 2005: 46
  • June 1, 2005 to July 31, 2005: 0
  • August 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005: 330
  • January 1, 2006 to May 31, 2006: 144
  • June 1, 2006 to July 31, 2006: 150
  • August 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006: 75
  • January 1, 2007 to May 31, 2007: 398
  • June 1, 2007 to July 31, 2007: 312
  • August 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007: 1336
  • January 1, 2008 to April 30, 2008: 28
  • May 1, 2008 to August 31, 2008: 0
  • September 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008: 0
  • January 1, 2009 to present: 0
    Emily: 1692

  • August 1, 2004 to December 31, 2004: 0
  • January 1, 2005 to May 31, 2005: 0
  • June 1, 2005 to July 31, 2005: 0
  • August 1, 2005 to December 31, 2005: 75
  • January 1, 2006 to May 31, 2006: 85
  • June 1, 2006 to July 31, 2006: 7
  • August 1, 2006 to December 31, 2006: 42
  • January 1, 2007 to May 31, 2007: 18
  • June 1, 2007 to July 31, 2007: 0
  • August 1, 2007 to December 31, 2007: 0
  • January 1, 2008 to April 30, 2008: 185
  • May 1, 2008 to August 31, 2008: 226
  • September 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008: 144
  • January 1, 2009 to present: 910

Edit: Unrelated to anything, I found this rather nice plugin today that lets you view EXIF data for any image on the web.

Also, sweet dreams are apparently made of Keith. Some of them want to Keith you. But some of them want to be Keithed by you.