Archive for September, 2010

New Camera

This isn’t strictly jewellery-related but I’ve been dying to take photos of our backyard for about 18 months now, and I could never properly capture the forest-like proportions until the new camera got here. And this morning, the gorgeous fog and sunrise I see out my bathroom window nearly every day didn’t fail me. I popped out the window screen and, completely on auto, got this:

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Which is totally gorgeous and almost conveys the real beauty of this scenery (and also how dirty my windows are, but that’s not the point).

But then I started to play with the zoom. Watch at I manually get closer, and closer, and closer to the point where I am literally photographing things I can’t see with the naked eye:

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Click that last one and choose Actions >View All sizes to really see how close I got and the details on the thing.

Let’s take a closer look at that 30x zoom. I can only approximate where the zoomed-in portion was on the original because seriously… the camera sees better than I do.

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!!!!!

Also, some zero-editing (well, a very slight histogram edit) beach glass photos from this afternoon:

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Common Colours

Aqua

Black Beach Glass

Lavender Beach Glass

Yellow Beach Glass

Aqua, true Black, Lavender, Lemon Yellow

That’s all I accomplished this weekend… had a very sleepy Saturday and spent most of Friday hanging out with kittens. It’s hard to tear myself away for any reason!

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Just a big bunch of photos from the latest shipment to Arts North! I possibly went a LITTLE out of control with some of these :)

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Earrings & Pendants

I had an excellently productive 4-day weekend! More steampunk-vintage-whatsits (more on those later) as well as a big pile of firepolished glass pendants and earrings. I didn’t take individual photos of the pendants, but here’s a pretty good shot of most of them:

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They’re pretty fun to make, lots of organic swirls and such. What I really like about these pendants & the earrings is picking out the colour combos. I’ve got dozens of colours of firepolished glass beads and I can spend hours just picking out fun new ways to put them together. Then of course I have to wrap them but that’s fun too :)

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Laird and I bought a new camera on the weekend – a Fuji Finepix HS10. It’s got a 30x zoom! It’s got a 1cm macro! It’s beautiful! While I still need to find the time to do something beyond “auto”, the “auto” setting is doing pretty damn good for me so far. I’ve had to adjust exposure on these, and white balance on some others, but I’m so very happy with it.