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Comment on The National Archives is not as boring it sounds… by What math is used in cooking.

What math is used in cooking. — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:16:56 +0000

Math applications cooking….

Math applications of cooking. Math applications cooking. What math is used in cooking….

Comment on In DC for the week… by JohnGrey

JohnGrey — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 01:27:28 +0000

I’ve been through 8 years of marriage and a I have a 3-year-old… and there is no hell like your first escrow. My condolences sir, though congratulations on the purchase!

Bummer on the CF card. I hate it when I do that. And $32 for 256 MB is not fleecing, its rape. Ouch man.

Comment on Another quick update… by syrik

syrik — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:06:03 +0000

Hey Nalin! You’ve started posting again! Awesome.

Comment on Quick Update… by JohnGrey

JohnGrey — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:57:09 +0000

Congrats on the house! And can’t wait to see Tahoe shots, I’m jealous of your weekend. I was stuck at home trying to catch up on my cleaning!

Comment on LA’s Grand Central Market by Nalin

Nalin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:26:19 +0000

Ok fixed, sorry MP. Thanks to subscriber jerrodh, who noted that adding “clear: both” to the CSS for div.post-footer would solve the problem. So it did! FYI, other photo wordpressers.

Comment on A Sea (Gate) of External Drives by Nalin

Nalin — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:14:52 +0000

So, this thing arrives yesterday, I randomly decide to plug it in and turn on the autobackup feature. It just so happens that it backs up my photo folders. I get home from work today to find… catastrophic windows meltdown!!! Fortunately it appears that all ~100GB of photos are safe… whew!

That’s why I bought the thing, I realized I had stopped backing stuff up when my photos exceeded my puny ancient 20GB external (pretty hefty for when I got it). I did not however realize that such a quantum hiccup of computing fate was just around the corner.

I lucked out… don’t trust that you will too. Back up your drive, NOW.

Comment on LA’s Grand Central Market by MegaPixie

MegaPixie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:52:33 +0000

Wow, what happened to my comment there? Looks like a bug with the formatting…

Comment on LA’s Grand Central Market by MegaPixie

MegaPixie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:51:44 +0000

Your Spanish sucks! Looks like it did the job though! Now I want a taco…

Comment on I Can Hear the Bells…. by Nalin

Nalin — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 03:09:44 +0000

Thanks John, for the feedback. You’re right, the detail on the dress was something I was chasing all day… but there never was time to really experiment to get the exposure right. A slight underexposure with some bounce flash from above on the face probably would have done the trick as you say, though one would have to be careful to not fill-flash out the dress again in the process. Something to try next time for sure!

MegaPixie, I don’t mind at all! The custom picture style I used was sharpness 7, contrast +1, saturation +2, color tone neutral. Yes nearly all of the photos were post-processed. Cropping, sharpening, highlight/midtone/shadow adjust, and the rare noise removal were the main mods.

Thank you both for subscribing and commenting! I appreciate the feedback and questions.

Comment on I Can Hear the Bells…. by MegaPixie

MegaPixie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:29:11 +0000

The flower shot is beautiful! Question: if you don’t mind revealing your methods, what settings did you have for your User Defined picture mode on the XTi? And were these post-processed in anyway? Thanks!