Thursday, August 13, 2009
Sunflower Studies
Bought a bunch of cut sunflowers for my wife who is returning from her extended stay up north today. It also gave me the opportunity to play around a bit with my macro lens as well.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Learning More About How to Shoot Using the Macro Lens
Even with the macro lens, it is increasingly clear to me that good composition matters along with an interesting subject. So I'm glad this fly landed (and stayed still long enough) on this ripped leaf.
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
Acer Aspire One
I picked up a netbook today: an Acer Aspire One. I felt a little bit guilty about buying something which is powered by our main CPU rival, but I haven't been able to find one made by AMD as yet and, well, this was on sale.
My plan is to use it for writing while commuting. You will likely will see more written blog entries as a result.
One word of warning for those contemplating getting one of these: it takes a good half-hour or more for it to set itself up with Windows XP before you can actually do anything with it. Didn't get a lot of time to spend with it, though I did manage to install a few programs I expect to want, such as OpenOffice, Winamp, a movie codec pack and Stellarium to start.
Thought about going with a Linux-based version, but in the end I like convenience, and venerable Windows XP still delivers. (I have two machines that came with Vista, and much prefer the older OS, if only because it doesn't get in my way and is as top-heavy as the new OS).
A couple of other observations: I hate the fact that somebody decided that it would be a good idea to sacrifice a double-width Shift key for a single-key sized version adjacent to the little-used pipette/forward-slash key (I wonder if I can easily remap it?). Also, am amazed that Microsoft or Acer didn't reduce the multi-level nav-bar for Internet Explorer, as the default config takes up well over a third of the display. I ditched that almost immediately for a lightly customized Firefox browser.
Needing to take a picture of the day, I chose my new "toy".
Here's a close-up of its vast keyboard. ;-)
QA
Close-up of the screen (displaying Stellarium) using the macro lens.
Labels: Acer Aspire, macro, netbook, Stellarium
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Macro Fun
I picked up a new macro lens today from Henrys Camera store on the way home from work today. Have been putting it to the test in our garden. Here are a couple of sample shots using the lens:
Blossoming leaf bud from a dogwood tree.
The underside of a leaf
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