Note: this is an entry from my other blogsite in blogger.com, and it is a significant milestone since I learned how to paste pictures as part of my blogs starting with this entry. This was done last May 4. 2008, and showed my very first (and second picture posted as part of a blog).
Now? Well, you could say that I’m learning – sometimes slowly, other times I seem to go by leaps and bounds. Heck, now I’m considering shifting to a more sophisticated camera – maybe a digital SLR… but until then, you’ll possibly notice how I’ve (hopefully) gotten better at posting pictures with my blogs – after all, the blogs say the words, but as they say… a picture is worth a thousand words and can help convey what I’m talking about.
I’m still experimenting with this blog – at least, when time allows. I find it a necessary extension of my experimenting with photography – though having said that, my camera is a simple point and shoot, digital
Ixus V by Canon – and I do intend to go SLR… but not yet.
Naturally, I’ve been wondering how pictures can be added – its not a question of ‘can it be done?’ but more a question of ‘how can it be done?’. After all, I’ve seen others do it, and given time, I know I could do this as well – soon as I discover how.
Well, this site allows pictures to be added – so here’s giving it a try…
Exhibit #1 – a picture of my daughter Bernice during her uncle Dict’s wedding. Nothing too fancy, just a straight up flash photography take. Results are clear, and one cans even say that they’re picture perfect. Discerning eyes, though, may say that the picture lacks over-all depth, though the presence of her cousin and brother in the picture’s background seems to cover that angle.
Okay – it seems that I am limited in what I can enter in this site – either that or I’ve not yet discovered how to do what I want to do, which is namely publish more than one picture in one article. So for now, it seems that I’ve got to place these pictures in separate articles.
That said, here’s my experiment with monotones. Though I started out with a colored picture, I later changed its color mixture with your usual Microsoft picture editor. This here is my son, Bryce – in profile, holding a gun (not a real one, of course – just an airsoft version). The picture’s graininess was an offshoot of the experiment, but rather than clean it up – I felt that it left a nice effect.
Note again: as is obvious, I got around the perceived one picture per blog article limitation – as it was not a limitation at all, rather it was an undocumented option – one I had to experiment to guess at, as no instruction about this capability was obvious. Guess the blog designers assumed that everyone would discover it eventually – as they assumed people blogging would experiment. Then again, maybe it was in the FAQs, and I didn’t see them. Ah well… the point is, I discovered that I could do it.
~ by Butch Syyap on July 22, 2008.
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