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missroseroseI have been informed by the Powers That Be (or, at least, the Powers That Keep Track of These Things) that the cat-picture-post ratio in my LJ is severely lacking. Given how much I hate to be behind the curve, and given that a very special elf gave me quite a nice point-and-shoot camera so I wouldn't have to get out Brian's behemoth of an SLR every time I wanted a quick snap of something, I thought I'd work on bringing things up to par.
So, without further ado...I bring you Leo.
A few notes:
--Leo is quite possibly one of the most photogenic cats I've ever met. (Look at that last one if you don't believe me, and tell me it isn't Christmas-card ready.) I swear he mugs for the camera - if he sees you taking pictures, within a few minutes he'll adopt some classically adorable pose and look at you with those "Picture now plz?" eyes. And then he'll hold the pose until he's absolutely certain you're done. (I think Brian may have inadvertently trained this behavior with his habit of giving him treats after taking his picture.)
--For a $200-level point-and-shoot, the Sony DSC-H55 takes some remarkably nice low-light photos. In all three of these, the only light source was the Christmas tree, and while they came out a bit dark, a bump of Picasa's auto-contrast button brought it up to just about perfection. They're not super-crisp like you'd get with a flash or a bright light source, but they're surprisingly non-noisy (and the dreaded smeariness from noise reduction isn't bad at all).
--Speaking of Picasa - I hate to sound like a broken record, but have I mentioned I love Google-made products? Easier to use even than iPhoto, a surprisingly wide variety of editing tools, and not intimidating at all - plus, auto-upload is the shit, yo. Honestly, I think a large part of the tapering-off of my interest in pictures, even before my last camera disappeared, was how much time it took to edit/crop/resize manually and then go log in to Photobucket and upload. Kind of feels like cheating, being able to do everything in one spot. And, it's free. How do you beat that?
--And now...chocolate-chip cookies! Who says the holidays are over?
So, without further ado...I bring you Leo.
A few notes:
--Leo is quite possibly one of the most photogenic cats I've ever met. (Look at that last one if you don't believe me, and tell me it isn't Christmas-card ready.) I swear he mugs for the camera - if he sees you taking pictures, within a few minutes he'll adopt some classically adorable pose and look at you with those "Picture now plz?" eyes. And then he'll hold the pose until he's absolutely certain you're done. (I think Brian may have inadvertently trained this behavior with his habit of giving him treats after taking his picture.)
--For a $200-level point-and-shoot, the Sony DSC-H55 takes some remarkably nice low-light photos. In all three of these, the only light source was the Christmas tree, and while they came out a bit dark, a bump of Picasa's auto-contrast button brought it up to just about perfection. They're not super-crisp like you'd get with a flash or a bright light source, but they're surprisingly non-noisy (and the dreaded smeariness from noise reduction isn't bad at all).
--Speaking of Picasa - I hate to sound like a broken record, but have I mentioned I love Google-made products? Easier to use even than iPhoto, a surprisingly wide variety of editing tools, and not intimidating at all - plus, auto-upload is the shit, yo. Honestly, I think a large part of the tapering-off of my interest in pictures, even before my last camera disappeared, was how much time it took to edit/crop/resize manually and then go log in to Photobucket and upload. Kind of feels like cheating, being able to do everything in one spot. And, it's free. How do you beat that?
--And now...chocolate-chip cookies! Who says the holidays are over?
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