The Pencil Guy » flickr http://hourann.com Hourann’s illogical blog Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:46:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 An experiment with a cat, a tripod, and HDR http://hourann.com/blog/2006/12/16/an-experiment-with-a-cat-a-tripod-and-hdr http://hourann.com/blog/2006/12/16/an-experiment-with-a-cat-a-tripod-and-hdr#comments Sat, 16 Dec 2006 08:21:12 +0000 azza-bazoo http://hourann.com/blog/2006/12/16/an-experiment-with-a-cat-a-tripod-and-hdr My cat, sleeping on a chair, in my first attempt at HDR

I’ve discovered High Dynamic Range photography in the last few days, primarily from seeing things on Flickr, so when I saw the cat being obligingly sleepy (and thus shootable at several exposures) I thought I’d give it a whirl.

Thus I present this slightly-higher-than-usual-DR photo as evidence of my first foray into this crazy world …

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E-mail and SMS invites will be going out shortly. But far and away the coolest way to be invited to my party is to get one of my Flickr MiniCards!

[Some of my Flickr MOO cards!]

I echo the widespread sentiment that these cards are awesome, and almost everyone to whom I’ve given one has mentioned their coolness. But I was nabbed by a few gotchas:

  • The cards are matte — which isn’t a problem, and is probably better than gloss, but still caught me unawares.
  • I managed to break their system by trying to print photos I’d only just uploaded … but I think they’ve fixed that problem now.
  • Their software had some trouble with the Unicode punctuation characters I fed it. Fortunately MOO’s customer service is awesome and I got almost-completely-fixed free cards out of them — and promptly, too!

If you want a card, even if you can’t come, get in touch with me! :-)

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