The first 10 posts of this blog have to do with cameras I have collected over the years. It is not the only thing I will write about. My plan is to write about my DCC Minox Leica M3 Plus, surrealism and some other fun things. To get to the my first post of "My Camera Histoir: In The Beginning" just go to the next page and find the post at the bottom of the page. I wish I could oranize this blog by topic instead of date.
Now, about my avatar.
I thought I would do folks a favor and post something larger than a postage stamp so you can see your humble host. This was a bit of an adventure producing this image as I had my camera hooked up to my computer running Nikon Camera Control to capture the image and Adobe Lightroom fetching the RAW files from a hot folder I set up. I ended up using the self timer on my camera and would run back and forth like a nut, hold a pose and wait for the shutter to trip. I had to pre-focus on a guesstimated area where I thought I would sit. Nikon Camera Control gives you the ability to tell the camera to auto-focus before releasing the shutter but since I was using the self timer, I couldn't use that feature. I got close but the full size image is not as sharp as I think it could be.
Now, about my avatar.
I thought I would do folks a favor and post something larger than a postage stamp so you can see your humble host. This was a bit of an adventure producing this image as I had my camera hooked up to my computer running Nikon Camera Control to capture the image and Adobe Lightroom fetching the RAW files from a hot folder I set up. I ended up using the self timer on my camera and would run back and forth like a nut, hold a pose and wait for the shutter to trip. I had to pre-focus on a guesstimated area where I thought I would sit. Nikon Camera Control gives you the ability to tell the camera to auto-focus before releasing the shutter but since I was using the self timer, I couldn't use that feature. I got close but the full size image is not as sharp as I think it could be.
So, a straight photo was not enough for me. First I made color version, then a greyscale version and finally a split tone version and combined all three using the split tone for the background, the greyscale for the the body and a muted version of the color version. That's a pretty subtle change isn't it. Lets spice it up a bit.
Since I was planning to use this as an avatar, I thought I'd add an element of MYFX JOURNAL to make it "business-like" but mostly personal. So I took the logo and added a color scheme that was opposite to the photo composite. I still wanted it subtle but it needed to attract attention.
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