The white outline around the woman's right shoulder and side -- even though she's under an umbrella, so her shoulder can't be backlit.
Oh damn! As soon as I look at that she looks pasted in. Nothing else in the picture has that same backlit edge.
Very true, and it’s said the real masters work with what they’ve got. But facts are facts, and to get those shots, with that sort of dynamic and shallow DoF, I’m going to need an 85mm lens that can shoot at f1.4… and I don’t currently have that. It’s the speed at which this guy’s camera’s autofocus locks onto its target which amazes me!
"Dr. Suess’s full names are Theodor Seuss Geisel. The American writer as well as a cartoonist lived in the period between 1904 and the year 1991. Dr. Suess became famous for specializing in children’s books where he has published over sixty books. His writings are notably characterized by the use of imaginative characters. His frequently used stylistic devices are the rhyming and trisyllabic meter or the poetic meter. There has been an adaptation of his literary work which has been developed to other publications such as in televisions, films and music. He also managed to communicate his political views through his works and especially through the use of cartoons. He did show openly his fears for a communist society, condemned racism that was directed towards African American people and the Jews. It was clear that he was in support of Japanese Americans in the Second World War. All his writings have a moral lesson for children to learn through the reading of the book. He has communicated numerous views on the social and political aspects. This essay will focus on one of the books by Dr. Suess namely 'Green Eggs and Ham.'" You bet! Sign me up.
I think that the Lorax is one of the greatest works of narrative poetry ever written. At the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows and the wind smells slow-and-sour when it blows and no birds ever sing excepting old crows... is the Street of the Lifted Lorax Chills.
What have you got? Over the years I've had both 35mm and digital cameras with lenses ranging from 35mm to 200mm, fixed and zoom, on pro-level cameras. That said, the best photographs I've even taken were with my grandfather's VERY old fixed-lens 35mm camera that I carried when I went on a summer tour of Europe while in high school. The problem with having all the "right" lenses is that it's too easy to become lazy and expect the lens to do the work for you.
The Sneetches and Other Stories is my favorite. I still have a perfectly preserved copy that my children had to ask special permission to handle and read. The privilege was granted after a polite request and much examining of hands for cleanliness. Sneaky mom.
Well, up until yesterday when I shipped them all off as part of this trade-in I’m after, I had a Nikon 1 V1, Olympus E-PL1, Fujifilm XF10 and a Fujifilm X100, none of which are capable of capturing the cinematic feel with the shallow DoF in the video I posted. My X100 could to a certain extent as it had a fairly decent max aperture of f/2, but it only has a 28mm lens so I’d have to get very close to my subjects to trigger the blurry backgrounds, and when I’m shooting street photography I like to keep my distance.
Both the annoying Windows 'assistant' Clippy and the Comic Sans font were inflicted on the world by Microsoft Bob, a Microsoft software product intended to provide a more user-friendly interface for the Windows 3.1x, Windows 95 and Windows NT operating systems. The project team leader for Bob was Melinda French, who went on to become, (then un-become) Melinda Gates. Bob been very, very good to Melinda.
My kid self had a great time playing around with MS Bob on our Gateway 2000. IIRC it was structured like a house with different rooms, that you could decorate in different styles. There were little animations and I think even games you could play? I've no idea what sort of tasks an adult person would actually use it for.
Looks like our dear old Queen’s days are numbered. Doctors are ‘concerned’ and her family have been asked to gather at Balmoral.
I did not know that. God bless the lady. She's been queen longer than I've been alive, and I've been around for a good long time.
If she can hold on for less than two more years, she'll beat Louis XIV as the longest-reigning monarch in recorded history.
I still give it to Elizabeth for the win. Louis became king at the age of 4, was coronated at 15, but didn't gain complete control of his reign until Cardinal Mazarin died six or seven years later. Elizabeth hit the ground running when she was in her twenties. Sigh. Why can I recall weird bits of useless information about a seventeenth century French king and not remember what I did with the box that contains all my hand sewing needles?
Zoe Ball on Radio 2 is nauseating today, running a play list of songs to ‘help the nation through the grief’ and reading messages and emails from people saying how devastated they are. Piss off, you bunch of sycophants! The majority of people in this country are completely unaffected. I’m sorry for her family’s loss, like I would be for anyone, that’s just common decency and respect, but get a grip. Most of us are just wondering when the funeral will be and hoping it falls on a week day so we get a day off work.
Wikipedia is ten times larger than the (fictional) Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: [QUOTE]The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that “it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.[/QUOTE]
As of yesterday, when he became King, Charles lost his passport and driving license. The sovereign doesn't have either of them.
This is a small block of flats we pass at work on a fairly regular basis, and the reason for this extra row of ridge tiles has become somewhat of an obsession with me and my colleague. If the base of the roof is one continuous construction, why not the top!
Okay, Jud, now you've got me all curious. Research and interviews, boyo. Your admiring public needs answers.
