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Feb
20
A Journey Towards a More Professional Photographer (also the picture of the day)
Category: Photography | 
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I’m working my way towards making money from my photography. I really enjoy the trade craft a lot and if I get to do it as a job on the weekends, all the better. So I’ve bought some books to shore up my technique since I’m pretty much a self-taught photographer. One thing my latest book has driven home is something I’ve noticed countless times in magazines, books, and my own work. I need to relax and take my time. I know enough, and have slowed down enough, to think about the aperture and shutter speed in relation to the effect I wish to achieve. I also know to frame my shot correctly and double-check my ISO settings.
But I still need to slow down a bit more. I need to look at the histogram because I’ve come to learn that the LCD display lies. It almost always looks perfect there. But a quick check of the histogram would allow me to reshoot instead of lamenting it later on my compute rand trying to use photoshop to fix things. I even took a shot today and make a point of checking the histogram to try and cement it into my photography rituals.
Another thing I sought to work on today, but which was not mentioned in the book, is to really pay attention to setting up the lighting - especially when it’s something in my own house where I can control the lighting. I find that pictures look much clearer and have a sort of amazing quality when attention is paid to those kinds of details.
So here is my first attempt at taking it slow and being patient.
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Feb
20
Hidden Features
Category: xubuntu | Leave a Comment
Veterans of Linux installs from the early days may chuckle at my new discovery, but I’ve only been installing Linux since the graphical days of Anaconda and Fedora Core 1. (But first some background info) I was recently installing Xubuntu on my father-in-law’s computer. He wanted me to install a new Windows Media Player version, but I needed to upgrade to Windows Service Pack 2. The Kami at M$ were not smiling upon his household because this hosed the computer.
No windows recovery disk, and it was an old POS computer so I decided to install xubuntu. My brother loves Ubuntu and recently I read an article about how awesome Xubuntu is on old POS computers. The computer was so old I had to use to alternate CD so that I could do a text install. In my opinion, I should be able to do this off the regular CD too. This wasted my time and an extra CD-R. Well, they’re cheap nowadays, so no biggie.
The install appeared to hang at the part where it read the partitions. This was, no doubt, due to XP SP 2 hosing things, but I became impatient so I rebooted and tried again. Again it appeared to hang. So I searched the virtual terminals to see if I could run some commands in the background to figure out what was going on. This is where I came to the part where veteran Linux hackers will laugh. I went to F4 and viola! It was showing all the errors occurring during the install! Then, some part of my mind remembered reading that in the lore. In the old days of text installs (before beautiful GUIs and error boxes) the only way for the computer to communicate on more than one channel was to have different virtual terminals display different parts of the install. I can just see the smiles on your faces! So now I have a tool for when installations go wrong.
By the way, I did get it to install. Now to try and get wireless working.
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