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Wednesday 23 November 2011
My first animation - I think it shows (using PhotoScape)
a very quick gif created using my 500d, a toy snowman, a bit of post-it note, and PhotoScape.
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Wednesday 16 November 2011
Sunday 13 November 2011
Can you tell what it is yet
My Sunday afternoon fun.....
Can you tell what it is yet?
Cheshire countryside, Runcorn, Daresbury
Some shots I took whilst on an afternoons walk last week, late autumn, early winter, 2011.
They were taken on my ordinary HTC DESIRE HD mobile phone, at 3megapixel resolution !
Hope you like them.
Lagos, Portugal, Algave, 7th August
TAGS: 2011, Holiday, Lagos, algave, PhotographyByFai, Portugal
As it turned out, this was a great little place with friendly bar staff, reasonably priced drinks which were suitable stronger than expected, and huge portions of Mexican food.
Sunday 7th August 2011
Today was my beautiful wife's birthday.
To celebrate this special day, we continued to wander around the Old Town, and take in the sights.
We initially tried to dine at "A Forja" (known locally as the Blue Door) but the we arrived quite late in the evening and the queues here were quite long (it's reputation proceeded it) so we wandered around, and stopped off for a quick drink in the "Green Room".
<trying to find my image of the bar>
As it turned out, this was a great little place with friendly bar staff, reasonably priced drinks which were suitable stronger than expected, and huge portions of Mexican food.
Sunday 6 November 2011
Lagos, Portugal, Algave, 6th August
TAGS: 2011, Holiday, Lagos, algave, PhotographyByFai, Portugal
Saturday 6th August 2011
One of Lisa's recommendations especially since we were self catering was a visit to the weekly farmers market down opposite the marine, housed in a couple of buildings in the bus stations area.
On our walk down, we past an interesting opening in the city wall.
"Can you guess where we are?"
Lagos
I think this is near the main town hall?
This is the little "harbour ferry" that takes tourists across this small stretch of water to the beach on the other side.
Local market man selling jars of honey.
Another farmer waiting for customers.
After the market, we wandered back across the street, to the harbour for some food.
There were lots of sales pitches where you could go for the local boat trips around the local area to visit the grottos.
After a busy first day, we relaxed back at the apartment.
Lagos, Portugal, Algave, 5th August
TAGS: 2011, Holiday, Lagos, algave, PhotographyByFai, Portugal
Friday 5th August 2011
Our first full day in Lagos, and we didn't really know where to go.
What we usually try to do on the first day, is walk around, and pick up a few free local maps to see what is the "touristy" suggestions for places to eat, and see. We had a walk around the old town to familiarise ourselves with the location, and found the marina which is only 5 minutes from the apartments.
If anyone can comment on who this statue is, that would be great !
Me on the wall down on the harbour front. (with a "fashion" preset)
The "Boa Esperanca"
"Street" shot of "Bar 53" in Lagos
"Late night menu critique"
Thursday 3 November 2011
Moons of Jupiter, photos of Jupiter
I took my first ever planetary pictures of Jupiter yesterday, 1st November, 2011, using my DSLR (Canon 500d), 18-200 f3.5-5.6 lens, RedSnapper tripod, and a piece of card.
I set up the camera at 200mm, 2 second delay, f20 or so, and 3.2 second exposure, although the actual sensor exposure was less, and used Live View.
The reason being was I placed the card in-front of the lens as I took the shot, and only moved it out of the way when there was about a second left of the exposure.
The reason being was that I wanted any vibrations to die down before exposing the planet, so when I pressed the trigger, any vibrations should have died down after the initial trigger delay and the first few seconds that the sensor started to record information.
I'd then gently move the card out of the way near the end of the exposure, there by taking a shot of Jupiter with reduced or subsided vibrations.
I only knew about this technique after watching a BBC program on the night sky hosted by Brian Cox.
All in all, I only spent 10 minutes trying for the shot, so fairly happy with the result, and the fact that you can see four moons of Jupiter.
What do you think?
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