I found a couple nifty one-off images when I was cleaning out my camera’s memory card and decided to shrink (10MP is not blog sized) and post them. Midsize images linked from images in post.
Image 1: My room has a really nice view of the Lexington skyline. Picture taken sometime during the ice storm this year. (For anyone trying to figure out where I live from the image… taking advantage of UK’s lack of a coherent privacy policy is way easier)
Image 2: Roughly the same view out the window, but this time in better weather, and playing with ISO/Exposure/Etc. settings on my camera (a Cannon SD770IS, with which I am quite pleased). This is the best of about 20 shots out the window, ranging from leaving the camera on full auto to manually setting the exposure length/ISO speed/color balance, and a bunch of other things I’m still vaguely surprised can be set manually on a compact point-and-shoot. Considering how bad Canon compacts tend to be in low light I’m pretty impressed with the image I got, even if it did take a while to produce it. I’d still like to figure out how to get around the noise/grain.
Image 3: The schlumbergera I plant-napped when I moved last summer bloomed the other week. It seems to like the spot on the mantle in my room (next to an outside wall, they require cool to bloom) and watering schedule I have it on; it had a good growth cycle earlier in the year, and is now blooming. (disclaimer: All parties involved seem to consider it justified plantnapping, I had been taking care of it since before I lived with it.)
The latter picture is one of the rare occasions when the macro mode on my camera worked properly when presented with a significant depth of field. In a related matter, the SD770 is finally becoming supported by CHDK so I can get the awesome extra features I was presuming would happen when I bought it. As soon as I get some time I’ll have to set up one of my spare SD cards and try it out.
