Photography Scribblings

No, I still haven’t dealt with pics from Chuck’s birthday party *am so bad* but last weekend I took the camera with me to the St. Andrew’s Celtic Festival to snap pics of the band while they performed. Man are they boring to shoot. Except for Loch Ness Monster, one picture is much the same as any other.

Luckily, Chuck and Tiffany brought out their adorable daughter, Olivia, and she is a hoot. Talk about aware of the camera. I kept hanging out near her, snapping pics of the band, trying to take “candid” shots of Olivia when she was distracted. No go. So I got a bit of distance and relied on the zoom — only I’d get about one pic and realize she was looking straight at the camera again. Dang she’s good.

Pics are up at Mishtopia. Since it’s not my place to release pics of their daughter to the world in general, the album is locked for access by friends-only so you’ll have to sign in to see them. If you know Chuck and Tiffany, you should be cleared for access. The pics are completely unaltered except for being shrunk and oriented correctly. Most are “so -so” but a bit of cropping and image clean up couldyield some good ones.

I need to go back and upload the video I took of Olivia dancing to the music, but the *.mpegs are close to 10 MB (they’re tiny little clips) and I balk at loading something that large. I need to convert it into something more compact, but I have no idea what that would be or how to go about it. That’s going to take some research. Also, each *.mpeg has an associated *.thm file that I have no idea about. More to learn, I suppose.