http://mishtopia.com/blog Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:30:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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, ... http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/14 This post is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/13 I've pretty much decided to take Chuck's advice and use Word Press as the new CMS for this site. There's a plug-in that appears to do exactly what I want. Stumbling blocks for now are time -- and my inability to make the theme that accompanies the Semiologic plug-in yield ... http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/11 I haven't yet spent the quality time with my new flash that I had hoped to by now, but I got a couple of things wrong. It isn't an off-camera flash, exactly. It fits into the flash shoe above the lens barrel. So...still might have red-eye probs. Grrr. It ... http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/10 I got many nice things for my birthday but the one of relevance here is a high tech flash. I am going to be so far out of my league with it...but what a cool toy! It is an off camera flash (no more red-eye!) that synchs with my camera's ... http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/9 I feel a bit guilty for not posting here more often. Never has a webspace received so many hits for so little content. Huh. Guess the blog bots keep a more frequent schedule. I've been reading portions of a book recommended by bassfingers entitled, Concert Photography and written by Jon Sievert. ... http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/8 I recently discovered that some of the photos I took have been used to make Live Journal icons -- without my knowledge or permission. It's inevitable given the nature of the web. I'm not angry or pissed off...but I am ambivalent. I thought about this prior to posting pictures I took ... http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/7 (this is a continuation of the post below, which was a continuation of the post below it) In July of this year, I had a chance to give the camera a work out taking pics outdoors in the California sun at the San Diego Wild Animal Park. Adequate light was no ... http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/6 (this is a continuation of the 'not quite brief history' post below) Flash forward a bit to February of this year. I have the F828; I've played with it a bit. I've even had it out and about on vacation in the mountains so I've faced the fun of photography in ... http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/5 My first foray into photography was in July 2004 at that year's Gatecon. Joe and I took off with both a traditional 35mm point and shoot Olympus Stylus and a 5 megapixel Sony Cyber-Shot. We took pictures under just about every conceivable situation: outdoors (sunny and overcast), indoors, in a ... http://mishtopia.com/blog/archives/4