New Year's Eve
Jan. 2nd, 2014 06:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
guppiecatEdit Flickr apparently no longer works with LJ. Guess it's time to move somewhere else. If I can get this fixed, I will, but this may well be the last straw.
Edit 2 Fixed it, but yeah, I think I may be done with LJ and Flickr for this sort of thing. Time to explore other options.
On New Year's Eve, I went to, what is now, my usual party. As in previous years, I took photos. Unlike in previous years, I had a different camera. The Nikon 1 AW1 is waterproof*, freezeproof** and shockproof*** and just what you want to get if you plan to photograph sea otters and don't want to risk dropping your real camera in the ocean. Since there is a decent chance that I may be taking photos of sea otters (and possibly singing to them), I thought it would be wise to experiment with it beforehand. It's a good house to practice in because the room is ideally suited the music at the same time that the light is actively hostile to photographers. So it's target-rich but highly challenging environment.
* For certain depths of water
** For certain values of cold
*** For shockingly low values of shock
The short review is that it works, low light performance is better than I thought but not as much as I'd hoped and I utterly loathe the autofocus system. Still, I think it will work well for its intended purpose. I just hope it's nicely sunny on the day I use it. The water-proof lens is sub-optimal. However, you're probably more interested in the actual photos. The full set is here. Here is my favourite:
Midnight is *so* far away.
My trips to Canada are giving me the practice I need to photograph fiddlers.
You can work around troublesome lighting by moving to black and white.
It's cheating, but it works.
Total cheat here.
It's always nice to have someone to look up to.
It's always nice to have someone to look up to. (Look, the same caption works twice!)
I'm convinced that instruments have polarized lyric readouts because every time someone plays a difficult song, this is what they look like.
Brushing drum, seriously.
Phones are funny.
There's nothing right where they're looking. They must be cats.
...and the obligatory bananananananana shot.
Edit 2 Fixed it, but yeah, I think I may be done with LJ and Flickr for this sort of thing. Time to explore other options.
On New Year's Eve, I went to, what is now, my usual party. As in previous years, I took photos. Unlike in previous years, I had a different camera. The Nikon 1 AW1 is waterproof*, freezeproof** and shockproof*** and just what you want to get if you plan to photograph sea otters and don't want to risk dropping your real camera in the ocean. Since there is a decent chance that I may be taking photos of sea otters (and possibly singing to them), I thought it would be wise to experiment with it beforehand. It's a good house to practice in because the room is ideally suited the music at the same time that the light is actively hostile to photographers. So it's target-rich but highly challenging environment.
* For certain depths of water
** For certain values of cold
*** For shockingly low values of shock
The short review is that it works, low light performance is better than I thought but not as much as I'd hoped and I utterly loathe the autofocus system. Still, I think it will work well for its intended purpose. I just hope it's nicely sunny on the day I use it. The water-proof lens is sub-optimal. However, you're probably more interested in the actual photos. The full set is here. Here is my favourite:
Midnight is *so* far away.
My trips to Canada are giving me the practice I need to photograph fiddlers.
You can work around troublesome lighting by moving to black and white.
It's cheating, but it works.
Total cheat here.
It's always nice to have someone to look up to.
It's always nice to have someone to look up to. (Look, the same caption works twice!)
I'm convinced that instruments have polarized lyric readouts because every time someone plays a difficult song, this is what they look like.
Brushing drum, seriously.
Phones are funny.
There's nothing right where they're looking. They must be cats.
...and the obligatory bananananananana shot.
