zerolight

Note to Zee: this is boring, don’t bother reading.

I’ve been noticing that my photos on flickr all appear a little soft. A tiny, teeny, weeny, bit soft. This, even after switching to shooting in RAW mode. I experimented a fair bit, taking photographs of batteries no less, to see if my camera had focus issues. All was fine. I checked out my photos in iPhoto, all were crisp and sharp. Then I compared an unscaled flickr export (a plugin for iPhoto that exports to flickr) with a scaled one. Bingo, the scaled one was softer than the unscaled.

However, there is a beta of flickr export 3, which lets you choose the quality of the export. So, some more tests followed, and thankfully I found that at maximum quality, the scaled exports are just as sharp as the unscaled exports. Yay. Of course, this also gives me an excuse to post yet another photo of Rafi.

This photo of Ali, all moody and ready to go out, was the last picture I took with my 10D before selling it on. It, and a bunch of other favourites form the basis of my new flickr set. Hopefully it’ll grow as I experiment with the 40D.

Whilst browsing daddytypes today I came across this bizarre bear. Why a USB bear? I have no idea. It seems like a crazy thing to do. Check it out on voyeur-ville, sorry flickr. Just rip off teddy’s head and stuff him into your PC. Your kid will love you for it, I’m sure.