December 4, 2004
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The post for today is a "protected post". If you are not on my protected list, send me an email, or comment here and I'll let you in to read my rant concerning my day job.
ANATOMY OF A COMPOSITE: But in the mean time, here's a Christmas Card I just created around a simple photo taken out the back door roughly 30 minutes ago. And I will share the pretty simple way in which one can produce one of these themselves. If they have a digital camera and some kind of photo editing software. I understand the latest version of Windows has a pretty good editor. I use an older program called Micrografx Picture publisher.
Here's the display across the back yard from the last home in the culdesac across from our house. This shot of course taken without any lighting. A simple shot of the Christmas display. It is raining tonight so I wanted to see if I could catch some "raindrops" and of course since it's wet out there, and cold to boot, I only am shooting outside the kitchen doorway in the back of the house. .
Here's a shot of the house with a good portion of the back fence of our house. In the composite, I used an overlay of both this shot and the one above it for the house, and then used another completely different shot for the raindrops, which you can see here. The reason you can see the raindrops of course is the reflected light off the drops themselves from the flash. I think this is rather interesting, and made for a rather interesting shot without much trouble. That white "bar" at the left of the picture, by the way, is the screen door, which is open allowing for the shot. The border in the Christmas Card is an effect from the Picture Publisher, and the lettering was accomplished in the Windows Draw program. I believe Micrografx was purchased by Roxio and I don't believe they produced a version of the program after Version 10. I have 8.5
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Greetings...I stumbled upon you by way of a blog friend and fellow ring member..The X....I hope you do not mind my lurking about...
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Thanks for telling me about the broken links. I wrote that as a sarcastic little spiel about how I think it's all silly really. I think 90 percent of the readers haven't caught on to that and I've gotten a lot of angry comments other places I've posted it. Oh well, basically, we're all human and that in itself connects us all. No need to judge the stereotypes.
oh beautiful pictures. And I want to see your renaissance videos, especially since I too am a rennie. I frequent the ones out here in IA and IL. Are you by chance a member of the pub (atthefaire.com?) And I would love to hear your thoughts on philosphy and the such.
The music on my xanga is by Blackmore's Night. Which is a renaissance band of course. my second fave after Wolgemut.
Xangafile? haha I have yet to hear that term... but there are so many that could I apply this term to... which, I'm not sure that's a good thing?
Anyway, I want to feel special and be put on the protected list
Have a wonderful night!
-Sarah
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