@rumtscho I'm not a huge fan of Martha Stewart, BUT this video for Macarons looks pretty awesome (that is what you've been trying to perfect, right?). You need a food processor, but you need a food processor anyway :) http://www.marthastewart.com/1066149/french-macarons#1066149 It's perfectly precise, which I think is kind of key here.
Well, I've checked. I've got everything to make those peanut butter, oatmeal, chocolate chip cookies. So I guess I'm up for a while to make cookies.
@rumtscho, these are what you're trying to perfect, right?
I'm inclined to just process really good, funky cheese. I do want every ingredient to be awesome, the cheese is the one thing I don't think I can I can make better than I can buy.
Kenji has a dry brined, sous vide corned beef that looks perfect.
And since Reubens need a pickle, that is something else I can do while the sauerkraut is fermenting.
@Jolenealaska it's January. The less light there is in your kitchen, the blurrier the picture will be, because the camera leaves its shutter open for longer, gathering more photons.
If most of them weren't blurred, but some were, you can try looking into a) getting it at the exact same spot, b) tripod, and c) see what it's focusing on
you probably can press something until it's focused, and only afterwards press something else (or the same button a second time) to take the actual picture
Within a few days I'll have a better set up. At least a "stage" better looking than my electric burners and the settings set well and the tripod in use.
@ElendilTheTall yes, absolutely. But it's not a bad thing to support the triggering hand for long exposures. And to generally try to push the button in a way that the camera is not jerked, even though it's on a tripod.
It's moot if you use a remote trigger, but Jolene doesn't have one.
also, the initial press might still slightly displace the camera, and if it was perfectly focused on something before the rest, and doesn't track the focus, it will be blurry on self timer too
but we have been telling her to get closer to her subject. Maybe she'll have to try shooting from a bit farther away and cropping, in order to avoid dof problems
Just thinking about it like that will help. I can see a dozen ways I can improve my point and shoot photography by thinking of it like target shooting.
in this situation, if you misplace the camera by 2 mm during pressing the button, if the in-focus-slice is moved by, say, 5 cm, then the mayo surface is still in focus, as well as the space 20 cm behind it and 10 cm before it
but if your slice (field) is only 3 cm thick (deep), then a misplaced camera can mean that the focused part starts 2cm below the mayo surface after the camera is slightly misplaced
if you move your camera farther away from the subject, your field becomes deeper (when all other factors are kept the same), and so an accidental displacement has less chance of resulting in a picture where your subject is out of focus
but moving the camera away has other effects too, so it's not the first thing to change when your pictures are blurry
I'm making cookies tonight. Tomorrow I'll make pictures of cookies the project for the day.
I need to make my settings right. For one thing, the shots are too big (as far as memory) to upload them. I also need to find the damn white balance and place the tripod.
good question. The ones I use assume that the user knows the theory of image manipulation. I don't know if there are any decent ones with an easy interface.
I'd go with GIMP - it looks complicated, but for resizing and the like it's easy (I can talk you through it) and you can also tweak sharpness and so on.
All I need from gimp right away is to crop and to bring the memory size down to where I can upload the pictures. I can't imagine that being much to learn.
These two are not hard. I like GIMP's cropping interface. You select the size you want to crop, and if it doesn't look right, you can adjust it or move it around before you commit to the crop. And then you can also do image resizing, or get the Save for web plugin and export it with it.
@ElendilTheTall Do you have a trick for me when Firefox decides to not reload the CSS on Ctrl F5?
I've been battling it all day
the first time I reconstructed almost all of the page in a fiddle because I thought that my change isn't working, I didn't realize that it's just not getting loaded
and one of them, StackEdit, completely refused working until I "upgrade" my browser
@ElendilTheTall yes, cleared it
so, I guess the part about thinking that the newest browser is too old is the fault of the site owners and not of the browser
maybe back at version 10, they built in a check which said "if version number between 7 and 35" because they couldn't believe 35 will come along only 3 years later
but this CSS thing seems to be the browser's fault
Goodness, it has taken all this time just to get my stuff together and ingredients measured for cookies. It's a good thing I don't do this for a living anymore!
