Comments on: Playing with patterns http://omegamom.com/2009/10/21/playing-with-patterns/ A "good enough" mom muses about alpha moms, adoption, computers, the State Of The World, Internet quirkiness, and the Kosmik All Fri, 25 May 2012 10:51:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Kate http://omegamom.com/2009/10/21/playing-with-patterns/#comment-103016 Kate Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:43:39 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2009/10/21/playing-with-patterns/#comment-103016 Photoshop and I are BFFs. I can think of all sorts of creative improvements to do with that paint on bleachers shot! :-) Photoshop and I are BFFs. I can think of all sorts of creative improvements to do with that paint on bleachers shot! :-)

]]> By: lizard http://omegamom.com/2009/10/21/playing-with-patterns/#comment-102782 lizard Sat, 24 Oct 2009 03:41:48 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2009/10/21/playing-with-patterns/#comment-102782 the message: Paul Is Dead. Either that, or it says Redrum the message: Paul Is Dead.

Either that, or it says Redrum

]]> By: GrannyJ http://omegamom.com/2009/10/21/playing-with-patterns/#comment-102727 GrannyJ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:18:35 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2009/10/21/playing-with-patterns/#comment-102727 I've had the same problem, esp. with birds in the bushes, which always turn out to have had twigs in front of them. Bah. I've also discovered that the camera can't focus directly on infinity, such as those great clouds over yonder or the moon or such. My only way of coping is to get a distant mountain or tree in that little framing thingy, said object being effectively at infinity. My eyes are not really good enough to count on for manual operation unfortunately. BTW, those pattern pix are great fun... I’ve had the same problem, esp. with birds in the bushes, which always turn out to have had twigs in front of them. Bah. I’ve also discovered that the camera can’t focus directly on infinity, such as those great clouds over yonder or the moon or such. My only way of coping is to get a distant mountain or tree in that little framing thingy, said object being effectively at infinity. My eyes are not really good enough to count on for manual operation unfortunately.

BTW, those pattern pix are great fun…

]]> By: del http://omegamom.com/2009/10/21/playing-with-patterns/#comment-102713 del Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:29:44 +0000 http://omegamom.com/2009/10/21/playing-with-patterns/#comment-102713 I've noticed that the autofocus on my Canon also tends to target the wrong things sometimes: a blade of grass or a twig ten feet in front of the bird I was really trying to photograph, etc. I'm not sure if this is a "Canon" thing or if all digital cameras do this (I've only ever owned Canons). My model has a setting where when the autofocus locks in it'll zoom into that point on the display and you can tell if it's focused on the wrong thing. If it has you just try again. Frustrating. It also has an option where you can make the autofocus [] bracket thingy smaller, thus cutting out more stuff in the frame that might confuse it. That option is only available in the manual modes, though. And then there's always manual focus, but that's hard to use on my camera. One day I took a cat toy outside and put it behind some branches and stuff and then practiced focusing on it from different angles and distances with the camera. That helped a lot. I’ve noticed that the autofocus on my Canon also tends to target the wrong things sometimes: a blade of grass or a twig ten feet in front of the bird I was really trying to photograph, etc. I’m not sure if this is a “Canon” thing or if all digital cameras do this (I’ve only ever owned Canons). My model has a setting where when the autofocus locks in it’ll zoom into that point on the display and you can tell if it’s focused on the wrong thing. If it has you just try again. Frustrating. It also has an option where you can make the autofocus [] bracket thingy smaller, thus cutting out more stuff in the frame that might confuse it. That option is only available in the manual modes, though. And then there’s always manual focus, but that’s hard to use on my camera.

One day I took a cat toy outside and put it behind some branches and stuff and then practiced focusing on it from different angles and distances with the camera. That helped a lot.

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