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[solarbird]

This is neat: Three different blogs are all reporting paid hit-and-run troll-commenters coming from organisations which are paid to hit blogs with talking points. I've gotten a couple of pieces of political spam - I just deleted another one on a Cultural Warfare Update from earlier this year - but none of them have been particularly trollish. Netvocates seem to be the main group involved in this set, but there have been others. Ginmar has apparently seen several of these, all defending sexual harassment at American Apparel. To wit: damn.


Still Not What I See
The camera often captures flower colours differently than I see them. This is as close as I could come to the actual colour of this flower, but to get it, I had to do stuff that made the green leaves almost phosphorescent. It's annoying, photographically, just because I don't really know what to do about it. I can't ever seen to fix it in photoshop, so I tend to settle for whatever looks good and go with it. But this one was particularly gorgeous in person, and just didn't photograph. Again. I don't know why.

Monday's token: 0.1
Tuesday's token: 0.1
Today's miles: 11.3
Miles out of Hobbiton: 894.9
Miles out of Rivendell: 435.1
Miles to Lothlórien: 31.3

I now have a Husky Card, which is to say, my U. Washington student ID. Also, the graduate department has pointed me at an advisor, even though I'm not technically even in the graduate school yet. I take this latter as a particularly good sign. Yay! And now it's time for math.

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Comments

[emmacrew.livejournal.com]

I don't know a whole lot about photography, but my guess is: cameras don't do well with ultraviolet.

[firni.livejournal.com]

It can be kind of tough, especially depending on what kind of camera you use. I'm told the Fuji digital SLRs do the best with natural colors, but I've never tried one out to see if that's true.

Here's what I got with the Nikon:

(http://www.flickr.com/photos/firni/20773879/)

[solarbird]

Well, on my screen, that looks mostly pink. It's a very attractive pink, and a nice photo, but not the colour I'm seeing. It's how the flowers I'm shooting that show up wrong tend to come out on camera, too, when in real life, they're really this really amazing luminescent purple/violet.

I wonder a little if it is the ultraviolet thing. I've had arguments over colour in that range before.

[firni.livejournal.com]

I'll have to dig around and see if I got any shots of the violet/purple azaleas we have.

Remember how weird that photo of the kid in the tulips looked? Bright red tulips, the kid looked like he'd been photoshopped in.

oh yeah

[solarbird]

In other news,

Re: oh yeah

[firni.livejournal.com]

ahahahahahaahahahahaahahahahaha

[adularia.livejournal.com]

I'd say it's picking up too much blue.

Congratulations on getting in and getting started :D

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Definitely try a UV filter. Insects see primarily in UV, and the colors humans see are mere side effects of the flowers trying to attract the bugs. Both film and digital sensors pick more UV than the human eye does, so outdoor photos need a UV or sky filter.

Also keep in mind that only high-end consumer digital cameras can match good-quality film for color fidelity. (Taking into account a number of complicating factors, such as how different films have deliberately selected differences in color balance and saturation.)