Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Coolest Beer Can Ever?

You decide… I know it’s one of the best stouts that I’ve ever consumed.  Previously only available on tap, Fort George added it to its canning line in the last couple of weeks.

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Five spiders are listed around the can.  Unfortunately and inexplicably, Charlotte A. Cavatica escapes mention.  Probably a copyright thing.

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Monday, November 21, 2011

Oh, Just Click On It!

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The image is a result of the (new) A77’s “sweep panorama” mode, Adobe’s Lightroom 3 post-processing and minor work in Photoshop CS4. 

Yeah, I’m still having fun with the new gear.

Shot at 16mm and 1/200 second, but past that, I can’t tell you a lot… the camera’s mode took over.  I think there were between 15 and 20 frames involved in the stitching, but I didn’t really try to count.  I was too busy panning with my finger on the shutter button.

The hard part (the panorama stitching) was accomplished in-camera in less than a second after the series was shot (on a Class-10 card… be prepared to wait with something slower), and the balance of the post-work was done in a couple of minutes in LR3 and CS4.