3-14-07 – Behind the scenes

If it’s any consolation, liters do have a chance to win. The TF advantage is there, but it’s not a huge huge thing.

Btw, it’s nice seeing you in your pictures 🙂 Just to be sure, though, that pic of you looks like you were holding the camera, but I wanted to be sure you either held it out or set it on a self timer. We’re getting a lot of folks lately who are entering shots other people took…

Yeah, I’ve considered that portrait grip, but the camera’s already pretty beefy for me (my hands aren’t all that big), so I figured adding it might make it more unwieldy for me. Still….

Thanks for clarifying 🙂

Portrait grip’s not that heavy, actually, it’s mostly plastic (with a rubberized grip) with most of the weight being in the batteries. It does make things a bit tighter in your camera bag though, the portrait grip was the straw that broke the camera bag’s back for me, I just couldn’t squeeze it all in anymore. But the benefits, oh the benefits, stuff like going a month between charges if you put two Li-Ion batteries in there (you can run it off just the one that came with the camera if you want though), being able to run on AAs if you do run out of juice, and of course very comfortable vertical orientation shooting (I shoot vertical a lot at events) make it very worth it for me. It also has a loop to attach a hand strap, which makes the camera feel a lot more secure in my hand, especially when I’m out at a bar shooting rock bands with a drink or two in me.

Oh BTW, Picasa recently decided to let users hotlink to their images. Unfortunately by default the most usable images are either 400 pixels wide or 800 pixels wide. What I ended up doing was uploading my pics at 700 pixels wide natively and selecting the “800 px” option, which worked fine. If I want the ability to click for a larger picture I’d have to upload a larger image separately and link to that. It’s a kludge but it works.

No entries for me! I was at a camera class learning how to actually use this thing.

You guys all had awesome pics! I was curious how this theme would go. Brilliant as usual!

Wow, not only did we get a ringing endorsement from Drew’s mom, but the top five are separated by one vote each! Damn good contest this week folks, lots of very interesting entries!

mikemikeb, the microwave pic is a riot. It might be the best self-portrait I’ve ever seen!

I looked at the entries when I got home from work at 6:30AM and posted my entries, so I have to go back and see what’s been posted since then. But from what I’ve seen already the contest has far and away exceeded what I hoped it would be when I proposed the theme. Farktographers get to work and play in some very cool places and that they can show us those places with such quality shots is pretty neat. I think we did good this week.

Thanks to Elsinore and millera9 for their comments regarding the microwave pic. For anyone else that liked it, I’m pleased that you did.

As for millera9, it looks like you’ll edge out the victory this week. Congratulations!