Kevin's Watch

Posted: **Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:13 pm**

Thanks!!

She is a joy! And she will be up visiting this coming Saturday!!

Posted: **Thu Apr 30, 2009 6:16 pm**

I know you'll have a great visit!

Posted: **Sat May 02, 2009 7:06 pm**

Creator wrote:

She's channeling the Fonz.

Thanks for sharing, Creator!

Posted: **Sat May 02, 2009 7:14 pm**

OMG!!

I hadn't noticed that!!

Thanks, MM!!

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 8:03 pm**

She is such a sweetie Creator! She has grown lots since I last saw piccies - you must post more!

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 9:03 pm**

Garden impressions. Roses are not yet in bloom and we lost two of our beloved rambler roses because of the long cold winter.

The Vadress (almost 4 now - how time flies ...)

Vader is sooooo bourgeois.

And we'll be removing those ugly square concrete tiles on our patio you can see on the 2nd pic. We'll be getting irregular natural stone tiles soon.

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 9:20 pm**

Very cool patio + garden, Vader. Thanks for allowing us a peek. I envy you! (Being an apartment dweller, I can only dream of such things.) The tiles don't seem that ugly to me, but I wish you success on the makeover.

I'm impatient myself for the spring bloom to arrive here, so I can head out to the park and start taking pictures.

Posted: **Tue May 05, 2009 9:22 pm**

Lovely pics, Vader!

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 5:45 am**

I know precisely jack about photography, but I just bought a new camera (just a little Canon ELPH) and so now I can take pictures of pretty things like flowers! OMG THERE ARE FLOWERS EVERYWHERE ON THIS ISLAND!

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 8:22 am**

Waddley, I hope you use the hell out of your camera. That's the best way to learn photography, in my opinion - and flowers were made for photography. Please post more pics!

Oh, and remember to use your camera's macro function for extreme close-ups of flowers (and bees and such)!

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 5:31 pm**

Yeah, I've been using macro. For everything. I love the crisp subject and the fuzzy everything else, and that seems to be what does it

I have a couple more flowers... lemme dig them up.

Thank MM

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 6:55 pm**

Ahhh...hibiscus.... Beautiful, Wadds!

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 7:31 pm**

Yeah, I pass them every day on my way to work. I'm going to have to take different routes, though, to get different flowers. Shucks

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 9:38 pm**

I'm glad you can name them, ali. I like flowers, but I'm bad at recognizing any particular species.

Waddley wrote:Yeah, I've been using macro. For everything. I love the crisp subject and the fuzzy everything else, and that seems to be what does it

Ah, okay...it's just that you can get really close to a subject in macro mode. Canon digicams are especially good at macros, so you made a fine purchasing decision.

If your ELPH has aperture priority control (Av), set it to the widest aperture available (the lowest f-number) and that will help to isolate your subject and throw the background out of focus. F2.8 is usually the widest aperture available on compact digicam lenses. (Of course, macro mode usually picks the widest aperture itself.)

Sorry, I ramble...

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 11:17 pm**

No, please ramble away. The more the better! I have no idea what you just told me to do... but I'll finger it out and experiment! Thanks again

Posted: **Fri May 08, 2009 11:52 pm**

Waddley wrote:I'll finger it out and experiment

*wipes sweat from brow*

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 2:14 am**

ok help!!! I am trying to put up an image from my photobucket and I'm messing the heck out of it. Any guidance would really be appreciated!

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 3:01 am**

When you upload to photobucket you can hover your mouse over the uploaded thumbnail image and it gets you a little pop up box. In, I believe, the fourth box down there is the [img] tag. Click on it and it copies and then just paste it here!

Hope that helps! (sorry, had to write it in a hurry)

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 3:54 am**

ok grrrrrrrrrrrr I did that and it creates a link not a pic.

s583.photobucket.com/albums/ss274/lorinellen/?action=view&current=DSC00086-1.jpg

Posted: **Sat May 09, 2009 4:18 am**

Ok, you're copying the wrong one... I'm not even sure what you're copying, because it should be img not s583... anyway, here's a handy picture!

Click on the thing that the arrow is pointing at and then paste it here

Kevin's Watch

The Photography thread - with pictures.