Random weekend update

[chipotle]

So yesterday I did indeed go out taking pictures. 143, in fact, of which I liked two and a half. (One of them worked after I cropped it, and converted it to sepia tone.) But the goal was more to have a Learning Experience™ than to come back with high art.

Today, dracomistle, Dave B. and I went out to "La Ultima," a New Mexican restaurant in Danville. By "New Mexican," I mean the state, not a Mexican place of recent vintage -- while it's definitely a relative of Mexican cuisine, it's got its own character. I had sopapillas stuffed with chile verde, and a small cup of posole. It was a late lunch, but I'm still full.

After that, we stopped at a Starbucks -- yeah yeah yeah, but Danville is light on coffee shops, when it comes down to it. However, they had ads up for "Chantico drinking chocolate," which we asked about. The manager looked at the register and said, "I don't think it's in the system yet but we can give you all samples," which she did, complete with little dipping cookies. While the baristas seemed dubious of it, it was pretty impressive stuff in its own way--basically, this stuff is to hot chocolate what espresso is to drip coffee. From what I gathered, it's going to be rolled out at the stores officially tomorrow.

While I was contemplating putting up the three pictures I liked, even in small form they're not small. I'm debating starting a photojournal or some such for those who might be interested (and for my own benefit, I suppose!). I'll put a link here if I do.

Comments

[twentythoughts.livejournal.com]

It usually tends to be that way with photos. That's why you take a lot of pictures... It's the best way to be sure that you end up with a few good ones :)

[varjohaltia.livejournal.com]

I only put up resized photos on the web. There's little point in full resolution, as you'll only eat up prodigious amounts of bandwith and people's browsers do a cheap-and-dirty resize on them anyway.

For the storage at home, it's a problem I haven't quite figured out yet. I think something analogous to "analog" film works. Put all the pictures you took on a given shoot in a directory. Make another directory. Any picture you like or end up working with goes into the new directory. Then you either burn the old one to CD/DVD and hide it somewhere, or don't. Regardless, the old directory and all of its "okay, but not special" pictures get deleted. The good ones I try to keep on two hard drives and a CD or DVD backup somwhere, but even that ends up ballooning eventually.

[chipotle.livejournal.com]

Oh, by "small" I meant resized already so the longest dimension is 640px -- not the "small" size from the camera. (I was shooting at large size, with the medium JPEG compression setting.)

And, actually the directory style you mentioned above is what I started using, pretty much; since so much of what I'm expecting to take will be crap (particularly as I'm just learning what to do), there doesn't seem to be a lot of point in letting iPhoto or another management program get the images, although I suppose I could use it to manage the "good" ones.

[chastmastr.livejournal.com]

Oh my. Must check this chocolate out...

And another Dave B. exists? Wow! ;)

[hyanan.livejournal.com]

Yay! Photos! I wish I took more cool ones to share with folks...