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Originally Posted by Steve Outlaw
Cory, aside from being a great storyteller, you are absolutely a fabulous photographer. What are you shooting with?
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Hey there outlaw! Thank you, thank you!! You may not believe it, but 90% of the pictures were taken with a 10.1 MP $100 Sony CyberShot I bought in 2009. I learned to trick the camera into getting the right
lighting and contrasts by using "point exposure" and looking around the scene until I got the colors and highlights I wanted, then locked the exposure by holding the trigger 1/2 way and then moving the scene I wanted to shoot into view. (Make any sense?)
Many of my newer shots were also taken with the CyberShot, but I inherited my father's Nikon D50 when he passed 2 years ago, and have been using that for most of my pictures since I returned to Butedale. I'd still be using the Sony too, but unfortunately I tried to do a doggy-cam thing by attaching the Sony to a harness I made to go around Bud's neck. I let him out in the morning with the set-up, because I wanted to see where he went roaming in the mornings, but when he came back; no camera. I looked for several days, but could never find it. So, that gave me the impetus to decide to get myself a new camera. The D50 is a good camera; but it's 8 years old, and only 6.1 MP. The new camera I'm getting air dropped is another Sony Cybershot, (H200) but this time it's a "crossover" camera. It's still a point and shoot, but has exceptional capabilities. In manual; you can set every aspect to your desired settings. iso 80 to 3200, 28mm to 600mm equivilent lens for a 1cm (1/2 inch) macro to 26x zoom. And best of all; up to 30 seconds exposure. Never seen that on a point and shot before. It's a sweet camera, and I can't wait to get it delivered.
Yo, Leonard! Can't believe you stumbled upon my posts in Woodenboat Forum! Too cool! For those haven't read those posts; and that's probably all the rest of ya's, I was on the Woodenboat Forum trying to discover the make of a boat I was going to adopt from Lou. She was a sweetheart of an old trawler, but had some bad
leaks and was drinking about 60 or so gallons per hour. I never got the boat. Not because I didn't want it; nor because Lou wasn't willing to give it to me, but rather because Lou's son's old wooden trawler was here too, and was even more of a drunk than Lou's boat. (300+ gallons per hour.) So, when 2 bilge pups in a row failed on Lou's son's boat, I made the decision to give my boat's bilge pump up to save Lou's son's boat. And with that ended my lil' dream of owning the Sea Pryde III. And so we stripped her of every piece of teak and all good mechanical components and beached her.
Here's what she looked like before we scrapped her.
What a lovely boat. Hurt to let her go, Lou's son's boat was more important.
After she was stripped and beached in front of the boiler house.
And then, to add insult to injury; the boiler house collapsed onto her. The NERVE!
You can see the stern of the boat sticking out of the wreckage. Poor thing got squashed.
Ahh well, can't win 'em all!
Cheers!
Cory