Tova7

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ok, so I got new batteries for my digital.

In my previous article http://lifehappens.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=117222 I tried to show the faux finish on my dining room wall....but for some reason the photo was not turning out like the wall actually looks. I took Jon's advice and used natural light, turning off the flash....sounds easy but I read for an hour before learning how to do it.....shesh.

Here is the best I can do for now.

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Looks good and you learned somehting about your camera. Most didgitals are good point and shoot cameras but when you lear to use the features on them you can become an artist (as long as you have good composition skills but we all get luck sometimes).

You asked for a hint as to what my next big thing was. It has to do with digital cameras. I am still far off from a working prototype but the proof of concept is good so far.

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It has to do with digital cameras

I hope it makes them easier to use! hahaha.

I actually took photographs professionally...meaning for the newspaper I worked for and random shots for college yearbooks I was paid for. I am not as ignorant as I sound about composition, and I know the tripod rule...just for my own photos, well I don't follow it. I even know my way around a dark room fairly well, though its been some years and I am sure things have changed a little.

I used my Rebel for those jobs. I still love it but compared to my digital it is clunky and out of date. But I feel most "artistic" with the weight of it around my neck. (Doesn't mean I actually am.) I still chaff over paying $350 for a telephoto lens I used exactly three times...grrrr!

Digital cameras are nice, but not very user friendly and the chips you buy for memory or whatever, whoa! Mine are $80 each. And getting them developed really bugs me because I think it should be about 5 cents a photo. Shesh, you can put like 500 pictures on one of those little chips, that's a lot of money when you wait to develop it all at once like I do for 15-20 cents a shot.

So needless to say, I have tons of pictures on chips and very few hard copies. May as well not have them!

Sorry, didn't mean to go off on that tangent.

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I still chaff over paying $350 for a telephoto lens I used exactly three times...grrrr!

You know they have a Digital Rebel. My wife had to have the N60 by Nikon for a wanting to do it so bad photographer I just gotta buy more camera than I’ll ever use. Of course we had to buy the AF lenses and we have the Aspherical Lens and a nice telephoto. Twice in the lenses as we have the body anyway. I am really considering the D50. It's like $350 for the body and then you need lenses. It uses the same lenses I already have.

So needless to say, I have tons of pictures on chips and very few hard copies. May as well not have them!

Go buy yourself a good photo printer (notice I didn't say great). I got a decent HP for Christmas it was under $170 I think. It's like $0.14 a print but you print the ones you want when you want. It says you get around 100 4x6 prints per cart. We take a lot of photos and we haven't hit 100 prints yet. An average photo outing for us includes 500+ photos. We have good eyes but the best rule of photography is if you take more shots you have a better chance of getting a few really good ones.

I also know my way around the dark room. I would love to do my own darkroom but the damn equipment is too expensive. Well, too expensive at the rate I would do it. I'm so cyclical motivated anyway.

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you'd really like the wallpaper I used in my living room

Yeah I do...I was looking at EXACTLY this wall paper at Lowes. They had a cobalt blue with gold gilded French writing on it....but they discontinued it! I love the rip method...so that is why I decided to try this....its ripped up tissue paper.

I am happy with the results. It feels very old world..and when my table arrives I will take photos and show the entire effect...I know its hard to see it now...but I love it.

Even better...I found curtains I like so won't have to sew them! WOO HOO. I don't mind sewing, but I am an instant satisfaction type person and like to see the room done fast...hehe.

And the yard is taking all our time right now...we just installed a drainage system from all our down spouts going out to the sewer....lots if ditch digging. It's rained here for about 7 days so it was muddy work, and 370 feet of drainage pipe!

Photos to follow!

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Here they are...the sod pieces are now back in place, over the pipe and it is DONE!!! TWO DAYS back breaking shoveling and getting rained on....but no more water around the house after it rains! (Always good when kids can't wait to play outside.)

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You know they have a Digital Rebel.

Yeah I know but its hard to justify the expense when I already have my EOS Rebel and our digital camera. Oh well, guess I will just have to learn to use the digital and make myself develop the pics.

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Your wall looks beautiful, what did you seal it with?

You can seal it with poly....but I didn't because we don't use the dining room much. We have a eat in kitchen. Plus the glaze really did put a nice "seal" on it. My kids rub up against it and it doesn't hurt it at all. The paint and glaze together make a pretty tuff barrier to the tissue....

Thanks, I like it. My husband really likes it...which is always a good thing! ha.

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