Rabbit Thought of the Day

I learnt this while I was in the service and I did finish my career as a Sergeant Major

The General
Runs faster than a speeding bullet
Can walk on water
Is as strong as ten trains
Can leap tall buildings
Talks to God

The Major
Can run as fast as a speeding bullet
Can swim well in calm water
Is as strong as one  train
Can jump tall buildings in favourable winds
Is sometimes invited to talk to God

The Captain
Can Fire a speeding bullet from a gun
Can swim well with arm bands
Is as strong as a bus
Can find the entrance to tall buildings
Can talk to God only if request forms are filled out in triplicate

The Lieutenant
Is never given a loaded weapon
Drowns when placed near water
Say's "look Choo Choo"
Can tell what a tall building looks like 9 times out of 10
Has never heard of God

The Sergeant Major
Catches speeding bullets in his teeth and chews them
Freezes water with a single glance
Blows over 20 strains with one puff
Kicks aside tall buildings that get in his way
HE IS GOD

Robin
(Canon 350D F4.5 @ 1/500sec: Canon 90 – 300mm zoom lens) 

We have edited our pictures and we are happy with results now what do we do with them, how do you find one particular picture you need in six months time? Not an easy task if you just have not thought about storage or cataloguing them.  

One you have edited your pictures then the original should be stored separate, I learnt this the hard way, I had all my pictures stored in one folder, the computer crashed and I lost thousand of pictures that I no longer had copies of, years of pictures I had taken while I was in the army vanished in a split second.  

Has I previously have said I shot in RAW format, I convert these and edit the resulting image, the original file is stored on an external hard drive and only contains RAW files. If I need the original it’s a simple process to locate the particle file number.  

The edited image is stored in a folder and is named only by date that the picture was taken, this helps in locating a picture. The only problem I have is that I have lots of folders, but there are broken down into months and then into years, a lot I agree but is does help. I don’t rename the picture it just has the file number given to it by the camera when it was shot.  

I have invested in a photo catalogue, Adobe Photoshop Album, this is a god send, you can tag photos then when you require to find an image you just click on the tags you want and the picture is located, could be any simpler.  

The golden rule is to always back up your images, an external hard can cost as little as £50 for a 160GB this is able to store 10’s of thousands of images and gives you piece of mind, just remember to keep it safe and back up your pictures every time you have been out.

Fox
(Canon 350D F6 @ 1/500sec: Sigma 50 – 500mm zoom lens) 

Whatever, type of digital camera you own and no matter what type of images you photograph, those images must ultimately be processed through a series of software applications that get them to there intended audience, whether that be on paper or online.  

For the majority of people the process know as ‘Workflow’ is a simple and painless process, you connect the camera to the computer with the lead supplied switch on the camera and the images are transferred to the computer and that’s the end of the work, you just select the pictures you want print them off and send a picture of little Johnny to Grandma, who delights in the fact you have remembered her.  

For others the process is a little more complicated, many of us will have hundreds if not thousands (at the last count, I had a little over 20,000 images taken in the last 5 years). We need to catalogue these where we can easily find them again.  

Once we have down loaded the images we must go through each one and delete the ones we don’t want, the out of focus or the ones where we have managed to photo our own thumb.  

For the more advanced we next move on to editing, enhancing our pictures has never been easier and there are many software programs that we can use. Photoshop is the best on the market but at over £500 for a copy is well out of our price range unless you are professional. However, Adobe do make an abridged version, Photoshop Elements at under a £100 pounds it will do everything that the  most people need, there are of course others on the market priced about the same  that do the same job. Corel Paintshop Pro to name one.  

I have a copy of Photoshop and I have a few that I have down loaded from the web for free, these are good for simple fixes and are perfectly adequate and I do use them, two that you should try are Gimp and Photoscape, both are really very good.   

So we have editing our pictures what’s next on the agenda. This will be discussed in the next post.

Well Portsmouth won the FA for the first time since1939, lets hope its another 70 years before they get the chance again, in recent years the FA Cup and become boring with each team afraid of losing hence leading to a dull and uninteresting game.  

Yesterday game was like having teeth pulled, it was more exciting watching grass grow or paint dry.  It certainly wasn’t the spectacle expected, more like a game Sunday morning pub game. 

However, congratulations to Portsmouth, next season its Europe for you.

What  a beautiful start to the day, the sun as decided to put in an appreance once again, and the weaher forecast loks good for the rest of the week, not quite as warm as its been been but certainly bright and sunny. Fingers crossed it will contine into next weekend.

Rabbit