Come on over, I’ll make dinner. It’s boeuf bourguignon tonight, as long as pearl onions aren’t too carby for you.
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Naps and dogs and sunny days and books and movies and sex and talking with friends and going on trips and massage and baths and…
I am whiny. There are many good things.
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A work thing tomorrow may or may not get pushed to Friday (I’ll know tomorrow morning).
Which means I may or may not have to work Friday (I usually do not).
:<
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::brandishes holy water and cross at work thing::
be gone, work thing! get back, you time-sucking devil!
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Trying to lounge on our lovely porch in our vacation rental in Hawaii, but the house next door people are screaming insults at each other and slamming doors and stuff. Been going on for over an hour 
never know what to do in situations like this. Just hate it.
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Good news update: kids just got home. This means A, the screaming wasn’t when the kids were home. And B, now they’re done screaming.
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Yiiikes.
My tony complaint: I went to a beautiful place today and took a bunch of pictures today with my DSLR. But now I don’t want to process the RAW images and send them to my friends.
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Can you set the camera to take pictures in another format?
This is me being a perfectionist. The camera takes both RAW and JPEG, but the automatic processing in JPEG is inferior to doing it myself. RAW lets me even out inconsistent lighting and fix color issues. Unless you start messing with specialized equipment like filters, taking photos of snow/sky and land/people will always result in some areas being blown out or underexposed. And what’s the point of bringing a fancy camera if your shots look bad?
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You’re disturbingly correct. I lived with a pro photographer for 7 years, and now the idea of shooting in jpeg gives me the heebie-jeebies.
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JPEG’s biggest advantage is preventing a rabbit hole of minor tweaks and judgment calls. I’m not making money off this, so why am I spending an hour adjusting all my already processed photos to have lower clarity? For pictures that a few people will glance at for a second? Ideally I would quickly make the big adjustments and leave the rest behind for things like this, but that’s not how my brain works.
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Reminder: It’s okay to get enjoyment out of things that don’t give you money.
Also reminder: It’s okay to also let go of things and be happy with “good enough”.
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I think you do have a superpower.
It got pushed, but to Monday so my Friday is safe.
\o/
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A dude on the bus has been kvetching on the phone at someone my. whole. commute. I think same guy who took a recruiter call afee weeks ago. 
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Ha! This is me. I seldomly take photos nowadays because I hate editing.
RAW gives you more flexibility since there’s more data but for the most part (since you’re not shooting professionally) you can fix lighting and color by editing JPEGs as well. Ever since I switched to my Olympus fun camera, I found out that my version of Photo Mechanic (my culling software which is way out of date since I didn’t want to pay to update my license) didn’t support Olympus RAW files. So I switched to shooting JPEG and edit those in Lightroom. The photos still look great. No one is blowing them up to make posters.
Well, these days I mostly take photos on my phone, unless I’m traveling somewhere exotic.
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I don’t know if I enjoy the editing process. Especially when there’s a voice in my head saying NOBODY ELSE CARES ABOUT THIS AS MUCH AS YOU DO. But I did some basic editing during an insomnia break, and I might leave it at that. I don’t need to send them a complete album, I can send over the first few I edit, and give them more later if I get to it.
I don’t want to edit JPEG either! Quick edits on my phone are best, but my camera doesn’t have Bluetooth. And some of these pictures reaaally needed the RAW help, there were sections that were much too blown out. Detail couldn’t be recovered from a JPEG, and it was hard to adjust camera settings on the fly, since I was shooting moving targets and switching between shadow and direct sunlight. Even aperture mode led to overexposure.
What if you shoot RAW + JPEG and only use the RAW to edit photos that need saving and that you want to save in the first place (my first rule is to cull hard)? (Also, it’s always better to underexpose than to overexpose if that’s a consistent problem.)
I thought the rain would be over today so I could take Duckling on a really big walk. It is due to rain all day.
Expect me back on here in 3 hours to complain about getting wet.
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No, getting wet was fine. My hip/thigh trying to seize up and cease function during the walk back was not. Time to visit my favourite physio…
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I will probably miss seeing the OMD Kickstarter click over the $16000 mark! It’s less than $500 away…
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