The View from the FoothillsThis and that, now and then. Mostly book reviews, with the occasional excursion into whimsy.Photographic Composition, by Tom Grill & Mark Scanlon- January 30, 2006 As has no doubt been abundantly clear over the last week, I've got a new camera, and I've aspirations to learn how to use it properly. One of my friends at work is seriously into photography--which is to say, he's...http://foothills.wjduquette.com/archives/001236.html Got a book on digital photography...- January 29, 2006 First thing I read, the author's saying that you never want to use JPEG format because it's a lossy format: you lose a bit of the detail every time you open and close the file!... But after that, anybody with any computer savvy knows better than to save an image they're working on in JPEG format until they are completely, absolutely done; and even then, you keep a non-lossy copy.http://foothills.wjduquette.com/archives/001235.html Spider- January 28, 2006 .flickr-photo .flickr-frame float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; .flickr-caption font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; Spider, originally uploaded by will.duquette. I've never seen a spider quite like this one before. Its legs curve...http://foothills.wjduquette.com/archives/001234.html Rover Prototype- January 26, 2006 .flickr-photo .flickr-frame float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; .flickr-caption font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; Rover Prototype, originally uploaded by will.duquette. Here's a prototype Mars rover relaxing in JPL's Mars yard. They've got...http://foothills.wjduquette.com/archives/001233.html Loving your work- January 25, 2006 Paul Graham has posted an essay on how to earn a living doing something you love to do. As it happens, I earn a living doing something I love to do, and as it happens I got here more or less the way he describes.http://foothills.wjduquette.com/archives/001232.html |