Canned Platypus

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Feb
22

Snow Platypus

It’s raining today, so the snow has become much stickier than it used to be. I decided that it’s time to make a snow platypus. Here’s the result.

Snow Platypus

Pictures of snow are hard to do well. I’ve tried to tweak the contrast etc. to SHOW the detail on the platypus (at the expense of making the image of me look terrible) but there’s only so much I can do so I apologize if it still looks awful on your monitor.

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  1. Jeff Darcy Says: February 23rd, 2003 at 4:57 am

    Here’s one taken at night with a flash.

    Night Platypus

  2. Pierre Phaneuf Says: February 24th, 2003 at 5:46 pm

    Have you got an "exposure compensation" control on your camera? If so, bump it up to +1, +1.5 or even +2.

    Camera’s lightmeter goes by the assumption that an "average scene" is what they call 18% reflectance, so if you go and take a picture in the snow, it thinks "man, there’s lots of light in here, let’s tone it down!" and it makes dark pictures. Basically, camera lightmeters tries to make everything grey, so snow is grew, and so is a black tuxedo.

  3. Pierre Phaneuf Says: February 24th, 2003 at 5:47 pm

    You can try forcing the flash too, this might help making *you* look good (rather than be a black silhouette on a white background). :-)

  4. David Packer Says: February 24th, 2003 at 5:53 pm

    Or you can try finding a more useful hobby :-)

    -David

    P.S. Just so you know, I tried my best not to make a joke here, but I just couldn’t resist.

  5. Jeff Darcy Says: February 24th, 2003 at 5:56 pm

    Pierre: thanks for the tip. That’s one setting I’ve never really played with.

    David: don’t you have something better to do yourself? ;-)

  6. David Packer Says: February 24th, 2003 at 11:03 pm

    I can’t think of anything better to do than harass Mr. Darcy.

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