Have a look at my “recent activities”:
And then have a look at my stats:
So many different numbers, all for the same image.
How many views were it? 8002? 12999? 8072? Or – my favourite – 74% of 17489 (which would calculate to 12941,86)?
Strange, ain’t it? Our customers would nail us to the next tree if we’d come up with numbers like these…
Anyway, lots of views for a cat photo, that’s without question 🙂
Thanks for reading my short rant…
My brother Willi reminded me that I now have shown some photos taken *with* my new camera – but none so far *of* it.
So I borrowed Mitchie’s Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark 2 once again to take a photo of my own one with it. Mitchie currently has the 45mm/1.8 Olympus lens on her camera, which is a small jewel in itself, and a must have for users of this system. My camera has the Panasonic Leica DG Summilux 25mm/1:1.4 mounted with which I took the latest cat photos:
So this is how it looks – from this distance, it more or less looks like my older original model, tho some dials, knobs, and switches were moved.
Anyway – so glad I have this now. Thanks again to the customer service of Olympus Germany.
Thanks for reading.
Update from Sunday evening:
Here’s another photo *of* my camera – this time I used Mitchie’s together with two of my studio strobes:
Thanks again for viewing.
Well – I didn’t have that since a while. But the photo I took of Tuna (our cat) yesterday evening was somehow “explored” in Flickr today, which usually results in lots of views, and also “faves”:
Somehow I find this cool – happening on the same day that I got my new camera. 🙂 And the fact that even with a cat photo you can become “explored” shows that it’s still both the subject and the photographer – tho the cuteness factor surely helps 🙂
As always, thanks for reading, and for viewing.
Now that I finally have a camera of my own again, I’m always on the lookout for photo opportunities. So when Tuna the cat decided to lay down on a warm spot of our heated floor just in front of our kitchen entry, I took two quick shots. And in the first of the two she was looking directly into the camera with a very intense stare.
This was in mixed light – natural daylight from outside, and artificial light from our kitchen which sadly doesn’t have any window. And although Olympus cameras do a very good auto white balance, they can’t of course correct for two totally different light temperatures – so I knew the end result would have to be in black & white (the only sensible resolution if you don’t use flash on your background).
And this is what I did. First I switched to black & white with a simulated yellow filter in Olympus Viewer 3 (same as if I had done this inside of the camera before even taking the photo). Then I checked and compared with the “fine art” preset no. #19 in Silver Efex Pro2 (and sfx won). And the final touches and the midrange colour toning (from grey to brown) were done in RawTherapee 5 in Linux as always.
So this is the result, cropped to a 3:2 format:
About these Flickr embeds: I decided to use the new “block” from WordPress 5’s “Gutenberg” editor from now on. The difference for you is that I can’t alter the resulting HTML code to let the photo open in another tab or window anymore, so if you simply left-click on such a photo you will be directed to Flickr (and away from my site). If you don’t want that, then from now on you’ll have to right-click the image and select to open it in a new frame yourself.
As always, thanks for reading and viewing. Have a nice Sunday!
Ok, let’s celebrate WordPress 5.0 “Bebo” with a Youtube video:
Should I cite my own comment on that video of Joan Chamorro and his students? Here you go:
Wow. Perfection. My Christmas or birthday wish? Your “presents…” and “Jazzing” series. I’ll order all of them.
myself, in a comment on Youtube
Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.
More about the song: see Wikipedia
That Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark 2 is a terrific little camera. I only have it since a few hours, but I love it already. So when I saw Tuna on her favourite chair in our living room, I switched on two of my studio strobes, and took her photo again:
As always, thanks for viewing.
Ok, I’ll simply start writing here in a normal “paragraph” as they called it now, and then add some other stuff. Like for instance an image:
Or “custom html”:
Next will be a Flickr photo:
What else do we have? A “classic block”, whatever that might be…:
Aaahh, looks like an embedded mini version of the former editor which is now called “classic”…
Then comes a “heading”:
Then, a “gallery”…
Or a “list”:
Finally, a quote:
don’t waste time it’s prime
© marmotte
Lyrics: Sistahood
Ok, enough for now. There are many more “blocks” which you could add, but let’s see how it all turns out in its default form…
Ciao for now…
Almost a month ago, my camera stopped working. The technicians from its maker said it’s an issue with the mainboard which would have to be replaced, and the cost for that including work would be ~ 160€. Considering the cost for a replacement which was 3 times that amount, I agreed upon the repair offer.
But as it turned out, they needed a part for my camera which they couldn’t get anymore. And so they came up with another offer: for that calculated repair cost they would instead send me the camera’s successor (see above, usually 3x the repair cost).
Wow. Of course I just couldn’t refuse that. And after some waiting, today my shiny new toy arrived, the Olympus OM-D E-M10 Mark 2. And of course I had to check it immediately, first with mixed daylight and artificial light:
And a bit later with two of my studio strobes:
So finally I can take photos with an own device again. Cool.
And wow, what a generous deal! Now I have to make the device mine, and set up everything like I had it before.
Cool.
I’m still waiting for my camera, so in the mean time I used Mitchie’s again today to take another photo of the cat. Used Rawtherapee on Linux only this time to “develop” it from the raw file:
I’m writing this with the new editor in WordPress 5, new from this evening.
Interesting…
Here’s our latest collaboration from Wikiloops which this time started from a private band project. Each single instrument was mixed masterly by OliVBee who is also the composer of the original template, and the guitar player:
List of musicians:
This is the second time that I revisited this track after first being introduced to it in Steinfeld at this years Wikiloops member meeting, and after recording another version with Shi.
So this time, thanks to Oliv (again), Martin, Anne, and Charlotte.
And thanks to you for listening.
