Jacques’ Brain Drain

If you’re using Miro on Ubuntu Hardy Heron, and you’re using the PCF repositories, you may find that Miro crashed unexpectedly or misbehaves and has trouble with Compiz-fusion. This can be very easily fixed by going into preferences and changing the playback engine from xine to gstreamer. After this, you will need to close Miro and restart it. This should make Miro stable again.

After two days of this experiment, I’m already noticing some changes to my approach. Mainly, I’m shooting on manual far more often than I had been previously. I find that when I’m not focusing on the subject of the photograph, I am more free to focus on the process. When I can concentrate on the lighting, the timing, the aperture and many other aspects of the picture – rather than focusing more directly on the object of the picture, I have an opportunity to improve my craft. Having a good subject for a picture is only part of the process – the craft aspects are important too – and this has helped so far.

Note: Yes – the pictures are online. No, they aren’t in my Picasa photo albums.

The pictures from Donna’s wedding are up on my photo page. Slideshow is below the fold.

Just got back from a trip to New England to visit relatives and friends. The first of my pictures are up, and more will follow soon rather than later.
I have photos from the wedding on CD, but haven’t put them up yet because they need to be sorted and post-processed first.


http://picasaweb.google.com/jricher.n1zzh