This time it is with my new camera. I recently bought a new digital camera after a whole lot of trauma due to credit cards and billing/shipping addresses not matching. One of the many hazards of being a Brit abroad. Anyway, I eventually bought it in an actual shop (*gasp*) this past weekend and have been snapping away left, right, and centre. This, however, is not the obsession.
I recently upgraded to being a Pro on Flickr (sadly this doesn't actually provide you with a great improvement on your photographic skills, just more storage space). On idly flicking around I found Poladroid. It's free software that you use to create Polaroid-like images. It's great, you drag your image onto the icon of the camera, it spits out a photo, then you can shake the picture using your mouse and it slowly develops. Whether or not shaking the image actually succeeds in speeding up development time is unknown, but 1) it's fun, 2) you can sing 'Hey-Ya' loudly whilst doing it and, more importantly, 3) it really annoys Liam!
"Shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it, shake it shake it..."
You can can take samples of the image at any point during the developing, and even add scratches/fingerprints to give aging effects. Anyway, here are my three favourites so far. I've cropped them but you get the idea...
Icy Window:
The rainy view out of our front window:
A random crow:
4 comments:
*clicks through to Poladroid and knows this is going to mean trouble*
All very well Hen, but you left out the most important details for the technical geeks amongst your audience: WHAT CAMERA HAVE YOU BOUGHT?
Apologies, 'tis a Panasonic Lumix FS20.
Wow! front window view is just wonderful! lucky you :)
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