Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

I finally got around to looking at the digital photos I took on Saturday. They're too dark again, but unlike last weekend's photos, in these the sky was still visible before equalization, giving more of a "fooled the meter because the sky was bright" look to them than the mysterious extreme darkness of the previous set. I can't think of what I did any differently this time other than using a different brand of batteries (I changed batteries in the middle of the set of photos I shot last weekend, with similar results after the change, but I used the same brand of battery the whole day). Could it be that I need to learn which brands this camera needs, or is it more likely that some other variable I hadn't noticed is the real culprit? I got better-exposed daylight pics from this canera before this month, so I know it's not a flaw intrinsic to this model of camera.

Anyhow, these photos were easier to batch-correct (or rather, auto-correcting them as a batch produced better results than it did with the last set), but I didn't get to spend as much time shooting so there are fewer of them to pick from. I haven't gotten around to hand-editing any of them yet; I just wanted a quick peek before crashing for the night.

Oh crap. I just thought of another variable. I used a different method to copy these two batches off the camera's CF card than I did with previous photos from this camera. Maybe the software that came with the camera automagically applies some sort of gamma correction during upload? I was just about to delete this batch from the camera, but I think I'll leave them there for now and try copying them with the supplied program later to see whether there's any difference.

"I wonder if [Westboro Baptist Church] will picket Reverend Phelps' funeral when he dies?" -- elkor, 2007-05-17, in response to news that Westboro Baptist, Fred Phelps' organization, intends to protest at the funeral of Jerry Falwell.