{"id":10122,"date":"2015-09-01T13:51:34","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T17:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/?p=10122"},"modified":"2015-09-01T13:51:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T17:51:34","slug":"001366-new-camera-photo-blogging-regal-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2015\/09\/01\/001366-new-camera-photo-blogging-regal-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"001\/366: New Camera, Photo Blogging, Regal Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today, I officially stopped being department chair, and started my sabbatical leave. I also acquired a new toy:<\/p>\n

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My new camera, taken with the old camera.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My old DSLR camera, a Canon Rebel XSi that I got mumble<\/i> years ago, has been very good for over 20,000 pictures, but a few things about it were getting kind of flaky– it’s been bad at reading light levels for a while now, meaning I’m constantly having to monkey with the ISO setting manually, then forgetting to change it back when I move to a brighter location and taking a bunch of pictures where everything is all blown out. It also stopped talking to the external flash unit, after I had gotten used to the indirect flash option (though it looks like that might be a problem with the external flash unit, as it won’t talk to the new camera, either…). I could probably get those issues fixed, but it would probably cost about the same as a new camera body, with new cool features, so…<\/p>\n

So I got a new camera. (And, as it turned out, I can now spend my vast accumulation of credit-card reward points (that I never remember to do anything with) on Amazon, so I didn’t spend any real money on this at all…) This is a Canon Rebel T6i, a slight upgrade from the XSi (not a full professional-grade DSLR), but the advance of technology over the last mumble<\/i> years means it has a bunch of fun new features– bigger sensor, faster speeds, video capability. So it’ll be a nice toy.<\/p>\n

As a bonus, I’m also acquiring a casual sabbatical project– for a while now, I’ve watched other people do the photo-a-day thing, and thought that might be fun. While I was saddled with administrative hassles of being chair, that wasn’t really going to work, but while I’m on sabbatical, I can devote a little time every day to taking photos. <\/p>\n

So, I’ll be trying to take and post one picture a day for the next year (Or at least GIMPing photos taken on a previous day to get them down to a size I can post here…)– which happens to be a leap year, so 366 days, woo-hoo– and we’ll see how that works out. For the officially official first photo of the set, we’ll use one of the test pictures I took of Emmy:<\/p>\n

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Emmy, the Queen of Niskayuna, regally surveying her back yard.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I cropped and scaled this, but didn’t do any color tweaking. Emmy’s too jaded about photography to actually turn her head and look at the camera, but this pose has a certain dignity…<\/p>\n

(For comparison, here’s the first posted photo from the previous camera<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, I officially stopped being department chair, and started my sabbatical leave. I also acquired a new toy: My old DSLR camera, a Canon Rebel XSi that I got mumble years ago, has been very good for over 20,000 pictures, but a few things about it were getting kind of flaky– it’s been bad at… Continue reading 001\/366: New Camera, Photo Blogging, Regal Dog<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[684,20,2,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-684","category-dog","category-personal","category-pictures","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}