{"id":5293,"date":"2010-12-26T22:15:59","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:15:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/26\/christmas-toy-all-about-light\/"},"modified":"2010-12-26T22:15:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T22:15:59","slug":"christmas-toy-all-about-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2010\/12\/26\/christmas-toy-all-about-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Toy: All About Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

My big Christmas present this year was an external flash unit for my camera. Which means that, among the 354 (!!) pictures I took while at my parents’ were a bunch playing with different flash settings. Why? These two pictures should give you the idea:<\/p>\n

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The first is taken with the flash angled straight ahead, and the second with the flash angled upward so it bounced off the ceiling first. I definitely think the second looks better– there isn’t the same glare off SteelyKid’s forehead, and the background is illuminated more uniformly.<\/p>\n

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Both of these show SteelyKid watching “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (or, as she put it, “watch Bumble!”) in my parents’ basement. She sat through that probably ten times, and “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” another eight or so. We don’t have either on the DVR here, which has not yet led to a crisis. We do have the Grinch book, which she demanded four or five times tonight.<\/p>\n

Neither of these have been color-corrected at all, to allow direct comparison. Fiddling with the colors can improve the direct-flash photo a bit, but it’s complicated. The indirect-flash picture looks perfectly fine as is.<\/p>\n

Anyway, that’s me playing with my Christmas toys. We’ve got a bunch of photos of SteelyKid with her Christmas presents as well, some of which may end up here. Here’s hoping that you all got something you enjoy fiddling with as much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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