I’ve Moved!

November 20, 2008

So I’m sure that most people have noticed that the site has been offline for a few days. There’s a reason for that, which I will get to shortly. But first, let me just say this:

I AM NO LONGER BLOGGING HERE

In fact, I am blogging at a new site I have just finished setting up: kennethhynek.net. A full explanation for the reasons behind the move can be found here.

That said, this is not the end of . My wife has expressed interest in taking over blogging at this domain, and I am working to make sure that she gets set up here as soon as possible.

Also, my profound apologies for the modification to the site face; the move was not as seamless as I would have hoped, and many of the image files for this theme, and in the gallery, were corrupted during the course of their evacuation from my previous web host’s servers. Until such time as I have repaired them, I’ve put a clean-looking template in place of the previous one.

Update: for the purposes of further traffic shaping, new posts from kennethhynek.net will be excerpted below. Full articles can be read at the new blog.

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Pic of the Day #370

September 25, 2007

In keeping with the theme of “guest” pictures, this shot — one of a few different poses Grace and I tried for our wedding announcement in the Vermilion Standard (her home town’s newspaper) — was taken by Grace’s sister Tracy. The camera had my 430EX flash on it (the flash was softboxed), and I believe it was angled up one notch.

Firstly, pardon me if I break something with the posting; I’m trying to hack the image inserter to display the medium-sized image instead of the thumbnail, which…anyhow, just know that I’m working on stuff.

While this isn’t the shot that was ultimately used for the announcement, I happen to like it, because it’s just the right blend of silly and illusory. Obviously we’re both not fitting behind the tree as the angle our heads would imply, but I’m just impressed that this shot worked out as well as it did — it’s harder than one might expect to pose oneself behind a tree that’s not all that wide to begin with, in such a way that a) a second person can pose with you and b) the parts of both of you that are supposed to be behind the tree actually do remain behind the tree.

But between our posing and Tracy’s shooting, the shot worked out just perfectly, I think.

I made the decision to convert it to black and white mostly for exposure reasons, and also because it let me bring out more detail from the contrast. And the noise is sometimes easier to deal with in black and white, as was the case here (the camera was on ISO 1600, a necessary evil given how dark it was when we were shooting).

Where was this taken?
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