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Willow came downstairs to ‘help’ me do some home improvement work. She had a red marker with her. She handed it to me “in case I needed” it. I noticed her hands were covered in red marker and I asked if she had drawn all over herself. Of course she denied any such activity. I do believe I caught her Red Handed!
Willow had her Kindy graduation last week. She’s been in childcare with about 6 of these kiddos since they were infants. They had a very cute little graduation ceremony complete with caps, gowns and diplomas. Next year, she’ll be in primary school.
My little girl had her first figure skating competition yesterday. She did great and got a second place medal. Here she’s being congratulated by one of the older skaters. I took a few photos. Most of the competitors were friends of my oldest daughter and we’ve seen them all skate from about the age of 5 or 6. All the photos can be found here. This is one of my favorite from the day. I really liked the lighting and softness in this photo.
“Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.” Last week, I posted about a computer meltdown and a reinstall of software including trying to find the GIMP plugins I was using. After finding them and another cool suite of plugins, a twitter mate of mine @alastair_hm commented that he like the Orton Effect plugin. This plugin is located in the Gimphelp.org suite and is found under Script-Fu -> Sharpness -> Softer -> Orton Effect. I had not used this effect so I quickly applied it to an image. I instantly saw the potential for this effect. I since discovered that the effect was named for MIchael Orton. He sandwiched slides together. For each image, he would take two shots. One overexposed by two stops and one that was overexposed by one stop. This would produce an image that had an impressionistic sense to it. Nowadays, we don’t really need to use a tripod and take multiple shots. Most image editing programs have settings, plugins, addons and etc that could produce this same effect or it an be produced by adding layers onto an existing image. In GIMP, the Orton Effect copies the image on two additional layers. In the first it overexposes the image and sharpens it, in the second it applies a gaussian blur.
If you have a favorite GIMP plugin or effect, please let us all know! I’ve had a computer melt down. My main computer’s power supply turned off the lights and now no one’s home. The laptop had a failing HDD. I replaced the HDD in the laptop but had to leave the big computer with someone else to repair the power supply. After replacing the laptop HDD I’ve had to reinstall all software. I upgraded to the latest Ubuntu 9.10 and installed all my favorite apps. However, I couldn’t remember the name of the suite of scripts/plugins I use on GIMP. I googled furiously to find the plugins I have on the main computer. Eventually I found them – FX-Foundry . If you’ve never used this collection before I’d highly recommend it. Like I said, I was frantic to find them to install on the laptop. In the process I happened across another collection of plugins from gimphelp.org I experimented tonight with an image I took earlier in the day of an old dead tree. Here’s the originial image: Cutout script Infrared Simulation and my favorite for this image – Make Wonderful
Willow on the trampoline with a new Hubble Space Telescope shot as background. |
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