October 17, 2004
Photo album
Photos - Thanks to some generous assistance from Michelle, I had a couple of hours to work on these photos. As you might imagine, a fall theme dominates many of the pictures. I was a little let down because of a mistake I made with the camera some weeks back. I had a low light situation and turned up the sensitivity to an equivalent ASA/ISO 400. I forgot to turn things back to normal. While you can't tell much at web resolutions, this really made the images very grainy. They had a lot of noise due to the increased gain on the sensor amplifiers of the camera's CCD array. For instance, look closely at the faces on this picture of the boys playing with blocks. Instead of smooth continuous tone, the faces have a dithered look to them. It's worse when you see the full resolution images. Ahh well, live and learn. It makes me wish I didn't wait until there were over 50 pictures to be extracted. I could have caught this sooner if I hadn't procrastinated on photo work.