Video & photo work update page

My intention is that this page will be updated with new personal developments in videography, photography, and the editing thereof.

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11/17/2013

I I appreciate the change I've had to borrow a Panasonic Lumix DMC FZ35 camera. On my first attempt taking a half dozen photos with it, I set it to auto, auto sent it to portrait mode, and the flash failed to function although it was supposed to. This I was able to ascertain by reading detailed exif info (that is not visible simply by right-click, properties on a photo) using the photome software. The best photo, # 283.JPG, IMHO looks good when its width is between 1.5 and 3". By way of strange contrast, I also have a self-portrait made with Nikon Koolpix and Nikon photo edit software using the 'nature' saturation control, which looks good big but not small, significant in a world where so many sites we use encourage us to use photos that are displayed in such small sizes. I like #283.JPG because it does not distort and uglify me too much. Shooting in the mirror, I can tell when I am being distorted and uglified and to what extent.

The best of the five photos shot November 16, 2003, #283.JPG:

David Virgil Hobbs
November 2013

I suspect that the decline in image quality caused by the flash not firing as it was supposed to, is the cause of the photo looking worse when big. I suspect that such can be corrected to some extent simply by shrinking the photo to somewhere around 10% of its normal size in MS Paint and then saving it. I was not able to produce improvement in this photo using the free Paint.net, program.

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11/14/2013

I wanted to know how stills taken from unprocessed mts files differ from stills taken from mts files that have been converted to mp4 files. I have created a page showing the initial result of the investigation (model for the experiments is me photographed by another):

mts picture quality compared to MP4 created from mts

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