{"id":661,"date":"2011-04-21T16:45:48","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/?p=661"},"modified":"2011-04-21T16:45:48","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T20:45:48","slug":"new-camera-walkabout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/21\/new-camera-walkabout\/","title":{"rendered":"New Camera Walkabout"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finally pulled the trigger on buying a dSLR the other day, a Canon EOS Rebel T3i \/ 600D<\/a> and today I took it out for a brief spin around the yard. The objective was just to get comfortable with it, and just walk through the process of shooting and downloading using the new software. I shot on the fully Auto mode for now, just to see how it would perform, and I think it did very well. Conditions, mind you, were pretty favourable: nice even light, no harsh contrasts for the AI to get confused over…<\/p>\n

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\nBefore heading out for my little walkabout, I tried out the camera on my lovely wife Lynda, who did not let us down, and vice versa I think…<\/p>\n

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\nThe Muskoka chairs I made last summer have survived their first winter. They have a diluted coat of spar varnish on them, so that helped.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>
\nSilver likes to cross over to Kitsch Island in pursuit of the Mallards that often drop in to hunt our few remaining goldfish.<\/p>\n

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\nAn earlier pair of outdoor chairs I made in 2009, now recovering from their second winter… nicely grey now… no varnish on these…<\/p>\n

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\nThe moss is well established now between the flagstones of our front walk. Most of the heaving from the winter has settled down.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>
\nIt’s a boot. It’s a planter. It’s a mashup.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>
\n\u266b I always feel like… somebody’s watching me \u266b<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>
\n\"New<\/a>
\nDuring this past winter, there was a presistent snow cover on the front lawn, from the blower and just in general. Some rodents, voles we think, tore up the lawn pretty good under there.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>
\nPatrick the gnome has no legs. Every year he seems to be a little deeper in the ground. So it goes.<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a>
\nOur male Reeves Pheasant, named George. George Reeves. As pheasants go, he’s super, man.<\/p>\n

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\nRemnants of some project, I’m not even sure now, that we piled up here with an eye towards maybe using them to firm-up the banks of the pond, which tend to erode… The chairs are old, came with the house…. definitely not for sitting, they hold potted plants in summer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I finally pulled the trigger on buying a dSLR the other day, a Canon EOS Rebel T3i \/ 600D and today I took it out for a brief spin around the yard. The objective was just to get comfortable with it, and just walk through the process of shooting and downloading using the new software. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}