Silicon 2008 [Part 1]

Silicon 2008 D700, photo, October 2008, Silicon, Doubletree Hotel, San Jose, CA, USA, Sci-Fi, Convention, Sci-Fi Convention Julia Wolf Julia Wolf image/jpeg 2008 ( Read more... )

As some of you may be aware, I put off white balance adjustment until I do post-processing — quite some time later. It is then, that I get to play the, "Which color was this originally?"-game. Sometimes I actually remember what the color of the light in the room was, but when I tweek the balance for that, the results look terrible. So in those situations I just tweek the knobs until things look good.
There are technical reasons for all of this, mostly with my camera expecting a black-body radiation curve, and getting monochromatic light instead. So, I get an overexposed red channel, and a way-way underexposed blue channel, or vice versa. (Neither of which is actually the original colors. And there are ways to work around this while shooting, but I haven't been doing it because it's labor intensive. (More precisely, I'd have to manually adjust camera settings, every time I change position. I've programmed my camera to do most of what I do automatically now, but this situations is a bit beyond my poor camera's ken.))

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Halloween/Samhain

OMG, it's Halloween, how did that happen?!

So, I should really do something to celebrate new years, like dress up and go to a party, or going out into the woods to do spooky things. But I think I'd get more satisfaction and fulfillment right now if I just stay at home and process the last few months of photos.

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Update:
Tomorrow, Ghostship party: http://spacecowboys.org
Tonight: http://galaxyraver.com/viewtopic.php?f=174&t=646&sid=8bde3c54976f57c3b183c3118f87ec88
and French bordello Halloween masquerade ball.
and a party at someone's house in Half Moon Bay.

There is also this stuff.

There's also usually gigantic parties on the streets around the Castro in SF. But I heard the city was tring to stop that from happening. And there's also the large drunken street crowd scene in Santa Cruz. Not sure if it's going to rain tonight though.