Archive: 2008 July 09

Photo: Raindrops 2

Raindrops 2 — sharp droplets, captured in motion in black and white

Raindrops coming off the roof of one of our sheds during a storm, with a background of trees and sky. This was one of the first shots I took with my Canon Rebel XTi last year; it’s so much more flexible than a point-and-shoot because you can freeze motion like this even in fairly low light. I like how the swirly drops turned out.

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Canon Rebel XTi, EFS 18-55mm, 1/4000, F4, 25mm, ISO800, 2007-08-10T15:32:14-04, 2007-08-10_19h32m14

Source image. Same editing as Raindrops 1: …

Source: Raindrops 2

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-09T17:57:38Z in Source Images, with these tags: raindrops 2, 0 Comments. 2 words.

Source Image: Raindrops 2

Source image, compiled from the Canon Rebel XTi RAW file using the default settings in PhotoFiltre Studio.

Photo: Drops of Life

Drops of Life — water drops falling off a hand

Raindrops falling off my hand, with the high-contrast black and white effect I love. It’s my hand; I held it up so the rain water would run off it, managing the camera with the other hand (as I’m so good at). Since the sun was behind my, it made my hand a black silhouette. These droplets represent life, because hands and the human touch is the essence of life.

Canon Rebel XTi, EFS 18-55mm, 1/3200, F3.5, 18mm, ISO1600, 2007-08-31T15:47:26-04, 2007-08-31_19h47m26

Source image. Added a touch of contrast, and removed the …

Source: Drops of Life

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-09T17:37:21Z in Source Images, with these tags: drops of life, 0 Comments. 2 words.

Source Image: Drops of Life

Source image, compiled from the Canon Rebel XTi RAW file using the default settings in PhotoFiltre Studio.

th8.us: URL trimming service

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-09T14:18:17Z in Technology, with these tags: computers, internet, th8.us, 0 Comments. 216 words.

I created a URL trimming service at th8.us. The URLs are the same length as Tinyurl: 25 characters, in the format http://xxxxx.th8.us. I put it together using Hidayet Dogan’s Phurl for my Twitter account, but then thought it should be released to the world. I made modifications to the code so the random part is a virtual subdomain, is five characters instead of six (it’ll be a while before the 24 million combinations are used up), it respects trailing slashes, it links to the new address instead of just showing it in plain text, and it …