This is my work in progress photo of the MG MS-06J Zaku II “White Ogre” version. It’s hard to see them but did you notice the panel lines?
One of my friends on Flickr is a gentleman by the name of Franklin Andrade who also builds Gundam models as well. You can see some of his setup here, here, and especially HERE. You can view his entire Flickr set at this location.
One of his comments about my MG Gouf 2.0 was that he wanted to see some decals applied. See, that’s the sort of thing that makes me say “Why not?” and the White Ogre comes with water slide decals. But I don’t want to apply the decals unless I also mark the panel lines too.
Thus, I blame Franklin Andrade. 🙂 Thanks to his comment I am not only going to apply decals, but I am also putting on the panel lines. I’m having a great time and so far I am reminding myself that if I make any gross mistakes, I know where to purchase a replacement.
Once I get to the fully detailed stage, I’ll post photo right before I apply the decals. It will take longer but I think the results and fun will be worth it.
I’m not a huge Greasemonkey script user, but the one’s I do use are all for Flickr. I just found this Flickr Exif Info for Greasemonkey script which places the info I’m looking for on the photo page. Very cool.
Update 6/6/2009: I’ve used Flickr import three times and it looks like Facebook fixed the problem.
Facebook has really taken off with the 35+ age group (which I am part of). I have been connecting with people I have not interacted with in 20 years.
As a result, I find myself using Facebook as a means to keep my friends up to date. One of the things I have come to depend upon was the Facebook Flickr integration. Using this tool, when I upload pictures to Flickr account my Facebook friends get a notice and see my photos.
Normally this works sporadically. For the past two weeks it does not work at all. And I can’t find a link to let me ask Facebook “Hey, am I doing something wrong?” This functionality used to work but now it completely doesn’t.
I can’t really complain or get upset simply because I don’t pay Facebook, so I’m getting my money’s worth. But I wish they could provide something better than “Please try again later”. I suspect that the two site’s API changed but I can’t see any meaningful error messages to help figure it out.
Update: I re-installed Vista 64 cleanly (wiped out everything) and I am using the Nvidia video drivers from Microsoft. Flickr is still misbehaving on FireFox 3 for me.
On the upside, adding these lines to Adblock Plus’s whitelist did fix my problems with Facebook:
@@|http://*.facebook.com/
@@|http://*.fbcdn.net/
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On some of the installations I have, Firefox 3 and Flickr do not get along with each other. Here’s a screen shot of what’s happening.
What happens is that when new content comes from Flickr’s website, the whole page does not get re-drawn. I drew a red box around the new page. Switching tabs forces the page to be redrawn but this is happening often.
This is not limited to Flickr. Facebook has problems where I click on something and nothing happens. This only occurs in Firefox 3, in Firefox 2 I never had any issue. The mozilla support forums are pretty looking but not really useful.
I hate to say it, but Flickr and Facebook are more reliable in Internet 7 than Firefox 3.
Since the Disney trip, I’ve been playing around with the camera more than ever. Marking your photos with geographical location info is cool and I’m thinking of getting a GPS fob/software combination.
In my searching I located this discussion on Flickr. It’s a bookmarklet (that is NOT a word) that lets you easily insert map info on your Flickr pictures. Unlike Flickr’s map info, this one is based on Google Maps and is loads easier to search location by name.
Here is a link to Flickr map for an Epcot fire works picture I took. Here is the additional link that the script inserted when I filled out the info. It’s linked to loc.alize.us and is very cool.
The loc.alize.us website is very Firefox friendly; Internet Explorer 7 chokes on the site.
The whole family came back from Disney World Wednesday and here are some of my notes for the pictures I took.
From Thursday the 26th to Wednesday the 2nd I took 1,600+ pictures with my Nikon D60.
What I have been doing since I got back is going through each vacation day and selecting photos for Flickr. So far I completed up to Sunday June 29th and have uploaded some 88 pictures. You can see the Disney World 2008 set on Flickr here.
The Lowepro Fastpack 200 was a great idea.
It’s a great backpack and easy to use. It was raining on and off everyday. Being able to quickly take the camera out, shoot the picture, and pack the camera away was fantastic. The only thing I think I may change is replace the Nikon neck strap with a hand strap.
I need to buy an 18-200mm lens.
Stefan lent me his Nikkor lens and it was great for the trip. Being able to take pictures close up and zoom out immediately without changing the lens was just way too useful. I’m thinking of getting the Sigma 18-200mm f/3.5-6.3 DC OS just to be different.
The Sigma 30mm f/1.4 EX DC HSM lens is still my main lens and does not disappoint.
In either Aperture or Program Auto mode it works great. It covers low light really well and I took a lot of shots with it.
I forgot to switch to the zoom lens once and left the 30mm on during the Animal Kingdom tour. I found out that Shutter Priority works well too; I took this picture from a really bouncy “safari” tour bus. For that shot, the camera was set at ISO 400, f/4.5 and shutter speed was 1/2000 of a second.
I saw more Canon cameras than I did Nikons.
I guess Canon markets better in the U.S. 🙂 I don’t know what the Canon models were but the Nikons I saw were mostly D60s with the 18-55mm kit lens. The camera that all the wandering Disney staff use for taking shots of the guests? A Nikon D70. The person I spoke to recommended it highly saying that they never have any problems with it.
I did see several D200s and one D300 with a Nikkor 17-35mm AF-S wide angle lens and a Manfrotto mono-pod stand (not that I pay attention to such things). I tried not to be jealous, but the fact is I would not know what to do with a camera like that.
I am still uploading more pictures to Flickr and I should be done by Monday with the whole set. I could dump all 1,600+ straight to Flickr but what would be the point? I prefer to share only the good ones and not show people all the ones that were not in focus.
This was one busy weekend. Friday and Saturday was spent going and coming back from Strasburg, PA. Sunday we had a family BBQ with friends over.
Today we went to the city and saw the USS Kearsarge. It’s in port as part of fleet week in the city. Lily took our son last year Friday before Memorial Day. This year we had too much going on and had to go today.
Memorial Day is a busy holiday alright and it was a mad house. All fun and cool, but the ship was packed with people. You can see the photos I have uploaded to Flickr here. We went with both kids and my brother Alek. After I shot over 100 pictures, I lent the camera to Alek and together we shot almost 400 pictures.
The kids are in energizer bunny mode. They napped on the ride back home and now they are ready to go again. Me and Lily are just plain out.
Tomorrow is back to work. After going to Strasburg and walking in the city, I plan to pick up a Lowepro 200 backpack. Carrying the camera using the stock Nikon bag was a drag. It’s not meant for walking around with. A back pack means more comfort and less pain.
I mean, why spend the money on a DSLR kit if you are not going to carry it around and go nuts with it?
Well that was not too difficult. After doing some shoping we went to Costco and picked up the Nikon D60.
We went the next day to Strasburg, PA and I took about 300 pictures of the kids and the trains. Got back today and used Paint.NET to touch up some of them before uploading them to Flickr.
Paint.NET rocks. Once I got into a work flow, croping, rotating, and adjusting the colors became a breeze. You can see what I’ve uploaded at my Flickr page.
