Monday, November 10, 2008

Evidence That My Camera Sucks

Kim, a.k.a. The Inadvertent Farmer, asked to see pictures of the new rug. Kim seems to request pictures a lot. I am happy to oblige, except that I cannot, in actual fact, TAKE good pictures. I suspect this is mostly my fault, because I don't have the patience to "line up" shots and "find the best angle" and "focus," or whatever those actual photographers do.

However, I may be deficient, but so is my camera, dammit. Of course, I bought the camera, so that is also my fault, but let's just blame the inanimate object here, okay? I suspect that because my camera is cheap, it has inadequate pixelage (look, I made up a word!) to clearly capture things like the pattern in an Oriental rug. Or maybe it's just that we haven't seen the sun for a few days, so there isn't enough light. Whatever, the photo was really dark. I lightened it in my Kodak EasyShare software (isn't that what all the pros use?), but then it was really grainy.


I have decided that rather than focus on my failings as a photographer, I will instead claim that all of these aspects of my photos that are normally considered bad, are not really bad, but instead . . . ART. Yup, totally on purpose and artistic.

Behold my art.



Nope, still looks like a crappy photo to me.

Guess I won't quit my day job.

11 comments:

  1. Whatever - I think the photo looks fine. And I can totally sympathize with your post from yesterday, because this spring I decided my Oriental rug (8 ft x 11 ft) from my dining room needed to be cleaned. I researched how to do it on the innernet, and lugged it out to the driveway, wet it down, applied the Woolite, rubbed, rinsed, etc. Then I went to try to hang it over the deck rail to dry. By myself. Yeah. Damn thing must have weighed 700 lbs wet.

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  2. Looks great to me. I'm all choked up. For some reason I can't identify the room. I know you said living room but it doesn't look right. Oh well.

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  3. Looks awesome there! Although, I agree, the colors are funky. From the evil camera...
    Moi

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  4. I'm pretty sure your living room is bigger than my house.

    Props on the rug, though - really beautiful! Whatever colors it may be...

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  5. Hey it looks great to me. I love how the rug looks

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  6. I love your livingroom more than words can say. I'm coming right over.

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  7. ROFL...I request pictures cause I don't read so good, snort.

    I think that pic is perfectly fine. I love to see if the images I have in my head after your hilarious stories match up to reality. I was pretty close this time, though didn't get the couch color right, lol!

    I think you should do a photo tour of your house for us, I just adore old houses!

    I know you don't have anything better to do...right?

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  8. TOTALLY jealous of your rug...it looks great.

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  9. That rug begs for dancing. Bet you can't wait to cut it up.

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