Rudy's QV10a Scrapbook

Casio QV10a Pictures

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Some of my HTML students have asked about getting pictures into a web page. Here's some pictures taken with the Casio QV10a, a digital camera that I've grown to like a lot. It's not high resolution but with smaller pictures saved at lower resolution, the pages load faster. The camera holds 92 pictures, has a view screen on the back, is small enough to fit in my jacket pocket and has a lens that rotates to allow a lot of flexibility in angles. After taking pictures, I hook it right into my Macintosh, download the compressed files, and they're ready to go. Most of these have been reduced and enhanced in PhotoShop, the software that comes with the camera is okay and I'm not a PhotoShop whiz but it's nice to have good tools. For more pictures I took with this camera, see our Landscaping Project pages.
	I've always liked the signage of the fifties and sixties, before municipal codes and golden arches. San Jose has lots of great old signs. I spotted this in Menlo Park.
	The camera has a nice macro feature. I spent a whole afternoon one day in the forest taking pictures of leaves and flowers. (Yes, it is poison oak. Luann found this out the hard way.)
	Our neighbor lives in one of the original houses in the area, a Spanish-style two-story on a double lot, built around the 1920's. This is the gate leading to his driveway and garage.
	Here's a silver pin that another neighbor, Pete Irish, made. Photographing shiny objects is a real trick, you're constantly fighting shadows and reflections. The pin is sterling silver, about an inch and a half high. It was pinned onto a black silk shirt. I just shot it straight on and let the light fall where it will.
	My favorite 'Luann in Fog' picture. Out for our morning walk, I took this the first or second day we had the camera.
	Sometimes the camera catches things I don't see. The rays of morning light coming through the mist along the side of the house was exaggerated by the camera.
	Frank and Derinda Lesher have been friends a really long time. Some of the nicest people I know. I first met Frank in Riyahd, Saudi Arabia. He was wearing a KFAT T-Shirt and I knew he was someone I wanted to know. Turns out we both worked on the same project -- a whole other story.
	Sometimes I'll see a pattern or color I like and try to display it unencumbered. I didn't have to do anything in the camera or computer to this one.
	Here's my homage to my industrial photography classes. We drug motorcycles, tools, white fabrics on white backgrounds, old shoes, severed hands, models and just about everything else into Mr. Cockrell's studio. Every now and then I spot something I know he'd like.
	The camera lens flips backwards so you can hold the camera out and take pictures of yourself and any friends within reach. It's even smart enough to rotate the image so you don't get upside-down pictures.
	I call this Ghost Tree because it's at the Ghost Tree turnout but I think the real ghost tree got burned by some vandals.
	Luann has a shiny red bike with a chrome bell that she buzzes around the roads out to Point Joe and Seal Rock. If you hear a "ring! ring! ring!", outa the way, it's Luann coming up fast.
	This is one of those pictures I just shot while playing with the camera. I like the angle, the QV10A lets me rotate the lens and use it like a waist level viewfinder camera. My brother used to have an Exacta and a Yashica with waist level viewfinders, they present the world from a kid's view.
	Some say photographers shouldn't try to capture emotional scenes; clouds and light being better left to interpretation. I could shoot dozens of shots every sunset and still never convey the beauty of a sunset at the end of our street.
	I was going into the post office in Pacific Grove and saw this new statue, two kids dressed like butterflies as they do every year for the Butterfly Day parade.
	More classic signage from less restrictive times.
	I took this the first week we had the Q45. I liked the look. I did a bit of burning and dodging around the headlights and some of the shinier areas.
	These sunflowers had great color and I boosted the contrast and exaggerated the colors even more.
	Here's the view across the golf course, looking out to Seal Rock. As you go up the hill, the golf course acts like a funnel and you can hear the seal barking getting louder and louder. From right here, you can hear them like they were fifty yards away.
	I stopped for gas in Menlo Park and saw this stop sign. I liked the contrast of the red sign, the green sign and the blue sky. I boosted it up a bit in the computer but it really was an eye catcher.
	Luann found this bench in a catalog. It's a nice place to sit.
	On the Santa Cruz pier, the rental boats are stored leaning against each other. The yellow caught my eye so many times Luann anticipates a delay when we head that way. The electronics of the camera try to balance the picture and thus mute the color. I tried boosting it in Photoshop but it's still not like the original. What the camera needs is a 'just record it like it is' button.
	Waves and surf on rocks have an emotional impact that doesn't translate easily to pictures. I'm afraid I still haven't got it.
	Luann bought these little candle holders and they were on the table when I first brought the camera home. In my 'beginner's mind' mode, I experimented with the macro capability and discovered some very nice little pieces of plaster.
	We try to get up and take a walk every morning. The summer gets a lot of fog here but I like it. The trees drip and the fog softens the day.
Here I am at the beach.
And here's the camera.

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