I’ve been playing with my new slide scanner. The typical image quality is demonstrated below.
The colours are nice but unfortunately I can’t seem to get it to work at full resolution. I’ll keep plodding on. Worse yet, the auto-loader isn’t particularly good at all – the screenshot below shows the tray of 50 slides I scanned overnight. Look how many failed to load properly!
This week’s challenge was to create a storyboard, composed of 3 to 9 pictures.
This is my first attempt, based on an initial idea. I may have another idea before the week is out – if not I’ll submit this instead.
Don’t laugh at my editing skills – I’m still a n00b at GIMP and so after adding the frames using a wizard in GIMP I booted into Windows and used Microsoft Publisher to stitch them together…
This week in Stu’s Tuesday Challenge we were asked to set a self-timer of 10 seconds, press the button, and get as far as from the camera as possible.
This is me riding my bike through the 1/3-mile long Staple Hill tunnel on the Bristol-Bath railway path.
It took quite a few attempts to get right, as I had no idea how far I could cycle from a standing start in 10 seconds – and I wanted to be in the perfect position where I was silhouetted against the light at the end of the tunnel, but not illuminated by it. I’m rather pleased with the result.
I also zoomed in a little, as (not wanting to sound boastful) ten seconds of cycling away from a camera without zoom would have made me a dot in the distance 
This is the brother of a friend of a friend. His name is Jonathan too. We met during a group outing to Twycross zoo. By my reckoning, he is the perfect stranger for Stu’s Tuesday Challenge.
