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[derekl_1963]

Corned Beef

Tried my hand at making my own corned beef - it made an excellent corned beef and cabbage on Friday and an INCREDIBLE corned beef and hash again last night. I'm almost tempted to make another just to have the leftovers to hash.

I think I've bought my last commercial corned beef.

Thanksgiving

Yep, its that time of year again - time for my LJ folks to endure a month of me obsessing over T day. Chuck came over on Saturday and we started discussing methods and menu. This should be fun as I'm attempting an entirely new way of cooking the turkey this year. Details to come.

Photography



Photographing little Missy has proven to be a major challenge - I have to shoot a very active little hamster in the low light environment of our living room. I can't use the camera's flash this close because I could injure her little eyes.



An experimental timed exposure of the trees in the background silhouetted against the rising moon. This would have been a better shot had the clouds not been moving so fast... back to the drawing board.

Comments

[martianmooncrab.livejournal.com]

can you photoshop the hamster into the other photo?

[talentus.livejournal.com]

For the long exposure shots i would recommend keeping the ISO as low as possible to minimize the noise... Nice night shot though :)

For the hamster shot i would use flash, but use a mirror or something to bounce it away. The would soften the light and be something more desirable anyways.

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

It turned out to need my highest ISO and longest exposure to get the shot all. I toyed with Photoshop and tried to strike a balance between blurring out noise and retaining detail. I didn't try to just make it black-and-white, and in retrospect I probably should have.

All I've got is the built in flash, so using a mirror is... problematical. ;) We're going to try bringing a couple of more lamps into the room. Possibly some foil around the base of the shades to bounce the light up onto the ceiling.

[brenda333.livejournal.com]

Beautiful pics....especially the one of my Missy-moo!