So I get to start picking the house that makes me weep least on Monday. At least the pre-approval came in for the mortgage, god that was like the most nerve wracking two minutes of my life. Then immediately I had to take a Valerian when I saw just how much our cost of housing is going to jump. It depends of course on the final price but maaaaannn I think it will be a yarn pronless blog if we do it. Nah it won’t be quite that bad, at least I hope not. I actually found a bunch more I want to see that are a bit less than my original selections. They are also smaller but one has the oh so important wood floors. I’m not asking for much just one aspect of the house that is something I actually like. It’s funny but I’m actually way more picky about these new construction monstrosities than I would be anything I was looking at in St. Louis. I grew up in older homes and that’s just what I prefer. I’ll put up with a lot to have wood work and charm. I am so over obsessed with this since its our first home we’re buying. I know we’re not buying the house we’ll stay in. My Dad was getting on my case about it since ‘its a starter home blah blah blah” totally missing the point that I have no objections to the size of the places or the luxuries. In fact if you’re going strictly by that they are bigger and probably more luxurious than many of the homes I was looking at in St. Louis. Also I never wanted to live in a mcmansion, all I want is a bungalow of my very own. Anyway this is a knitting blog not a jen whines about her house hunt blog. So Thermal plods along, yeah that really is all I have for you on that front. I’m almost to 11 inches. I thought I would get way more knitting down this week but stuff came up. I still love the pattern, although in some respects I agree with yarn abuse on it. She made a demotivator that said “Monotony why bore only myself when an audience is available?” I’m totally not sick of it yet. I still enjoy the stitch pattern enough that it’s fun. So today I spent a good chunk of the day trying to get my camera to give me that oh so sexy shallow depth of field blur. This is my attempt to not buy a DSLR strictly to take yarn pron shots. Cause that would be oh so ridiculous. When I bought my camera in ’04 it was a well reviewed advanced point and shoot. It has full manual control in its range. Now I am such a photog noob that I wasn’t sure all what I wanted. Justin actually majored in photography in college. So I wanted something he might want to use but a dslr was way out of my range. So I got an Olympus C5000. Anyway I’ve been working through the online course in the ravelry group yarnographers in an attempt to sex up the photos. After MANY attempts that were so awful I just deleted them I got some that had some blur and aren’t the worst offenses to the eye ever. I so totally need WAY more light in some of these but it’s been rain-y and grey all week so…
These are supposed to have teh sexy blur:
No Sexy Blur:
Yeah I don’t see much of a sexy blur either.
Well…we’re not all going to take photos like Brooklyn Tweed. Oh well. But you can see the blur in the first comparison, the ones with the swift behind it. I try to do it too, but I just mess around. My latest Icarus photo was an attempt at the “sexy blur.”
Wood floors, wood floors! (I like them because they=fewer allergies.)
Psh.. your photos are still better than mine. LOL. My main problem is that I have no where to put yarn to take pictures of it that also has decent lighting.
God, Thermal. Seriously. I’m on the back section and “zzzzzzz.”
For sexful blur, I found this link: http://digital-photography-school.com/blog/macro-photography-tips-for-compact-digital-camera-users/
Looks like it has a lot of good, technical tips in that one article (the rest of the site is great too).
Now I shall sit back and wait for sexy blur pics
There’s a blur on the door behind the yarn in that first picture. The yarn is beautiful and sharp, though.
If i can’t have brand-new berber carpet with really thick padding, I don’t want carpet at all.
I am teh suck at yarn pr0n myself, so I understand your frustration. I’ve found that natural light is best for pics of yarn and FO’s, so all my knitting stuff gets photographed outside on my back steps.