FYI: How to Fix Stuck Pixels

Just sharing. I found this a few months ago on The Third Eye photostream at Flickr.com, and I've been meaning to post it here as a quick tip.

It's a process to fix stuck pixels - those annoying red, blue, or white spots in your shots. It's for Canon cameras, and it worked like a charm on my Rebel T2i. Enjoy.

Stuck (BAD) pixel - removal procedure on Canon Rebel XT, Canon Xti (400D), 5D (possibly other Canons) (also software for removal from JPEGS from any other cameras)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you all have a day filled with food, fun, family and joy!

Shadow Shots: Made in the Shade

In celebration of my upcoming retirement, I just bought a fixed 50mm lens and a macroscopic lens adapter to play with. (The combo was less than half the price of a real macro lens, and offers more uses than just a macro.)

I tried it out this morning on the frost on my tubular bird feeder, which offered two layers of fern-like crystals. They only last while the shadow of the house protects them, which isn't long past dawn.

I should have had a tripod. But for a hand-held macro shot I was pretty happy.

Posted for Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Shadow Shots: I'm Catman

This is Gatsby, familiar to some of you from my home blog, Havenwood, where I wrote about nearly losing him and the effort to find a commercial cat food that wouldn't kill him. (Update on that - he turned up his nose at the pricey raw food, but he's doing fine now on a mixture of the Prescription kibbles.)

Here he is admiring his shadow, fantasizing about raining terror on the rats of Gotham City. Or maybe just dozing off. It's hard to tell with a cat.

Posted for Shadow Shot Sunday 2

Shadow Shots: Frosty

 These are the weedy remains of a flower bed, photographed at dawn. Only the uppermost leaves were illuminated, floating over a still pool of night shadows. The thick frost began to melt as soon as the sun touched it.

Posted for Shadow Shot Sunday 2