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Last week I had 5000 page views.

Again many thankss to all for visiting, watching, faving and giving comments.

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Another small special moment in my DA-existence.

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Many txs to all for visiting, faving and giving comments.

]]> *Koekiemonster http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/21565035/ http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/21565035/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:51:20 PST [link] and [link] . I did the last ones in August. It was some work, but a lot of pictures look much better now. It was worth it.

But what is next? I still have some old pictures which are worth placing here, I just have to find them. And.....after more than 6 months almost doing nothing, I will soon start using the negative scanner I bought, see [link] and [link] Anyway, I don't feel like going out for taking pictures, so this new project will still keep me busy with pictures.

]]> *Koekiemonster http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/17542505/ http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/17542505/ Thu, 27 Mar 2008 14:17:10 PDT [link] , somewhere in the future I wanted to digitalize my old pictures
Well, the future has arrived. This week I got my negative scanner, a Reflecta Proscan 4000. Not new, but it is in 100 % good condition. Since the highest resolution is 3600 dpi, I can make from a 24 x 36 mm negative a ~ 16 Megapixel digital image.

Unfortunately this scanning also will reveil the quality of the equipment I used in the past. Instead of a paper picture on 15 x 10 cm, I will see the picture on my 19" screen, much bigger, thus revealing all kinds of irregularities.

Nevertheless I hope that some of these pictures will be worth placing on DA.

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Thanks to you all for visiting, watching and faving.

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For those who want to see some changes, today I uploaded the renewed pictures of Sweden/Gothenburg.

Enjoy.

]]> *Koekiemonster http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/15863576/ http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/15863576/ Sun, 09 Dec 2007 13:40:15 PST [link] , I estimated that I would have finished all the remaining processing by the end of this year. Well, I'm not there yet. At the moment I am processing pictures from december 2005, which means I have most of 2006 ahead of me. And that is why I submit pictures of 2 years old over the last weeks. Lucky for me, all 1000+ pictures of the holiday of 2006 have been done, although I have learned a lot about Photoshop Elements since the beginning of this year, and I am sure that when I look at those pictures, I will feel the urge to do some pictures better . But I leave that for later.

Today I was thinking about all the pre-digital pictures. Somehow I think it will be nice to have them on the computer too. But that will take a lot of time. One way is to scan the pictures itself. This means that I have to get a new scanner. I have a scanner of 6 years old, and I don't think it will be suitable for that. The other way is to scan the negatives themselves, which means an even bigger investment in hardware (but with better results). But that is another project for the future.

]]> *Koekiemonster http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/14526626/ http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/14526626/ Fri, 07 Sep 2007 06:18:57 PDT The first 1000 took 1 year (I don't count the time before december 2005, because untill then I didn't had any deviations), and now, after 9 months, there are next 1000.

Txs to all for stopping, by, writing comments and making favs.

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]]> *Koekiemonster http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/14283692/ http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/14283692/ Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:44:24 PDT It is going to replace my Canon EF-S 18-55. The 18-55 was a good bargain for its price, especially between F8 and F11, but I also make pictures under not so good light conditions. Raising the ISO of my 300D is not such a good idea, because of the noise level over ISO 400. But since I don't want to replace my 300D yet (it is still a good camera), I decided to upgrade my lenses.

For telezoom I have the 'hidden L' from Canon, the 70-300 4-5.6 IS USM, so for the moment, I think my set is ok.

I almost forgot the ' plastic fantastic ', aka the 50 mm 1.8 MII.

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I still have a lot of processing to do. I am now as far as September 2005, and still have to do most of the pictures till the 1st of January 2007. I think I'll manage all this year.

This means that sometimes I will place an older picture, but if it is a good picture, so what?

]]> *Koekiemonster http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/11800078/ http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/11800078/ Tue, 13 Feb 2007 14:39:40 PST To show it to a friend (and give him something to laugh about ), I made a picture of myself, wearing this head.

After using a plugin of Photoshop I realized that this picture didn't look bad at all.

So here it is, my first serious self-portrait

]]> *Koekiemonster http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/11423899/ http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/11423899/ Sat, 13 Jan 2007 15:20:47 PST But in january I have started to look through al the digital images we have. Which also means that I started processing all those images.
My wife bought the first digital camera in our house in July 2004. I bought my Canon 300D in June 2005. Untill now I only processed special images, for DA, my website or for prints. My first big 'job' were the holiday pictures from last August (ca 1100). All became a 'treatment' by Photoshop and all looked better. But I also kept the original images on my harddrive, which thus doubled the taken space. My wife also wants some pictures on real paper, so I have to process these pics also.
Since I am used to the idea of having a expensive camera means more post-processing, I want all pictures to look good, also the ones taken by the camera of my wife. But also from all these previous images I want to keep the originals. One never knows what lies ahead.
Today I bought a new external hard drive with 250 GB, which holds a 1:1 copy of all the pictures on the internal hardrive (was first on a partition on the second internal hardrive).

Just think, I bought my computer back in 1999, with a hard drive of just 8 (in words, eight) Gigabyte. Where will it end?

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I have had almost a 1000 page views. People are watching my work, giving comments, and even adding it to their favorites.

Thank you for this.

Now I will wait for the next 1000 page views.

]]> *Koekiemonster http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/10823340/ http://Koekiemonster.deviantart.com/journal/10823340/ Thu, 23 Nov 2006 13:01:19 PST Now it is getting colder (although still to warm for the time of year), rainy and the leaves start falling. I only didn't manage to go out to take pictures of this. Next year better, I hope. Somehow I have to use my time better.

My problem is what a lot of people have: there are not enough hours in a day. Sleeping is nice, but takes a lot of time, and so does work. Well, I try to make the best out of it.

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