The Moment it…"Oops"!

We all know the real phrase, made famous by none other than Joe McNally, and his well-received book “The Moment it Clicks””…(and a great read, so go check it out if you haven’t already).  However, that’s just Joe… I seem to encounter more blunders than brilliance.

For instance, I was working on the photos from the weekend shoot and had a rather good set I wanted to put into a panorama shot.  Before taking the good set though, I decided to run a test on some older images on a new program that came  which came recommended to me from Alex Saunders over at Tenuous Thread called AutoPano Pro.  So, in working with the trial software, I went into Lightroom and grabbed my 12 or 13 photos to stitch together from my archives and see how it did for a test run.

Well, because the stitching of 12-13 images can take a while, I left it and came back the next day to find I had grabbed one of the wrong images.  Can you find my “oops”?

August Sunset
Here's the edited version

August Sunset (original pano stitching)
Pre-post production

So, my foibles and failures in attention to detail thrown wide for the world to see!  🙂  It can be fun though when you look at these things lightheartedly and just have a good chuckle though.  Anyone else have any stories or foibles they want to share?  Comments are open…

Pardon the interruption…

but another drop dead date was today as tomorrow we have our first showing after listing the house on the market.  My task of the day (it seems I am getting more and more of these)…clean the garage.  So, to make it really worth my while, I told Tracy that if that’s the case I needed a Shop-Vac (and a good one) to get all the standing water out that had dripped off the tires onto the garage floor – it just wouldn’t get clean without that.

It worked!  Not only did I get a clean (relatively) garage floor – I also got a brand new 14 gallon ShopVac from Lowes.  A few extra attachments and a spare filter only set me back about $120, so all in all, it was a good deal!  (Although I realized how much junk I’d managed to accrue over the last 16 months…)  Just goes to show you that with all the gadgetry in the world, there is always something out there you still want and/or need!  Ladies and Gentlemen…I give to you – my new ShopVac (and now clean garage!):

Ain’t she pretty?  And the job she did on the garage was pretty amazing too!

We Have Floor Space

Okay, sorry for the photo interruption, but I just had to share now that I have a clean garage space – first time in over a year…back to photography:

Stay tuned tomorrow for my full write-up on the new Canon Rebel (the 2T I think), and some great creative challenges for you heading into the weekend.  In the meantime – anyone else have any non-photo gadgets that they got and suddenly realized they should never have been without?  Mine is definitely the Shop-Vac!