johnfás wrote:

The aperture is the hole through which the light comes into the camera. If you have it open wider more like will come into your photograph. If used correctly this can increase the vividity of colour in your shot. If it is too far open and the exposure is too long it will result in a white photograph!

Aperture is particularly important if you are photographing something like stained glass as you open wide your aperture within the darkened church on a long exposure and just allow the colour to rush in.

Any modern digital slr camera by its very nature will have control over the aperture as it uses a traditional lens. Alot of the most recent point and shoot digital camera do have options for adjusting the aperture.

The aperture of course is mimicking the iris' natural reaction to the variations in lighting from place to place. Irises do open wide in darkened areas to let in more light which is essential for being able to see while contracting in bright light to protect the retina.

Cameras copy this behaviour.

This morning ground temperature was -6 and it certainly feels it!

4 inches of snow here this morning. Even the trains were 10 minutes late, which in Switzerland is an inefficiency of catastrophic proportions. I was quarter of an hour late for work. Nightmare!

Slim Buddha wrote:

4 inches of snow here this morning. Even the trains were 10 minutes late, which in Switzerland is an inefficiency of catastrophic proportions. I was quarter of an hour late for work. Nightmare!

I'm at work with a mohair rug wrapped around my feet.

Its even dropped a bit in Alicante. Only 13 degrees when I left for work this morning.

Slim Buddha wrote:

4 inches of snow here this morning. Even the trains were 10 minutes late, which in Switzerland is an inefficiency of catastrophic proportions. I was quarter of an hour late for work. Nightmare!

A quarter of an hour late is about half an hour early in my place.

had to be peeled out of the bed this morning.

bloody freezing! been lashing all morn and mid afternoon. seems clear now but could rain at the drop of a hat.

recently invested in the samsung nv11. anyone tried it before?

Slim Buddha wrote:

4 inches of snow here this morning. Even the trains were 10 minutes late, which in Switzerland is an inefficiency of catastrophic proportions. I was quarter of an hour late for work. Nightmare!

Trains? Late? In Switzerland? Pascal Couchebin must've had kittens at the news!

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Slim Buddha wrote:

4 inches of snow here this morning. Even the trains were 10 minutes late, which in Switzerland is an inefficiency of catastrophic proportions. I was quarter of an hour late for work. Nightmare!

Trains? Late? In Switzerland? Pascal Couchebin must've had kittens at the news!

It's been Hell on Earth! Pascal is in Budapest on another state visit, so he missed the "crisis".

Slim Buddha wrote:

Ard-Taoiseach wrote:

Slim Buddha wrote:

4 inches of snow here this morning. Even the trains were 10 minutes late, which in Switzerland is an inefficiency of catastrophic proportions. I was quarter of an hour late for work. Nightmare!

Trains? Late? In Switzerland? Pascal Couchebin must've had kittens at the news!

It's been Hell on Earth! Pascal is in Budapest on another state visit, so he missed the "crisis".

Budapest? Was he over there thinking of buying the country up?

Today I'm in a particular town in the Midlands where it seems to never stop raining. I don't think I've ever been here on a day when it hasn't been raining.

And it's a miserable day here.

Care to name this rainy town? It is overcast here in Dublin with slight drizzle, but nothing substantial. I have my DIT graduation tomorrow so hopefully it will brighten up a bit for the old photographs.

Well I hope it's sunnier tomorrow in the constituency of the former Taoiseach than it is today in the constituency of the present beleagured Taoiseach.

Celebrations are great - enjoy it.

Kate P wrote:

Today I'm in a particular town in the Midlands where it seems to never stop raining. I don't think I've ever been here on a day when it hasn't been raining.

And it's a miserable day here.

I have one of those towns, When I lived there one day didn't pass without rain. City really... Galway.

It's grey here in Cork, this morning. It's grey here in Cork always. Even the limestone everything is built with. I'm not a native, so I keep my griping to myself. I'd love it to snow, or be sunny, or anything mildly interesting. But it's just grey. God it's grey. Grey greyness.

toxic avenger wrote:

It's grey here in Cork, this morning. It's grey here in Cork always. Even the limestone everything is built with. I'm not a native, so I keep my griping to myself. I'd love it to snow, or be sunny, or anything mildly interesting. But it's just grey. God it's grey. Grey greyness.

Come on down to Clonakilty - it's sunny here at the moment.

Thats nice to hear Aragon. Perhaps we should use this thread at the weekend to spread the word where the sun is out

Its grey here too, but in a rather beautiful misty way with a lot of yellow leaves and yellow apples to brighten things up.

Haven't been to Clonakilty in a fair while. Is Gleeson's Restaurant still doing a roaring trade down there?

Cloudy here, not so much grey, more white candy floss. Lots of cumulus in the sky.

I have the dubious honour of being the one who has to work the recording equipment for the Church podcast this morning so I best be getting on.

It's grey here too but not unpleasant - in fact I think it's sort of very pleasant for a change. What's worse is grey plus windy rain - a right nuisance - even worse is strong windy rain that blows sometimes sideways instead of downwards. The dampness is the worst I think - it's nearly impossible to heat a place when there's dampness in the air.

It's very still here with no wind. Even birds are singing like in the spring. In fact the temperature has been around 15 lately.

johnfás wrote:

Haven't been to Clonakilty in a fair while. Is Gleeson's Restaurant still doing a roaring trade down there?

Cloudy here, not so much grey, more white candy floss. Lots of cumulus in the sky.

I have the dubious honour of being the one who has to work the recording equipment for the Church podcast this morning so I best be getting on.

Sun's gone here now too but weather much like Cactus describes in her neck of the woods. Gleesons seems to be doing fine. The owners recently opened an Italian restaurant nearby called Mios which is also very good - great for Sunday lunch eg. Great menu for kids - healthy tasty food - a welcome departure from the ubiquitous chicken nuggets and chips/sausages and chips. Disappointing they dont make their own chips. I wish restaurants would bite the bullet about that. Frozn chips are NO substitute for the real thing. Especially hate those enormous great fat ones.

You are absolutely right on home made chips. Will try to get down there in the new year and give the Italian a whirl. Clonakilty is a decent place. I know the Methodist minister who has just moved down there so should touch base.

It's been a dull old day in the Midlands. Everything is mucky and damp and it's been unseasonably mild which has been quite disconcerting. I've been quite sartorially challenged in recent weeks.

Kate P wrote:

It's been a dull old day in the Midlands. Everything is mucky and damp and it's been unseasonably mild which has been quite disconcerting. I've been quite sartorially challenged in recent weeks.

Give us a word picture Kate P. Is it the wellies and shorts a la Kate Moss ?

A week later and I wish it was wellies and shorts - a combination that today would result in cold and painful legs. It's miserable here - wet and miserable and I've already put off going for the messages and papers four or five times because it's just a dirty day. The front of the house is speckled with rusty pine needles and oak leaves from the wind and it's a day for the fireplace and rice pudding.

There were longish shorts and tights last week but minus the wellies which don't quite look the part in the workplace. It has been exceptionally mild. I've been out and about for most of the week and wearing a coat would have been steam-room suicide. I saw at least one young woman during the week - in daylight hours, not going out time, in a strappy top with bare shoulders and was relieved to know I haven't been going through an intense and premature week-long hot flush.

Yep, time for rice pudding, methinks.

More snow. And snow forecast for next week. Some people like it. I'm not a fan. Looking forward to next weekend however. Spending a long weekend in Berlin. Bouletten, Glühwein and Weihnachtsmäkte! Can't wait.