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New Camera

Kat Miller — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 20:27:05 +0000

I have the most awesome boyfriend ever! Today Jools bought me a Canon Powershot G11 and it really is brilliant. He’s seen me snapping away at everything with my N86 phone and he wanted to get a proper camera too. Sometimes the camera phone just doesn’t cut it and it’s going to be really nice having a decent camera as well, especially for more detailed or composed pictures that I don’t need to upload straight away. It’s a compact camera, all be it a largish one, which is great for me because I want something that’s easy to carry with me and that I don’t have to faff around changing lenses on all the time. Also once I get brave enough and actually work out how to do it it has manual functionality so I can tweak shutter speed, aperture etc. Until then I’ll stick with the auto settings or some of the scene specific settings it has built in.

Funnily enough the first camera I bought Jools was a Powershot G5, and it was that that started him on the snowboarding photography, so it seems almost fitting that I’m now using its bigger brother. Here’s a slideshow of the shots I’ve taken with it today, I hope you like them as much as I do.

Shred ban!

Kat Miller — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:10:36 +0000

Yes that’s right, I’m currently under a self imposed shred ban ahead of my trip to Lynchburg, VA for the opening of Liberty University’s Snowflex slope. It’s probably a good thing too, as Becky Hammond one the skiers due to come on the trip has had a nasty fall by the sound of it and has a sprained back & twisted pelvis and can’t ride for 5 weeks. Not wanting to be a big fat meany and stop Jools riding as well we headed to the Snow Centre on Friday night, he’s been buzzing since he was there last weekend, & seeing as how I’m abandoning him for a week it would have been evil to say we couldn’t go because I wasn’t riding. Instead I decided to practice with the video camera and I’ve edited this mini movie together. Since I did this filming we’ve bought a new tripod with a smoother pan action (and that weighs A LOT less!) and also worked out how to use the focus properly.

So here it is for your viewing pleasure!

Friday Night, Park & Ride from Kat Miller aka IAmKat on Vimeo.

Filmed on Friday 22-8-09 at The Snow Centre, Hemel Hempstead

Jools

Kat Miller — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:40:55 +0000

Jools

Jools, originally uploaded by plasticsnow aka Kat.

For once I caught Jools on camera rather than the other way round. Taken with my new N86 about which I’ll blog when I’m less tired