{"id":31912,"date":"2012-01-15T14:14:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31912"},"modified":"2020-06-29T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T18:14:19","slug":"an-ironic-note-on-brog-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31912","title":{"rendered":"An ironic note on brog programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-31913 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/creepyaznphotog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/creepyaznphotog.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/creepyaznphotog-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=30595\">Yes, I know, I&#8217;m a gigantic hypocrite, and I pretty much set myself up for this hypocrisy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But the point really ultimately was, I simply wanted to take better quality photographs.\u00a0 It simply was not possible with point-and-shoot cameras anymore.\u00a0 The Canon PowerShot I got in July was okay, but it was a marginal upgrade from my prior Sony.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d been sitting on a giant wad of cash, accumulated over a few years of gift money, random refunds, cash paybacks, and other miscellaneous means.\u00a0 Often times I find myself wondering what to do with said money; coming up with several ideas, before simply settling on nothing, letting it grow and accumulate more.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Somewhere along the line, I grew aware, and then interested in the Nikon One series, that Ashton Kutcher is often pimping in commercials.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t like Ashton Kutcher.\u00a0 But the camera was pretty intriguing.\u00a0 I found myself literally two mouse clicks away purchasing one outright, but I suppressed my compulsion to wait long enough to simply hold one in my hand and test it out before dedicating.\u00a0 It was during this restraint in which I began to wonder if a Nikon J1 was really for me; at it&#8217;s $550 price point, it rivals some DSLRs, while actually costing more than other DSLRs.<\/p>\n<p>And here we stand now.\u00a0 I paid less for my Canon than I would have for a Nikon, and I have a camera that actually has a mirror and a superior sensor.\u00a0 With the lens equipped, a Nikon One series is hardly &#8220;compact,&#8221; as Nikon would like you to believe, and with the lens equipped, it has quite the grip limitations that the body of a typical DSLR avoids.<\/p>\n<p>But as a result, I&#8217;m now an Asian guy, with a DSLR.\u00a0 Obviously, I&#8217;m not going to go around declaring myself a legitimate photographer, I&#8217;m content to be the guy who likes to take pictures.\u00a0 But I am excited at the prospect of having some sweet looking pictures be the result of a far stronger camera, and learning a few things here and there would be nice too.<\/p>\n<p>As it pertains to my brog, it still leaves a lot of question marks.\u00a0 Firstly, the archaic manner in which I&#8217;ve been presenting photos will probably change, since I can essentially upload all my pictures directly into WordPress, and it will kind of gallery them up for me.\u00a0 But since so far I&#8217;ve been experimenting in RAW format, the quality will definitely be superior, but also require a little more time to process and post.\u00a0 Depending on how I adapt to such a process, I predict there will be a time when I relegate myself to shooting in JPEG, except for in special occasions.\u00a0 In other words, baseball shit gets JPEG, anything remotely requiring artsy shit gets RAW.\u00a0 Or maybe I&#8217;ll get a bigass memory card and shoot in both simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>But yeah.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll do my best to break the stereotype and not be such a creepo at Dragon-Con with my DSLR, while I&#8217;m taking pictures of attractive women.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll at least be bathed, possibly drunk, and remotely attempting to be charming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I know, I&#8217;m a gigantic hypocrite, and I pretty much set myself up for this hypocrisy. But the point really ultimately was, I simply wanted to take better quality photographs.\u00a0 It simply was not possible with point-and-shoot cameras anymore.\u00a0 The Canon PowerShot I got in July was okay, but it was a marginal upgrade &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=31912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">An ironic note on brog programming<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[144,15,52,18,4],"class_list":["post-31912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-cameras","tag-og","tag-owned","tag-photos","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31914,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31912\/revisions\/31914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}