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Early Morning at Green Cay, Boynton Beach, FL

The processing isn't top-notch as I had to process this on my ancient 6-year old laptop that barely runs Photoshop 7. After running the exposures through Dynamic-Photo HDR at work (shhhh) I had to resize the tone-mapped file down to 2 MP to be able to do anything and it still took forever. Also, I don't have any actions, plug-ins etc. installed, so this is a pretty "raw" shot. I just thought I upload it to give you an update on my computer situation as it still might be a while until I am back in business.

As you probably all know my laptop's LCD screen conked out last week - I thought it was the graphics card, but nope, it was the screen. Getting it replaced would have set me back over $250 and I figured it's not worth the dough considering I was looking for a new laptop anyway... after my move. Yes, right, I am looking for a new apartment right now and don't have any spare cash to spend on a new computer.

So, Monday I ordered a cheapo LCD monitor hoping I could use that in the meantime until I get a new computer. I finally got it last night after waiting for 2 hours at the UPS facility in Hialeah. They had some “software glitch” and about 30 packages mysteriously disappeared, took them until after 9:00 PM to locate them. Normally they close at 7:30 PM and I was really racing over there to make it in time and then I was sitting there waiting for my package together with at least 20 more people. Anyway, I finally made it home, all excited, unpack the monitor, plug it in and …. BOOM! All I get is the blue screen of death from my laptop. Huh?! I have no idea what’s going on, but the monitor and laptop are clearly incompatible.

So that’s the end of that then, I guess. And I am still not able to process any new shots; a single HDR literally takes a day to process, raw files are totally impossible to process as my old laptop doesn't even run Lightroom or DPP. Let's just hope I have a few more shots sitting in the archives.

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Taken on: November 15, 2009

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Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II, f/11.0, 1/80 sec, 17mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Aperture:	f/11.0
Exposure Time:	0.013 sec (1/80)
Focal Length:	17mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto bracket
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop 7.0
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