Picture 351

So…..hello.
How's life?
How's the world?
Did I miss anything?

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It was hard copy and pasting them in there! :-)
Except for the Facebook comments.
They took some extra magic to work right.
Anyways! I have been having a wonderful week!
Just wonderful!
I did some secret things!
Last week was a bit weird.
You know, after losing my kind.
But it's back and better than even!
I made some pictures for next week.
Well, only one picture if it turns out right.
But that's not the secret thing!
My aunt kidnapped me!
We went and made some pictures in some pretty places!
Like last year!
We are getting ready for the contest in a few months.
….January….actually.
It's good to plan a head!
It the contest where I won my first and only award!
With the award winning leaf!
We tried some new things this year.
I can't show you.
I'm all...hush hush about things.
Just know I didn't hold back!
I tried to get really good pictures.
I think I did...
I can't say if I did just yet.
I have only looked at them.
I haven't worked on them.
And they need some work!
But, I'm want to do that with my aunt!
Even though she's going to just say “do what you want”.
I'd like to work on them together!
It’s always good to have a second input!
Anyways, we did that on Sunday.
And that's really all I did.
I did make a new picture today!
Because I'm procrastinating working on the bath tub pictures.
Mostly the video.
I'm half way done with it.
It's just so hard to edit things!
I get tried!
MY EYES!
Hopefully I'll get it done and out of the way.
It's a weird video.
So is the losing my mind video.
I think I'll work that into an update video for my SEVEN YEARS!
I started my pictures on October 15th, 2008!
My videos and sites where started March 13th, 2009!
Yeah, I could work it out.
I'll have to do some editing though! 
But, that's for a later date.
Let’s focus on the now and talk about the picture!
This is the last in in the Fog series.
It included Picture’s 348, 349, 350, and this one.
But the last three are like…. a sub series.
This one was the last one I shot for the day.
I was just about to leave when the sun started to come out from behind the fog.
The fog was starting to clear.
I was just going to leave it and not do anything.
But my mind made me get back out and make one more picture.
The one you see!
It didn't turn out truly like I wanted.
When looking at it when I got home, it took me a while to figure out what I'm going to do with it.
That's why it took the longest to edit.
It just wasn't working with what I had in my head.
I added the usual contrast, clarity, and saturation.
And then for this series, I brought the highlights and the shadows up in all the pictures.
And the orange glow from changing the temperature of the picture.
But, I didn't like that for this one.
It had to be different.
I wanted to be almost silhouetted.
It just took some tinkering!
After a while of just playing around….I found what I needed.
It's not perfect, but it'll do.
Compare!

Hover your mouse (the computer one :-P) over the original picture to see the after editing one.
If you're on a touchscreen device, just tap on the picture. You may have to tap more than once.

Now compare the this uncropped/unstraightened version with the original.
You can see the changes better.

AMAZING!!
Just what I wanted!
Let's try the Image Slider.
Here's how it works...
There's a blue bar in the middle of the picture.
That's the slider.
The slider will disappear when you move your mouse off of the image.
I did that so you can really see the split.
But, it'll come back when you hover over it again.
You can CLICK on it and DRAG it around to get our on split image.
Or, you can use these presets.
Before FULL, After FULL, 50/50, Before a QUARTER, or After a QUARTER.

Before

After

Ok! That’s all!
Did you notice anything different with the Slider?
I worked on it yesterday and fixed some of its bugs!
Mostly under-the-hood things that you can't see.
I was wondering if it still looks and works like normal.
Everything seemed fine to me in the tests that I did.
I used to have its whole code in each post.
And that caused problems.
I don't want to go into details.
I'll have to explain JavaScript and HTML.
I fixed one major issue by moving the code out of the post.
I only left the part that loads it.
The rest of the code I moved to a separate section on the blog.
Where I put all my other codes.
In other words, I moved things around and it fixed the problems.
I'm sure I lost you at some point.
CUT TO THE VIDEO!
Yes! There is a video!
It's 25 minutes and 30 seconds long of me…walking……
….in the fog.
You'll see me making the last three pictures in the series.
That includes color correcting them.
The audio got a little out of sync at the end.

Just go with it.
You can CLICK HERE to see the video or watch it below. 
Ok! The deed is done.
I don’t know what I’m going to do for next week.
I’m sure I’ll think of something!
COME BACK NEXT WEEK!!!