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elainegrey ([personal profile] elainegrey) wrote2022-07-11 06:19 am

(weather, garden, create, f&f, reading notes)


20131112 Mom in Monterey Bay


Sunday was blissfully rainy: i can't remember when we last had a whole day of rain. I'm sure it was this past winter, but it doesn't come to mind. I edited a number of photos of mom with the latest version of Lightroom. Wow, it sure has come a long way in sorting out the focal object from the background. I had another photo of my parents watching the sunset, side lit, and i was easily able to select them and increase the exposure on them so they were no longer dark silhouettes. I was shooting "to the right" -- over exposing the image -- so i had the pixels to do it, but correcting the image years ago would have been a painstaking labor. Not so now.

I think looking at photos of family continued my blues to some extent -- it's had me aware of how separate i've been and continue to be. It's harder for me to remember how hard it was for me to be around Mom now.

I also did some sketching while sitting with Christine on the porch -- i look forward to getting the new colored pencils. Although the yellow over blue communicated green, it still looked like an old fashioned print with a misregistration of the color layers. Also, tall pine trees are tall. I am pretty sure that even at two grids wide and twenty grids wide, the tree sketch had shorter proportions than reality.

And then i did math! I want to fit three color wheels onto a page 20x33 units and needed to figure out the maximum radius. A radius of 5.5 (diameter 11) would clearly fit, but wouldn't be the maximum. I used trig! And solved a quadratic equation! OMG actual math! (Answer is a radius of 6.3.)

The next thing i am working on is how to draw the wheels. It's easy to divide the circles into 12 using the protractor and geometry, but it puts a line on the vertical axis: there is no "top" wedge. Is it worth the bother constructing a different axis than the dot grid on the paper? I invite your thoughts as to the "top" wedge of a color wheel.

I suppose i could have ridden the bike under the umbrella last night, but i'd started a novel and wanted to finish it: the fourth book in Bujold's Sharing Knife series which i had started years ago.

Poll #27246 Color wheel
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 4


What color goes at the top of a color wheel?

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red
3 (75.0%)

orange
0 (0.0%)

yellow
1 (25.0%)

green
0 (0.0%)

blue
0 (0.0%)

purple
0 (0.0%)

What color is on the top color's right, viewer's left?

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red
0 (0.0%)

orange
2 (50.0%)

yellow
0 (0.0%)

green
0 (0.0%)

blue
0 (0.0%)

purple
2 (50.0%)


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