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January 10, 2009
Happy Birthday, Tess!
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One of Jennifer's girl friends had a birthday party tonight. They met at a cool little art studio down the hill called Piggy Toes. I lingered and snapped a few shots, some of which I've posted some as a 6 Meg (3:52) Adobe Flash slideshow(adagio.swf) that you should be able to open and view with any browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.). To view the slideshow, just click on the photo above.
These images were all captured with a Canon EOS 40D with a Canon BG-E2 battery grip. The lens is an image stabilized, ultra-sonic telescopic zoom lens (EF-S 17-85mm f/4.0-5.6 IS USM). The flash is a Canon Speedlite 580EX with a Gary Fong Light-Sphere II diffuser.
If you want to view the slideshow as a Windows executable, you can play this version (adagio.exe), and it allows you to play, pause, skip forward, backwards, etc.
Image post-processing was done in Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended. The slideshow was created using Imagematics Stillmotion Pro.
The soundtrack is Adagio For Strings. I think that I first heard it in the movie Platoon, and then later in Amelie. It was composed by Samuel Barber in 1936.
"In January 1938 Barber sent the piece to Arturo Toscanini. The conductor returned the score without comment, and Barber was annoyed and avoided the conductor. Subsequently Toscanini sent word through a friend that he was planning to perform the piece and had returned it simply because he had already memorized it. It was reported that Toscanini did not look at the music again until the day before the premiere. The work was given its first performance in a radio broadcast by Arturo Toscanini with the NBC Symphony Orchestra on November 5, 1938 in New York."
Click here to view the other slideshows.
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 10, 2009 at 9:11 PM
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