Friday Morning

Friday is a time for reflection of what has been done and what needs to be done.  So, we cleaned up our art site (http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/latitude-59.html?tab=artwork) and pulled out a lot of stock quality photos and are going to cut deeper.  The goal there is to get it to art only which will match nicely with our 3 traveling sets of 4 pieces for art shows.

Found an app ($6- SetmyCamera) that claims that it will control our D7000 cameras.  Then discovered the iPad/iphones don't have an IR transmitter.  After an hour of searching, found one that should work for ($15) which should be here next week.

The app does have a really nice Depth of Field calculator which has already explained why a tree (50 yards away) was in focus and the stars behind it were.  Turned out the trees weren't at infinity with a 50mm, F/1.8.  The F-stop would have had to be 2.8 for both to be in focus.  Nice math experiment but cost us a night of good green auroras.

iStock Stats
Active: 72
pending: 28
downloads to date: 2
views to date: 24

New things for the punch list
- update account edge pro with Ptarmigan data
- select our 12 pictures for our traveling show
  - set 1 - 4 pictures - Theme
  - set 2 - 4 pictures - Theme
  - set 3 - 4 pictures - Theme
- select 10 pictures for Shutterstock application try #3 (don't know if there will be a 4th)

Punch List
- Start business Cumma Vitrae resume
- Take color wheel notecards to Ptarmigan

plans
this week
- play (err experiment) with dark filters (on hold due to cloudy conditions)

Next week
-  Auroras
-  (new) resubmit to Shutterstock (#3)

Next Month
- Spring and new colors other than brown and white

Next Quarter
- get ready for Alaskan summer

Next Year
- plan photo trip to somewhere warm