cowjuice.org » Uncategorized http://cowjuice.org/blog Sun, 18 Oct 2009 17:02:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Green Tomato Ketchup http://cowjuice.org/blog/2009/10/18/green-tomato-ketchup/ http://cowjuice.org/blog/2009/10/18/green-tomato-ketchup/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:59:43 +0000 cornet http://cowjuice.org/blog/?p=42 Makes approx 1.5l (maybe a bit less if you reduce it more)

Ingredients

  • 1.8Kg Green Tomatoes
  • 2 Apples
  • 2 Medium Onions
  • 250g Sugar
  • 1.5 tsp Pickling Spice
  • 1 large Red Chilli (stalk removed)
  • 2 tsp Salt
  • 350ml White Wine Vinegar

Method

  1. Peel and roughly chop onion & apple (remove core)
  2. Stick everything in food processor until finely chopped
  3. Bring to boil and simmer for 1 – 1.5 hours
  4. Food process again
  5. Pass through sieve
  6. Reduce to desired consistency
  7. Bottle into sterilised bottles
  8. Enjoy!
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Lots of rubbish (possibly due to the amount of beer consumed while out) but this one appears to have come out alright.

doncaster

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Make: Online : Blackberry pale ale

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]]> http://cowjuice.org/blog/2009/03/02/snake-has-a-name/feed/ 0 Snake http://cowjuice.org/blog/2009/03/01/snake/ http://cowjuice.org/blog/2009/03/01/snake/#comments Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:55:31 +0000 cornet http://cowjuice.org/blog/?p=24 Early Birthday Present :)

My Snake

He seems to be setting in well. He had an hour or 2 in his hide and has since been exploring his new surroundings.

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Didn’t finish work till 22:30 so got back to boaty and, after some food, went outside to take some photos.

As this was purely an experiment I didn’t spend too much time getting the composition ‘just right’ or playing around too much with the exposure. Just fired off 6 shots, increasing the shutter speed every time (I really should have been knocking down the f-stop but what they hell).

Anyhoo, back on boaty I fired up qtpfsgui and loaded the images in. Once done, accepting the defaults, I entered the tone map dialogue to create the LDR output. Now there are 6 or 7 different algorithms to choose from and I ended up picking the mantiuk one.

Here is the result:

hdr1_pregamma_1_mantiuk_contrast_mapping_0.3_saturation_factor_0.8

Looks ok, although not amazing.

So off to google to find some tutorials. There are quite a few around but this one caught my eye: HDR tutorial: how to create HDR photos with free Qtpfsgui and GIMP

This tutorial recommends using 2 different algorithms and combining the output using Victoria Quays - Attempt 2

Colours are a bit more vivid in that shot. Still some experimentation to be done but qtpfsgui definitely shows some potential. I just wish the software had a better name ;)

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