We were loaded, all right… on SUGAR! There were FIVE cakes/desserts for three people having birthdays. Just the video for now while I sort through the photos. Here’s one of all of us by Garry.
The technical bits on how the video was made:
The first part of the video was shot with my low-resolution point-and-shoot Canon A520, which I had to brighten digitally because it was pretty dark. Also, it looks grainy because I artificially enlarged the resolution to match the rest of the video, which consists of photos shot on the Nikon D300. The photos don’t look so great in the video because I’d already spliced the two parts together before I brightened, which means the photos were brightened in the video editor, not the photo editor.
Oh, one last thing: I had to convert the Quicktime movie to Flash to reduce the size. It was ridiculously large, too large to upload ANYWHERE in less than six hours, and the upload was gobbling up my internet bandwidth so I gave up.