The Log house Project begins........

[MotorSeven]

I shortened the bottom drawers to 6' deep and rigged the top drawer faces to be immobile. I drilled the holes for the faucet and cut/installed the copper sink:

There is a mirror that attaches to the two posts and next is to figure out how to get a set of lights over it all.

And the Fleur de lis is part of my heritage, so it appears all around the house......N'awlins.

 

[MotorSeven]

I am trying out a new camera, an Olympus 12MP.....my big older Cannon is way better. All the pics are slightly fuzzy, no matter what the setting is.

 

[pacerron]

I am trying out a new camera, an Olympus 12MP.....my big older Cannon is way better. All the pics are slightly fuzzy, no matter what the setting is.

Check your setup again. You have it in "Auto" but it is not working properly. The lens is opening wide 2.9 so you don't get a lot of depth of field focus even though you are shooting at an equivalent wide angle of 27mm on a 35 mm camera. The ASA is set at 1600 and the flash is firing but the shutter speed is only 1/30th of a second.
Most auto flashes are at least 1/60th and with an ISO of 1600 the lens should be stopping way down to f8 or more.
Try shooting in AV mode where you control the f-stop. You will see what the camera chooses as a shutter speed as you very the f stop.
Try setting the ISO down to 100 or 200. You will get far less grainy out of focus that way. When you choose flash in AV the f the shutter speed will probably be fixed at 1/60th however.

 

[RoyJackson]

Carpentar bees come to visit yet?

 

[MotorSeven]

Pacer, your exactly right, auto & 2.9. I put it in manual & iso 100..better but still fuzzy. I think it just has a poor flash. This is my wife's camera(new this year), mine is a old Cannon Power Shot S5IS.....the Cannon just blows it away and it's only 8MP, so I'm sticking with it.

Roy, no not yet. They have been buzzing around, but no "contact" yet. Some real interesting 1" long dark grey critters with big antenna hatched out of the bettle killed pine I used for the loft rafters. The hole they left was a little over 1/4" in diameter along with a pile of sawdust. The house house I built in '83 was all beetle killed pine. We could actually hear the "baby" pine beetles sawing their way out of their nursery's.....drove me nuts for about a month until I figured out what the noise was.

 

[ENG18LT]

M7, That vanity and sink are absolutely gorgeous. Although I won't show my wife, as she will add it to the list of projects! :applause:

 

[RoyJackson]

Roy, no not yet. They have been buzzing around, but no "contact" yet. Some real interesting 1" long dark grey critters with big antenna hatched out of the bettle killed pine I used for the loft rafters. The hole they left was a little over 1/4" in diameter along with a pile of sawdust. The house house I built in '83 was all beetle killed pine. We could actually hear the "baby" pine beetles sawing their way out of their nursery's.....drove me nuts for about a month until I figured out what the noise was.

Definitely keep up with the bees annually (at minimum). I waited (neglected might be a better term) my front porch and now I've got some real work to do.

 

[Obed]

... then started working on a old cheap($50) dresser w/drawers that I am converting into a washstand:

That wash stand is very cool. Obed

 

[Obed]

Pacer, your exactly right, auto & 2.9. I put it in manual & iso 100..better but still fuzzy. I think it just has a poor flash. This is my wife's camera(new this year), mine is a old Cannon Power Shot S5IS.....the Cannon just blows it away and it's only 8MP, so I'm sticking with it.

I use a Canon PowerShot camera and it works great. I'm on the second camera. I killed the first one when I tripped on a root sticking out of the ground right after our house excavation started. I liked the first one enough that I replaced it with the newer model of the same camera. I don't really care how big the megapixels are because I rarely take pictures at the most high resolution setting. The high MP setting takes up way to much disk space and noticeably make it slow when people browse my TBN thread, especially if they browse using a phone. I take most of my house project pictures in the lowest resolution 640x480 pixels. I take pictures of family using a little higher resolution but still nowhere near the largest MP size.

Obed

 

[Obed]

Definitely keep up with the bees annually (at minimum). I waited (neglected might be a better term) my front porch and now I've got some real work to do.

Yes I've been fighting them at my back porch. I have killed around 25 bees with a tennis racket. The chemicals in PT wood in my floor joists don't hinder the carpenter bees at all. I sure wish we could still buy lumber treated with the old PT chemicals. The arsenic in that stuff would probably take care of the carpenter bees.

Obed