Why is the day after Thanksgiving called "Black Friday"? I understand that it's the biggest shopping day of the holiday season, possibly of the year but what's so black about it?
Fortunately, we avoided all of that noise, stayed home to trim the Christmas tree, and photographed the sunset:
55mm, 2 images stitched together from two sets of three images, bracketed around 1/15th of a second, f/16, ISO 200 (+/- 2 stops). Complicated but pretty.
The verdict on Autopano Pro is two thumbs up. I'm a little hesitant to buy it now as version 2 is supposed to arrive soon. Thanks for hanging in there with the "Autopano" watermarks in the meantime. :)
It's Black Friday because when a business is profitable it's "in the black" as opposed to in the red, which is not so good. So the idea is that stores will make a huge profit on that day, because it's the busiest day of the year. In this case, black is a very good thing. And there is your daily lesson in capitalism :o)
Posted by: marne | November 28, 2008 at 11:48 PM
Way to go Marne. Big sisters are good for lots of things. Right CJ1?
Posted by: emptyness | November 29, 2008 at 04:12 AM
I don't mean to put a negative spin on Black Friday, but it could mean anxious shoppers stampeding into your local Walmart store whrn the doors open and causing bodily harm to store empleyees.
Posted by: marné | November 29, 2008 at 04:56 AM
That last comment posted by "Lucy" was actually posted by me. Sorry about that.
Posted by: John Deere | November 29, 2008 at 05:05 AM