Dinner Time in Isaan Thailand

It has been a hard day again in Isaan Thailand. I was absolutely buggered early on this afternoon and had a two and a half hour kip. I have a heap of stuff to do and will be up until who knows what time, I will be lucky if I hit the sack before the sun comes up.

I was awoken for dinner and it was good to. I have often complained about my iPhone and the shit quality of pictures it takes, especially at night time as there is always a lot of noise in the pictures.

But in fact I am a lazy bastard and as I will show below if I bothered to boot up my Photoshop and do a few minutes of editing, your pictures improve dramatically and it takes no time.

Would I recommend people to go and buy Photoshop CS5, not unless you are going to use it properly! When I first bought Photoshop it was a toy, I wasted a bucket load of money for a toy I didn’t know how to use or really wanted to learn to use.

It was a long time later and upgrades that I decided to actually learn how to use it. What you can do to your keepsake pictures is amazing once you have learnt to use the ins and outs. It is daunting to be truthful and when I was trying to follow the tutorials, Adobe TV, videos or books I had downloaded, there were times I was ready to throw the computer through a wall.

I am still green though, but now when I want to put a picture I think is special away on an external hard drive (I have two actually) and print a copy, I take the time to edit them.

What I done below is maybe just over a minutes work. It takes longer to boot Photoshop into action than it does editing the pictures.

In this picture there is a lot of noise, especially if you look at the larger sizes.

But with a few clicks in channels and some small adjustments the noise is reduced and the picture looks a lot better. My dinner was pig’s ears and sticky rice with a spicy sweet and sour dipping sauce, really delicious.

This picture is still blurry but the original that I didn’t upload and cannot be bothered was unusable. Again with less than 2 minutes editing the picture is poor quality but useable. It was a fish soup.

The chicken curry was spot on. Two older Isaan ladies have a stall not far from home and make many varieties of dishes. Their bamboo and mushroom dishes although often spicy are bloody good.

And for dessert was durian. People either love or hate it. Most cannot get past the smell. I love really ripe durian. When I first uploaded and looked at the picture I think my words were, “that looks shit.”

But with less than two minutes of editing you have a much nicer looking picture. I shouldn’t be so lazy.

So that was my very delicious dinner tonight, some poor little pig that lots its ears.

Brunty