This image was awarded First Place tonight in the Travel category at the Palo Alto Camera Club. I've been a member for about a year and a half, and this is the first time I've gotten a First Place award. I will now admit, it felt really good.
Kite Shot of Pigeon Point Lighthouse Eric and I enjoyed a top-down drive to the coast today. I took along my kite aerial photography setup just in case the wind behaved. We visited the Pigeon Point Light Station with the hopes of getting an interesting kite shot of it, but the wind was still when [...]
Shot with my DIY intervalometer on a Canon 40D. I shot at 2816x1880 (Canon medium resolution) and panned across the image in After Effects. Still playing with output compression in AE, there are some banding artifacts that aren't there in the original images. Frames shot at 20 second intervals, put together here at 24fps. Sunset [...]
Milk, food coloring, soap, plus a crop and white vignette in Lightroom. The shading around the edges is courtesy of the cup.
I played around on Tuesday night with a new light trigger - a device that fires my flash after a light beam is interrupted. These shots are of drops of milk falling into a surface of milk. Even with good tools it still takes a lot of patience to get one you like. I ended [...]
The Altoids version I want to do more time-lapse photography without having to trigger the camera manually. I also didn't want to spent over $100 for a professional model, so I built this one for about $20 (not including the empty Altoids tin). It's a snug fit between the electronics, switches, 9V battery and wires, [...]
Today I received my Blurb book that I put together from our Costa Rica trip. It looks great. It's 50 pages long with enough text and captions to explain the trip and images, but it's mostly a photo book. Even though I had most of the text already written (from the blog) and [...]
I just installed the FlickrTag plugin for Wordpress, which makes it much easier for me to include sets of images, and gives you a really nice lightbox to view them in. Go ahead, click on one... [flickr]set:72157612729453744[/flickr] Sweet, huh?
Flying into Los Angeles on an extremely clear day. The distant mountains are at least 50 miles away. When I grew up in LA (the 60's and 70's) we had over 120 Stage 1 Smog Alerts per year - that meant that you shouldn't play outside and you needed to curtail any unnecessary driving. At [...]
NAMM, the interNAtional Music products association M (go figure) had it's winter convention in Anaheim last week, and as usual Jason, Ryan and I headed down. We changed our strategy this year, and headed first to the Taylor Guitar suite to get their performance schedule - Taylor sets up a stage with top notch sound [...]