An advantage to staying late at work and having access to the roof of the building?
An unobstructed view of the sunset!
18-105mm lens @ 50mm, 1/500 sec @ f/5.0, ISO 800
Too bad I didn’t get up there 5 minutes sooner, I think I missed the best colors….
Sometimes it’s fine to stay on the beaten path (or paved, as the case may be)
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D700, 24-120mm lens at 24mm, 1/1600sec at f/3.5, ISO 200
But sometimes, off-the-beaten path has more interesting sights
D700, 24-120mm lens at 24mm, 1/200sec at f/3.5, ISO 200
D700, 24-120mm lens at 24mm, 1/125sec at f/3.5, ISO 200
D700, 24-120mm lens at 120mm, 1/50sec at f/5.6, ISO 800
D700, 24-120mm lens at 24mm, 1/400sec at f/3.5, ISO 200
It was such a beautiful day, after the clouds and rain cleared out, that I just had to take a photo!
D700, 24-120mm lens at 38mm, 1/2000sec at f/4.2, ISO 200
Friday afternoon I had some free time, so I took a leisurely drive around and looked for photo possibilities. After all, I’ve got a Nikon D700 that I rented in my hot little hands for 2 weeks! It was nice to wander without a destination in mind.
I hope it’s obvious why this sign is superfluous!
18-105mm lens @ 52mm, 1/2500 sec @ f/5.0, ISO 400
Somewhere back in the woods, judging by the size of this pile (and more I didn’t photograph), a LOT of land is being cleared!
18-105mm lens @ 18mm, 1/2500 sec @ f/3.5, ISO 400
Old graveyards fascinate me. Who was this man, why did he emigrate from Ireland, what caused his death at the age of 34?
18-105mm lens @ 18mm, 1/800 sec @ f/3.5, ISO 400
Taken very early in the morning as I was heading off to the gym yesterday
*Click-click* for another type of moon 
18-105mm lens @ 18mm, 1/3 sec @ f/3.5, ISO 3200
As seen when I blindly shoot a photo out the window at 70 mph!
18-105mm lens at 18mm, 1/1600 sec at f/3.5, ISO 400
With skies like this, Santa shouldn’t have any weather-related delays, at least in the northeast US
(When I pointed out how many stars we could see, one of the kids commented that it was good travel weather for Santa, hence the inspiration for this photo!)
35mm prime lens, f/1.8 at 3.0 sec, ISO 1600
Yes, sunset photos are cliche and over-done, but sometimes the sky looks so good, and I come upon a good vantage point, that I can’t help but stop and take a photo.
18-105mm lens at 52mm, f/20 at 1/100 sec, ISO 1600
Wow, I just realized what odd settings I used. I should have bumped the aperture down to f/10 or f/11, which would have allowed me to reduce the ISO some. Oh well, live and learn…
Months ago I bought an intervalometer and have finally gotten around to figuring out how to use it to make a timelapse video. FYI, an intervalometer is a device that you attach to your camera and program to take a photo at a user-defined interval. I think I paid about $50 for mine.
Here is the setup. I simply parked my truck facing the setting sun, programmed the intervalometer to take a photo once every 10 seconds, composed the scene how I wanted and sat back for the next 45 minutes.
Taken with my iPhone
The next step was to deal with the resulting 258 photos (6 per minute X 43 minutes) that I had. Fortunately, the inspiration to re-visit the timelapse project idea came to me on Friday when I discovered an Adobe Photoshop Lightroom plug-in for creating timelapse video. It was easy to install and just as easy to use, not long after I got home I had a mp4 file ready to go.
All that was left to do was created my own YouTube channel and upload the video.
I would do some things differently next time, but I’m very happy with my first attempt at creating a time-lapse video!
Walking from my truck to the office at 6:25am
Taken with my iPhone
And driving home around 4:30pm
Taken with my iPhone
