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
Feb 052012
Dec 252011
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
Dec 092011
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…
Dec 042011
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!
Nov 292011
Walking from my truck to the office at 6:25am
Taken with my iPhone
And driving home around 4:30pm
Taken with my iPhone
Nov 232011
Going to and from an appointment on Tuesday brought me past Walden Pond. On the way I noticed how still the water was so I decided to stop on my way back to shoot some photos.
It pays to have your camera with you at all times, you never know when inspiration will strike!
18-105mm lens at 25mm, f/8 at 1/250 sec, ISO 200
Nov 042011
I’m spending Thursday and Friday at a conference in Providence, RI. It’s a good meeting, I first attended it in 1995, that was the first scientific conference of any kind I ever attended. A nice perk of going to the meeting is that I actually have a shorter commute, it’s faster for me to drive from home to downtown Providence than to my office.
Thursday afternoon I took a break from the conference and wandered the area for a little bit, I liked this view of the state capital
18-105mm lens at 45 mm, 1/800 sec at f/4.8, ISO 200
Nov 032011
It’s almost hard to believe that just a few days ago this area got several inches of snow, now it’s back to looking like a typically gorgeous New England fall.
105mm macro lens, 1/2000 sec at f/2.8, ISO 200
Oct 012011
A Friday afternoon walk around a local state park. The parking lot is empty, closed off for the season.
(I parked by the boat ramp, which is still open)
105mm macro lens, 1/1000 sec at f/2.8, ISO 200
There’s not a soul around the picnic area
105mm macro lens, 1/160 sec at f/2.8, ISO 200
The rental canoes and kayaks are stacked and locked up
105mm macro lens, 1/250 sec at f/2.8, ISO 200
And there’s a hint of fall in the trees
105mm macro lens, 1/1000 sec at f/2.8, ISO 200
Sep 252011
Yeah, sunset pics are hardly original, but sometimes the sky looks sooo gorgeous I just can’t resist.
I swear, this is right out of the camera, no tricks in Photoshop to mess with the colors!
18-105mm lens at 105 mm, 1/80 sec at f/5.6, ISO 800
