Walter called to say that he had a fox den on his property with at least 5 pups living in it, so I headed down with the camera and 400mm lense. The light wasn't the best, so we were shooting at 1000 ISO (hence the grain). I got over 350 shots that day, of which only a dozen really came out, mostly due to low shutter speed or tricky focus through the underbrush. It was great fun though, and I'm glad I got a few good pics to show for it.
Timelapse, Bike ride start
Photography
Another timelapse. This time I used manual exposure and light balance to get rid of the flicker as things change automatically between exposures. This is an exposure ever 4 seconds, stretched by 40% when rendered in HD. For best results, watch it in HD on the Vimeo site and click on the 'full screen' icon in the lower left of the preview window before playing.
This is my first attempt at timelapse photography with the D300. Frames taken at 5 second intervals. For best viewing, click on the youtube icon to view it on the youtube site, then click the 'HD' button in the lower right of the window to see it is its highest resolution.
Updated banner photo
Photography
I just uploaded a new banner photo (Stickney Brook panorama). You will have to keep hitting 'refresh' until it appears, since the banner can be one of 5 randomly chosen images. OR you can view the rest of this post, were I've linked to all the current banner images.
So... I just found and installed a component that lets me embed youtube videos simply by pasting the URL into an article. This page is just a test of that. One here on the front page, and another after the link. Enjoy the excitement. BTW: Both of these videos are available in HD if you go to youtube and click the 'watch in HD' link. they are test shots with my new Canon HF10 HD camera.
Photography doesn't get much easier than this. I've heard that OTHER photographers have to pack things, trek off into the woods, wait for something to wander past... but not me. This guy was sitting in a tree not 20 feet from our kitchen window. I took a few photos through the glass in case he got spooked when I opened it, then slid the window open. The light was a little low, so I couldn't get the shutter speed I wanted (this is at 1/200), but with a bit of sharpening it is acceptable. He is looking at Betsy, who went outside to get a closer look at him. A minute later, he flew away but I couldn't track him well enough at full zoom to get any pics of him in flight.
Slightly Askew
Photography
This is from an old barn just south of Claremont NH. It has been getting more and more twisted over the years and probably won't be standing for much longer. I found the time to get up there today to get a few picture of it before a heavy snow finished it off.
Finding the time
Photography
It's been tough to find the time to get out with the camera for a while. As it has been finding time to ride my bike (I finished the season about 1,000 miles down from my 'normal' miles) or even finding time to keep up with books and magazines I want to read!
Well, here I find myself with a week of vacation to use up, so have decided that the least I can do is get out every day and try to take a few pictures, then come home to see if I have anything worth printing. Here are two I got today, plus one from last week. If I stay on plan, I'll have more to post later in the week. If I can find the time...
I've been driving past this scene all Summer and finally got a chance to stop for a photo. I found this guy in a fenced in area at an open air flea market selling cement lawn ornaments (along with a lot of.... well... junk). It will eventually be part of my 'through the fence' series that I'm putting together.
A candid snapshot of this Obama supporter just as she was finishing hanging her sign. She was posing for a pic by a friend, but I grabbed this shot from a few hundred feet away with my 400mm lense.
I'm kind of surprised this one came out. I saw the scene but didn't have my tripod (or the 60mm lense I prefer to use on shots like this) so did the best I could in low light hand held. I guess the 'VR' really came through on this one, since I got a good sharp image. I went back the next night with the tripod and better lense, but the light just wasn't the same.
So the basic Joomla install is up and runing... for the most part. This is my first install of v1.5, so it is taking me a while to figure out where some of the options have gone. It will take a few more days for the domain name DNS record to settle down. After that, I need to find a better template, work on some graphics, get Jalbum integrated more fully with the site, then start playing with some modules to see what kind of trouble I can get into. All in all it should keep me busy for at least a few weeks.
