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[SinglePic not found] After spending way, way too much time editing and tinkering with my images from Bosque, I have finally posted a collection of my favorite images from the trip. See the whole collection in the Bosque 2008 Gallery. If you enjoy the images, please let me know in the comments. I want one of these: Gigapan Imagaer. In a nutshell, it’s a robotic contraption that automates taking many (many, many) images that can be stitched into one very large image. (The “gig”a in Gigpan is a reference to the size of the final image — greater than 1 Billion pixels.) Think very, very big prints, easy 360 degree images, etc., all from a point and shoot camera. Sample images (including a cool gigapixel image of the Obama inaguration) here. Unfortunately it only accepts point at shoot cameras a the moment, but apparently a model for larger SLRs is on the horizon. I am surprised to note that the robot costs ~$ 250. The designers must not realize that when a piece of hardware touches a camera, they should charge four or five times what they otherwise would. I think I’m going to buy one of these . . . Here are a couple of “moving car” blurs that I shot tonight on my way home from work. I wasn’t driving . . .
Both of these images are eight second exposures at f/6.3, ISO 80. If you like these, there are many more in my Night Blur Collection.
I continue to wade through the images from my trip to Bosque Del Apache. I’m making progress . . . slowly. In the meantime, here are two of my favorite “blur” images from the trip. The “Sandhill Calligraphy” image was fairly easy to make, though I was fortunate to capture both birds at the same point in their wing beat. The 2nd image, a pan blur, was much, much more difficult. I made dozens of images before I captured one with a pleasing background and where the bird’s eye is sharp.
I am (unfortunately) still working through the huge set of photos from Bosque. Not sure why the going is so slow. It probably has something to do with flight photography at 6 FPS. (Read: LOTS of images to sift through). Hopefully though, it also has do to with gradual improvement as a photographer. Most of my images from the trip were correctly exposed, reasonably well composed, and sharp. That actually makes editing harder — instead of a lot of bad photos with a few good ones thrown in, I have to sort through a bunch of pretty good photos to pull out the ones that I like the best. Anyway, I took a break from image editing to go to my favorite local spot to do some fox photography. The weather was iffy, the light wasn’t great, and for the first time over many dozens of visits I didn’t make any fox images. It was still nice to go for a walk in the woods though, and a flock of robins feeding on berries in a tree saved the trip, at least photographically. Not my best image ever, but here’s a keeper from the trip:
Sorry for the lack of posts lately. Busy editing images from Bosque (and, unfortunately, working. Gotta pay for gear somehow). As a time filler until I post some more Bosque images, here is a series of informative and funny, but also sophmoric, crude, and probably offensive and NSFW Photoshop tutorials entitled “You Suck at Photoshop. Here’s the first one, with links to others below:
This is the first selection from Season 1; Season 2 is also available. |
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