I hijack this blog for my own self serving interest, ok, ... maybe I haven't done it in a while But this is something I need to work out - Tripods.




As you may or may not know I have a photoblog. And as such, I take a lot of Images. Some good, some great, but some are an amazing disappointment. I shall show some examples and try to figure out why what happened happened.


These first four images are taken at night or late dusk. I used a tripod on them as I did the last image that went wrong. I was careful with all the shots, took my time, double and triple checked my settings, carefully pushed the shutter, and with some very little cropping - success:










This is not the result I was hoping for - Blurry, almost out of focus. Something was moving when this photo was shot - But what? I set the tripod on top of my car, parked. The tripod appeared to be still. I took my time, set up the shot very carefully slowly pushed the shutter button - But this was the end result:



What was the difference?

The tripod. I used the round black tripod on the first four shots. A small, but extremely stable tripod that allowed for some freedom as far as moving the camera into the angle I wanted. It was really the first time I had used it. It used to belong to my mother. In fact all 3 of these I inherited from her. The problem with the last shot I do believe is I used the black very adjustable 3 legged tripod. It is basically a flexible wire setup and very easy to get the camera to the angle I need for the shot, but I believe the end result screams at me - lose the tripod. I'll hang onto it for day shots, maybe, but no more night shots with that puppy. (by the way, there were 4 other shots taken with that same flexible tripod I had to literally throw away. They were much worse than what I displayed here.)

January 28th, 2009

Amazing Macro Photography Shots

View more presentations or upload your own. (tags: photography macro)

A trip down Memory Lane:

From National Geographic:


1.) Some really Big Fish

2.)Chile Volcano Erupts With Ash, Lava, and Lightning.

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I wish I had never seen a blog with Haloscan and though it would be neat to have:

It has been such a pain ever since I signed on with this outfit. I decided to put my original Photo blog back up and removed any sign of Haloscan In the HTML . Well, I not only removed Haloscan (possibly) but also now there is no way for anyone to comment on the Photo blog.

There are plenty of times when Computers are a double edged sword and this is definitely one of those times

For sure your going to waste a few minutes once you get the hang of it

Marbles

Some 36 games later , I think I should change could to will in the title. I just don't like it when it asks me if I was awake, OK.



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Some more amazing stop action Photography, this time in HD. Absolutely amazing in the dark with the full screen option on.



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I joined up this group that allows for me to post something every day for the next year. I truly doubt it will be here, more likely the Photo blog, but we'll see.

In a way, I am sad to see this year go bye bye, but as it is ending (me being unemployed) I am definitely looking forward to the coming year. I should be getting a new SLR camera here very soon, A Fujifilm s700, which will allow for a much broader range of photography than my previous point and shoot, which actually has been broken for the last few months, but luckily still takes pictures (the screen has been toast). So that will be nice.



My eldest son should be moving into his new house (the house isn't, but it is new to him). So a lot going on. Here comes the New Year, ready or Not.

Ok so maybe you can't see it. But I can and right now it is driving me nuts. (Yes this blog is about me.)


I have had over the years of being on the internet, probably since April 1992, made quite a few web pages. I started messing around with HTML, the language computers understand that helps make one form of web pages, about 5 years later in 1997. So now I have a collection of different web sites at different places and nothing is really tying them together.

Then I up and start a new blog, which as of the beginning of this year I really knew nothing about (blogging - What the hell is that?)(Sorry, but I was focused heavily on a certain Message board for years and the rest of the Internet went by the wayside), so I have been playing catch up. This makes about blog 6 or 7 for me, some of which I have kept and others have gone bye bye, which only ads to the collection, and so it goes.

I shall find a way to get them all gathered up in a nice neat bundle but for now there is just the Sites map to go on.

I know it's no biggie in the grand scheme of things. doesn't have to do with world hunger or the environment heating up or not (Personally, I think Al Gore is off his rocker)(Sorry sucara)But there it is for all the world to see and read.

And I feel so much better.





Click here for a bigger image of this Picture - I think it's awesome. Just imagine a 110 degree day out, sun is baking down on you and you find this stream with this small pond about 6 feet deep and this cold cool clear water in the shade ...