portfolio

just in case you got a minute or two why not stop by and check out my initial portfolio?
You can find it here: http://udsigt.daportfolio.com/

let me know what you think :-)
thank you

ps. While you are at it maybe take a look at the state parks to see the ones I submitted there (resolution is horrible since they require images to be <200k)
but here goes: http://www.stateparks.com/whitney.html

Time lapse

As some may have seen I have experimented a little bit with time lapse. Once looking into it I have been trying to find info to what others do.

On Vimeo there are several beyond great examples. Find time lapse on Vimeo here.

On that is a wee bit long but includes mountains, clouds, traffic, northern light and... yeah a lot of cool stuff all in HD is this one.


Pixel's Revenge timelapse demo reel from ridindave on Vimeo.

Just tooo cool :-)

soo you want to win a photo contest???

These days there are many photo contests around.
Some with prices and some just for the fun of it. Granted it's pretty cool to have you photo displayed in a magazine or well just about anywhere.

however... you may want to pick you contest with care...

One example: Amtrak photo contest...

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

Nailed 'Em - Amtrak Photographer

Colbert Report Full Episodes
Funny Political News

Christian Bale Parody
Joke of the Day

I just can't believe that he was handcuffed to the wall for an hour while the good people of Amtrak was deciding what to do with him...


yeah this may be one contest to stay clear of. I am not sure I want that kind of reward...

Time-lapse why bother???

Sure there is a lot of technologies out there and that applies to photography as well.
I haven't really thought much about time-lapse photo other than grapping a bunch of frames and combine them into a startrail photo which is pretty cool.

However. well I could write a lot but just go to this link and click the time-lapse in the sub nav. Once you get towards the middle you will see what I am talking about.

This is cool stuff....
http://www.tkcinematography.com/home.html

Smooth adventures

Don't forget to check out a post on my photo blog on smooth adventures.

warning... may make you think

Not really a tickle me Tuesday (it's further down the page) but kind of makes you think.

This photo won the photographer a Gold Addy award (congrats) and you can find the original posting here.

The photographer is GIULIO SCIORIO and you can find his blog here: http://www.ipimpart.com and his web page here: http://www.GiulioSciorio.com.

Anyway check this out:

Talk with your kids about making healthy choices


ps. be sure to visit his website/blog if you like it

lightmeter for the studio

Sooo I finally got a light meter for the studio.
Before I was using the cameras histogram to determine if I had the right level... but man... I was off a little bit on that one and had the levels too low.

Good thing to get a late birthday present like this :-) (thank you sweetie).

Here is a few photos from tonite


Hmmm let's see how this works...


Dad.... I keep telling you!!! F 8


See I told you... much better


WOW!!!! bright light

Shooting the Stars

Soo I stumbled across an article with a photo of star trails.

It looks pretty cool so I have been trying to figure out how to do something similar.

I started out with long exposures but with long exposures of several minutes the chance of getting grain unwanted movement and that sort of stuff is far greater than the chance of it turning out the way you want it.

Sooo to get it I figured that I could do multiple shorter exposures and then merge them aftewards. The only issue with this is that you can get some pretty big files and alot of them. This makes the merging slightly difficult and demanding resources your computer may not have. Imagine the task of opening 200 5Mb files. This will take up your memory and use a lot of disk swapping making it painfully slow.

However I found photoshop action that will open one photo at the time and merge it with another ending with several photos being merged into one photo without killing the computer in the process and best of all --- it's automatic.

I did the first test but about 10 minutes into it the clouds came in.... sooo so much for that idea. However I did get about 50 shots without clouds and the result is here:

The photoshop action I used can be found here: http://www.schursastrophotography.com/software/photoshop/startrails.html
Now since I had about 150 photos in total I found another thing to do with them. I was browsing through them and could see the movement of the stars and the clouds coming in. Soo I set off to create an animation for this.
I "just" needed to find the right tool for it.... Easier said than done...
Anyway for now I ended up with a trial version of Adobe flash which you can use free for 30 days.
Then of course I had to learn how to as easy as possible load up 150 photos and "spit" out an animation.
To help with this I found a small video that did the trick. You can find that here: http://www.learnflash.com/creating-slideshows.html
You can see the animation here: Stars in action
All shots was done as 15 second exposure at f/2.0. I started out with the time period I figured would give the best image and the optimized the aperture after that.