Monday, March 15, 2010

...seventyfour/threehundredsixtyfive...

I took a drive back to that farm I shot yesterday.  Took more of the same shots during pre-sunset, I'd really like to go into the pasture but I don't know the property owner.  It's outside of  Troyer's Antiques outside of Meadville.  I'll have to stop when they're open to ask around.






















I officially tried out my homemade panoramic tripod attachment.  Tada, it works!
Here's some interesting 3 frame HDR panoramas (or verti-rama).

Sunday, March 14, 2010

...seventythree/threehundredsixtyfive...

Last night, the highschool-style formal dance of my wife's medical school ,aka: "LEPROM", was a surprisingly fun, albeit long, night.  Not without much personal protest we ended the night at some chump-filled dance club called Boardwalk.  Not really my scene and now I have to dry clean my suit.

Overall I enjoyed watching my wife have a great time with all the awesome people she has gotten so close to since starting school 9ish months ago.  It was nice to be part of the crew for a change instead of just hearing about all of her friends.

And the wife looked smokin' hot. (yeah, I know, the dreaded "pop up" flash shadow ruins this awesome portrait.   My new flash will arrive this week)






















I spent the majority of the day building this panoramic tripod head.  It is a complicated technique but simple design.   I won't go way into it but it just means my large scale landscapes should definitely improve.


















Plus I found a new HDR program that looks promising for more realistic images.  I haven't done any HDR lately beacause it seems like it's way overdone now and sticks out like a sore thumb.  This program seems to do it the right way.  Here's my first try with it. It's not a scene that necessarily needed HDR but I just randomly pulled over and shot it when I was on my way back from the Home Depot.

Saturday, March 13, 2010

...seventytwo/threehundredsixtyfive...

We had a beautiful week of sunshine and now rain.
The nearly all the snow has melted in the yard to reveal the discarded corpse of Frosty.  

The death of winter...I love March.

Thursday, March 11, 2010