Here’s another quick bit of video for you — mud bubbling away, thanks to geothermal activity in Yellowstone National Park…
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Archive for May, 2008
“3D for Everyone” voting — the polls are now open
You may recall that a little while back, I did a post on the “cha-cha” method of making a 3D image. This was tied up with my submission for a contest being held over at Neil Creek’s blog. Well, now submissions are closed, and voting is open…
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Macro vs. Macro
So I’ve managed over the past few months to gather up a mangy collection of hardware for my E-510, the purpose of (some of) it being to enable me to make macros. I thought it was about time to pull together some sort of side-by-side comparison of how it all performs….
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Oly 50mm macro — now that’s good bokeh!
As I’ve mentioned, I bought the Olympus 50mm f/2.0 macro lens for my kit a few weeks back. I’m discovering it’s a fantastic piece of glass when you want to draw a viewer’s attention to part of the frame — it gives you a very shallow depth of field (DOF) when it’s wide open, particularly up close. It also gives you really nice bokeh…
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A giant in the mist
I haven’t talked about a Paris photo in a while, so let’s look at this one…
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New toys…
As you may have noticed if you’ve looked at the EXIF data in some of my images, I bought some new goodies for the E-510 to play with…
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The waves of Onomea Bay
Another entry from my “Attention Deficit Theater” collection — this time of waves coming ashore on Onomea Bay beach, on the big island of Hawaii…
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3D for everyone — even rubber duckies!
A while back I stumbled across a post on Neil Creek’s site about a contest based on a relatively low-tech approach to making 3D pictures. Usually called the “cha-cha” method, it consists of taking two pictures of an object, using just a slight shift in your balance to assure that the two images are taken from slightly different positions. Then, you combine them with a little free software….
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Diffusers — to DIY, or not to DIY…
As far as I’m aware, all DSLRs have a built-in flash — and from what I can tell, these flashes all pretty much stink. Of course, you’ve got a range of options for dealing with this — depending on how much money you want to spend, and how much additional gear you want to wind up carrying…
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Galleries and such
If you’ve ever explored this site very much, or been a reader of the blog for long, you are likely aware that I’ve associated both with my Flickr account. It was probably the only way to get things started, but this hasn’t really been ideal for a number of reasons…
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