Photography

Aug

2011

August 21, 2011 Star Trails

I took these photos last night with my Nikon D5000. I set it to take repeated 30 second exposures. I then overlaid the images using a command line bash script and Image Magick. The first is about 25 minutes worth of photos, the second is about 50 minutes worth.

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I started with a the first image as the “../temp.jpg” as listed below. This could be a image from the series or a blank black image of the same size. Then I ran the bash code below to generate the images.

$ ls *.jpg | while read a; do convert ../temp.jpg $a -gravity center -compose lighten -composite -format jpg ../temp.jpg; done;

Aug

2011

August 7, 2011 Lightning

I took these photos tonight as thunderstorms moved over Coffee County/Franklin County Tennessee.

These are the best two:
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Here are some others that I captured.
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Other lightning photos: My Lightning Gallery

Jun

2011

June 15, 2011 Lightning

Tonight turned out to be one of the best nights I’ve had for lightning photography. I was able to place my camera outside under the new awning over the deck and take a ton of photos. Since this particular storm was so energetic, I was able to capture lightning in a majority of the photos I took. Here are a selection of the photos I took tonight.

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Apr

2011

Connecting a Nikon D5000 to a Telescope

I’ve recently posted photos (also re-posted below) that I’ve taken of the moon with my Nikon D5000 connected to my telescope. Here are the components that I used.

Fotodiox T/T2 Lens Mount Adapter for Nikon D5000 – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001G4LOFE

Celestron Universal 1.25-inch Camera T-Adapter (This will work for many brands) – http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000665V6

Total Cost: $41.65

Edit: For this to work, you will have to use manual mode (“M”).

Lunar Photography Attempt #1:
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Lunar Photography Attempt #2 (Supermoon):
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Dec

2010

Lunar Photography [First Attempt]

I finally got both parts to connect my D5000 to my telescope. Of all the photos I took, only one turned out. Here it is.

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Oct

2010

October 12, 2010 Lightning Storm

An evening thunderstorm rolled through last night. While I did not setup the D5000, I did capture the following with my phone’s camera. You can see the youtube video of it here as well as still shots below.

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Sep

2010

Polly Crockett Days 2010 – Cowan, TN

It’s that time of year again for the Polly Crockett Days Festival in Cowan, Tennessee. It was a lot hotter this year at the festival, but still a relatively good turnout. They didn’t have a car show this year, nor did I see many antique engines like I did last year. One person was back again with a hit-and-miss engine making ice cream. One big new item this year was the Civil War Cannon Reenactments. I took plenty of photos, as usual. This set includes photos of one of the cannons firing. They had two cannons, but from the top floor of the Cowan Train Museum I could only see one of them. You can view the schedule of events here and browse my photos below.

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Additionally, you can view last year’s Polly Crockett Days photos here.

Jan

2010

Sewanee Snow January 10, 2010

These photos were taken in Sewanee, TN on January 10, 2010.

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