Here are my latest night sky pictures. I took these December 10, 2009. The brightest with the star streaks was about a 30 minute exposure. The rest were around 15 second exposures with varying apertures and iso settings.
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I completed my first ever time lapse video with my web cam today. It didn’t turn out too bad, though you can really tell I have it on the inside looking through a window and screen.
I setup this webcam to upload an image once a minute to my linux machine. Once I had all the images, I ran the script below. It takes all the images generated and names them sequentially.
ls *.jpg | nl -nrz -w4 | while read a b; do mv "$b" $a.jpg; done
Once you have all the image files named correctly, you can run ffmpeg. I’ve included my sittings here.
ffmpeg -r 10 -b 2048k -bt 768k -i %04d.jpg out.mp4
Equipment/Software:
Today, we took a minor excursion to Fall Creek Falls to see the leaves changing. It was the first time that I’d been up to that area. Overall, everything was timed about right ending with the sunset photos, you see near the top of the picture list below. Continue reading →
I took these photos on the way to and back from Chattanooga today.
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I took these tonight. The moon and Jupiter looked pretty awesome behind the broken clouds.
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Today’s images were mostly taken at the University of the South’s 3 overlook points. They were taken with my Nikon D5000 with a myriad of filters.
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I went to Polly Crockett Days today in Cowan, TN. It turned out to be a rainy and cloudy, but it was a good trial of my new D5000. There are some pictures of some neat hit and miss engines, one powering an ice cream maker. This set also includes photos of the Cowan Train Museum.
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I decided this script was a necessity since I’ve been arranging my photos based on date taken since I bought my first Canon point and shoot. After buying my Nikon 5000, I was disappointed to find the Nikon’s sync software did not break photos out into directories based on the date they were taken. Yesterday, I finally had time to sit down and code it up. This script should work on any platform and can work via either command line or via drag-and-drop. Simply give it one or more directories using either of those methods and it will sort the photos in each directory based on the “Image DateTaken” Exif field.
Download Link: DateTakenPhotoSorter
SVN: http://cdotson-utilities.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/DateTakenPhotoSorter