I juts got a macro tube in the mail. It’s basically a dumb (ie you need to be on full manual mode-no metering or AF) piece of aluminum that moves the lens further away from the camera body. Doing so it decreases the minimum focal point. Basically it means you can get really tight up …
Monthly Archives: November 2008
USB Pumpkin light
So my girlfriend really loves halloween, and I love her, so I made her a tiny jack-o-lantern with a usb light. Super simple, I just cut an old usb cable up, pulled out the red and black wires, used a LED resistor calculator (usb provided 5v) Then I soldered in the resistor, heat shrunk it …
8 tips for Time lapse photography
Here’s a few things I have learned while sitting in fields waiting for my camera to finish working for me. 8 tips for shooting SLR time lapses 1) Put your camera on full manual – otherwise the still will flicker from one to the next. 2) Try to pick objects that are still, …
time lapses – getting to know your intervalometer
I’ve been inspired to shoot more pictures lately. Like everything else in my life I tend to go for quantity over quality, so I shot a LOT of pictures. I acquired a battery/intervalometer for my Nikon D40 a while back and didn’t even notice the intervalometer settings until recently. I’ve shot quite a few …
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