Entries Tagged as 'photography'
Weird banding on Canon 7d explained!
December 21st, 2009 · 1 Comment
The other night I was out filming traffic. I ended up getting a really weird camera artifact. It looks like a dark bar that rolls through the shot from bottom to top. At first it made me freak out a bit, thinking that the camera was somehow broken. I eventually figured out that it is [...]
Tags: photography · video
good gear to go with your shiny new canon 7d
December 20th, 2009 · No Comments
I can only hope that there will be a lot of other happy people unwrapping new cameras this christmas. I bought my 7d about a month ago, and the best/worst thing is that now I realize buying it is just the beginning. I want to buy sooo much gear to use with it, and it [...]
Tags: general geek · photography · video
Slow motion from the 7d. 720p60 to 24p How-to
December 2nd, 2009 · 1 Comment
There were a few different stages of excitement that I went through after getting my Canon 7d. First I played around with all of my manual nikon lenses (using an adapter of course). Next I marveled at the settings and the live view feature. Finally I decided I wanted to go out and shoot some [...]
Tags: general geek · photography · video
Canon 7d test video
November 29th, 2009 · 2 Comments
here's a quick video I put together with my new dslr: the Canon 7d. I'll run down my gear and workflow in a lil bit, but for now, here's the vid.
Canon 7d test / Coffee facts
Tags: Final Cut Pro · photography · video
15 great gifts for photography geeks.
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments
I have really had a lot of fun shooting pictures of things and learning about photography in the last few years. One thing I love about digital photography is that you don't need to spend a lot of money to take a lot of pictures. I have had an absolute blast playing around making pinhole [...]
Tags: general geek · photography
Christmas Gifts for Geeks (pt 3) MAKE magazine
November 4th, 2009 · 1 Comment
There really are few magazines that I eagerly look forward to. There are even fewer that I can't hold back from reading in the bookstore BEFORE my subscription arrives (I just can't hold back!) MAKE is chock full of cool projects, ideas, and people. They have detailed build plans for some of their projects, and [...]
Tags: general geek · photography · robots
Cheapest follow focus ever for canon 7d / 5d mark II
October 28th, 2009 · 2 Comments
Ever since I have fallen in love with the Canon 7d dslr, I have been fantasizing about making a legit follow focus for a dslr. It allows you to have more control over the focusing, and a smoother camera because your rotation is in a different axis as the lens. (You may hear more of [...]
Tags: photography · video
star trail stacking in photoshop
October 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments
I have always wanted to do this kind of photography, but with most digital cameras there is simply no way you can leave the shutter open and the sensor on for a few hours. My D40 starts to get some serious noise after a few minutes, and there clearly must be an upper limit due [...]
Tags: applescript · general geek · photography · time lapse
nikon d40 camera external power supply hack
October 4th, 2009 · 3 Comments
I have been looking for a way to add external power to my camera for a while. I have had some good ideas and even hacked together a workable prototype a while back. The problem was it wasn't very 'tight' and I was always afraid I was going to reverse polarity, or short it out, [...]
Tags: general geek · photography · time lapse
$17 Arduino-based nikon IR intervalometer + code
September 30th, 2009 · 22 Comments
This is a project that allows me to take pictures at any (reasonable) interval. This allows the photographer to create time lapse movies with a digital slr. This is an arduino-based project that should work for any nikon camera with an IR port. Best of all it only cost $17!
Tags: arduino · photography · time lapse