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Monday, January 10, 2011

Star Trails

 

It was a clear night last night and time I tried out some 'star trails'. Nothing artistic here, just an experiment and the realisation that stars come in a multitude of colours!

Nikon D80, ISO 800, 30 sec (80 exposures), f5.6, 22mm efl, exposures combined in "Startrails" v1.1 and processed in PSE 8.

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Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Surfer

 

Nikon D80, ISO 100, f8, 1/750 sec, 630mm efl, Capture NX2 & PSE 8.

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Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Fractal images

I'm not sure what these have to do with photography yet, but this week I have been playing with "Apophysis" a fractal image generation program. These are some of the early results:

 

Fern

 

Light spiral

 

Fronds

 

Alien landscape

All produced with Apophysis 7x v15. It's not an easy program to get to grips with (massive complexity with little or no documentation) but slowly it is giving away some of its secrets.

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Saturday, January 29, 2011

Pea pods

 

Nikon D80, ISO 100, f38, 30 sec, 277mm efl. - 'light painted' with LED torch and processed with Topaz.

Memories of shelling peas in my mother's kitchen (or was that my Grandmother's kitchen?) - long before plastic bags and freezers.

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