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dmn23
Duller than cardboard
On a whim I decided to drive up to Durango this morning to recreate a shot I took a year ago. The first shot was taken 10/24/14 and the second shot was taken today. You can see what that span of a week does to the leaves — It was beautiful today but it wasn't the insane explosion in the first shot.
Also, the shot from a year ago was taken first thing in the morning, but the shot today was taken around 1pm.
Also, the shot from a year ago was taken first thing in the morning, but the shot today was taken around 1pm.
ken
a good kind of terrible
Light painting during a full moon, auto salvage yard in the California desert. All color work and illumination was done during the exposure, and is not a post-processing creation. The star trails show the movement of the stars caused by the rotation of the earth during the long exposure.
ken
a good kind of terrible
I wrote the featured article for a new e-magazine Lightscape Vision Magazine, "a magazine focused solely on sharing the stories behind world renowned photographers." And many of my photos are of course displayed as well! You may download this here after signing in: http://www.lightscapevision.com/
ken
a good kind of terrible
Now let's do a little bit of digging around to find what's in the desert, which holds many mysteries.
This grain silo is part of the 100 year old ruins of Llano del Rio Colony, a socialist utopian community, established in SE Antelope Valley in 1914. Llano del Rio was founded by Job Harriman, a young lawyer who almost won a bid for mayor of Los Angeles in 1911, obtaining over a third of the votes. Not trusting the political system to enact social change, Harriman founded the community out in the desert north of Los Angeles. The cooperative thrived, its population exceeding 1000, until their water supply was diverted by an earthquake fault. They had one of the country's first Montessori schools, hosted a fertile intellectual and cultural climate, and had innovative low-cost housing, Social Security, minimum-wage pay, and universal health care services that predated the rest of the country by decades. Although Llano del Rio is today considered Western American history's most important non-religious utopian community, there is unfortunately no protection for the site despite being a California Historic Landmark.
The colony's local economy was almost totally self-sustaining. Their economy included agriculture, orchards, a paint shop, a print shop, and a fish hatchery. Despite the desert climate, their farms succeeded, their farmers using purchased water to create fertile farmland, and growing alfalfa, corn, and grain, stored here in this grain silo. By 1916, Llano Del Rio grew ninety percent of the food they ate. A world class rabbitry provided the colonists with their main source of meat; and a large stable complex just outside the colony could house up to 100 horses.
According to the LA Times, County officials and members of Llano Community Association have proposed a county park that would preserve the site and provide a historical display. There is fear that the area could be leveled by a developer.
But a park costs money, and the county does not have about half a million dollars that it would take. Even worse, the land where most of the substantial ruins are concentrated, including the hotel, commissary, bakery, post office, and horse barn, is owned by two doctors in Illinois, according to the LA Times. And unless the property is acquired, the ruins will continue to languish.
mongooz
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that's pretty sweet.
Finally, one I've taken that I like enough to share:
And a couple more
One of my wandering and wondering buddies
And a couple more
One of my wandering and wondering buddies
ken
a good kind of terrible
I had some photos exhibited in the Reseda Art Walk yesterday, and it was covered today in an article in the Los Angeles Daily News.
http://www.dailynews.com/arts-and-e...eseda-art-tour-celebrates-community-local-art
http://www.dailynews.com/arts-and-e...eseda-art-tour-celebrates-community-local-art
Rick 381
Boob Enthusiast
Because I'm so skilled with my camera, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, I kill me, I need a new challange and since I now have a new G.A.S. inducing hobby, I decided to order some new glass. We spend a lot of time going to parks and beauty spots and every so often there's something to see that's just to far away to get a good picture with the 55-200 that's my "long" lens. So, I ordered a Nikon 75-300 f/4-5.6. I've only shot a couple of not really long shots with it so far. It's been raining here the last couple of days so not much chance of a real workout. Just to try it I headed over to a friends house. They are having some foundation work done and their house was jacked up 5 feet in the air so the workers could get at the foundation. Naturally I couldn't let a house 5 feet in the air happen without pictures. The long lens gave me a chance to get in close without getting in the way. Probably could have done it with the 200 but I really wanted to try the 300. Not posting pics since it is of someone elses house and they may not want them shared. Hopefully the weather will improve and I'll get a chance to try it somewhere good in the next few days.
Next up, a 500. Mirror or long lens, that is the question.
Next up, a 500. Mirror or long lens, that is the question.
Speaking of long lenses, I recently got the hankering to hook my d3100 up to my 4.5" reflector telescope. I bought a T ring adapter and eyepiece tube, but when I hooked it all up, I couldn't focus the camera body down far enough to get it to focus for distant objects. Is there any particular term I need to search for? Maybe like "low profile" or something? It appeared that it would be physically possible for a t adapter and tube to position to the proper focus point, but the t mount would need to be very thin.
Probably a moot point since I discovered that without a lens that doesn't send aperture information, the stupid camera won't turn on automatic light metering. Why, Nikon, why?
Probably a moot point since I discovered that without a lens that doesn't send aperture information, the stupid camera won't turn on automatic light metering. Why, Nikon, why?
mongooz
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i don't know about your adapter issue, but almost no cameras (these days) will light meter if the lens isn't electronically connected to the body. i have an all manual Vivitar f1.4 85mm and my Sony DLSR won't meter either.
I wonder if that is simply to prevent you from using old glass on newer cameras, or if there is a decent technical reason for it.
mongooz
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well......the technical reason is that the lens and the camera are not connected. new cams meter light THRU the lens and if there's no electronic connection between the lens and body......the body can't "see" anything. it sucks....but there you are. my suggestion for photographing thru a telescope is to actually buy a full old school manual 35mm film camera.
i'm sure there are other solutions, but i'm not sure what that would be.
I don't understand why you think the body can't see anything. It can see whatever is coming in from the lens - just like any other lens. What it can't know is what the aperture is going to choke down to when the shutter is released to know how much longer to keep the shutter open to compensate.
However, it would be perfectly reasonable for the camera to assume there will be no change in aperture when the shutter is released, and to just base the shutter speed on the amount of light coming in.
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