The Sony Talk forum has a thread on taking photographs of fireworks. With the 4th July coming up I’m sure there’s plenty of people in the US interested in this. I’ll certainly have my camera on the Lake Front to capture the spectacle in Chicago!
Basic idea: Get a tripod, F5.0 – F8.0, couple of shutter speeds from 2 seconds up to 10.
Lots of photography mags online updated
Mark lists several online photographic magazines that updated in the last couple of days. There’s some excellent content here. Well worth looking over!
When you get new memory cards..
When you get new memory cards for your camera make sure you format them first. I took about 20 photos at lunchtime and one or two were good enought to go up here, but Linux refuses to see the card, saying,
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/camera
/dev/sda1: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Time to format the card..
Update! I’m glad I went searching first. The Digital Camera Support for UNIX page is a comprehensive listing of digital cameras that are compatible with Linux and BSD. It lists the Sony DSC-F717 there and says you can use the usb-storage device, or PTP mode to access it. You can use gphoto in PTP mode and download photos using a nice GUI!
EV Compensation
The 717 has a histogram showing the composition of the image seen through the linse. I know what it represents, but wasn’t sure how to manipulate it or use the information it presented to me. This tutorial on EV Compensation certainly helps and provides example shots to illustrate!
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Water Rockets – up, up and away!
Google led me here where they have instructions on making a simple water rocket out of a 50ml bottle. I originally found out abou all this stuff from The Jer Zone. Anyone reading this make one of these things?
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2003 Taste of Chicago
Woohoo! The 2003 Taste of Chicago starts today! Here’s what’s on today!
The 2003 Taste of Chicago presented by U.S. Cellular will field a great line-up of food, activities and entertainment, June 27- July 6, 2003 in Grant Park, featuring many returning players as well as some great new stars.
Taste-goers will step up to the plate at 65 restaurants serving specialties from pizza to pierogies. A different restaurant will be featured each day in the Gourmet Dining Pavilion each of the ten days of the festival.
Chicago from afar
This is what I see if I look towards Chicago from the top of my apartment.. (some obvious and not well done manipulation done in the GIMP)
Sammy Sosa, Baseball & corked bats
At the start of June Sammy Sosa, Chicago Cubs’ star player broke his bat during a game. Cork was discovered inside the bat, lending him an unfair advantage while hitting. I was there with Martina, and although I didn’t realise the full extent and implications of what was happening, I snapped a few photos. It made headline news for about 2 weeks afterwards! You can find more about this via Google.
Referees and inspectors walk off the field. You can clearly see the bat Sammy used, and there’s a slight shadow in the middle. Is that where the cork was?
The bat was inspected at the side of the field. Shortly after they walked off and the game continued.
But not before members of the Cubs and one of their officials had a good talk..
As the game restarted, the Cubs pitched..