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This original 35mm half frame slide shows the model of the USS Enterprise that was used in the filming of the original “Star Trek” series.
The ship next to the Enterprise is the S.S. Botany Bay featured in the episode “Space Seed”
Continue reading “Restoring an image from the original Star Trek TV show.”
On November 25th 2012 this picture of a crane shadow on an ultralight airplane wing appeared in a moving Operation Migration Field Journal entry entitled “THE SENSATIONAL SIX BECOMES FABULOUS FIVE” by Liz Condie.
The shadow on the wing to many “Craniacs” represented the spirit of whooping crane number 10-12 (aka “Ruthie Louise”) who had been the “diva” of her small flock before she died with a broken leg, weeks earlier during the migration.
Many recall seeing the photo, but few know the story behind that particular image. Continue reading “Shadow on the Wing – Operation Migration class of 2012”
I have often commented that St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge is a great place to take photographs and there is always something new to see.
This was particularly true New Years Eve December 31, 2012.
My wife and I were walking along the lighthouse levee trail on the bay side when we heard a bubbling (gurgling) sound coming from the water. It was the kind of sound you hear when waves splash over a hollow log or container and the air bubbles out.
The above image is a motion gif of a luminous hickory nut shell showing the transition from room lighting to total darkness. This posting will explain how it was done.
One evening while walking through a small section of woods my wife noticed something glowing just off the trail. The object turned out to be hickory nut shell with some kind of luminous fungi or bacteria causing it to glow. We took it back home with us to take pictures. Since I didn’t know how long it would continue to glow I did a very quick photo setup by placing the nuts on a piece of white paper in a small dark room and mounted my camera on tripod.
In my last post I discussed annotating images with text using imagemagick.
This time I will show how to annotate an photographic image with a bitmap image which acts as a watermark. The watermark can contain text, corporate logos or even other photos.
Annotating your images with with text or images is a very common part of photo workflow and is often the last step before publishing.
Most workflow programs like darktable and album creation applications such as jalbum will allow you to automatically add logos, titles, and copyright notices to your images.
As good as these applications are they often have some limits on how much control you have over the process.
If you want near total control over the process and don’t want to custom edit every image in your photo editing application then command line tools are your best option
Remote controls are a great addition to your camera bag. For me, the greatest advantage for these devices is that you can take a picture without inducing any camera shake during long exposures.
You can buy commercial remote controls, or you can build one yourself that has more character.
There are a lot of sites online that describe the actual construction so I will refer you to one of them for the construction details.
A good site to use is: http://picsbylance.com/?p=1443 (link no longer works)
I made several changes in the construction to meet my requirements. Since I wanted this remote to do long duration “bulb” exposures I did not need the focus/exposure button. Since these would be for long exposures I used a toggle switch instead of the push button for the shutter.
The cable I used was from a 3.5mm standard stereo mini-plug and I left a junction in the middle so I could add an extender cable if I needed more distance from the camera.
I used an old 35 mm film container for the switch box for fun (it actually feels good in the hand).
Jim
Welcome to my new site.
This site is primarily for the purpose of displaying my photographs as well as sharing some of my photo editing scripts and techniques.
I do almost all my image processing and programming on a Linux computer but I use mostly open source solutions which can be run on many different platforms.
In addition to photography I will also cover nature, science, and almost anything I think may be of interest to others.
I hope you find something here you like!
Jim