It’s been a while since I photographed any people, so I consider a portrait to be worthy for today. It was too dark to see the noisy background before the shot, but flash did bring it out nicely. I like light worked for the face. I should practice more of this.
Album location: /photos/2004/2004-10-28_POTD
Today the Moon was even bigger than yesterday and the clouds were much more interesting. They were this patchy kind. Unfortunately they moved way too fast to be photographed as they were.
I have used the tripod to get the shots right. Out of 20 or so pictures, I have selected only 5. Full Moon is very interesting and documentary. The rest are very atmospheric.
Album location: /photos/2004/2004-10-27_POTD
Shooting into direct sun with polarizing filter on can produce a picture that is very close to black and white in appearence. Shooting a moon with a high ISO setting and without a tripod can produce something which looks like a sun. The only way I could tell two images apart is by grain which is caused by low ISO setting. Today’s picture is “Sun or Moon?”
Album location: /photos/2004/2004-10-26_POTD
It turned out that it wasn’t a cardreader that I burned yesterday, but a USB port on my workstation. These are not so bad news, since I don’t use USB on that machine all that much.
Anyway, I have posted few picture of passing lights and ray traces from yesterday. You can find them here. I think I am finished with this subject for now.
For today pictures I’ve stopped at EKO petrol station. This specific station looks excellent in the real life, especially when it’s dark. I failed to deliver all the beauty, but I’ve tried a few times. Maybe I will redo it later when I will get more educated on the subject of bright light boards photography.
There will be no picture of the day today. My cardreader stopped reading cards. At all. And it gave this stinky burning smell when it did so. I guess it went down to hell and got fried. I’ll get another one tomorrow, if I am lucky.
Meanwhile I did shot a few pictures. I tried the driving through the night and shooting to get those ray images again. This time I washed my window and put the camera on the tripod on the front seat. It was always trying to fall down, so I had to hold it a bit. But it was more flexible than on the panel.
Anyway, I will get myself a new reader, and upload the images if anything turns out OK. Stay tuned.