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Photography

Cityscapes and Supaheroes

Last month, I dug out the camera for a couple quick sessions. One was a series that I’d been meaning to do for a while: shots of the Sydney skyline from where I work at Pyrmont:

 

 The other was an attempt to get shots of cosplayers at Supanova. I’m still way too shy to ask strangers to pose for me, so most of my good shots don’t involve wacky characters. I did get one Supaboy, though, as well as a couple good shots that used the late-afternoon sun to great effect:

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Photography Travel

Timelapse: Bangkok never stops

While I continue to procrastinate on writing about my experiences in Thailand, check out this timelapse that I took out of our hotel room. It’s not on par with Simon Christen’s awesome work, but I will say that I did this by hand, and it took over an hour.

Travelogue and photos coming soon, I promise!

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Photography

Star shots

It’s been raining the last couple weeks, so I haven’t had much of a chance to do night time photography. I’ve been hankering to do some astronomical shots, but only just got around to doing them tonight.

All of those were taken on my Nikon D60 at f/8, ISO 100 with a 30 second exposure. I’ve touched them up a little bit, but was very happy with the low level of noise and clarity of the picture.

Unfortunately, 30 seconds is the longest exposure the D60 will do without a remote, which is a shame because I really wanted to try my hand at star trails. Other than driving sales of peripherals, I’m not sure why Nikon decided not to let users set an exposure time in the menu system.

I think I may have to investigate the price of that remote, as well as an AC adaptor.