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The Night Sky
I just went to get the mail, and while doing so, I happened to glance up at the night sky, and I was reminded of something I have been trying to do for a long time. Ever since I borrowed a Rebel for the first time about three months ago, I have been trying to take a picture of the night sky. On a television program I watched a year or so ago about the cosmos, the scientists took a regular DSLR camera, pointed it at the sky, and took a thirty minute exposure. The result was stunning. You could see millions more stars than with the naked eye, as well as one of the arms of the Milky Way galaxy (the Orion Arm, I think).
One of my photographic goals is to take a picture like this. I have tried on several occasions, but I still need to refine my technique. I need to make the camera steadier (tips on how to do this coming soon), refine the aperture setting, and find a way to focus on a tiny light in space a hundred light years away. Oh, and I also need to stop time so that the stars don’t move. I am still working on that last one.
So much to do!!!
It is amazing how many little things have to be done in order to maintain a good blog. I have been working for three hours now and there is not too much new stuff, but under the hood, there are some major improvements. Agh!!!! So much to do in so little time!
I learned that you can link multiple WordPress accounts to the same blog, which will help clear up confusion about who is writing, as this blog has two contributers. I also disabled the annoying preview window that appears when you roll over a link. Lastly, I am in the process of resizing all the images to the correct size. I embedded my Photoshop.com portfolio into a new page devoted to my work, which will replace my standard Dreamweaver site. I can’t figure out how to embed a Prezi in WordPress though.
So much fun!!!!!!!!!!! I love technology!!!!!!!!!
Dawn and Dusk
The way I see it is that is you are up at 5 am, why not go outside and take some pictures.
Professional photographer Scott Kelby correctly states that there are only two times of the day that you can take landscape shots, thirty minutes on either side of dawn and thirty minutes on either side of dusk. I have plenty of pictures stacking up in my library that I took at dusk or in the late afternoon, so I would like to work on the other end of the spectrum for a while.
And so I wait for first light.
A few hours later. Looking back, I realize there was a fatal flaw in my plan: the sun actually has to rise in order for there to be light. 5:30 is a little too early. I waited for about an hour until I had to start working here. I took a few pictures of flowers in my backyard, but I used the flash and they didn’t look too good when I viewed them on the camera. I have yet to unload them and see how bad they really are.
