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Flower time-lapse movie

Still images (Logitech C270 webcam, modified for macro by placing a f=+150mm singlet lens in front of it) collected with 1 minute intervals for about a week. The flower grows too slowly to be interesting... JPEGs assembled into a movie with mencoder -mf type=jpeg:fps=100 mf://frames/*.jpeg -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg4:mbd=2:trell:autoaspect:vqscale=3 -vf scale=1280:720 -o time-lapse.avi

Aurora Borealis

Some nice northern lights (aurora borealis) appeared just as I was going to pack away by tripod and camera after shooting another fixed-tripod milky-way time-lapse. So no packing away and instead Aurora Borealis shooting for another three hours. These are 20s exposures through a 17mm/F4 lens on a Canon 500D at iso3200. Fixed tripod. The [...]

Rainbow

Can you see the double rainbow?

Fireworks

More on picasa: https://picasaweb.google.com/106188605401091280402/Fireworks201109  (shot using old 20D, which has written EXIF-data dating the pics to 2005...) See also 2010 and 2009. Unfortunately moving my blog by exporting an XML-file from the old site and importing it to the new site has not worked too well I have all 800 posts, and about 2000 pictures/attachments, [...]

Sunday insect macro photo

July macro photos

More playing around with the Sigma 105/2.8 macro lens.

Macro photo test

Trying out a new Sigma 105/2.8 macro lens. Very shallow depth of field at f/2.8 With enough light it often works better to stop down to f/4 or f/8 - at least for bigger insects that are not directly in the image plane. also on picasa at https://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/201106Macro

Spiders

Shot using poor-mans-macro-objective: extension tubes + 70-200/4L

Fireworks

A few pictures from yesterday's fireworks. Tripod, 17-40/4L lens stopped down to F10 or F16, iso100, cable-release, and manual exposure of 10-15s. More on picasa: http://picasaweb.google.com/anders.e.e.wallin/Fireworks2010SEP09#

Buddy Bears

Meet two Buddy Bears standing on the Senat Square. These two, along with their roughly 130 buddies, have some standing to do, since they're going to be on display until 26 October...