Sunday, December 28, 2008

Triborough Bridge




I generally don't like to post images taken from my iPhone on this blog... that is what my iphone camera blog is for. But in the last couple of days I have purchased quite a few photo apps for the iPhone that have recently appeared on the iTunes App store. It's really amazing to me what kind of images you can get out of the stock iPhone camera with a little help from some of these powerful filters. 10 years ago I would have loved to have had some of these filters on a regular desktop/laptop... now I can do it on my phone and upload directly to this blog shortly after taking it and manipulating. Truly amazing times we live in.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Star Trails and Tree




This was a 30 min exposure on the top of a mountain in the George Washington National Forest, Virginia. The foreground tree was lit with a headlamp which I used to paint the tree with for about 1 and a half mins of the total exposure. Because I'm cheap I had to use a stick and duct tape to keep my shutter open for that long on my Canon 30D. The remote to do this the normal way is $140. The stick and duct tape was free.