My 365 Project

[Blitz55]

Your question must be rhetorical, because the cookies taste like dirt.

Yummy awesome dirt you mean.

 

[Bitter Jeweler]

I meant burnt dirt, to be more precise.

 

[Blitz55]

I meant burnt dirt, to be more precise.

Burn't to perfection possibly? Perfect when dunked in milk. Whole Milk for the best result.


(To be honest, I don't mind them, but the best cookie to dip in milk is Mothers Taffy cookies.)

 

[MiFleur]

You are good not to run out of ideas, specially if you are always the main subject, Is that what you want to do?

I have a problem with the bloody feet, but like the one with the hat

Keep goingl, an interesting thread!

 

[Blitz55]

You are good not to run out of ideas, specially if you are always the main subject, Is that what you want to do?

I have a problem with the bloody feet, but like the one with the hat

Keep goingl, an interesting thread!

The bloody foot prints in the snow could have been done better too I think, but its decent in that he is doing one a day. That said, I like to think of this more like a good sketch book. He is having some good ideas, some could be done better if he wanted to put more time into them but what a great way to keep the creative juices flowing.

Remind me Divad and Ill try and find a link to a guy who did a years worth of self portraits but they were drawn, not photographed. But digitally illustrated which is more my background. Using photoshop to paint in. I think you would dig it.

 

[DivadWaldoss]

@MiFleur...it's pretty difficult... As you can tell by the several lame pictures... Haha
I won't always be the subject though... Just most of the time. I have a photo shoot planned with a buddy in the spring, and I'll probably be using one of the shots for that's days photo.

The bloody foot prints in the snow could have been done better too I think, but its decent in that he is doing one a day. That said, I like to think of this more like a good sketch book. He is having some good ideas, some could be done better if he wanted to put more time into them but what a great way to keep the creative juices flowing.

Remind me Divad and Ill try and find a link to a guy who did a years worth of self portraits but they were drawn, not photographed. But digitally illustrated which is more my background. Using photoshop to paint in. I think you would dig it.

That's sounds awesome! I think I spend a lot of time, but I can't imagine drawing a self portrait everyday...

 

[ATVrider43]

WOW! This is awesome!! You have such an imagination its crazy! Great skills too!!!

 

[Blitz55]

The bloody foot prints in the snow could have been done better too I think, but its decent in that he is doing one a day. That said, I like to think of this more like a good sketch book. He is having some good ideas, some could be done better if he wanted to put more time into them but what a great way to keep the creative juices flowing.

Remind me Divad and Ill try and find a link to a guy who did a years worth of self portraits but they were drawn, not photographed. But digitally illustrated which is more my background. Using photoshop to paint in. I think you would dig it.

That's sounds awesome! I think I spend a lot of time, but I can't imagine drawing a self portrait everyday...

Haha, Actually I forgot, it wasn't a Years worth, it was 1000 self portraits in so many different stiles.

Here is a link to the large file poster he made with all of them. I know you can't see the detail but they were larger than that but the thread he did it in was a while back I don't know where it is.

Anyway follow this link: http://oddwiring.com/archive/websites/mndev/caption_source/andrew_jones_1000.jpg

 

[DivadWaldoss]

Thanks for the link Blitz.
Here's today's picture... not sure how I feel about it.
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Valentine's Day makes me sick!

Untitled by DavidOsswald, on Flickr

 

[DivadWaldoss]

I love long exposure shots. If anyone has any tips on better capturing the stars or capturing galaxies, that'd be great! I'll definitely be doing more of these in the future.
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Untitled by DavidOsswald, on Flickr

 

[Blitz55]

You're a lot taller than Id have thought, what are you, 40 foot 5 inches?

 

[DivadWaldoss]

You're a lot taller than Id have thought, what are you, 40 foot 5 inches?

40'6" actually... but who's counting?

 

[rexbobcat]

Generally if you want to capture crisp stars you need:

Wide angle lens
f/2.8 (This is preferred but not really...required in a sense...)
High ISO (This depends on how wide and fast your lens is)
Tripod
Remote Release

Set up your camera, set it to Manual, then check the focal length of your lens. The longer the length, the shorter your shutter can remain open before you get blurred stars. With 24mm I've found that the slowest I can shoot without blur is around 20 seconds, but I generally shoot 15 seconds just to be careful. You can go up to 30 (probably), but there is a little bit of smearing going on. If you shoot at 14mm or wider, you can shoot much slower up to 30 seconds with no problem I imagine (I have not purchased a lens that wide to shoot stars with yet).

Then, depending on what your shutter speed is set to relative to your focal length, choose an ISO that allows you to expose as brightly as you like. This is where a large aperture comes in. Larger apertures allow you to keep your ISO lower, BUT they do have other issues that you must contend with such as coma aberrations, which basically makes pin points of light take on the shape of a comet, generally closer to the corners of the frame. I can not shoot stars at f/1.4 with my 24mm because of this.

If you are REALLY serious about photographing the milky way and whatnot, look into stacking several photos together to reduce noise and to really bring out those dim stars that do not show up well with just one exposure. That's a whooolllee other process, but you want to know more look into this program: DeepSkyStacker - Free

This is kind of a poor example (it was my first attempt), but here is what stacking can bring out in terms of stars.

 

[DivadWaldoss]

thanks rexbobcat! One more question, how do you know where to point your camera to get the milky way in the middle like that? (I know it's all technically the milky way, but I don't know what else to call it)

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Hot Mug by DavidOsswald, on Flickr

 

[DivadWaldoss]

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Untitled by DavidOsswald, on Flickr