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Jeremy > March 10, 2009; Day 312. White Commute. Today began with the snow still sticking to the trees, so I fired the camera along my route to work today. The switch to Daylight Savings has made my commute fall into some nice dawn light. This “carcam” shot from the start of the ride at the back of my house made a good alternate daily. (It also fulfills another silly project of mine: to shoot a photo at my house on the 10th of March each year. This started because on March 10, 2001, a big snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow on NH. The following year on the same day, there was no snow on the ground anywhere. Extremes like that amuse me, and I like to think that a pattern of global warming (or not) will emerge with enough data. Silly, yes.) This shot was taken from inside my Audi TT, which is coming up on 8 years old. And as is usually the case when the sun comes out in March, the snow was all gone from the trees when I departed work today. Spring is coming. Raw: Color Temperature: 7500K; Tint: +10 Raw: Recovery: +100 Raw: Fill Light: +15 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > January 28, 2009; Day 271. Nowhere to Go. Today New Hampshire was blanketed with a foot and a half of snow. Light fluffy flakes this morning gave way to the heavier kind this afternoon, with a nice rain-ice finish. Because the ice was expected for my evening commute, I took a vacation day today, and finished Season 3 of Stargate SG-1. I’m a little bit behind with my science fiction, with seven more seasons to go for SG-1, all five seasons of Babylon 5, as well as the last 3 seasons of Star Trek: Enterprise. Did I mention that I’m two seasons behind on Lost and a season behind on Heroes? Or that I’ll probably launch into Stargate Atlantis as soon as I conclude SG-1? I’ll need a year of vacation time just to catch up! By then of course, Stargate Universe will be available on DVD… I’d write more but I must dig myself out. Raw: Crop: 8.4MP Raw: Color Temperature: 6150K; Tint: 0 Raw: Exposure: +0.8 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > August 5, 2008; Day 95. Tonight I took my practice of using a “repeating” strobe outside. I did this inside a couple of weeks ago. In both cases, the same setup applies: I pre-focused the subject using a flashlight, removed as much ambient light as possible, set the shutter speed to bulb, and locked open the shutter with the wired remote. Then I unlocked the car (activating the dome light) and ran around pointing the strobe and firing it using the “flash” button. The strobe is set to manual mode, full power. After I took this shot, I decided that the color temperature difference between the dome light and the strobe was too great. So I re-shot it with a CTO filter on the strobe. The light was much more balanced, but I decided that I much preferred the warmer interior lighting. Can you count the number of times the flash was fired? UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who guessed. The answer is 3: camera left, camera right, and once underneath the car to illuminate the ground. The lighting on the trees is spillover from the other firings, and the interior lighting is coming mostly from the car’s dome light (there's some spillover too). In the alternate shot, I pointed the strobe into the trees as well. JPEG from camera, no post processing.
Jeremy > July 3, 2008; Day 62. I had great plans for tonight: either practice shooting fireworks in Manchester, or capture the first of my "4 Holidays" project. As you can see, mother nature had other plans tonight. Despite this, it appears that Manchester held their fireworks anyway, which is too bad because their rain date was Saturday, which would have given me a day to scout for a good location. I took this shot with my pocket camera, a Casio EX-V8. This camera is always with me for those times when the D80 is too cumbersome. The D80 wasn’t silent all day; I did use it to take some shots of a very sweet gift from a friend. OK, a very tart gift, but it will be sweet when I’m done with it! JPEG from camera, no post processing.
Jeremy > June 24, 2008; Day 53. The decision to buy an Audi TT back in 2001 boiled down to two factors: it was comfortable and sexy. It’s a dated design now, but it’s still comfortable. I shot it in blue last week (blue from a playful white balance adjustment). So why am I shooting it again? Well, this isn’t my car. If that wasn’t immediately obvious to you, then this image succeeded. If not, the night is still young... :) To see how I set this up, click here. The scene was an attempt to duplicate a very similar shot I saw on the Strobist blog. There’s so much to learn about light. Here I’m combining a large light source to illuminate the car and a small light source to provide a gradient background. Raw: Exposure: +0.7 Raw: Color Temperature: 3450K PS: Healing Brush: Remove sensor dust PS: Crop: ~25% PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > June 17, 2008; Day 46. I was struck tonight by how my car looked during the last few minutes of dusk. It stood out sharply against the much darker foliage behind it. So I dashed into the house for the camera and fired away. It also gave me some practice photographing cars, which is a tricky business. What angle? What height? What background? What lens? What's in the reflection? Etc. The un-doctored photos came out okay. Just for fun, while I had this image in the raw converter, I grabbed the temperature slider and went all the way to the left (2000K). This is the result, plus sharpening (20-30-0 unsharp mask in Photoshop). Ironically, when I moved the same slider all the way to the right (50,000K), I got an image remarkably close to what I saw originally (bright, sharp car in front of dark foliage). Makes sense considering how blue the light really was.
Jeremy > May 30, 2008; Day 28. In NH, all vehicles must pass an annual inspection to stay on the road. My car is 7 years old and for the last couple of years it has needed a little work in order to pass. Today I had to sit for 2 hours while they replaced the rear coil springs. The appointment time completely overlapped the Jerry Springer show, which was playing on the TV in the waiting room. The last time I had seen this show, I promised myself that I’d never watch it again except under duress. So outside I went, in search of art in new Audi automobiles. (Here and here.) Not completely successful in the harsh mid-day light, but fun. The sun was burning my scalp, so back inside I went. The show is even worse than I remember, so I definitely renewed my self-imposed rule...just as soon as the show was over... Raw: Fill Light: +20 Raw: Saturation: +20 PS: Merged a much better screen capture from a more poorly composed image into this one.
Jeremy > May 16, 2008; Day 14. For most of the year, this gallery will try to focus on the art of making a picture. But today, it really is a diary. Seven years ago today, I took delivery of my Audi TT. I photographed it heavily on that day, including the instrument cluster. I realized that if I continued to photograph the cluster on the car’s birthday, I’d accumulate some interesting information: miles driven each year, climate change, and patina accretion. (“Patina” is a much better word than “dust”!) Don't believe me? 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 Coincidentally, I had the car in the shop today to replace the cluster, just in time for a badly needed patina “reset.” While the cluster was broken, I probably lost 5000 miles off the odometer. I told the dealer this but they didn’t care. For fun, I also shot it with my fisheye. The neighbor’s cat didn’t want to be left out either. I like the way Brian Hart lists his post processing steps. I will too: Raw: Clarity +100 PS: Color Balance: +15 yellow to blue PS: Saturation: +50 PS: Unsharp mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > May 6, 2008; Day 4. This is me commuting to work this morning in my Audi TT (seven years old and showing it). This was taken with my widest lens, a Sigma 10-20mm set to 10mm. The dynamic range is a bit more than the camera can handle but I’m not sure HDR is viable from a moving car! Astute viewers will observe that the tachometer and speedometer are both zero. Trust me, I didn’t Photoshop the motion you see through the window. My instrument cluster is fried and needs replacement!
March 10, 2009; Day 312.

White Commute.

Today began with the snow still sticking to the trees, so I fired the camera along my route to work today. The switch to Daylight Savings has made my commute fall into some nice dawn light. This “carcam” shot from the start of the ride at the back of my house made a good alternate daily. (It also fulfills another silly project of mine: to shoot a photo at my house on the 10th of March each year. This started because on March 10, 2001, a big snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow on NH. The following year on the same day, there was no snow on the ground anywhere. Extremes like that amuse me, and I like to think that a pattern of global warming (or not) will emerge with enough data. Silly, yes.)

This shot was taken from inside my Audi TT, which is coming up on 8 years old. And as is usually the case when the sun comes out in March, the snow was all gone from the trees when I departed work today. Spring is coming.

Raw: Color Temperature: 7500K; Tint: 10
Raw: Recovery: 100
Raw: Fill Light: 15
Raw: Saturation: 10
PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > March 10, 2009; Day 312. White Commute. Today began with the snow still sticking to the trees, so I fired the camera along my route to work today. The switch to Daylight Savings has made my commute fall into some nice dawn light. This “carcam” shot from the start of the ride at the back of my house made a good alternate daily. (It also fulfills another silly project of mine: to shoot a photo at my house on the 10th of March each year. This started because on March 10, 2001, a big snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow on NH. The following year on the same day, there was no snow on the ground anywhere. Extremes like that amuse me, and I like to think that a pattern of global warming (or not) will emerge with enough data. Silly, yes.) This shot was taken from inside my Audi TT, which is coming up on 8 years old. And as is usually the case when the sun comes out in March, the snow was all gone from the trees when I departed work today. Spring is coming. Raw: Color Temperature: 7500K; Tint: +10 Raw: Recovery: +100 Raw: Fill Light: +15 Raw: Saturation: +10 PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
March 10, 2009; Day 312.

White Commute.

Today began with the snow still sticking to the trees, so I fired the camera along my route to work today. The switch to Daylight Savings has made my commute fall into some nice dawn light. This “carcam” shot from the start of the ride at the back of my house made a good alternate daily. (It also fulfills another silly project of mine: to shoot a photo at my house on the 10th of March each year. This started because on March 10, 2001, a big snowstorm dumped more than a foot of snow on NH. The following year on the same day, there was no snow on the ground anywhere. Extremes like that amuse me, and I like to think that a pattern of global warming (or not) will emerge with enough data. Silly, yes.)

This shot was taken from inside my Audi TT, which is coming up on 8 years old. And as is usually the case when the sun comes out in March, the snow was all gone from the trees when I departed work today. Spring is coming.

Raw: Color Temperature: 7500K; Tint: 10
Raw: Recovery: 100
Raw: Fill Light: 15
Raw: Saturation: 10
PS: Curves: Linear Contrast preset
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
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