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Got them keys finally, and proceeded to change the locks and unpack the first carload. Gonna be a few days before the next as there’s unforeseen plumbing issues that could require some extensive bathroom/kitchen downtime. This is gonna take awhile, apparently – so more hurry up and wait… Presenting: The Trophy Room @ Paradiso Azul […]

I updated the Zoomy CHDK script to allow multiple shots at each zoom level, added padding shots at the start and end of a series to extend the timing flexibility without losing the timelapse effect, and added logging to a textfile. SleepyCat Inna Donut – I didn’t have logging or the begin/end padding in for […]

This leafy lookin’ fellah, blown up onto the patio in the storm. …while paused at the extreme closeup position before zooming out again. Here’s the new script. Your browser does not support the video tag. Anyway, even the constant drizzly rain cannot quench the fires of the foliage changing colors as we round into Fall. […]

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So, fiddlin’ around with CHDK on the Powershot, as one is wont to do, and I decided to automate a crashzoom timelapse of a sign down the hill that lights up every time a car passes. I knew you could script basically every operation the camera can do, so I figured that there prolly existed […]

I played around with HDR stuff and the Powershot today, but was unimpressed with my results. I keep thinking that I can get that 1950’s cookbook look, and just end up getting something that looks filthy. A bit over a fortnight’s worth of days to kill before my EXILE IS ENDED and I can get […]

Seven letters in my outgoing mail pile, I’ll be sending these when I get to the new house, with a change-of-address sticker attached. If you’re wondering why it’s taking me awhile to reply, that’s why. (: In addition to a whole corral of Canon Powershots in my digicam collection, I do have a few non-Canon […]

Been hearing that word a lot, and I find it fascinating. A word created and solely intended to bypass a filter is now widely used as more things are being more aggressively unalived. I wonder why the people that wrote the filters don’t just add “unalived” to the filter? They don’t, though. That probably is […]

And in the evening as the drizzly overcast set in, just a quick “not-so-still-life” of CARS and SPOOKY, ABANDONED(?) HOSPITAL in auto mode in not especially menacing light at all. We’ll call it a baseline for the series after that wacky black & white start last night. There are other narratives in the frame to […]

And as the evening sinks into night, I set the Powershot out on the railing and made a bunch of exposures as cars came by and the sun sank below the mountains. The old hospital at a very Dutch angle with the camera’s sensor struggling to suck light at its highest, noisiest ISO and the […]

First recording, Auto Level Control left on. Second recording with sound levels set manually.

Yep, this one was sort of a “happy accident” as Bob Ross might say. There are no mistakes, only unintentional inspiration. :D

A drizzly summer morning in Nutmegger territory shot on a 2007 Canon Powershot SX-10 IS during Camera of the Month. Local semi-stray cat and color commentary in LIVING STEREO! Let’s re-live 720p like a real turn-of-the-Centurion! :D The front-facing stereo mics are not bad at all, and while they do pick up the sound of […]

“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I aim with my eye. I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father. I shoot with my mind.” ― Stephen King, The Gunslinger

“Dostoevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs.” Canon Hack Development Kit (CHDK)for Canon Powershot SX10 IS God, can’t even take a good pic of a DVD box with this stupid cell camera…