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My first time lapse movie

I wanted to try some time lapse photography which presented a few problems. The biggest one was actually triggering my Nikon D70 at a programmable interval. There are commercial intervalometers out there but they tend to be pretty expensive. In Nikon’s infinite wisdom they included an IR shutter trigger instead of the traditional wired trigger which made things tricky. I ended up buying a programmable Arduino microcontroller and infrared LED. My sad looking prototype looks like this:

IR LED gets hooked up with a 1k ohm resistor and then I uploaded a program to the board that emits pulses at my desired interval. So here’s my first time lapse movie made from about 1000 frames, it’s a very exciting clock.

Clock Time Lapse

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Human Jack-O-Lantern

Sticking a flash in your mouth and firing it at full power results in a very creepy self portrait. I like how it brings out my eyes. I did some tests at low power to make sure there weren’t any adverse effects like burning my mouth, but it only got moderately uncomfortable.

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Macro Mystery #3

Last time was a little too easy. The shape of the tine and the metal gave it away, but if it was just a picture of scratched up metal it would have been too generic. This time there’s no dead giveaway and I got an old 24mm manual focus lens off Ebay to reverse and give me more magnification. Good luck! If you missed the first 2 Macro Mysteries click “Photography” over in the sidebar. If you don’t want to know what it is don’t click through to the comments. I’ll have to devise some way to let people hide their answers so others can comment without it being ruined.

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Hawaii Panoramas

Finally got some of the panoramas I took in Hawaii stitched together and there’s 2 I want to share that I really like. The shot of the river was kind of by accident, we were driving on the bypass road south of Lihue and happened up a turnout with a nice view of the Menehune Fishpond and the river going into Nawiliwili Bay. The canyon shot is Waimea canyon over on the west side of Kauai; the drive all the way up is well worth it since it ends in a view of the Napali Coast. Enjoy.

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Macro Mystery #2

Hope you are already for another brain buster, just not quite as difficult as the last one. If you missed out on Macro Mystery #1 check it out for a little background on how I actually took the photo. This time around I used a reversing adapter that let’s me mount a 50mm lens backwards, giving me the magnification I need. I also used a tripod so I could fine tune the focus. So here goes.

Update: The image covers about 1/4 inch square and to keep people guessing longer I’ve made the text of correct answers white. So if you get stuck highlight the comments with blank spaces.