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    1 photo every 15 minutes, every day - downtown houston

    in Photographing Houston

    Posted

    Thanks everyone!

    Each photo updates on either the hour, 15 past the hour, 30 past the hour or 45 past the hour.

    Technically, the photos are taken about 2 minutes until the posting time, then posting is initiated 1 minute before the quarter hour interval to ensure a new image is available right at the quarter hour mark. This 2 minute lee-way ensures the-30 second shutter on night images get uploaded.

    Thanks for the link JAX. I will have to try out your slothcam. (please don't destroy my bandwidth with it) :-)

    while the camera is basically a webcam, its actually a nikon tethered to a computer. I guess i can find a way to timestamp and date the image (as most off the shelf webcams would do) via a script. This will take more research and time. Have a few albums to work on between now and then. I'll try and keep with it.

    thanks again everyone!

    1 photo every 15 minutes, every day - downtown houston

    in Photographing Houston

    Posted

    I spent a while planning this out and it seems to be working. Critiques welcome!!

    Basically 1 Nikon camera tethered to a computer, updating a scene of downtown houston every 15 minutes all day, every day.

    Here's the link;

    http://www.customminds.com/texascityscape/

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    Problems I am experiencing;

    I am shooting through a thick glass, so there is a bit of ghosting in specific areas.

    The camera auto settings are causing white balance issues and bleaching / too much darkening over the course of a day.

    due to my batch processing, i have to delete the photo before reposting the new one. a 2 second delay between picture posts can be noticed if you hit refresh at the right time.

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    Benefits of this format;

    In my opinion it seems to be better than normal webcam updates. With unlimited bandwidth you can technically post a 20 megapixel image of ____ at intervals on the fly.

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    Houston Photos - more

    in Photographing Houston

    Posted · Edited by customminds

    thanks Highway and Attica.

    the story i tried to write out before (hope this one takes)...

    That view woke me up on 9/10/09. The view was the Mosaic looking East at the ship channel.

    I was sound-asleep and when I looked up all I could think was... drat, I am going to have to get up to take a photo of this.

    Old saying - “red sky in morning, sailors warning. red skies at night, sailors delight.”

    Unfortunately... that was the beginning to my worst day this year. Everything that could have gone wrong went wrong.

    Top of the list was a time sensitive purchase from dell for 48 laptops (don't ask). The Dell rep sent me a nice email saying while the credit card purchase went through, the team that manages purchasing decisions decided that the price quoted did not benefit Dell, so we would have to pick a different model or up the price per unit.

    Today 48 HP laptops just arrived an hour ago. ;-)

    Houston Photos - more

    in Photographing Houston

    Posted · Edited by customminds

    I spent about 10 minutes writing a nice post with the edit html button... and it didn't post any of it... so i will shorten the post a bit to just a few photos.

    Larger Version Link (click to zoom in)

    Small .jpg displayed on screen

    http://www.custommin...ape/2009-09-13/

    09-13-2009.jpg

    http://www.custommin...akers-large.jpg

    rain-makers-small.jpg

    older panos'

    http://www.customminds.com/cityscape/

    ps: sorry for any big logos on the pics. Just do not want them popping up in random magazines.

    118-Megapixel Photo - Downtown Houston

    in Photographing Houston

    Posted

    This Spectacular Panoramic View of the Houston Skyline is a followup to my last 525 megapixel one.

    http://www.customminds.com/cityscape/

    Apparently with everything now visible (not dark outside), the picture size is terribly larger and harder to piece together. So the new one is only 118 megapixels. Hope everyone doesn't mind. :-)

    Sorry for being gone a few days, we also just adopted a boxer and its been taking up a lot of my free time. For whatever its worth, here is a link to her new blog. for a boxer, shes quite smart. ;-)

    Junie the Rescue Boxer

    http://www.customminds.com/junie/

    Very sweet dog!

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    Lightning storm over the ballpark (photo)

    in Photographing Houston

    Posted

    I always get weird looks when I run to the balcony with the tripod and camera. Tonight their was the first lightning storm… or I should say… first lightning since we moved in. I took about 20 timed shots altogether and only 4 or so were workable. This was the best one of the bunch.

    I hear they were talking about this strike on the tv/radio yesterday, but i missed it.

    a huge image link you can zoom in and pan around.

    http://www.customminds.com/cityscape/2009-07-22/

    storm.jpg

    new blog i created yesterday (testing it out)

    http://www.customminds.com/photography-blog/

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    Houston Downtown Panorama - 525 megapixel

    in Photographing Houston

    Posted · Edited by customminds

    I've tried night panoramas before and failed miserably.... That you did this with that many photos at night just blows my mind. Was each shot taken at the same exposure and aperture despite how it metered ?

    Thanks again Highway. In truth I think I lucked out a bit.

    This was the second night I tried it. The first I missed a thin slice in the middle of the screen (have no idea how) and i could not just take the photo again the next night. light looked different even though i used the same settings.

    so i redid all the photos over again (same settings for each photo)

    100 iso

    9 f stop

    20 sec shutter

    i left the white balance on auto, then converted all images to the same modification afterwards.

    Houston Downtown Panorama - 525 megapixel

    in Photographing Houston

    Posted

    Highway

    between 25 and 30 21mp images. i tried to add a bit of overlay on each photo.

    Porch

    Very good question. I might have to write that one off to the blending from adobe photoshop. each photo was a 20 second shutter, so its also possible that they had something red in their apartment. i'll try and peek later when i bust out the camera again. Maybe they are having a wild party (was on a saturday night)

    Houston Downtown Panorama - 525 megapixel

    in Photographing Houston

    Posted

    Sweet.

    This is actually taken from the north building of Mosaic. From the angles of various rooflines, I'd guess that it was from somewhere between around the 10th floor, give or take a few. Too bad you couldn't get onto the penthouse level or up on the roof.

    Thanks TheNiche!

    Actually it was taken at one of the top floors. next time i'll aim down a bit for you! ;-)

    i think it came out odd because i was using the 135mm and it has a bit of a zoom. when looking out the window, everything feels much closer.

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