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I’ve been wanting to do this so I figured I would take a stab at it.


measuring my macro setup magnification ratio

This is a photo full frame, no cropping, of a ruler, each notch is a 1/64 of an inch, tried to get a sub 1mm ruler but I don’t have one.

So, this shows about 30/64 = 0.469’s of an inch across the sensor, or 0.469 * 25.4 = 11.91 or 12mm

The D700 sensor is 36 x 23.9 mm. so the ratio of 36mm : 12mm is ===== 3:1 or 3X magnification

This is using my 150mm Sigma lens with a Sigma 2x converter and a 36mm Kenko extension tube. I could get more with the 60mm Nikon Macro if I still had one.

Basic Infrared Photoshop Techniques Tutorial & IR Instructions

Standard Infrared Filter

The Standard IR filter is our most popular choice as it’s also the filter most frequently used as a threaded lens filter. It has a 50% pass frequency of 720nm and is equivalent to the Wratten  89B gelatin filter.

Since this filter also transmits a little bit of the visible deep red light the resulting image has a bit of color in it. With proper adjustment in Photoshop you can achieve the very popular blue sky effect.

 

 

What was done with my camera, Life Pixel – Nikon D200 DIY Digital Infrared Conversion

via Internal filters for modified cameras – Standard Infrared Filter.

Dreary and overcast most of the day, the clouds continued moving toward the west all morning long. Lots of wind.

Read a bit about Christopher Columbus, seems he wasn’t a really nice fellow. Terrorized what is now the Dominican Republic, killing and enslaving many Indian and Caribbean people. There are people who want us to stop having a Columbus Day, seems silly since we are not really celebrating the man but the fact that he helped start colonization of the USA back in 1492, wow, that was almost 300 years before we became our own country, and we have only been a country for 235 years. Kind of reminds you how young we really are as a country compared to all the ones in Europe & Asia.

EPROM

EPROM

I went over to the Natural Foods Warehouse for some frozen things for lunch, ended up seeing a dude I’ve met over at Taco Mac – Mall coming out of the Beer Depot in the same shopping center across from my office. Just after I finished my lunch I realized that it was raining outside, the light misty kind.

mmmmmmm beer

Checked on my package to LifePixel (D200 IR conversion) and it is out for delivery today. Should be finished 5-10 days from today (also should get email from them tonight) and then be back to me sometime by the end of the month. Need to get set up for adjusting the focus on the camera just in case.

Came home and had some dinner, then watched some Ancient Aliens again, then some FoodTV. Noticed Terra Nova was recording but some Dumb-Ass baseball game was still on, Fuck, now I won’t have it recorded.

Took some shots like the one above, messing with the reversed 50mm on my 150 macro, used the NIKON CLS flashes.

Version 1.1 is available now

Got it downloaded as well as the Lightroom version 3.5 yesterday.  They both were out earlier but I wasn’t paying much attention.  Photosmith still doesn’t have the mass tag and IPTC metadata tagging that I want.  Just not very useful for a BUNCH of photos yet.  OK for choosing a limited number and then tagging them but no way to store presets that will but ALL copyright and meta info into many files quickly.

— New Features —
• iOS 5.0 compatibility (at least as of beta 7, they’ve changed it every beta)
• Added automatic detection if there are problem images that turns off auto importing to prevent repeated crashes–gives you the chance to find the problem image and keep using the app
• Added setting to manually import photos on demand instead every time the app is opened
• Added setting to skip pre-generation of preview images
• Added setting to include iTunes synced albums in Photosmith
• Added RAF and NRW raw file support
• Added XMP export option to Dropbox (provides rudimentary support for non-Lightroom asset managers)
• Added automatic backups of the core database and a manual recovery option in case of data loss
• Added ability to enable app logging for support purposes
• Added baseline sync engine support for upcoming reverse sync functionality
• Added functionality to mark items as Rejected in Copy Name, for advanced sync images

— Bug Fixes & Other Improvements —
• Fixed rotation of photos to all Send To destinations
• Improved file transfer speed and progress reporting during Lightroom Sync
• Now able to iOS pregenerated thumbnails under iOS 5.0+ (import speed improvement)
• Fixed sharing selected images now uses the sort order instead of random order
• Fixed a regression from the previous version where fast previews weren’t used in Loupe & Fullscreen views
• Fixed bug where Send To from the Last Imported collection always sent all images instead of only selected ones
• Fixed bug where user collections would sometimes show images that had been deleted from the iPad
• Switching collections in Grid view now 60% faster
• Speed optimizations to startup – particularly for users with a large number of images on their iPad
• Fixed bug where large user collections wouldn’t sync

via Photosmith – the iPad mobile companion for Adobe Lightroom | Latest news, challenges, and progress from the developers..


another tiny

Up and Adam this morning, I did hit the snooze once but I had woken up about 4 and then again at 5 dreaming some shit about work, mostly worried about something. I’ve dreamt similar things in the past, odd buildings, weird happenings. After getting to work and messing with some iPhone bug I went out and sent the D200 to Life Pixel Infrared, $26 and change to get it there by Thursday. Hopefully I’ll have a IR camera before the end of the month. After messing with installing the Server at work I figured out that I needed 2008R2 and not just plain vanilla Win2008 so I downloaded the ISO burned using my Mac and then started the install just before going on home.

Came home and made some chicken and mushrooms with Whatsthishere sauce, simple and good. Then watched a few of Beyond the Wormhole, then took some photos of the bird skull I’ve got. Let the TV to Nicki after I made sure that Terra Nova was going to record.

Went upstairs and played on the computer with photos for awhile.

Green darner taken earlier this spring, many of the dragonflies I capture are not as easy to identify, this one was unmistakable. I noticed while taking some photos and looking over a few of the macros (mainly the one I put up yesterday of the droplet on a blade of grass) that I had a lot of crap on the sensor. Cleaned the senso this morning. Went out on the trail about 9am and picked up two of the cicada husks from the days before. I also got shots of a few spiders and chatted with a few people on the path. Seems there was a copperhead sighting.


Common Green Darner

Drove over to the Natural Foods Warehouse store across the street by work. Picked up a few items (frozen lunches) some of them some flatbreads from evolFoods. Realized it is love spelled backwards, their logo even has the e turned backwards. You can get a free t-shirt when you collect box upc points, only 16 flatbreads and I can get one. So for about 3 weeks of lunches and I’m almost there. 🙂 They even give you a free sticker that I put on my cubicle wall at work just over my desk.

Yesterday, Steve Jobs has resigned from Apple Inc. It would have to end sometime and now everyone is worried about IF Apple will just crash and burn. The stock market did some flips too from what Fernando, a buddy from work was saying he could understand a little that Apple stock would fall a bit but even very un-related stocks were falling. Also in world news one of the Russian space rockets crashed yesterday as well, it was unmanned but there are plans for manned missions soon. The rocket was carrying supplies for the Space station.

Out to the Suwanee T-Mac for BOTM, got the last and different Harpoon IPA glass having the Oktoberfest and then I had the Stone Smoked Porter after. It was a flirt-fest between me and Lori? It seems there may be 2 Loris there, Blonde with the “actress” daughter and another who has a boyfriend and whom I am a bit more attracted to, darker dirty-blonde to brown hair, freckles etc. Talked to Joy (short hair, taller gal there) but repeated some of the questions I had asked her later, duh! She was giving me shit about my goatee and put me on he defensive so I wasn’t feeling all that chatty. Seems Lori-1 (blonde) will be having a “camping” party at her house over labor day weekend. It’s BYOB, BYOF(food), and BYOT (tent), but she did say she had a few beds. Also, it seems her daughter is really into DragonCon, I should go myself, I’ve never been but wouldn’t be able to dress up worth a crap. She has three outfits, one for each day, one from pokemon, one vampire/goth and ?????? the last one was left out conversation interrupted. Oh, and Lori-2 was showing a bunch of skin in a spaghetti strapped top, showing off her tan-lines and freckles, I let her know I loved them.

I was thinking about heading out to a waterfall this morning but laying in bed until 10am didn’t make it happen.

Instead, I waited around the house until after about 1pm and went over to the Mall, stopping in at Taco Mac for some lunch and a beer. Looked for some pasta bowls but didn’t find any I liked. I only really saw two sets, one at Williams Sonoma and another at Crate & Barrel.

Left the Mall and was thinking about walking the Greenway by 85/Hwy20 and decided against it since it was pushing about 98 degrees out. Instead I cruised over to the Shroom and then to Hooters for a snack, saw some friends there for a bit, Kayla – Jasmine – Kate – Katrina, texted the Rogers to give them the Nah-Nahs about being there.

Home for the rest of the evening (it was already 6pm by the time I got home) and played a little bit with the 150mm with the 50mm reversed on the camera. Some photos of a new penny, so very close.

I did leave to get some groceries, an odd variety of stuff, and fruit and yogurt for work.

Watched the new DVD I got the day before, Source Code, not at all what I was thinking it was, really cool though.

What’s this Triggertrap thing all about?

Triggertrap is an universal camera trigger. It triggers (nearly) any digital stills camera using (almost) any source: Laser, sound, time-lapse, or anything else you can dream up. Spiffing!

Find out What Triggertrap Does and Which cameras are supported

Itchy credit card? head over to the shop and get your very own Triggertrap!

via TriggerTrap.


Northern Sky

Got up this morning and didn’t do much, things are winding down this trip. I’ve been thinking about possibly getting a checked bag and getting all the stuff home now. Not sure but I may do it.

We went out to Bonefish Willies for lunch, really HOT gal working there with some very interesting tattoos, several skulls, one day of the dead type. Nice brown hair, not very happy though. I had the oyster poboy and it didn’t sit well with me. After getting home I laid down and didn’t get up until about 6pm when we were suppose to head over to the Silver T’s and watch a baseball game, I bailed and instead just hung out at the house, sleeping and feeling like throwing up. Finally about 9:30pm Mom and Dad got home and I felt better.

Found out they already had a verdict in the Casey Anthony case, they acquitted her. Someone said that even OJ Simpson thought the verdict was full of shit. I guess I see why they did it, but I feel that she did more wrong than just lie to police.