Photography

Observing Jupiter

September 26, 2010
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Tonight I got to see a real live planet [Well, as live the the time it takes for the light to reach the Earth - Ed]. If you did not know, Jupiter is extremely bright and quite close to us at the moment. So much so, that it’s actually difficult to miss. If you look [...]

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Adding a Wide Angle Lens to the Miro Flip HD

September 26, 2010
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I use my Miro Flip Ultra HD to record Youtube movies – but if you’ve ever used one you’ll notice that it has a very narrow field of view – for a while I was holding my Canon wide angle adapter in front of the lens, but I recently found the wide angle kit by [...]

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First Light

August 5, 2008

Success! I cleaned out most of the burning from the inside of the coil. Then mounted the toroid back on the secondary with a nylon bolt. I’m also pleased to report that the Tesla tuner I built was pretty much spot on with the tap point of the primary coil…

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Tesla coil – internal arcing of secondary

July 31, 2008

Well, last night I found out why our Tesla coil isn’t delivering the performance I would expect. I opened up the secondary coil and found carbon scoring on the inside of the coil. Looks like the coil has been discharging internally. We need to remove the metal bolt at the top and find a way [...]

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“Half- Assed” Book Cover…

June 17, 2008

Jennette Fulda is a fellow resident of the Stutz building. She approached me some time ago to take some pictures for a book she was writing on the incredible weight loss journey she’s been on… The thing I remember most was when the publisher sent me the contract, it was titled “Half-Assed Photography Contract” (It’s [...]

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Actually a post about photography!!

June 16, 2008

Last year I covered a wedding at the Sanctuary in Zionsville, IN. The marketing staff got in touch recently to ask permission to use some of the images on the Sanctuary website. http://www.nanoel.com/page_detail.php?page_id=78&page_type=gallery I’m in there amongst some of the other images. It was a great venue, always nice to be able to shoot natural [...]

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Liquid Sky

May 20, 2008

…and it wouldn’t be a laser show without the liquid sky effect.

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Using a blog responsibly…

May 12, 2008

It’s funny, but when I first heard about “blogging” I couldn’t really grasp what all the fuss was about. The notion that you should post entries on the web that really should be kept in your private diary seemed rather strange. I think that there is a major flaw in the whole blogging concept, (for [...]

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Sarah Fisher at the Studio

April 30, 2008

We had a day long photoshoot with Sarah Fisher on Monday. It was a long day and quite gruelling, but Sarah was an absolute trooper, very easy to work with, and didn’t complain once… Hair and makeup by Style Salon in Broad Ripple – Sak’s 5th Avenue provided the clothes and shoes.

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Laser Harp discussed on PodCast

March 27, 2008

Have a listen to the SonicState podcast dated 27th March – at about 13:30 they talk about the laser harp, then the subject becomes all controversial… http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=6376

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