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Jeremy > January 11, 2009; Day 254. Christmas Past. I brought my Nikon D80 to this house today in order to capture the illuminated bushes in front of it. I chose the D80 because it is, for now, the camera to use when I need to go ultra-wide. (Sadly, I dropped my 14-24mm lens onto a tile floor. Nikon is repairing it now.) So for wide, I’m back to my old reliable equipment: The Sigma 10-20mm on my DX camera. The trouble was, I forgot to throw in any of my other lenses just in case I found a better subject. Case in point: This shot! The snow on these steps is almost 24 hours old, yet there isn’t even a footprint in it. And the lights of this fallen tree are on! My 50mm lens fits easily in my pocket…what was I thinking? Sadly, this is a substantial crop. At 10mm, the entire house fits easily in the frame. Also regrettable is a very bright mercury vapor light shining directly on the front of this house. Cyan-blue snow is hard to correct. Despite this, this house looks great in dawn/dusk light, so I’ll try to capture it again. Raw: Crop: 2.9MP Raw: Color Temperature: 4500K; Tint: 0 Raw: Saturation: +8 PS: Healing Brush to remove power lines in the reflection PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > November 14, 2008; Day 196. No Swimming. I enjoyed a rainy morning in Henniker today. I found this leaking manure spreader only because I take the back roads as often as possible. That’s where New Hampshire’s best scenery is found. I don’t know how long this has been here, nor why it is not empty. With the rain and humidity and probable composting going on, the spot where I was standing was rather stinky. After I took this shot, I practiced panning for a while. Panning vehicles requires some patience. Cars of the right color only come by when my camera isn’t yet ready! PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > September 22, 2008; Day 143. Rehabilitation. My friend Phil has worked with his hands most of his life, and therefore can take the knots out of your muscles without even concentrating. Tonight he helped remove some lingering soreness in my shoulders from being hunched over for so long during the ride. One thing I notice: Someone could lose a couple of pounds. The 2 months of training took me out of the gym and was less aerobically intense than what I’ve been used to. It’s showing here, even though the scale says I remained flat throughout. Probably some muscles atrophied while I was away. A little dieting might be a good idea too. So far, I haven’t yet seen any pictures of me on the bike but I expect them to start arriving this week. Raw: Color Temperature: 5250K Raw: Fill Light: +30 Raw: Exposure: +0.3 Raw: Saturation: +20 PS: Unsharp Mask: 10-30-0
Jeremy > September 17, 2008; Day 138. Final preparations. Last week Hillary featured a collection of objects as her daily, so I feel much more comfortable submitting one myself. :~) Tonight I picked the bike up from the shop and it was nice and tight and clean. It’s as ready as it will ever be, and hopefully the same can be said for me. It was very nice having some folks at the gym say that they missed me and was glad that I didn’t croak. While I was away, the gym replaced two of my favorite aerobic machines with a new kind of stair master; we’ll try that out tomorrow and see how it compares. This is everything I will need to do the ride: bike, helmet, tire pump, cell phone, Allen wrench set, spare tube, CO2 cartridge, cartridge adapter, tire pry bars, biking gloves, padded pants, shirt, socks, clip-in shoes, energy bar, and two bottles (water and electrolyte replacement). Also shown here is my Casio point-and-shoot camera, which I am planning to carry in my shirt pocket. The shirt shown here is actually a prop; I’ll be getting a rider jersey so we all look alike. Hopefully the jerseys have 3 pockets in back like this one does; I love how convenient that is and how you never notice that anything is back there, even bulky things like the tire pump. PS: Exposure: +0.5 PS: Saturation: +10 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > September 11, 2008; Day 132. My daily training rides ended today, so I treated myself to a little take out. I don’t always dine at McDs but this building is very new and I was delighted to find it nestled in front of the dusky sky with no power lines in sight. It’s just as well that I won’t be riding NH 106 anymore. The RVs were arriving by the hundreds tonight; I wouldn’t be surprised if there are thousands arriving tomorrow and Saturday. It’s NASCAR weekend at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway and tent cities are sprouting up all along the road. I’ve never actually attended the race but it has been interesting to observe the accretion of people this week. Hopefully I will have one final long ride on Sunday. Then the bike goes to the shop to tighten everything that came loose during this break-in period. Overall I am very happy with this bike and I’d like to think that I am ready for the ride. Raw: Exposure: +1.7 Raw: Color Temperature: 3850K Raw: Saturation: +20 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > September 10, 2008; Day 131. Desperation week continues. Tonight I thought I would at least show what it is I’m doing that has me so busy. For this weekend’s anniversary celebration, I’m the DJ. Trouble is, I don’t know how to mix music "live." Thus, I sent out an APB for music requests to all participants, and now all I have to do is collect the music, mix it in the privacy of my home (where I can correct mistakes), burn it to CD, and play it. The mixing is the hard part. To help me, I use the program shown in this screen shot; it’s called VirtualDJ. It shows me a graph of the beats of the songs loaded onto each “turntable.” Lined-up beats sound great during long transitions. This program allows you to adjust a song’s speed without adjusting it’s pitch, a miracle of software capability. I have no idea how DJs with actual turntables were able to do it. By the way, "Coffee in the Morning" by V. Didulya is a superb opening piece for a dance party. Screenshots from my Dell flat panel LCD have a lot of moiré in them. I wish I had time to explore ways around this. My wallpaper is artwork bought from Digital Blasphemy. I like his work enough to be a lifetime subscriber. I have a program that randomly replaces the wallpaper every 8 minutes. The final week of 20-mile training rides started today. Peter joined me on the same road but he gave himself a 30-minute head start so that I could do the full 20 miles at my training pace. It took me 59 minutes. Raw: Exposure: +2.0 Raw: Crop: ~20%
Jeremy > September 9, 2008; Day 130. My turn for a desperation shot. This little fellow was sitting on my car this morning, next to the dirt and scratches, soaking up the dew. The mornings here in New Hampshire are starting to feel like autumn, so he was mostly inert, and therefore allowed me to get in close with my wide angle lens. This was one of only 3 shots I would take today. I’m crazy-busy with a weekend anniversary party coming up and then of course the big ride next week. I’ll be back to training tomorrow. PS: Exposure: +1.0 PS: Crop: ~30% PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > September 7, 2008; Day 128. Today Peter and I biked around Concord to enjoy the post-Hanna weather, which included deep blue skies and clean green flora. I decided to carry only my widest lens, which kept me from shooting the ducks at White Park but was perfect for some low-sun house shots. Really sharp viewers will recognize the lower archway. A closeup of that was a prior daily. The best lesson I learned in my composition class was Overwork Your Subject. I’m not sure why I’m drawn to this house but I love how it looks in good light. Perhaps I am daydreaming that one of the local realtors will hire me as an overpaid photographer to spice up their listings. I can dream, can’t I? No training ride today. The remnants of Hurricane Hanna produced some nice gusts, so I went with the mountain bike and downtown strolls. I should get 3 more training rides in this week. PS: Crop: ~20% PS: Saturation: +20 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > September 5, 2008; Day 126. Painting-quality post processing? Or just a painting? Ha ha, I bet you weren’t fooled. It’s just a painting. I was much too busy for any creativity today. A friend of mine is donating a painting to a raffle I am holding next week, so I photographed it to promote ticket sales. The painting is surprisingly large. Even with my wide angle lens, I didn’t have to worry much about uneven focus across the canvas. Tomorrow should finally give me practice riding a bicycle in the rain and wind. Can’t wait. EDIT: Thanks, Gail for asking. The person donating it did not paint it. He thought that the artist was Thomas Kinkade, but it turns out it's someone painting in the Kinkade style. I haven't yet been able to read the signature on the painting to identify the artist. Raw: Crop: ~2% Raw: Exposure: +1.5 Raw: Clarity: +100 Raw: Saturation: +20
January 11, 2009; Day 254.

Christmas Past.

I brought my Nikon D80 to this house today in order to capture the illuminated bushes in front of it. I chose the D80 because it is, for now, the camera to use when I need to go ultra-wide. (Sadly, I dropped my 14-24mm lens onto a tile floor. Nikon is repairing it now.) So for wide, I’m back to my old reliable equipment: The Sigma 10-20mm on my DX camera.

The trouble was, I forgot to throw in any of my other lenses just in case I found a better subject. Case in point: This shot! The snow on these steps is almost 24 hours old, yet there isn’t even a footprint in it. And the lights of this fallen tree are on! My 50mm lens fits easily in my pocket…what was I thinking? Sadly, this is a substantial crop. At 10mm, the entire house fits easily in the frame.

Also regrettable is a very bright mercury vapor light shining directly on the front of this house. Cyan-blue snow is hard to correct. Despite this, this house looks great in dawn/dusk light, so I’ll try to capture it again.

Raw: Crop: 2.9MP
Raw: Color Temperature: 4500K; Tint: 0
Raw: Saturation: 8
PS: Healing Brush to remove power lines in the reflection
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
Jeremy > January 11, 2009; Day 254. Christmas Past. I brought my Nikon D80 to this house today in order to capture the illuminated bushes in front of it. I chose the D80 because it is, for now, the camera to use when I need to go ultra-wide. (Sadly, I dropped my 14-24mm lens onto a tile floor. Nikon is repairing it now.) So for wide, I’m back to my old reliable equipment: The Sigma 10-20mm on my DX camera. The trouble was, I forgot to throw in any of my other lenses just in case I found a better subject. Case in point: This shot! The snow on these steps is almost 24 hours old, yet there isn’t even a footprint in it. And the lights of this fallen tree are on! My 50mm lens fits easily in my pocket…what was I thinking? Sadly, this is a substantial crop. At 10mm, the entire house fits easily in the frame. Also regrettable is a very bright mercury vapor light shining directly on the front of this house. Cyan-blue snow is hard to correct. Despite this, this house looks great in dawn/dusk light, so I’ll try to capture it again. Raw: Crop: 2.9MP Raw: Color Temperature: 4500K; Tint: 0 Raw: Saturation: +8 PS: Healing Brush to remove power lines in the reflection PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
January 11, 2009; Day 254.

Christmas Past.

I brought my Nikon D80 to this house today in order to capture the illuminated bushes in front of it. I chose the D80 because it is, for now, the camera to use when I need to go ultra-wide. (Sadly, I dropped my 14-24mm lens onto a tile floor. Nikon is repairing it now.) So for wide, I’m back to my old reliable equipment: The Sigma 10-20mm on my DX camera.

The trouble was, I forgot to throw in any of my other lenses just in case I found a better subject. Case in point: This shot! The snow on these steps is almost 24 hours old, yet there isn’t even a footprint in it. And the lights of this fallen tree are on! My 50mm lens fits easily in my pocket…what was I thinking? Sadly, this is a substantial crop. At 10mm, the entire house fits easily in the frame.

Also regrettable is a very bright mercury vapor light shining directly on the front of this house. Cyan-blue snow is hard to correct. Despite this, this house looks great in dawn/dusk light, so I’ll try to capture it again.

Raw: Crop: 2.9MP
Raw: Color Temperature: 4500K; Tint: 0
Raw: Saturation: 8
PS: Healing Brush to remove power lines in the reflection
PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
See photo in original gallery.
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