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Kavala Sunrise

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My best sunrise / moon rise time lapse yet. It is bit short because I fell asleep again while the camera was clicking away and the (16GB) memory card filled. The image sequence was created with a graduated filter on the camera and exposure bracketing (three exposures) about 10 seconds apart. The 1200+ images were [...]

Time lapse moonrise and sunrise

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Having bought a cheap replacement tripod, I decided to test it out for some time lapse photographs from my balcony, which faces more or less directly east. I was a little late getting back to the hotel for the moon rise so it had already appeared by the time I was properly set up. The [...]

Cheap new tripod and three panoramas

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I managed to find two tripods for sale in Kavala yesterday, neither of them a match for the one I lost. However, I took the plunge and bought the cheaper (I couldn’t really tell one from the other even though the prices varied by €50. I managed some infrared photos and three panoramas during the [...]

Tripod successes and the disaster

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All was going well with my photography holiday. My plan was to work on three techniques: infrared, time lapse and panoramas. I’d got some reasonable practices in on the first in Germany and Greece and last week, thanks to an old archived post by some community minded photographers at outbackphoto.com, my infrared processing has improved. [...]

Overseas Project: Day 13 Terracotta Warriors

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Monday our exploration of history and the commercialisation of culture continued, with a visit to the Terracotta Warriors. The scale and scope of the endevour (the army intended to protect the emperor in the afterlife).