Hello, World
I took some time out to get a better photograph of my glow-in-the-dark bedsheets. The sheets are pretty awesome. Nothing beats lying down over dimly glowing butterflies and flowers before closing my physical eyes and opening those of my mind.
Anyway, the photography wasn't easy. I tried a smaller aperture to keep everything in focus, seeing that I was shooting at a distance ranging from a single foot to 7 feet, and lower ISO to reduce noise, but I gave on that after a 2 minute 30 second exposure resulted in a blank. My second attempt with the largest aperture (f/3.5 at 18mm) and 1600 ISO fetched better results in 30 seconds, but then my 6 year old 1GB Kingston CF Card finally gave way. Not working. The card reader shows blank. The camera says that the card is not usable. So I fetched my father's old digital camera (one of the first Canon Digital Ixus cameras) and removed the 32MB Samsung card. My D70s listed 9 available exposures. I setup the camera again, tried a few shots on aperture priority to check the depth of field (nothing good there) and the frame. And then off went the lights, the routers and access points and the screen of my laptop. 30 seconds in the darkness later I had a brand new shot, waiting for you below.
Later.
P.S: The little white light on the top right corner is from my HDD. Apparently a handkerchief wasn't enough to get rid of it all in a 30 second exposure.
I took some time out to get a better photograph of my glow-in-the-dark bedsheets. The sheets are pretty awesome. Nothing beats lying down over dimly glowing butterflies and flowers before closing my physical eyes and opening those of my mind.
Anyway, the photography wasn't easy. I tried a smaller aperture to keep everything in focus, seeing that I was shooting at a distance ranging from a single foot to 7 feet, and lower ISO to reduce noise, but I gave on that after a 2 minute 30 second exposure resulted in a blank. My second attempt with the largest aperture (f/3.5 at 18mm) and 1600 ISO fetched better results in 30 seconds, but then my 6 year old 1GB Kingston CF Card finally gave way. Not working. The card reader shows blank. The camera says that the card is not usable. So I fetched my father's old digital camera (one of the first Canon Digital Ixus cameras) and removed the 32MB Samsung card. My D70s listed 9 available exposures. I setup the camera again, tried a few shots on aperture priority to check the depth of field (nothing good there) and the frame. And then off went the lights, the routers and access points and the screen of my laptop. 30 seconds in the darkness later I had a brand new shot, waiting for you below.
Later.
P.S: The little white light on the top right corner is from my HDD. Apparently a handkerchief wasn't enough to get rid of it all in a 30 second exposure.
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