SGDQ 2022
Word clouds generated from runs during the SGDQ 2022 marathon
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Shutting down projects
Two of the older projects I have run for some time now are Needs More Lens Flare, a toy web app for automatically adding lens flare to photos, and Drone Stable, a more robust web application for automatically stabilizing aerial (or any kind of) video.
I am afraid I don't …
Howe Ridge Fire
Photos from the 2018 Howe Ridge fire in Glacier National Park
Milwaukee Air Show
Photos from the Milwaukee air and water show
Tips for drone video - camera settings
Drones can get great aerial photos and video, but they're only as good as the person piloting them. In the right hands, a phone camera can get fantastic shots, and all the equipment in the world won't help if you don't know how to use it.
The first time you …
Pypeline update
I've pushed some changes to the pypeline repository, adding basic stacking functionality. There isn't any registration, it only takes the median of each channel (R, G, B) for each pixel. It's currently way slow, but I suspect there is substantial room for improvement there. Wrangling NEF files has proven more …
Pillow and NEF files
Apparently PIL, and therefore Pillow, do not support Nikon RAW (.NEF) files. From what I can tell, my camera shoots RAWs in a 14-bit grayscale format. With the help of nefarious, I've found a way to get the image data out of my RAW files. Images coming soon!
"Night 2: the big dipper"
With one set of exposures under my belt, I adjusted my camera settings a little and tried my hand again. As luck would have it, my window framed the big dipper quite nicely, so I set up in front of that and let it rip.
- 51 light frames
- f/3 …
First light from the Nikon
Well, sort of. This is my first attempt at any sort of serious astrophotography. I wasn't aiming for anything in particular, I just wanted to get a feel for my camera. The conditions were subpar to say the least: it was a mildly cloudy night, and I'm near a metropolitan …