I am using a Bryan Mumford Time Machine and the high speed flash gear from http://www.highspeedflash.com/ to create some visually stunning images of water collisions – an example is here: Some spikes added to the highlights using Noel Carboni’s plug-in … Continue reading
I also mounted two pinhole cameras outside the house on a south facing wall. These cameras were based on beer cans as the Ilford photographic paper fits very nicely inside a standard size aluminium beer can. Like the indoor cameras … Continue reading
I’ve just opened the pinhole camera in my study (one day early). This was behind the double glazing in a rectangular tea caddy tin box. You can see the NFO dome towards the right, and a neighbour’s house over the … Continue reading
This one went absolutely everywhere and I’ll be cleaning up the mess for weeks. It’s still far from perfect but I don’t think I’m capable of doing much better – so I’m calling it a day on the eggs.
Last night our faithful old cactus once again flowered and I caught the action with the Canon 40D and TC-80N3 timer controller. So what is this doing on a deep-sky imaging web site? I hope to use the same process … Continue reading
I have just half-completed a very scary summer project! The Hyperstar III lens assembly is a fantastic technological achievement which turns an ultra-slow f#10 Schmidt-Cassegrain into an ultra-fast f#2 Schmidt-Camera. There is a slight problem though with all that glass … Continue reading
The four pinhole cameras I have had imaging the southern horizon for the past 6 months are due to be opened on June 21st 2010 in the evening. I will put new film in each camera and set them off … Continue reading
Noel Carboni is currently assembling the NFO Spring mega project of 2010. This is a massive mosaic of the Virgo/Coma galaxy cluster region centred on the famous Markarian Chain of galaxies. This mosaic is created from a number of frames … Continue reading
For those of you looking for my high speed flash photography site can I remind you that you will find ultra-fast Xenon flash images here.
Just under one month to go before I open up the 4 pinhole cameras that have been looking towards the south for the past 5 months. Time seems to pass at an ever accelerating rate – as Peter Landsberg said, … Continue reading
