I thought I should post an update to the About Me page on the site which hasn't been updated for a few years. Still building websites for my main business (www.apexweb.co.uk) and out taking photos for stock and clients websites. In 2011 started...
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After getting some good photos with the new telescope kit purchased in October, we thought it would be good to be able to make use of the tracking facilities of the HEQ5 PRO mount with the normal camera and wider lenses to get general astronomy...
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Converted just under 1000 webcam images from the past few days into a time lapse movie. The webcam takes a photo every 4 minutes and the video is playing back at 30fps.
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We purchased the Sigma EM-140 DG ring flash a couple of years ago to use on the Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens. The flash mounts on the end of the lens using the supplied adapters but this leaves the flash lights around 30mm in front of the lens....
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Neutral Density Calculator for photographers to calculate the shutter speed when adding neutral density filters to your lens.
Set the filter you are using and the shutter speed without the filter and the app calculates the new shutter speed...
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Continued from Part One.
The design mockup on the EasyPIC6 development board was transferred to a breadboard for final testing and then the circuit was build on an offcut of stripboard.
Source code for the project can be downloaded in a zip...
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We purchased an Acuter Merlin/Orion Motorised AZ Mount to use with our Canon 5D Mk 2 camera on a 50 foot telescopic mast fitted to our Land Rover Defender for high level photography for our new business venture (www.apexviews.co.uk)
Initial...
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We have added a split charge system to the land rover so we can power the laptop and compressor from a second battery when using the Clark Mast.
The rear seats on the passenger side have been removed and a box built with a padded top to hold...
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Merlin Panohead Modifications to take Canon 5D Mk 2
I recently purchased a Merlin Panohead for using with the 15m telescopic mast which is on order for aerial photography.
I found that the Merlin Panohead's standard camera mounting bracket...
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Update 05/04/2010
More info about the photography issues for this law on http://www.stop43.org.uk
Update 28/02/2010
UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public
The Digital Economy Bill is now...
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I have updated the site gallery with a flickr feed of my latest updates to Flickr
http://www.briandorey.com/gallery/gallery.aspx
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These were taken using the full Bowens studio kit to light the item using softboxes and light the background with separate lights to give a more even light over the items.
Below are some new samples of what we can do with the rotary table we...
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After looking at various ways to show stock items in a better format for our ecommerce sites we thought it would be good to have 360 rotating images of the items.
Commercial systems to do this cost thousands and as we already have a Manfrotto...
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DIY Camera Laser Break Beam Trigger MK 2
A DIY optical camera flash or camera trigger using a laser and PIC Processor based timer circuit.
Following from the basic high speed photography trigger we made, we found that it was difficult to be...
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