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Been playin’ with Panoramas. Click for Big.
I am, by far not a decent landscape photographer but I’ve had an itch to shoot panoramas for the past six months. I finally got around to playing with Hugin, an open source photo stitching application, and have found it to be quite powerful although a little clumsy. All in all I would expect to see more of these turdtacular landscapes from me in the near future as I train myself on my app.
The Arrogant Bastard
It’s a remote controlled airsoft tank with a 2.4GHz wireless camera on it. What more do you need to know? Oh, you want to know why it’s called the Arrogant Bastard? How much more bastardly can you get with a Remote Controlled Airsoft tank with a freaking camera? That’s just plain mean.
Pierce College Night Shift Photo Set
Instead of listening to Coast to Coast AM with George Nory during my graveyard shift as a campus safety officer, I decided that spicing my patrol up with ten thousand pounds of camera gear. Although my efforts were mostly fruitless because I actually had real duties to attend to I was still able to gin up a few photos around campus that don’t look like pure butts. It’s all pretty generic long exposure, mediocre architectural work, and light painting but at least it’s not listening to someone ramble on about how the government and the greys are colluding to exchange abductees for cutting edge space laser ray guns. :toot:
TALCS Public Sighting
Photos of the TALCS are popping up on the automotive forum, R3VLimited, in the “Official 2009 E30 Picnic Photo Thread!” It is nice to note that the TALCS has officially passed through Canadian customs (and was inspected by Canadian customs with no issue) and was well received in it’s first public appearance. There’s nothing quite like reviving an old idea and finding it it both surprisingly useful and stylistic. I hope to improve on the TALCS’ design before it’s next “major” shoot.
Stock Photography
For the past several weeks I’ve been futzing around with an old Vz. 24 rifle stock that I had cut up (have pitty on me milsurp gods) to restore a bring-back Kar 98k stock that had been duffel cut. After a heated brain-storming session with some e-buddies I decided that the best route to take would be to build a “Tactical Assault Longrange Camera” (TALC) around my Nikon D200. Of course the project is still underway and needs to undergo field trials before it can be deployed in major tactical operations.
The TALC should be ready for the first field trial later this March May and will have its first review in April by the kind folks at 230Grain.com.









