Loading...Images from the Id – It’s Bound to Happen or How to Survive the Great Crash II
If you remember, a couple of weeks ago my MacBook crashed and thanks to Time Machine I was able to get everything up and running on the New MacBook Pro. Yeah, I chronicled the whole thing before, but now here’s the news and the magic of Mac. Disclaimer – I am very sure there are maybe similar ways to do this with Windows but I can’t even get Microsoft to reauthorize a copy of Windows 7 on a crashed Windows machine. They want me to buy another copy. I tried for an hour to get a human! Arg! I have (had) three Windows 7 machines. These were mostly to placate my curiosity to build a computer and run Quicken for business, Electric Quilt and Simulator. I have found OS X replacements for everything but the simulator.
So there I sat with a dead computer and a lot of curiosity. As I have sad before having this kind of curiosity is very expensive and very satisfying. Other people just can’t understand the huge “rush” I get when I solve a problem or make something work especially for other people. Well, here’s one for me.
A friend reminded me that I could connect two Macs with a Thunderbolt cable in tethered mode and “mount” the hard drives of one computer on the desktop of the other. Simple! The hard drives, one a SSD drive and the other mounted. I erased both drives, I had already transfer this “computer” to the new one with Time Machine (Previous Blog). Then Apple made it easy to install the newest OS X on the SSD drive of the “Dead” computer. After a little bit of restarting, about a half hour of time (these guys are fast through Thunderbolt!!), I have a brand new-old computer. Did a bunch of diagnostics and everything checks out. I now have two souped-up MacBook Pros. Anyone want a 2011 Top of the line 15”, Macbook Pro with a 500 Gb SSD and a 750 GB Hd 8 Gb Ram?
This week, we’ll look at shooting the Chihuly exhibit at The Denver Botanic Gardens. If you are not familiar with Chihuly take the time to look it up. These large, temporary, glass art installations are amazing. You may want shots of the whole pieces but I like to look for textures and shapes in the glass and its relationship to the gardens environment. The name are my names for the image not the art work. These were all done between 7 and 9 am using a special ticket to the exhibit. They were all done on a tripod. This allows control of all aspects of exposure under various conditions.
Medusa – 1/350 sec f/8, 0 EV, ISO 100, 50 mm. This is actually a composite of 5 images each 1 f-stop apart (HDR High Dynamic Range). Make sure you vary the time not the aperture so depth of field does not vary. Part of a large, 10′ diameter piece
Lilies – 1/4 sec, f/27, 0 EV, ISO 10, 150 mm/225 mm, Processed Lightroom 5. Keep the f-stop small for greater depth of field to get the lilies and the refection in focus. Remember to focus a refection it’s not the diastase to the water but to the object. Looked good out of focus too.
Lilies 2 – 1/10 sec f/22, 0 EV, ISO 100, 130 mm/195 mm, processed in Lightroom 5. Basically the same as the last one but fooled around with the wight balance.
A Little Black & White – 1/250 sec, f/13, -1 EV, ISO 100, 95 mm/142 mm, Processed Lightroom 5. The problem here is to get rid of the ugly wall in the background and keep the depth to the art in focus. A good lesson in using local adjustments in Lightroom.
