More Night Photography! Featuring: Merry-Go-Round!
Just had a night photography session a couple days ago, had lots of fun up on campus again. Good stuff.
All these were taken from the campus of UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California
Note: None of the photos in the gallery are edited, only a re-size and/or cropping. No color/level/hue adjustments have been made whatsoever. Some of the ones AFTER the night gallery, however, have been edited as such (they look noticeably different).
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- Where we're going, we don't need.... roads....
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- UP
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- I'm being followed
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- O Hi there
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- Enjoyed sitting in the middle of the road
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- Adorable baby bunny
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- Beam me up, Scottie
Took those 3 shots and overlayed them together
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- Overlayed two different shots from the same tripod
I took two photos that were different exposures and made em overlayed
It was a beautiful day today….
So when I got back to campus with my camera I decided to shoot some panoramic shots. I used AutoStitch which is an awesome almost-perfect working program to stitch shots together. Also, last night I went up to campus late with some friends and took some sweet night shots, and then returned back during the day and caught some more cool panoramic shots. The gallery of night/afternight shots is followed by the Pano shots. The ones that look almost like night-time were taken at 1:30 AM.
And one shot that is 30,000 px wide, so WordPress crapped out whenever I tried to thumbnail it, so here is a link to it:
http://zambinidirect.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/360pano.jpg (Copy Paste into a new browser window to view fullscreen)
Here are some other shots I dug up (we need to clean our kitchen more often):
I also dug up some old photos I found in this gallery:
My Rebel XTi’s $68.56 brush with death
Get some gauze!
A couple days ago (don't ask) my XTi's LCD broke. Needless to say, I was upset. I called Canon's Parts Center (732-521-7230) and ordered one Rebel XTi Replacement LCD with Fed Ex 2-day shipping for just under $70 (usd).
Anyway, I was at first skeptical to do it myself. But I figured its just a tiny computer (which it is, by definition), and seeing as I didn't have to deal with compatibility issues (like when building computers) since I already had the part, I figured it'd be somewhat easier.
All I needed was:
- A tiny screwdriver (an eyeglass repair screwdriver should do fine, or anything that can remove those tiny screws)
- A hook/awl/angled-awl, for unhooking the ribbon locks
- Replacement LCD screen
- A place to store the screws
- This guide to taking apart and re-assembling an XTi
- About an hour's patience
It was a little unnerving opening it, because I kept finding screws that I hadn't removed, but in the end it was a fairly simple process. Here are some pix 
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- Be very careful to not yank it out immediately and tear that paper-thin ribbon
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- Notice the ribbon's thickness (or lack thereof)
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- More ribbons
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- I didn't bother with this part, considering the LCD is a separate structure all together
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- There were this many screws required to disassemble....
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- That's why you need the awl/hook
Maybe if you've got long fingernails you can unlock it, otherwise... I'd use a super-small screwdriver or an awl
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- Unlocked ribbon-holster
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- The old LCD on its mount
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- Close-uppy shot of the old LCD
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- Old LCD still attached, new LCD on the right
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- Reminds me of a fishbone
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- Its only got tape on it
It was very unnerving to pry the LCD off, one side kept re-attaching itself after I got the other side off. All it is is tape though.
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- Ready to be plugged in!
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- Re-connected all the ribbons and crap
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- Insert Ribbon A into slot B
And after just one short hour, HAZAA!
ITS ALIVE!!!
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