So after a very long break from the garage I have finally made something.This is a key bowl for my son’s new place, tomorrow I have the fun of driving a big Luton van around and I thought a key bowl is just the thing for someone who can misplace most things.
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So yesterday we had a sunset in the Broads and this is this evening sunset.
Still taken with a DJI Osmo 2 and the Google Pixel phone processed with Adobe clip which is a fantastic little piece of software for the Android phone.
A few days away up Norfolk way and this is tonight’s sunset, this time lapse was taken on my Google Pixel phone using the DJI Osmo 2.
As I have not taken my laptop the video was editing using Adobe clip with the music being added and the watermark all on the phone, it it quite impressive that all of this has been done on a phone without any expensive software you can download from the play store.
So time for a new toy I think, I have just had a DJI Osmo Mobile 2 delivered to help me with some time lapsed photos and videography.
This is the first two time lapsed videos, one with and one without motion, just setup on a tripod in the back garden, next time I will be out and about.
DJI Osmo Mobile 2 time-lapse test
The first outing of the DJI Osmo Mobile 2 time-lapse test taken with a Google Pixel phone with the video being captured at 4K.
A single image every 5 seconds to make the video.
DJI Osmo Mobile 2 time-lapse with motion test
The first outing of the DJI Osmo Mobile 2 time-lapse with motion test taken with a Google Pixel phone with the video being captured at 4K.
A single image every .5 seconds to make the video.
My first leather project is a coin purse that can be hooked over a belt keeping the change out of your pocket so it does not cause any rips in the pocket lining.
The step by step process is detailed in both the video & the photos below.
You can donwload the template from this .PDF file >> Leather Project 1 Coin Purse Template
One hobby I am beginning out in is leatherwork, my projects can be found on both this site and my YouTube channel.
16 October 2017 I had the pleasure of attending the Savage tour date at the Brighton Dome, fantastic night out and a few photos.
So the first acrylic pen is finished, not too sure if I like them or not, I have a few more blanks so we will see how they go.
BloomSky Dashboard – Unofficial Web Widget 1st Cut
The first attempt looks like this:
To add this into your page please take the following code inserting your BloomSky API Key:
Change this line:
GetBloomSkyHTML('<YourAPIKey>', '1');
<script src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<link href="http://pcst.co.uk/BloomSkyUnofficial/style.css" rel="stylesheet">
<script src='http://pcst.co.uk/BloomSkyUnofficial/BloomSkyUnofficial.js' type='text/javascript'></script>
<div id="BloomSkyUnoffical"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
GetBloomSkyHTML('<YourAPIKey>', '1');
</script>
We will be adding more refinements into the widget over the coming days.
Welcome to the BloomSky Dashboard – Unofficial project pages.
After my weather station gave up the ghost I decided to try a BloomSky from https://www.bloomsky.com and while I love the photos I was not too impressed with the ability to store data and serve up the information on personal websites so I have decided to use the APIs that they provide to fill the gap.
This following pages will detail the project & progress.
If you would like to get involved please let me know.
Enjoy.
When you create an array and populate it in PowerShell the number of elements is written out to the screen, very annoying.
e.g.
function Array-Error()
{
$Array = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
$Return = "ReturnValue"
$Array.Add("Value1")
$Array.Add("Value2")
$Array.Add("Value3")
$Array.Add("Value4")
return $return
}
$display = Array-Error
write-host -ForegroundColor Red $displayOutput
0 1 2 3 ReturnValueSo how do we stop the numbers from being displayed to the screen, while Fix 2 is the proper way I like fix 1 as it reminds me of passing things over to “/dev/null” when I was a UNIX chap.
function Array-Fix1()
{
$Array = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
$Return = "ReturnValue"
$Array.Add("Value1") > $null
$Array.Add("Value2") > $null
$Array.Add("Value3") > $null
$Array.Add("Value4") > $null
return $return
}
$display = Array-Fix1
write-host -ForegroundColor Magenta $displayOutput
ReturnValueor
function Array-Fix2()
{
$Array = New-Object System.Collections.ArrayList
$Return = "ReturnValue"
$Array.Add("Value1") | Out-Null
$Array.Add("Value2") | Out-Null
$Array.Add("Value3") | Out-Null
$Array.Add("Value4") | Out-Null
return $return
}
$display = Array-Fix2
write-host -ForegroundColor Magenta $displayOutput
ReturnValueToday I got to go to a Gary Numan gig in Portsmouth and t was fantastic.
He was revisiting the Replicas, The Pleasure Principle & Telekon albums bringing them bang up to date and he did a fantastic job, I also get to see the same just up the coast in Bexhill on Monday evening as well, I was able to get a few shots tonight but with a bit of luck on Monday I should be able to get some better ones.
So for the second night on the trot the moon has been out and I have had the time to take some photos, tonight I thought I would add some filters to see if it would define the craters and ridges in more detail, still not too sure about it’s success.
So way back in 2014 I tried my hand at taking some photos of the moon take a looa at: Luna photography for an idea of what I was doing.
Tonight I thought I would give it a second attempt and I think the photos are much much better with quite a bit more detail to show.
To see a larger version of the image please click on the photo.
So I have moved on from bowls for a moment and decided to give pens a try and this is my first 6, quite fun little projects and useful as well.
I think I will keep at it as there are issues with them but not a bad start.
This is Hallvik in Iceland, not too far from the Silfra fissure and just as stunning, the photos do not do the viability and blues justice, the best things is the water was quite warm rangeing from 3 – 9 degrees.
We where guided by Dave from http://magmadive.is a guide that I could not recommend highly enough so if you are looking to go over then look them up.
After the first dive my wife being the sensible woman she is decided to get out of her diving kit and get warm me on the other hand could not help but go back in, this is the second dive.
We where able to dive the Silfra fissure crack between the North American and Eurasian continents where the continental plates meet, one truly unique place.
We where guided by Dave from http://magmadive.is a guide that I could not recommend highly enough so if you are looking to go over then look them up.
I had the absolute pleasure of diving on my wedding anniversary with my wife in Iceland this weekend.
We where able to dive the Silfra fissure crack between the North American and Eurasian continents where the continental plates meet, one truly unique place.
We where guided by Dave from http://magmadive.is a guide that I could not recommend highly enough so if you are looking to go over then look them up.
This little bowl is heading up to my grandmothers 90th birthday later in the week.
Well this weekend I have been playing with a couple of news items, a blow torch & ebonising spray and the results are below.
They are not too bad for a first attempt but I should have built up the ebony layers much slower and a lot thinner.
Today’s inspiration has come from both Mike Waldt and Martin Saban-Smith both have fantastic videos to go through and gain some inspiration.
So onto project number 6 an Ash Platter, ending up with a 12 inch diameter and a 3 inch depth this Ash platter has Danish oil on the underside and a food safe oil on the top as it is intended as a fruit bowl.
Today I have been turning two pots that will be used for makeup pots, the wood is Yew kindly donated to me.
The pots are 10cm & 7cm deep the cut from the wooden log in the back of the photo.
It looks like two of my turnings have been included in Turner’s Rest.
Turner’s Rest is a paper.li content aggregator run my Martin Saban-Smith and it has picked up on two pieces of work that I did last weekend, quite exciting.
Pop over to www.turnersrest.com and take a look and subscribe it hits your email inbox on Friday’s.
This weekend I have had the pleasure of being taught how to turn some wood.
I spent two days with Tom Pockley and have learned so very much that I hope I don’t forget. I guess the best way is to get some more practice in during the week all I need to do is finish work on time so I can play in the garage / wood shop.
This is project number 4 a wooden box from cherry wood, it box is 90 mm high with the lid being 50 mm high.
This weekend I have had the pleasure of being taught how to turn some wood.
I spent two days with Tom Pockley and have learned so very much that I hope I don’t forget. I guess the best way is to get some more practice in during the week all I need to do is finish work on time so I can play in the garage / wood shop.
This is item project 3 for me and I am quite happy with it, I also turned a box but that will be in the next post.
So we are in March 2016 and the time has come to begin a new woodworking related hobby I have chosen wood turning.
This section will document my misadventures in wood turning from photos of my first pieces to eventually videos to detail my journey, I am sure I will make many many mistakes but a log of what I am / have been doing should help me get better and if anyone else gets a kick out of my misadventures then all the better.
So today was the second item I have turned a small goblet.
I followed this tutorial from Keith Barrow on YouTube:
So I have taken up a new hobby to go with all of the others, and this is my first attempt to make something.
This in an 8 inch sycamore bowl.
I am in preparation of a turning course in two weekends time and thought I should give things a go before I went, this is the first thing I have put on a lathe and the first bit of woodwork in over 25 years.
This is my attempt, sorry about the quality of the photos I was using the camera on the back of a tablet.
I followed this tutorial from Keith Barrow on YouTube:
I had a fantastic day out with a friend on the Red Dragon Flyer
So some fun tonight in Hastings with long exposures.
I need to bring the time down quite a bit as they are a little too light in places and the images are suffering as a result, I will go back to the spot and play again in a few evenings times and hopefully the outcome will be better.
The nice thing about mistakes is the ability to learn a little more.
So after an age I have been able to start with doing some water droplet photography, this is my first try and a few lessons learned.
Firstly the boring bits:
Lessons learned
Focus:
I need to work on the focus a little more, the water is fine but the droplets are not as clear as they should be, perhaps I need to move the focus up a little.
Background:
While black is doing the job I may need to have a play with other colours but we will see for next time.
Lighting:
The lighting is not as simple as it appears to be, I need to work on that quire a bit.
Today the following error was being thrown by a new SharePoint c# application,
“An unhandled exception of type ‘System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException’ occurred in Microsoft.SharePoint.dll” with the following detail:
“Additional information: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {BDEADF26-C265-11D0-BCED-00A0C90AB50F} failed due to the following error: 80040154 Class not registered (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80040154 (REGDB_E_CLASSNOTREG)).”
The application is being written in Visual Studio 2013, c# for SharePoint 2013 on a Microsoft Server 2012 R2 server.
To get over the issue just change the platform target in the build settings of the project to x64.
Went for a little dive over at Holbrough lakes this afternoon / this evening trying out a Liquid Image video camera mask, pleasantly surprised with the video.
We found the bus that was sunk at Holbrough lakes a couple of weeks ago.
Had a fantastic day out at Dover Castle & visited the war time tunnels, if you want a unique visit them pop over and take a look.
I have loved star trail photos for quite some time now so I thought I would have a play.
This image of from a set of images taken last night, not the best night for star trails as there was a almost full moon but I needed to try out the theory.
The image below is a composite image from 55 photos stitched together, each photo was taken with a Nikon D5100 using the inbuilt “interval timer shooting” option.
The camera was mounted on a tripod and set up to take images with the following settings.
F-stop : 5.6
Exposure time : 15 seconds
ISO Speed : 1600
Focal length : 22mm ( I was aiming for 20 but hay ho)
The images where then stacked using StarStaX a fantastic little freeware application.
This is the resulting image:
Now there is lots wrong with this image, there is too much light pollution from the street lamps but it was able to prove the concept.
The next time I do this there will be no moon in the sky and I will be in a more remote location without street lamps and with a bit of luck it will be a lot nicer.
I thought I would try my hand at Luna photography and after a little messing around with the settings I was able to get a few shots off.
The following are the four that I have selected out of the 9 in focus photos that I was able to take tonight.
ISO : 400
F-stop : F3.5
Focal length : 23mm
Flash : None
Shutter timing : 1/80 second.
ISO : 200
F-stop : F2.8
Focal length : 23mm
Flash : None
Shutter timing : 1/80 second.
ISO : 200
F-stop : F2.8
Focal length : 23mm
Flash : None
Shutter timing : 1/125 second.
ISO : 200
F-stop : F2.8
Focal length : 23mm
Flash : None
Shutter timing : 1/125second.
I then went on to crop with the, with different degrees of success, I think that cropped image 3 is the best one.
It has been a while since I had the time to play with the manual mode of a camera as as the local school was having a fireworks night in my back garden I thought I would have a play.
So I set my Nikon D5100 up on a tripod got out the IR shutter release and had a play.
The base settings are:
ISO : 100
F-stop : F11
Focal length : 18mm
Flash : None
Shutter timing : 1.9 – 5 seconds.
With the exception of some cropping I have not done any post editing at the moment, I plan this week to take one or two of the images and play with them in GIMP / Photoshop and see what I can do with them.
