Skywatch Friday: 99% Full Moon

Skywatch Friday: Clouds and Carnival

A couple long-exposure entries for this week's Skywatch Friday. These were taken with a Nikon D90 on a tripod at the Cass County Fair in Cassopolis, Michigan.

Skywatch Friday: Carnival

The sky was perfectly clear last Sunday and served as a backdrop for the Elkhart County Fair in Goshen, Indiana.

Skywatch Friday: Spacious Skies

This is a double exposure done with a Holga 120N and Kodak Tri-X400 developed in Diafine. The first exposure was done pointing the camera up at the clouds through the trees overhead. For the second, the camera was aimed at a veteran's grave in the cemetery where I was standing. The grave marker doesn't show up in the final image, but the small American flag placed next to it does--another interesting toy camera accident.

Skywatch Friday: Pegasus

Mobil Gas Station, South Bend, Indiana
This was shot with a Holga 120N with aperture modification. One of the charming quirks of the Holga camera is that it comes with a switch for sunny or shady conditions. Sliding the switch to the sunny setting moves an arm into place between the lens and the film. There's just one teensy problem--the aperture in the arm is larger than the opening immediately behind the lens, so the switch has absolutely no effect on the amount of light striking the film. I've modified both my Holgas by removing the "shady" aperture ring behind the lens, and decreasing the size of the "sunny" aperture on the arm with metal tape. As a result, instead of the functional equivalent of a single aperture of about f/13 (everything about a Holga is approximate), I now have f stops of roughly f/10 and f/16.




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Sunrise in Colorado

Weld County Colorado, November 2009

Skywatch Friday Season 4, Episode 21

Sunrise, Weld County, Colorado