Josef “Jeff” Sipek

Ahh…what a good day…I kind of gave up on the few dust particles on the CCD (well I forgot for a major part of the day :-) ). I had 3 shooting sessions…

• Strolling around the dangerous streets of Bellmore and Merrick :-)
• Car light trails
• Goofing off in darkness (sounds kinda bad..)

During the car light trails session, my battery died. That was still the original charge. I’d say not bad, ~300 photos (about 11% long exposure) in cold weather (ranging from -2 to 5 degrees Celsius). Today I also switched to Adobe RGB color space. The only drawback I see is the filenames are different :-/ oh well.

Here’s a sample (the first and second sessions)…

I sure had fun today…I walked around the neighborhood with the camera and I took a few decent photos. Johny provided me with insightful critique of what I though to be the best shot. I also noticed a few dust particles on the CCD. I remembered a thread on dpreview.com about "Flags of the World" and I just had to take this for the thread: