A Stitch in Time

I made an awesome discovery for my camera! It's an open-source software package to run on my Canon camera! Here is a link to an article about it: CHDK. It brings out all sorts of options for my camera. The coolest one is changing the shutter speed. I can now set shutter speed at 1/8000 to 1/60,000 of a second! This is fantastic for high speed photography. After learning that I setup the faucet to drip and started taking a ton of pictures. I caught some fantastic pics!


Another awesome feature is time-lapse photography. I downloaded a script that allows me to setup my camera to take a picture every X seconds. Now I am on a lick to take time lapse photography of a lot of stuff. From fixing the trailer to pruning trees.

One more item that seems useful, though I haven't yet tried, is bracketing. Its a technique where you take say 3 pictures of the same scene. Each photo is taken at a different exposure setting. This is useful for when you take a picture and the building is fine but the sky is all washed out white and the ground is dark. Now you take 3 photos, one where the building is good, another where the sky is good, and yet another where the ground is good. You then mix the pictures and get amazing results.