A few of us drove up to Tahoe for some good times and long exposures. The first shot works out to be about 1.5 hours of exposure with the 10.5mm. The second photo is a stitched panorama composed of 4 photos taken at ISO 3200 @f/3.2 with my new Tokina 11-16mm f/2.8. PS, I'm thinking of closing down...

My recent foray into star trails and long exposures combined with some lovely wet (but calm) weather last night led me to take these in my front yard. It was so calm and so quiet....

With some inspiration from Sam Noyoun's article at diyphotography.net, I decided to try to make some ghetto inexpensive infrared filters for use with my SLR's lenses. Be sure to check out the results at the bottom of this tutorial. Apparently most point and shoot digital cameras are extremely...