A double diptych. I recently came across a great tutorial by Jay Watson, using Lightroom to create Diptychs He shows an easy way to create a template and generate diptychs quickly and consistently. I don’t think I have had ever even used the “Print” menu in Lightroom before.

These are just a couple of older travel photos I had around, the first from Hong Kong and the largest free standing outdoor bronze buddha. The diptych below is from a road trip through the midwest, the trains I believe are from Chicago and the church is somewhere along the way.

I started playing with some of my old homemade lenses with my new camera. This is one shot I liked of the dog playing the backyard, seems like an appropriate spooky shot to start of October.

I was playing with the interval shooting mode on my Nikon D700, which allowed me to set my camera up to take a photo once every 30 seconds. I tried it on two sunsets on two different days. I think the results turned out pretty good.

I set the camera in manual mode and had it metered for the first shot, that way the photos would get darker as the sun set. It ended up getting darker faster than I expected, but an interesting effect. I like the clouds in the first one better.

I used Quicktime Pro to compile into a video, which was pretty easy. Just use the Open Image Sequence and select your photos, frame rate and export. I plan to play around with this some more.