ItsTheMitchell

 I love failures. I also (generally) enjoy playing the long game. This has been a really  long game. I've been into 3D printing since purchasing my first printer for the STEM lab where I used to teach. I started with no printers, and by the end of my second year in that lab, I had six! Fast forward to a career change, and I no longer had access to the 3D print farm I had built. My darling, beautiful wife bought a 3D printer for me to use at home. My learning continued there. The biggest lesson I learned... Upgrades aren't always upgrades. Anyway, without getting too off in the technical weeds, I've been learning how to use Time Lapse software to make nice, smooth videos of my 3D prints as they're being made. I threw all (err... most... well... some) of the videos in a compilation for YouTube. I think most of them came out well considering the quality of the potato (camera) I used for filming. That being said, if you want me to get in the technical weeds of 3D printing, ...

I'm not sure if you heard the news or not, but tonight (1/20/19) was a Super Blood Wolf Moon. Super because it is relatively close to earth in its orbit. Blood because there was a Lunar eclipse. Wolf moon is the fancy name for a full moon in January. I decided it would be a great time to practice some digital photography. Outdoors. At night. In 34 degree weather. This may sound like Greek (geek?) to you. Stick it out. I've just started learning this stuff myself, and would love any photographers to double check my understanding here. The following images were shot on my wife's Nikon D3400. None of them have been edited at all. I do have the raw files, but these are the JPGs. I used manual mode with the shutter at 1/250, f11, 250ISO for the first images. I used her 70-300mm lens fully zoomed in. I let autofocus do its thing. put the camera on a tripod, and set it to snap five pictures after a 10 second delay. As the eclipse progressed, and there was less ...