My Photo Guides

Rim Fire, Yosemite Here are six Rim Fire time-lapse video clips put together into one short movie: http://vimeo.com/jeffsullivan/rim-fire-time-to-run The music is “The time To Run” by Dexter Britain ( www.dexterbritain.co.uk ).  Thank in advance for any feedback… comments, shares, and so on! http://vimeo.com/jeffsullivan/rim-fire-time-to-run

Yosemite's Rim Fire Time-lapse Video Here's one of several time-lapse videos I captured before dawn this morning from the section of Tioga Road CA-120 which closed at noon.   http://vimeo.com/jeffsullivan/rim-fire-yosemite The other videos are also uploaded to my Vimeo account. http://vimeo.com/jeffsullivan/rim-fire-yosemite

Tumblr Challenges Twitter for VMA Volume Twitter has been credited as the social network dominating response to television, but a data firm credited Tumblr with 1.1M messages vs. 1.3M on Twitter following MTV's Video Music Awards.  Twitter disputed the numbers, saying that they had 3M tweets during the VMAs.  Either way, Tumblr clearly has a thriving community that can't be ruled out of the race. http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/tumblr-went-toe-toe-twitter-during-vmas-152043 Are you on Tumblr?  I think I will be more, from here on out: http://jeffsullivan.tumblr.com/ http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/tumblr-went-toe-toe-twitter-during-vmas-152043

Rim Fire near Yosemite Video from a plane dropping fire retardant on the Rim Fire near Yosemite.  The fire has now burned over 105,000 acres. http://youtu.be/c_eGiGG1B-Q http://youtu.be/c_eGiGG1B-Q

Perseid Meteor Shower Time-lapse 2013 "Let's Dance" (InFiction String Remix) by David Bowie My latest time-lapse features over six minutes of footage from recent nights in 2013 during the Perseid Meteor Shower. The slower, mostly horizontal lights are airplanes. The brief flashes of mostly vertical streaks are the meteors (a few slower and more faint ones are satellites). Many meteors are faint, so you'll only see many of those if you change the viewing resolution to HD and expand the video full screen.  For the soundtrack, the video is set to the InFiction remix of David Bowie's "Let's Dance", as featured in the recent Kia commercial (used with permission).  Here's more from the artist: djcraig.net "The new Kia Cadenza commercial with a fantastic electro remix of the David Bowie 80s smash hit "Let's Dance". The song is now available as a free download at djcraig.net ! The Lets Dance (InFiction String Remix) is legal and guilt

Perseid Meteor Shower Time-lapse New footage from recent nights... #perseidmeteorshower   #astronomy   YouTube  Originally shared by Jeff Sullivan Perseid Meteor Shower 2013 - Time-lapse Astrophotography Over six minutes of footage from recent nights, set to the InFiction remix of David Bowie's "Let's Dance", as featured in the recent Kia commercial.  For best results and to see the most meteors, be sure and watch it on YouTube and use the option at the bottom to watch it in HD, either 720P or 1080P HD resolution.   I've given this a few hours head start on G+... +87 so far... now I'll try it on another site and let's see which results in the most response. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTXA5gYWtXs&feature=autoshare

New Images from Bodie State Historic Park I'm adding to this album more shots from my September 22, 2012 visit to Bodie, which featured a thunderstorm, rain, rainbows, a nice sunset and eventually, some nice star shots.  I'm finally getting around to processing a few of the shots which seem to benefit from HDR processing, so most of these new images were produced using Photomatix.   Digital cameras are less capable than film cameras as capturing shadow and highlight detail, so High Dynamic Range (HDR) software was developed to enable you to include lighter and darker exposures to improve the dynamic range of your results.  Unfortunately HDR has gotten a bit of a bad rap in the past for producing wacky results instead of improving realism.  Some photographers even failed to capture properly exposed images to correct blown highlights (the point of using the technique in the first place).  Fortunately the latest version of Photomatix and its interface to Adobe Lightroom for pre an

Update on Bodie Night Photography August 9, 24 and Oct 12 My new WordPress blog on BlueHost was down yesterday so I had to put the PayPal button for the single night Aug 24 Bodie access on the front page of my old Blogger blog: www.activesole.blogspot.com .   BlueHost is back up today, so today I'll duplicate the Bodie Aug 24 PayPal registration button on the front page there: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog For some reason the PayPal buttons don't work in the actual blog posts on my WordPress/BlueHost blog, including the one where I describe the Bodie workshops in more detail: http://www.jeffsullivanphotography.com/blog/bodie-night-photography-workshops/ Computers.  Pfft. On the positive side, Perseid meteors are on the rise this week, and we should have perfect conditions to catch a few in our shots when we're in Bodie this coming Friday, August 9.  I couldn't be more excited... they're going to have to drag me out of the park at 12:59am! Originally

Meteor Shower Report, morning of Aug 2 I left a camera out shooting 11 pm - 2 am the night of Aug 1/2 and didn't pick up any Perseid meteors, but the hourly rate should improve each night through Aug 12 or so, and the shooting conditions will be great for the next few night s as well.  On that same night (technically yesterday morning) I did pick up a few small meteors on a second camera directed southeast towards several smaller meteor showers for 5 hours, but they didn't seem frequent or dramatic enough to be worth prioritizing your compositions in that direction. http://earthsky.org/space/perseid-fireballs?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=ef87f6ad65-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-ef87f6ad65-393701793 http://earthsky.org/space/perseid-fireballs?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=ef87f6ad65-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-ef87f6ad65-393701793

Astrophotography Opportunity: Crescent Moon and Planets Grab your long lens and go catch the crescent moon near 3 planets before dawn tomorrow, Sunday August 4: http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-three-planets-in-gemini-before-sunrise-august-4?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=ef87f6ad65-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-ef87f6ad65-393701793 http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-and-three-planets-in-gemini-before-sunrise-august-4?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=ef87f6ad65-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-ef87f6ad65-393701793