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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 7, 2021 7:36:15 GMT
This view is Eastbound on the Cumberland Parkway approaching the Metcalfe County Line. Photo Taken from a Moving Vehicle  |
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Post by whippet on Oct 7, 2021 14:03:52 GMT
It always amazes me, how you manage such good shots through glass.
Mine would show up the dirt marks on the windscreen.
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 7, 2021 16:21:36 GMT
It always amazes me, how you manage such good shots through glass. Mine would show up the dirt marks on the windscreen. Thanks; I much appreciate your compliment. Quite a bit of time spent with the arsenal of clean-up tools helps a bit, such as Spot Healing Brush, Clone Stamp, Wire Worm, and so forth. They won't hold up to close examination even after all that. A lot of these modern disposable vehicles are nearly impossible to take a photo through the glass as the windshields have all manner of obstructions made in the glass, such as a series of black dots, or a black strip with clear dots, plus a wide darkly-tinted band with a very abrupt edge across the top third. Having a politically correct environmentally friendly aerodynamic sloped windshield doesn't help a bit either; not for driving in heavy rain, where the sloped windshield becomes a riverbed; and, not for photography, where the sloped windshield becomes a mirror that reflects everything inside the vehicle. My keeper rate is pretty decent from a sensible older vehicle with a near-vertical glass with little or no curve; it is amazing how much better one can see through these old-school windshields as well, especially in a monsoon. My keeper rate really plummets in a later model passenger-type vehicle; having to travel in such a vehicle is quite disappointing and barely worth the effort, especially when I am seeing all sorts of interesting things, yet any photos I take are a blurry glaring reflective mess that can't be saved. |
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Post by whippet on Oct 8, 2021 15:42:09 GMT
Yas, I understand what you mean.
Completely different, but I don't like the thing the car manufactures do now, where the driver can see the instrument panel on the windscreen, so they don't have to look down. Thanks, but no thanks.
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 8, 2021 16:55:06 GMT
BuckSkin Have you tried a dashcam? The image quality is not too bad although they are quite wide-angle and distant objects small. My Garmin runs constantly and records non-stop, 90-second videos and holds hours of driving before overwriting the oldest videos. The still camera can be activated at any time to take stills. You might find a dash cam handly... if you don't already have one. Clive
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 8, 2021 22:28:02 GMT
BuckSkin Have you tried a dashcam? The image quality is not too bad although they are quite wide-angle and distant objects small. My Garmin runs constantly and records non-stop, 90-second videos and holds hours of driving before overwriting the oldest videos. The still camera can be activated at any time to take stills. You might find a dash cam handly... if you don't already have one. Clive I have actually puzzled a bit over how to control a real Big Girl Camera via a button on the gear pole. We have a GoPro and a whole host of mounts for it; I have considered mounting it to the mirror frame so that it would be outside and free of the impediments of all that glass. Of course, about two seconds in, one of these helicopter-sized Kentucky bugs would splatter itself all over the lens. I have been noticing more and more that company-owned trucks are having cameras all over them; front, back, and all up and down the sides, recording video and audio as a protective measure against crooked cops and overzealous lawyers; most of those take some pretty excellent video; I don't know if one could be rigged up to take stills on demand or not. Although I absolutely despise all this monitoring of every move that is made; it is hard for a crooked cop to argue his case against a black box. |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Oct 9, 2021 1:41:13 GMT
I don't know if one could be rigged up to take stills on demand or not. Many newer camera are Wi-Fi and NFC capable and can be controlled from a phone. So an externally (or on dash) mounted camera could be trigger with a phone. Fun stuff. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Oct 9, 2021 1:49:45 GMT
I don't know if one could be rigged up to take stills on demand or not. Many newer camera are Wi-Fi and NFC capable and can be controlled from a phone. So an externally (or on dash) mounted camera could be trigger with a phone. Fun stuff. The wife loaded some sort of GoPro "App" on her phone and she can make the GoPro do all sorts of tricks; of course, she has a phone, in fact at least three; thus far, I have avoided the need of one and couldn't even answer hers if it were ringing. So long as I don't have a phone, whoever I may be driving for can't call me during a trip and throw any derailing curves my way. |
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