Nikon D40

Question ‘to myself’
How to get long exposure times in daylight without over exposing the image?

It’s funny how you have an idea of things, and often you approach these things with the wrong mind set you can be left with a mental block that will put up a wall against re-evaluating or even learning.

This has been the case for me at least with this new camera.
I have seen those time delayed exposures of water falls, the sea rendering a fluid creamy quality and always assumed the shutter would need to be open for several seconds to achieve this effect.

Below is a recent shot, and I will explain my problem.

I took this shot in priority mode shutter.
Exposure time: 0.250s 1/4
Aperture: f/36.0
Exposure compensation at -1.3

And as you can see the image is beginning to become over exposed. Shots I took at longer exposure just washed out white.
Even with Exposure comp to -5.
Now this is the longest exposure I could get in these light conditions, sunny day, mid afternoon, possibly not the best time, but
(as I am still very much a novice_working around the integrated shot selection options.) I figured I had missed something obvious.

Indeed I had, and it was only after starting to write this, in an attempt to get my progress recorded for reference that I came across posts on digital camera forums.
It seems I need a neutral density filter

So I guess I’m going to get one, but again, what type, strength etc.
As I stated earlier I just assumed the camera, being sophisticated would allow me to do these things. What I am now learning is that the camera is far more intelligent than me, and I should read and discover it’s many setting options and get out there.

If you digital experts have any advise for a novice regarding this post, or any related topics, please feel free to comment below.

Search engine optimization

Do search engine algorithms send out popular current media based query’s to see where and in what proportion general searches are made, and thus rendering the analytics service you have full of error?

I am quite lazy in this aspect, although improving my methodology, I have on this very blog ‘plugins‘ installed that allow me to add unique headers and meta information to individual pages whilst keeping the ‘on the fly style publishing’.

I rarely do this due to some weird obsessive behavior i have about bloating code, but back to my original thought, this site is getting regular hits from all around the world.
I have had better maps, but you get the general impression. There are areas to investigate.
To travel to the Kamchatka peninsula (hay guys out there.)

It’s about learning to understand your own thought processes, and the processes of others. For example, I had a hit a while ago, from Roswell New Mexico. I was understandably made up, (If you havn’t figured, you might if you stick around.), anyway i have a pic of said event, for reasons of verification in this conspiratorial world.
And to prove to myself that my own processes enabled me to find the pic below with only a small amount of effort.

Any where, everywhere the human spirit can find you, it’s quest for knowledge, or trivia, or something in-between.
Out there with ‘meta madness’

Orrery

Orrery from Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery, for whom the first modern orrery was built, commission to George Graham.

So I have my subscription after buying the first issue in the shops. Issue 4 and 5 arrived before issue two and three which arrived yesterday.
Let the construction commence.
Bizarrely the tools, including allen keys arrive with the third delivery, which will for me be issues six and seven.
Managed to make a start, but fell away when I required a 1.5mm key and my smallest only 2mm. Will grab one tomorrow and continue with the alignment of the celestial spheres at that time. Till then.

See related picture