My Simpsons Christmas Village

[vhato]

I am trying to do 3 things here. First I want everyone to see my Simpsons Christmas Village. Second, I am testing my home Web/FTP server. My local ISP only allows for 10MB of disk space and most of the others have bandwidth limitations. I have a 4MB Download rate and a 512kb Upload rate. So this should be sufficient for adding data and pix to the MANY forums (mostly Automotive) that I belong too. I had an old Pentium 3-550Mhz with 20GB hard disk in it laying in the closet, so I loaded Windows 2000 Pro, reconfigured my router and I hope this works. And 3rd, the free Dynamic IP DNS service since I am on a Dynamic IP. http://www.dyndns.org. My free site at my house is http://vhato.dnsalias.com. I just need to create a website because it does nothing right now other than serve pictures to forums similar to this one. Kinda cool having a home Web/FTP server if this works. Please reply if you see nothing so I can fix it. I am posting this on many forums to test speed. Lemme know if it does work, if it is decent in speed.

 

These shots were hard for me with my Sony 717. For the darker shots I set the camera to full manual with ISO 100, F2.0 and either an exposure of 2-3 seconds. My Oscar Mini-Pod held the camera. The Wide Angle pix are taken with the HGD-0758 0.7x Wide Angle Lens. For the brighter shots I used the HVL-1000 Flash set to Normal and bounced off the ceiling. The long exposure, wide angle shots were really hard because I was laying on the floor, supporting the Oscar Mini-Pod because it could not bare the weight of the HGD-0758 lens. So I held my breath and set the camera to timed photography. The non-flash (darker) shots used Incadescent White Balance because not enough light was available for manual white balance. The first mistake I see is I should have used manual focus...I did everything else manually, why I forgot that is beyond me. The only post-processing here was a resize to 800x600 for the web. Here they are:

 

[RyanbabZ71]

thats awesome where did you get the pieces?

[vhato]

Well, I had to cheat just now. I discovered Windows 2000 Pro has a 10 connection limit. So I am only hosting them to http://www.sonycams.com due to the small amount of concurrent users. GM-Trucks can wipe out the limit in 1 second. So I switched them to my ISP so everyone could see anyway. My local server is working though, but I gotta switch to Linux or Windows 2000 Server.

 

I purchased them from Hawthorne Village. I get a piece everytime they finish one.

[99silveradoz71]

Very cool

[Wingnut]

If you have Cox (which is where your images are currently being hosted I see), you should have 70 mb of online storage.

 

That's what they give me anyway.

 

Problem is, they break it down into 10 mb increments. So you have to make a userid (up to 7 of them, including your main account) for every 10 mb of space.

 

The best thing is, there's not really a bandwidth limitation. I've used many gb's of bandwidth in a single day on many occasions, and they have never balked at it.

 

Great pics, by the way

[vhato]

If you have Cox (which is where your images are currently being hosted I see), you should have 70 mb of online storage.

 

That's what they give me anyway.

 

Problem is, they break it down into 10 mb increments. So you have to make a userid (up to 7 of them, including your main account) for every 10 mb of space.

 

The best thing is, there's not really a bandwidth limitation. I've used many gb's of bandwidth in a single day on many occasions, and they have never balked at it.

 

Great pics, by the way

 

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Yea, I wrote I had to switch back to my ISP, but the 10mb limit causes problems. I have both Linux and Windows 2000 Server so I will swap them because my current Windows 2000 Pro limits me to 10 conenctions.

[Halen5150]

That's awesome

[budhayes3]

Your Simpson's Christmas Village is awesome!! Ho..Ho..D'oh!

[SlamminL5s]

Thats Hot!

[vhato]

Thanks everyone.....And Halen5150......One of my favorite albums!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[antig24]

That's pretty cool