I'm in the midst of mapping out and street-naming the Cameron "McManson" Park developments north of Edgeworth at the moment. It's a fair slog-- tonight was my third 2-3 hour 20km ride-around, using a camera to geotag the street names & etc. One time I attempted it on the scooter, however the area has a lot of pedestrian+cycleways that would Be A Good Thing to include (the architects definitely had schoolkids wanting shortcuts home in mind!)
The street-mapping is being done at night, and I discovered a nice trick for taking photos of the streetsigns with a cameraflash. Normally, the reflective signs are always over-exposed no matter what flash/ISO/Aperture/etc. level setting on the camera. However-- I've found completely covering the flash with a finger lets just enough light through your entire finger to light-up the sign enough. Funnily enough, the sign now looks pink! :-D
Overexposed: http://hunter.apana.org.au/~cjb/Image/20090311-195923.jpg
'Blood Filtered Flash': http://hunter.apana.org.au/~cjb/Image/20090311-204549.jpg
Discussion
Comment from Biogenesis_ on 11 March 2009 at 12:28
I noticed this area coming together, nice work :).
The red street sign strongly reminds me or something in my youth, I suspect it's red glow in the dark stuff...gnarh, what was it? Probably tazos or something...It'll probably come to me in a dream tonight, but be forgotten in another dream by morning.