Hula in the Coola
"February 1-Hula in the Coola Day was created because, basically, people in the northern states were getting sick and tired of the crappy cold weather during the winter, and by February, they were ready for some HEAT already! So they decided to buy some hula skirts, toss their coats, mittens, pants, and scarves into a closet for the day, and go outside and do the hula like idiots who are trying to catch pneumonia. They thought that, if they tried hard enough, they could simply forget about the cold weather and trick themselves into thinking it was the nice, hot summer. (Apparently, accomplishing this means having to go outside in nothing but a grass skirt and some coconut shells and dancing.)
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- whattheheckholidays.wetpaint.com/page/Hula+in+the+Coola+Day
I had some fun last night with my mini Crystal Head Vodka bottles and shot glasses, incorporating some new glass beads I got from the thrift store this week, 3 skull fridge magnets, a colourful serving platter, and a handful of glow sticks.
I took my time arranging this platter yesterday, spanning a few hours as I came up with new ideas. The final key was cutting open some green and blue glowsticks and extracting their glowy goodness. The shot glasses are mostly water, with a little vegetable oil, some liquid detergent, and a little glow juice. The mini Crystal Head Vodka bottles still have their vodka intact; I simply poured the glowing goo into the "chip dip" resevoir in the serving platter.
After a dozen exposures of ambient light and hyperfocal point experimentation, I was about to call it a day, when I got the idea to tilt my tripod forward so it was on only 2 legs, and resting against the kitchen counter. That gave me this much better top down angle, eliminating a lot of boring background surrounding the platter, and giving me a flatter focal plane to increase DOF across the whole shot.
I may have discovered the bipod.
5.0 second long exposure on my Nikon D600 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens at f/16, ISO 400. Lit with ambient light and glow stick juice.
Hula in the Coola
"February 1-Hula in the Coola Day was created because, basically, people in the northern states were getting sick and tired of the crappy cold weather during the winter, and by February, they were ready for some HEAT already! So they decided to buy some hula skirts, toss their coats, mittens, pants, and scarves into a closet for the day, and go outside and do the hula like idiots who are trying to catch pneumonia. They thought that, if they tried hard enough, they could simply forget about the cold weather and trick themselves into thinking it was the nice, hot summer. (Apparently, accomplishing this means having to go outside in nothing but a grass skirt and some coconut shells and dancing.)
"
- whattheheckholidays.wetpaint.com/page/Hula+in+the+Coola+Day
I had some fun last night with my mini Crystal Head Vodka bottles and shot glasses, incorporating some new glass beads I got from the thrift store this week, 3 skull fridge magnets, a colourful serving platter, and a handful of glow sticks.
I took my time arranging this platter yesterday, spanning a few hours as I came up with new ideas. The final key was cutting open some green and blue glowsticks and extracting their glowy goodness. The shot glasses are mostly water, with a little vegetable oil, some liquid detergent, and a little glow juice. The mini Crystal Head Vodka bottles still have their vodka intact; I simply poured the glowing goo into the "chip dip" resevoir in the serving platter.
After a dozen exposures of ambient light and hyperfocal point experimentation, I was about to call it a day, when I got the idea to tilt my tripod forward so it was on only 2 legs, and resting against the kitchen counter. That gave me this much better top down angle, eliminating a lot of boring background surrounding the platter, and giving me a flatter focal plane to increase DOF across the whole shot.
I may have discovered the bipod.
5.0 second long exposure on my Nikon D600 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.4D lens at f/16, ISO 400. Lit with ambient light and glow stick juice.