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This wall divides the kitchen and bathroom in our house in Reno, and is the only one that is not built from solid wood panels, due to the need to carry the plumbing.
I bought a set of six square (plastic Cokin P knock-off) ND filters from a
Chinese eBay seller last July. Never tested 'em until today. I popped in the
graduated ND8 (3 stop), the darkest grad in the set. The set also came with
the plastic filter holder and a large set of metal adapter rings to fit many
lens filter thread sizes.
$17US, shipped, for the whole package.
I had to do a -1.5 stop exposure comp in the computer. It seems that the
camera gets a bit confused by the scene and overexposes. I'll set in-camera
next time.
This was shot with my Tokina 100mm f/2.8 macro lens, probably the sharpest one I own. When zoomed to 1:1 on screen, with and without the filter in place, there seems to be
little if any apparent resolution loss, despite the cheesy plastic filter
and the scratch I already made down the center of the filter by being a
dummy.
I was "Jesus of Home Depot" at the Reno Freethinker's 2013 Halloween get-together.
My career as Messiah had reached an impasse, so I decided to revert to my early incarnation as carpenter. Success as of yet is limited.
An anonymous disciple shows her solidarity...
Adventures in Big Valley, California.
EZ's "new" stainless steel tub for hot spring soaking, plus a pink Daisy lever-action BB gun.
This baby bird fell from its nest in the rafters of our carport here in the high desert. It was set upon by various insects, and was slowly being consumed as I took this photograph. I'm not sure if it was still alive, but there was enough movement to assume so.
These are Jianisi PT-04TM 433MHz flash-trigger receivers. Some of these come with a PC sync jack on the side, in addition to the hot shoe. Mine came with only the hot shoe. Not a big deal- PC jacks are not very reliable, and PC cables are expensive and hard to find.
The receiver on the right is unmodified, and still has the hot shoe in place. I don't think it's a good idea to mount a flash on this hot shoe, as all that holds the shoe to the thin plastic radio receiver body are three tiny self-tapping screws. And the receiver itself is held to the tripod or light stand by a flexible bracket on it's base, making for a tall, shaky stack of trouble.
The better method is to remove the hot shoe entirely from the receiver, and install an inexpensive 1/8-inch (3.5mm) phone jack in it's place. This allows you to use a cheap, reliable, readily available mono or stereo audio patch cord to connect the receiver to your flash.
The receiver can be velcro-mounted to the flash body, or mounted to the light stand with a longer patch cord between it and the flash. Having the receiver at a convenient height, while the flash is up high on a light stand makes it easy to switch it on and off, or change batteries if needed.
The next photo in this set shows the internal view of this mod.
Here is a Strobist forum thread on this mod:
Very wide angle coverage, obviously. Too wide for most uses.
The flashhead was powered by a 4,000 w/s Norman 40/40 powerpack, turned down to minimum power.
Camera was set to ISO50 at f/22
This is my Kearney & Trecker horizontal milling machine. It was made during World War II, and was presumably used to produce parts for the war effort.
It has been sitting in my yard for quite a few years, and is missing some parts, some of which were sold to bring new life to other old K&T mills.
It will soon be scrapped, unless some intrepid parts scroungers save at least some relics from the aging derelict.
It weighs about 4,000 pounds, and is considered a baby of its type.
This was my first time shooting fire dancers/spinners at night. Some post processing was required to get the results seen here.
I used my Nikon D600 with a Sigma 70-300mm f/4-5.6 "APO" macro lens with internal focus motor ($100 used on eBay).
I have a bunch of other shots of the firedancers in this set- check 'em out if'n ya like this sort of thang.
This is my Clausing model 5912 engine lathe.
I bought it used from a seller in SE New Hampshire in 2003. I brought it back here to Northern New York.
12.25-inch swing, 36-inches between centers.
It was originally equipped with a 1HP three-phase motor and a hydraulically-controlled variable-speed spindle drive. I am replacing the original drive and motor with a new three-phase 7.5HP direct-drive motor and a 480V VFD (Variable Frequency Drive).
Highly processed single-exposure pseudo-HDR image.
Antique lathe chuck, made by:
The D.E. Whiton Machine Company
New London, Connecticut
United States of America
7.5" four-jaw with L00 backplate spindle adapter.
Single-exposure pseudo-HDR.
Captured at a peace march / rally that I attended.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_24,_2005_anti-war_protest....
The single exposure was taken with an ancient Nikon 775 2MP point & shoot, then tone-mapped with Photomatix Pro.
Adventures in Big Valley, California.
EZ's "new" stainless steel tub for hot spring soaking, plus a pink Daisy lever-action BB gun.
After the 2014 bicycle art show in Reno, Nevada.
1983 Raleigh roadie with 27" frame and late model Raleigh aluminum-framed comfort bike.
I bought this USB flash drive from eBay seller garysin2008 on 11/29/09 for $13.87, with free shipping from China. What a bargain!, I thought, naively...
Little did I know that 85% of the flash memory being sold on eBay is of faked capacity. It took almost a month to arrive here in the USA.
After having some trouble getting the drive working well, I did some research, and discovered a German program called H2testw that can verify the actual capacity of a flash drive. Mine turned out to be a 4GB model that had been reprogrammed to report itself as 32GB. Some fakes are even worse, having less than 1GB actual capacity.
There is lots more information on this site:
As always, if the deal seems too good to be true, it probably is!
There are two more photos in this set, of the internals of this drive.
Please click on the following link to go to an alert page on SOSFakeFlash.com about fraudulent eBay seller garysin2008:
sosfakeflash.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/garysin2008-urgent-...
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
This is the knob and dial on the cross-slide leadscrew of my late 1960s Clausing model 5912 engine lathe.
12.25-inch swing, 36-inches between centers.
Highly processed single-exposure pseudo-HDR image.
This is my Kearney & Trecker horizontal milling machine. It was made during World War II, and was presumably used to produce parts for the war effort.
It has been sitting in my yard for quite a few years, and is missing some parts, some of which were sold to bring new life to other old K&T mills.
It will soon be scrapped, unless some intrepid parts scroungers save at least some relics from the aging derelict.
This is a handy little lathe, made by Sieg of China and sold in the USA under several brand names. Mine was purchased from Cummins Industrial Tools (hah!) as a slightly damaged display model.
Here the lathe is shown set up to face and bevel a large machine bolt, which was held in a three-jaw chuck and a steady rest.
Eight exposure HDR image.
Sorry about all the lens flare. I think it may have been caused by dust on my lens.
This is a handy little lathe, made by Sieg of China and sold in the USA under several brand names. Mine was purchased from Cummins Industrial Tools (hah!) as a slightly damaged display model.
Here the lathe is shown set up to face and bevel a large machine bolt, which was held in a three-jaw chuck and a steady rest.
Nine exposure HDR image.
Sorry about all the lens flare. I think it may have been caused by dust on my lens.
I bought a radio flash trigger set from Deal Extreme. Range, maximum sync speed and reliability using only the antenna trace on the transmitter's PCB was OK, but I knew it could be better. So I added the telescoping antenna shown here.
The antenna was salvaged from an old and no longer legal wideband AristoCraft R/C transmitter. The R/C radio operated on 75MHz, so the antenna is quite long. The flash trigger set operates on 433MHz, necessitating a much shorter wavelength antenna. With the telescoping feature of this antenna, tuning is a snap (or a yank?).
I quickly found that extending about two inches from the fully collapsed condition shown here gave awesome range and reliability. I was able to get 100% reliability at about 600 feet! And maximum sync speed can go as high as 1/800 sec., with marginal reliability at that speed. 100% reliable maximum sync is still at 1/400th.
See the next photo in the set for more info.
This is the biking and hiking trail along the Truckee River in Reno, under the Kuenzli Street and East Second Street bridges.
Shot at night, five exposures at different values, then combined into this tone-mapped HDR image.
Longest exposure was two minutes at ISO200 and f/8
The Farney's ACE hardware store in Carthage, New York.
Three-exposure HDR-processed image (EV0,EV-2,EV+2).
Earlier today, I noticed that the trees are producing a bumper crop of walnuts!
They may have done so in previous years, and we never noticed.
We'll put them out in the sun to dry them out, then enjoy the tasty bounty within.
Three portholes
The current owner Willie Shepherd, who is well into his eighties, originally traded two sacks of potatoes for this sweet (at the time) ride.
I used a single PowerGenix PGX-4AAZiNc 1.6v Nickel Zinc Rechargeable AA cell in each of two AA to C adapters, inside a vertical handle Argus C-3 flashgun. These cells are rated at 1.6V, but measure well over 1.8V when fully charged. They have very low internal resistance, and can dump more power into a strobe or flashbulb than any other AA cell. The NiZn AA cells are WAY more powerful than the Carbon C-cells that this flashgun was designed for. I don't know if this materially affects the brightness curve of the bulb "pop".
The flashbulb was blue coated, which I believe means it was designed to match the sensitivity curve of daylight-balanced color film.
Nikon D600 with a Tokina 100mm macro lens.
Camera on tripod, exposure equal on both shots:
5 seconds
f/2.8
ISO100
To fire the flashgun, I merely triggered the 5-second exposure, and used a screwdriver to short the two pins protruding from the handle of the flashgun. I was hand-holding the flashgun a few feet from the camera, casually pointing it in about the same direction as the lens. I think the flashgun's reflector has a much wider angle than most strobes.