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World Premiere of RECOVERED Journeys Through the Autism Spectrum and Back, A documentary by Dr. Doreen Granpeesheh and Michele Jaquis, at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA on April 25, 2008.
photo by Nicole Jaquis
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.
Oh, what fun these high quality Tamiya models are to build! Photo was shot with a Sigma 10-20mm ultra wide angle lens.
This is my Clausing model 5912 engine lathe, built in 1968 or so.
I bought it used from a seller in SE New Hampshire in 2003, for only $600.
It shows very little wear, and has a flame-hardened bed.
I brought it back to Northern New York, towed behind by Dad's 1988 Isuzu Trooper II, in a 1970's vintage DIY utility trailer.
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).
Nikon D600
Holga HPL-N pinhole lens
40mm focal length
f/160 (.25mm aperture)
ISO 100
The Holga vignettes substantially on the D600's full-frame FX sensor, but I rather like the effect.
I've found that in full daylight at high ISO (6400 to 25,600), the D600 can do handheld shots at 1/30 sec., quite a fun thing to play with!
Where did he go? I just saw the glint of his lens a moment ago!
Samyang 500mm F/8 preset lens, handheld.
Heavily cropped from six megapixel image. I'm not much of a birder, and have not yet developed the patience and skill it takes to get close enough to a wee bird, even with a 750mm equivalent lens...
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.
Samyang / Rokinon 8mm f/3.5 fisheye lens.
The lens hood has been “shaved” to allow a nearly full circle image to be captured.
Here is what remains of Genghis Khar, my ever-faithful traveling companion (the passage of time casts a warm glow over unpleasant memories).
This classic 1983 Chevette Scooter is about to be put up on the auction block, so as a preliminary I was inspecting its teeth.
Lacking a buyer from the hallowed halls of eBay, the old red sled will meet it's fate in the jaws of a shredder, the remains thence to be shipped to China to be made into nuclear submarines for World War III, presumably with at least a Mongol or two on board each vessel.
Three-exposure HDR-processed image (EV0,EV-2,EV+2).
This wee critter was on a concrete slab by the hot tubs here in northeastern California (Lassen County). This grasshopper was well under an inch long. It was patient enough to let me poke a huge camera lens within an inch or less of his face for long enough to take a bunch of photos.
To make this image, I used my Nikon D50 DSLR with an old 50mm F/1.8 Nikkor prime lens, mounted on a stack of extension tubes to get such close focusing.
This method is a cheap and effective way to get extreme close-ups, but it's difficult to use. There is no autofocus or exposure metering. The lens aperture must be set to a very small F stop to get even the miserably shallow depth of field seen here. And because the camera has no control of the lens diaphragm when the lens is mounted out on my basic-model extension tubes, focusing is difficult (due to a very dark view through the prism with the lens diaphragm stopped down).
Focusing is not done with the lens's focusing ring, you move the camera closer or farther from the subject until the most important part of your subject looks sharp on the ground glass.
Exposure is done by "chimping", which is guessing at the correct setting, then viewing the result on the camera's LCD screen, then correcting for the next shot.
All this inconvenience is not worth the bother for regular macro use, since a real macro lens would allow autofocus, automatic exposure and even vibration reduction for sharper results. But a nice 105mm VR macro lens for my Nikon would cost nearly $1,000, and the basic extension tube set I used costs less than $10 on eBay...
Photographed in Big Valley, California.
I captured these images when the dragonflies landed on the tops of some pieces of steel rebar that stick way up from a partially demolished hot tub.
These were shot in full daylight. I darkened the background by stopping down to F/16 or so at 1/500th, and used an on-camera TTL hotshoe flash to light the subject.
I got as close to the subjects as I could. The lens was a cheap 70-300mm zoom. It's closest focusing distance is quite far, so these images were heavily cropped from a six megapixel RAW, despite being shot at 450mm equivalent focal length.
He closed this show in San Jose with a spot-on impersonation of Andy Kaufman. Or was he communing with the disembodied consciousness of Robin Williams?
We'll never know...
This scene was in the Ash Creek Wildlife Area in Big Valley, California.
In Lassen County, between Bieber and Adin.
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.
These wee pebbles were once buried in sand, and as the sand eroded in the rain, they were left as you see them here, resting on pillars, awaiting their inevitable collapse.
The PCB's serpentine antenna trace can be seen on the left. There was already a hole in the PCB right in the antenna trace. And the hole was even metal-lined and conductive to the antenna trace, as if it was made for external antenna mounting. I think I'm at about 1/2 wave length with the existing trace added to the partly extended whip length.
See the previous and next photo in the set for more info.
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.
I added the 1/8-inch (3.5mm) mono phone jack to the back of the hotshoe (seen at the top of this image), to be used as a sync jack.
I also removed the four dedicated pins in the hotshoe, to prevent shorting on a metal radio trigger hotshoe. Little did I know that there would soon be a radio trigger (the RF-602) that could wake up the 430EZ, which goes to sleep after 90 seconds of inactivity. And of course, the RF-602 needs at least one of the pins I removed to signal the 430EZ to wake up.
D'Oh!
The following image was stacked using multiple exposures together using the "Average" function of Markus Enzweiler's excellent program StarStaX, which can be downloaded for free here:
www.markus-enzweiler.de/software/software.html
The difference is amazing
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.