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This isn't my regular kind of post here.😉 I just want to share with you my helping lights for macro photography. I watched a video last month of this tip and wanted to try it myself. It worked indoor for my last photos but I want to use it for outdoors. I used here a velcro wrap tie and some cheap mini led flashlight keychains an wrapped around my heavy used Canon 100mm f/2.8 lens. You can turn on/off the ones you need, add more lights or rotate the band around the lens to adjust the light position. Well, it worked for me and I'll post some macro photos from outdoors soon, too windy and cold now!!! (I already have a ring flash, too.)
1 Crumbling Wall with pre cut hole.
I sheet of corrugated metal.
1 can green paint.
1 can brown paint.
1 Sharpie.
HWW!
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, NM
Pattern is "Mini Mayflower Pouch" by Modern Patchwork Spring 2014. This is the third pouch I made from this pattern.
One of our irrigation system water valves decided to flow water even when the system was turned off and that's not ideal. I did get lucky and was able to replace just the upper valve body and diaphragm and that fixed it. Replacing the whole valve would have been a nightmare involving lots of shovel time for my poor wife. 8)
I did have some excitement here as I was head down in here working in our 375 degree heat when an alligator lizard darted across my hand and I thought I was snakebit for a second. Whee.
DIY Headband! A very cute headband with paper flowers attached.. By Request of our very own Whisper Mizin.
District 5 starts tomorrow and geek. is in the Indie District!
<3 All original mesh & can be found in 8 diff colors. One shown in pic is with black & white comics look :3
geek. <3
“Dental deserts” have left just one NHS dentist per 16,000 people in some parts of the country.
Last month a poll found that one in five people who cannot get an appointment with a dentist have turned to “DIY dentistry”.
Research reveals widespread shortages of dentists, with patients forced to take matters into their own hands.
Polling of 2,200 adults found that 533 had tried and failed to secure appointments in the last 12 months, with the worst difficulties in London and the South East.
Of those, 21 per cent carried out their own dental work or asked someone who was not a dentist to do so. The LGA, which represents more than 350 councils in England and Wales, said the Government must address shortages in NHS dentistry.
The LGA said the public health grant for councils to help provide Dental service has been cut by 24 per cent in real terms since 2015/16, equivalent to a total reduction of £1 billion.
I think I might have a go at DIY ophthalmology next.
Don't try this at home!
It has been going on for longer than you might think:--
In the Ebers Papyrus from ancient Egypt dating to 1550 BC, a section is devoted to eye diseases.
Celsus the Greek philosopher of the second century AD gave a detailed description of cataract surgery by the couching method.
Couching is the earliest documented form of cataract surgery. As a cataract is a clouding in the lens of the eye, couching is a technique whereby the lens is dislodged, thus removing the opacity. Although couching is nowadays routinely practised only in remote areas, it was a precursor to modern cataract surgery
Maybe DIY Orthopaedic surgery next.
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My DIY ringflash that I've been doing for the last few days.
(Photo, starting from top left) Description
(1) I started with a 24 cm diameter steel bown and a normal food can.
(2) Added some tape on the bowl and drew the cutting lines with the can as a guide.
(3) Bottom from the bowl and can removed. I also shortened the cat a little bit. I first drilled a hole on the bottom of the bowl and then cut the metal with metal cutters.
(4) The two parts connected with strong epoxy that was meant for metals.
(5) Hole for the flash made and few connecting holes drilled. Also the needed aluminum parts are cut and bent in shape.
(6) The bottom part covered with black hockey tape. In the photo it has a Manfrotto quick attachment plate on it. Also has a hole for attaching it to the tripod mount of the camera.
(7) The top part where the flash is attached. Made some holes for the DIY TTL flash cord.
(8) I added some plastic parts for the flash hole to make it look nicer and to prevent light from escaping too much. Next I added some putty to finish it (wasn't necessary but I got too carried away again with the building).
(9) Putty and the bowl fully sanded and waiting for some gray primer and matte black finish.
(10) Painted and finished. Added some black hockey tape on the can's edge to prevent it from scratching the camera.
(11) Close up of the flash hole. A little bit of aluminum foil tape on the inside and black hockey tape on the edge.
(12) White thin fabric streched and being glued on the edges to get some diffusion to the light. There is a rubber band holding the fabric to the can.
See the finished righflash:
* DIY ringflash finished, without camera
* DIY ringflash finished, with camera
Cost: bowl 3€, can 0€, aluminum 1€ + some extra costs from paints etc. but I'm not going to count them to the total. Cheap anyway.
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Do not try this at home.
That van Gogh moment.
Otoplasty — also known as cosmetic ear surgery — is a procedure to change the shape, position or size of the ears.
Maybe DIY brain surgery next.