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It's been a while since I posted a photo from our monthly theme photo wall where I work. So for the month of June the theme is an easy one, "Light". I took it literally.
Each month where I work we have a picture theme. The company provides matted frames for 8x10 prints. The pictures hang on a wall in a well lit hallway past offices to the conference room. We pull a theme from a hat. We don't "judge." We don't put our names on our prints. Anyone can participate in any theme or not. We do a quick critique each month too. So far, it's lots of fun and we are all getting into it.
A dark, elongated filament rose up and broke to the lower left and out from the sun (Apr.9-10, 2017). Filaments are cooler clouds of plasma tethered above the sun's surface by magnetic forces. They are notoriously unstable and tend not to last more than a few days before they collapse into the sun or break away into space. The video, taken in extreme ultraviolet light, covers about nine hours of activity. Credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, NASA.
... have since been cooled.
This Edison Mazda lamp is a prized possession of mine, I've been meaning to shoot it with a real camera ever since I got it. Being as fragile as it is I'm always hesitant to apply power to it's 100+ year old filament, but I thought this was a fitting arrangement. Needless to say I only applied about 20% of it's rated 20 watts to GTS. It's safely tucked away again with it's sister GE Mazda tubular lamp. See comments below for my original iphone shot and link to youtube video.
Way too busy for new photos right now. Here's one from my unposted archive. A supermacro of a wet lily stamen, the two parts - filament and anther - meeting. Pink lily petals provide the background. Very small scale and shallow dof in this. The anther is perhaps 3 mm across. Some crazy chromatic aberration happening here.
I really like how the thin filaments of fire came out in this shot. Undoubtedly, the thumbnail makes it harder to see, but I want to post it anyhow simply because I find it interesting.
Crithicca King - tech : Two 300 w/s strobes ( one full power, one 1/3 on right side , one speedlight over ) one softbox on right, no on the left . triggered by cactus V5
The missing sliver, a result of being impatient keeping the slew speed at 5 and not slower.
Fifteen flat-calibrated 1920x1200px, each of 1000 frames at 35 f/s. Best 50% stacked in AS!3, sharpened with 65% raw blend. Starting to see that the sharpening function in AS!3 has its limitations. A pity as it really enhances the promenances.
Merged in Lightroom, and further edited contrasts and false colour in Photoshop.
Project 365 01/09/2017: Quite a busy afternoon with errands and didn't get much chance to take photos outdoor with natural lighting. By the time I got home it was already too dark. Looking for subjects I thought the dusty old bulb on the front porch lighting would look interesting in BW for today's photo.