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A Met Police Mercedes Atego from the Marine Policing Unit seen parked on Whitehall, London.
EXPLORED - 22nd JUNE 2012
One of my old pictures from some time ago.
OU08 FHF - Used to belong to the Bucks uniform Proactive Team and can now be seen working out of Amersham Police Station.
A great van with a lovely set of LED'S to boot :)
I have a few of my older pictures which if I get time I will put on if people wish.
Full function truck and trailer, the trailer steers automatically based on the rotated position of the 5th wheel compared to the trailer.
Volkswagen Transporter T5 Van, Full function, drive and steers. including 24 Led's.
Seen on Bishopsgate, London.
The officers in this gave me a funny look and then pulled up just behind me. I thought they were stopping me but it turned out they were stopping to carry out a drugs search on a member of the public.
Here are four examples of different lighting approaches. Obviously there are endless possibilities and I've only made fairly small changes. In all these examples the light is provided by two LED lights. I've used two different diffusion materials – white plastic (from a yoghurt bottle) and regular copy paper.
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Even lighting (top left)
Paper cylinder diffuser wrapping around the subject and up towards the lens, two LED lights from right/left
Simply too flat and boring for my taste. The "black hole of death" caused by the dark reflection of the lens becomes painfully pronounced
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Sculptural lighting (top right)
One LED diffused through white plastic, from the top, in front of and slightly to the left + one LED diffused through a sheet of paper from the right and somewhat behind the subject.
The asymmetry/directionality of the light brings out the texture and the slight backlighting brings out some of the translucency. I would consider this the standard approach, where lighting directions etcetera are chosen in order to bring out detail, texture and dimensionality.
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Directional lighting (bottom left)
Two diffused LED's from the left.
This strikes me as a rather under-utilized lighting approach in this type of photography. I find it quite interesting – sure some of the detail is lost in the heavy shadows but this also adds some mystery and tension to the image.
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Backlighting (bottom right)
Two diffused LED's from behind and to either side of the subject.
An experimental approach which became my first pick in this case. Obviously not always the best choice but worth trying when you feel the need for variation
A light demo from three of our Arocs Skip Lorries and four of our DAF LF Skip Lorries with Beacon's and LED's flashing everywhere.
A now out of service Essex Police Volvo V70 ARV seen on Main Road, Boreham. This has since been replaced with a brand new BMW 530d.
Created some hangings out of some Ikea fabric. Created a pocket at the bottom of each piece for some wood doweling and velcro'd the hangings to the undersides of the shelves. Added some LED's for illumination and color.
Tuesday 13th November was a fine sunny day for the most part, and with a day off I made the effort to capture some of the new Arriva routes in Guildford.
Route A runs from the bus station to the RSC Hospital via The Chase, and is in direct competition with the Safeguard 4/5. It appeared to operated by two buses, with a third appearing at times (I didn't spend long enough there to monitor them exactly).
Versa 4203 and Poppy MMC 4091 were seen several times, and 4090 also did one trip.
4203 has dire Led's, on three passes I only had two shots where they are visible.
And this was the only one in focus, so it'll have to do!
FJ10 EBC Leicestershire Police BMW X5 Traffic based at FHQ Spotted in Granville Road Leicester on the Caribbean Carnival This was the last Vheicle in the convoy on Saturday 4th August 2012
Playing around with WS2801 Led's a cheese grater and and toy Henry the hoover.
Place a cokin filter adaptor and holder over the 77mm or what ever lens size you have. Then carefully position the cheese grater over the filter holder. You will have to steel one from the kitchen and take off the plastic end! Your partner will go bananas when she goes to use it again, but thats the chances you have to take in life! Focus manually on the nearest point normally i do 1/3 into the scene. Set camera to 2 or 10 seconds delay, play around with exposure using live view, this one was 4 seconds with f7 ISO 200. Then simply wave lights around the grater until desired shot is taken. For best results use coloured rgb lights. Once shot is taken place the grater back into the kitchen draw and keep quite, deny all knowledge of the missing plastic end, if she notices it, blame the dog!
Explanation of the light leak: If you follow me on Instagram you'll already know I had to replace my Canon A1 body as the LED's stopped working in my old one (stopped showing the light reading and I used it as a light meter for my Rollei, so it was essential I could see the figures). As it turns out, this new body has a leaky back. The spongy outline on the back of the camera is torn/not tight enough so light gradually leaks in creating big red streaks and white/brown 'fog' around the outside of the photographs. The light leaks are by NO MEANS intentional (I have a small personal hatred towards any people who edit light leaks in) and I was very upset as several photographs were completely ruined by my new camera's mechanical fault. Naturally, I spent about an hour sulking, followed by another hour of torturing myself over what the photographs WOULD have been had there not have been disgusting light damage all over it. So anybody asking me how I 'edited' these in, prepare yourself for a reasonably blunt-borderline-abusive reply because I was very upset and it'll piss me off more than when people normally ask me how I edit.
Anyway, that is all.
Old "Operating Conditions Tablet" working with light bulbs in the cabin of a ÖBB class 1144 in testing mode, showing 24 flashing "surprise windows" of operating conditions and potential disturbances.
The new tablets work with cold LED's, not so proper for christmas mood. However, I hope we get through 2017 without too many troubles ...
I tried my best to translate the 24 messages in English ... ; )
Power / Loco stands / Main Switch off / Relay triggered / Engine Earth fault / Rectifier Oil pump stands / Engine Fan stands / Rectifier 55 degrees
Electric Brake / Hand Brake fixed / Train Voltage supply off / Collector protection / Excitation Earth fault / Transformer Oil pump stands / Electric Brake disturbed / Temperature Axle bearing 100 degrees
Pneumatic Brake / Emergency Brake / Electro-pneumatic Brake / Engine off / Converter Earth fault / Converter stands / Temperature measurement disturbed / Device Air lacks
Full function truck and trailer, the trailer steers automatically based on the rotated position of the 5th wheel compared to the trailer.
Volkswagen Transporter T5 Van, Full function, drive and steers. including 24 Led's.
This bus has TNM&O on the side... looks a lot like a Greyhound bus. I was told by "ziggzagzac" below that TNM&O is a Greyhound subsidiary that operates in Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Didn't catch the name of the towing / recovery company but I believe it's ACE Wrecker Service from the Orlando area.
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HaloThe Halo is an artwork set on the expended landfill site (or top 'o' slate) overlooking the town of Haslingden in Rossendale, positioned to be clearly visible from the M66 and A56 approach to Lancashire. It is located at grid reference SD791236. The Halo was the fourth and final Panopticon to be constructed in Lancashire and was launched in September 2007.
The Halo is an 18m-diameter steel lattice structure supported on a tripod five metres above the ground. The core is open at the top, framing views of the sky. It is lit after dark using low-energy LEDs powered by an adjacent wind turbine and glows a sky-blue colour, giving the effect of hovering above the town. It was designed by John Kennedy of LandLab.
No, not the Manwag you cynical person you...
Signalling along the coast in 2016 is a hotpotch of old and new, LED's controlled from Chester dispensed with the boxes at Mold Junction and Sandycroft a few years back, Rockliffe Hall has colour lights controlled from a 2-tier Portakabin. You then enter semaphore territory, Holywell Junction has some impressive gantries, followed by the tumbledown box at Mostyn. Talacre, Prestatyn, Rhyl no 1 and Abergele and Pensarn.
Colour lights dating from the mid-1980's controlled by Llandudno Junction take over from Llysfaen, the area from there to Conwy was re-signalled as part of the work associated with the building of the new alignment to accommodate the new A55 expressway between Colwyn Bay and the Junction.
Further west, Penmaenmawr and Bangor have colour lights, and the island of Anglesey has both boards and lights controlled from Gaerwen, Ty Croes (almost permanently switched out) Valley and Holyhead.
Re-signalling is overdue, by 2014 the section between the interface with Chester and Llandudno Junction should have been done, along with trackwork including the reinstatement of the up through line here at Rhyl.
It fell back to 2016, and now nobody seems to know when it may occur. Beyond the Junction is apparently still on for 2020 so perhaps Network Rail are going to do the whole lot in one go? Who knows...
The tall no 2 box at Rhyl still stands, victim of previous rationalisation work, it closed in March 1990. The majority of redundant boxes fall pretty fast these days, this weeks work at Banbury saw the closure of the box at Banbury South, S+T were in there as the 7-5-5 bell was exchanged with Banbury North to strip out spares for re-use elsewhere and within 8 hours the bulldozer was poised.
Rhyl no 2 survives thanks to it's listed status, although you'd never believe so. What do you do with it though?
67022 with the Llandudno Manwag, 8 July 2015.
I saw this gorgeous 991 at the parking of a Classic Car event in Brasschaat. The LED's of the rearlight were turned on so that was a nice opportunity to take some nice shots in combination with the spoiler sticking out and the glimmering sky. What do you think of this picture, leave your thoughts in the comments! And please fav' if you really like this picture!
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One of many Ford Fiesta Neighbourhood Patrol Cars used by Essex Police. This one was seen on Waltham Road, Boreham.
Frew got some new trucks. Here is one of them. I'm going to try to get some night shots of this to as the LED's look good at night
What to do when you want a time lapse control:
Buy a proper unit? - Nah, even a Chinese built one at less than twenty quid on fleabay was more than I wanted to pay(!)
Buy a Canon and hack it's firmware? - I don't even want to buy a timer remote why would I shell out for a Canon camera(?!)
Sit down with a cable release and manually press it? - You're joking right?(?)
So I came across this microchip PIC circuit on the web, TimeLapse, and it seemed just right. No LCD to try and find, no complicated build with superfluous 'features', just a nice simple unit and simple means I stood a better chance of finding the junk parts for it :-)
OK, I'll have to admit, it's not all junk - the PIC chip was in my stock, (and I remember paying something like 50 pence for it a while back now), and a little bit of veroboard.
So what we talking? 50 odd pence? Yes! That'll do me Tommy!
A few pieces on the guys original design, and I like him even more after checking one of his vids and hearing him pronounce 'camera' the same way I do! ;-) needed some changing hence the opto-couplers on the camera output connections. The multivibrator for the piezo speaker was probably superfluous, (could've been done with the PIC), but why not as it only needs a PIC output to sound and another to change the tone, (I love the little "OK" high/low tone beep!) Besides, I don't remember building a multivibrator the old fashioned way for some years now and strangely found it fun.
Couldn't I have designed my own circuit? Yeah, probably but not with the old Velleman K8048 kit I have, (what happened to RS232 ports?! There wasn't one on the new PC!) Plus why re-invent the wheel? This little circuit is close to perfect for me :-)
(Some of you may be wondering how I got my old Velleman RS232 programmer to work on USB. A prolific 232 cable, WinPic and a bit of know how, that's how. Not perfect but works! If any of you have a junk PIC-Kit programmer you're sticking in the bin, let me know....)
So really simple, (OK, comparatively simple), cost next to nothing and works great.
Little foibles? Not really, simple one button programming and it is great to hear that little "OK" beep. The shutter LED blinks nicely as it fires the camera and it opens the 'focus' line first for 100ms giving the camera chance to 'wake' during long intervals, (programmable from 1 second to some 18 hours with this little beast!) Worked out fairly small for the final build and those little AG12 batteries should last a while yet.
So thanks to the guy that posted this up on the web, (good to find this sort of sharing stuff!), couldn't find his name but I'm sure to thank a stranger as much as a friend :-)
Edit: Found the guy on Instructables. So thanks again Andrew!
If you build one, send him a thanks, little things like that go a long way :-)
What's next? Pulling my old Fui S5700 apart to hard wire a cable release socket to it. Looks like there's a couple of spare connectors on it's usb port so might as well wire it up to that ;-)
Edit: Done! Just got to figure out where all those little screws go back now - wibble!
Here is a short video of E-54 responding in the streets of LegoNYC
Built in a Lifelites LLC eLite Advanced kit equipped with Micro LED's in blue, red and warm white
Seen in Boreham, Essex.
I believe this used to be unmarked due to the rather bright livery and because it has a headlight blue (only found on unmarked DT Focus's)
Also note the 2 LED's either side of the high level brake light.
Bothell Police Department, Washington. Check out the new homepage for the AJM STUDIOS Northwest Police Department! The old homepage is here. It does not get updated as often as the first link. 2010.
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Explanation of the light leak: If you follow me on Instagram you'll already know I had to replace my Canon A1 body as the LED's stopped working in my old one (stopped showing the light reading and I used it as a light meter for my Rollei, so it was essential I could see the figures). As it turns out, this new body has a leaky back. The spongy outline on the back of the camera is torn/not tight enough so light gradually leaks in creating big red streaks and white/brown 'fog' around the outside of the photographs. The light leaks are by NO MEANS intentional (I have a small personal hatred towards any people who edit light leaks in) and I was very upset as several photographs were completely ruined by my new camera's mechanical fault. Naturally, I spent about an hour sulking, followed by another hour of torturing myself over what the photographs WOULD have been had there not have been disgusting light damage all over it. So anybody asking me how I 'edited' these in, prepare yourself for a reasonably blunt-borderline-abusive reply because I was very upset and it'll piss me off more than when people normally ask me how I edit.
Anyway, that is all.
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I arrived Santa Monica a little past 7 PM and waited till people left the beach before I took a shot of this landmark. The Pacific Park Ferris Wheel has been photographed by people from all over the world and has made cameo appearances in many Hollywood movies. Unknown to me when I took this shot, the solar panels that partially block the Ferris Wheel completely power the wheel and its 160,000 LED lights. This wheel is also relatively new as the old wheel was replaced in 2008. And this new wheel costs Pacific Park a whopping $1.5 million dollars. It's so popular that around 800 people ride it every hour.
A few things about this shot~ This shot would have been better if there wasn't any structure partially blocking the wheel. And I have to admit that the timing for the red color on the wheel was by pure chance because the lights changed every second. And since this is a long exposure shot, it was impossible to predict when the wheel LED's would turn red. As I also expected, my feet got wet but I came prepared by wearing beach sandals. Thanks for the comments and faves.
Design and build for DragonCon 2011. Design was based on actual spinal transverse sections and lit with ~40 LED's. Design and assembly of smaller accessory pieces for shoulders, chest, and arm were found pieces or designed in Solidworks.
In total, ~46 pieces put together over a period of ~2 months.
Thanks to all the photographers for capturing it and for all who liked it!
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