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1) Gold for December in 365 Days of Colour
2) Abstract for Assignment 52
3) Repetition for Macro Monday
How can it be Friday already? Monday was just yesterday!!! ;D Have a fine Friday, my Flickr friends!
A gigantic installation work by Tomás Saraceno, entitled “in orbit,” has been assembled in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen. At a height of more than 20 meters above the piazza of the K21 Ständehaus, Saraceno has suspended a net construction within which visitors can move, apparently weightlessly. This highly contemporary safety net, which covers altogether 2500 m², spreads itself out across three levels below the massive glass cupola of the K21. The levels are held apart from one another by a series of “spheres,” airfilled PVC balls measuring up to 8.5 meters in diameter.
Die Konstruktion aus Stahlnetzen, die in drei Ebenen unter der gewaltigen Glaskuppel aufgespannt ist, schwebt in mehr als 25 Metern Höhe über der Piazza des K21. Innerhalb der insgesamt 2.500 Quadratmeter umfassenden Netzstruktur sind ein halbes Dutzend "Sphären", luftgefüllte Kugeln von bis zu 8,50 Metern Durchmesser, platziert. Besucher können die transparente Installation betreten und sich auf den drei Ebenen zwischen den Kugeln frei bewegen.
Apollo 12 looks back at the Earth at the start of its 4 day journey to the moon. The shot includes the Lunar Module adapter panels shortly after jettison.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: AS12-50-7326
Date: November 14, 1969
This diagram shows Webb's trajectory from Earth into its orbit around the Second Langrange point. Webb's orbit is quite large and on the order of magnitude of the Moon's orbit around Earth.
Webb’s orbit around L2 is a tilted oval shape about 500,000km (in the X direction, away from the Sun) by 1,500,000km (in the Y direction, ‘side-to-side’ of the Sun) by 800,000km (in the Z direction, ‘above and below’ the Sun). The Moon’s orbit is much closer to circular with a diameter of about 770,000km (i.e., a mean radius of about 384,000km) and essentially coincident with the ecliptic plane (the ecliptic plan is the plane of Earth’s orbit around the Sun). So, if you put Webb’s orbit and the Moon’s orbit in the same plane then Webb’s orbit would completely contain the Moon’s orbit – a little wider in one direction and nearly twice as wide in the other and would be more saddle-shaped.
Graphic credit: NASA/Steve Sabia
Another one from the Olympic Park at the end of August.Was nearly too slow and didn't think I had the shot with this one but had seen a few planes flying across when walking around the Arcelor Mittal Orbit, the UK's tallest sculpture built for the 2012 Olympics. Designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond, I didn't go up but at 80 metres tall the views are supposed to be great.At the end of a rainy period in the UK this was another blip where the sun shone strong so in the right place at the right time in more ways than one.
I was lucky enough to get tickets to see some athletics at the stadium in Straford. As I was leaving I quickly to this, not perefect but I love the sky here!
Luke Agbaimoni - Tubemapper.com
Inspired by Gordon MacKenzie's book "Orbiting the Giant Hairball." Either that or I just wanted to play.
Since its construction I've found the Orbit a bit marmite to say the least. It's the largest sculpture in the UK but looks fundamentally at odds with what's around it.
Today I finally went to the top. The sculpture once inside is actually really great, the use of materials, the mirrors and the general atmosphere.
The views across London are wonderful. We were also told that a slide is being installed in Spring/Summer next year. That I cannot wait for !
Orbit folks
Jazztivall 2020
CC Het Gasthuis Aarschot
18-Jan-2020
Martijn Vanbeul - Bass
Carlo Nardozza - Trompet
Lennert Baets - Sax
Daniel Jonkers - Drums
Photography: © Patrick Van Vlerken 2020
Most night-time photos of Astro Orbiter portray this whirly-gig in full motion with all lights ablaze and looking like a Technicolor tornado…In all honesty, that is exactly what I set out to do with this shot. I was also experimenting a little with some long exposure techniques and some adjustments to my methods of capturing HDR brackets. Under my “normal” routine of capturing this scene thinking of HDR imagery, I would setup and shoot in Aperture priority at a high f/stop, usually f/9 or higher (in order to capture the entire scene sharply with great depth of field throughout the scene, and also to accentuate the starburst effect on the lighting) and setup a auto-bracket of 3 exposures set at 2 f/stop intervals using ISO 100 to keep noise and sharpness under control.
The problem with high f/stops at night is obvious-the need for longer exposures…My camera, a Canon 7D is limited to 30 second exposures in auto bracket mode, a situation that often results in brackets with 2 of the 3 exposures being 30 seconds in length, negating the -2, 0, +2 bracket I had hoped for. One way to overcome this is to adjust the “anchor” exposure, or the “0” shot to the negative side of the scale setting up a bracket that is still 2 f/stops apart, spanning (for example) -3, -1, +1 on the camera’s auto bracket scale. This method also provides more images to use in the final scene, and I use it often regardless of the situation so that I DO have a good span of images to choose from. Other methods of overcoming the 30 second barrier is to either increase the ISO or use a larger aperture, therefore letting more light into the scene. Each of these methods can cause their own problems by introducing noise or possibly decreasing the depth of field.
With this scene, I knew I wanted to capture a HDR encompassing the surrounding area, and also show Astro Orbiter in motion. I knew from experience that with this lens (Sigma 10mm f/2.8 fisheye) the scene would probably take more than 30 seconds to capture the light range needed. I decided to shoot at f/9 and set the camera in Bulb mode to manually capture the exposure time. Again from experience, I knew that a time of 4-6 seconds would get the low end of the light scale, a time of 15-20 seconds should capture the middle, and a time of 30-40 seconds would get the high end. I shot this bracket with the Astro Orbiter standing still to get a “base” scene in HDR that I could tweak to suit my taste in post-processing. To capture the Orbiter in action, I began taking individual shots in Bulb at various times and f/stops while the attraction was in motion. I found that at f/4 a 2 second exposure was short stroked on the action, but nicely exposed. At f/11, a 15 second exposure yielded nice light rings we are accustomed to seeing.
In post processing, I created an HDR from the static Astro Orbiter set, and then began experimenting with masked-in versions of the spinning Orbiter. I found that the shorter exposures were just too unique to pass up and selected one here that shows the Orbiter just starting its spin-up to work with and mask into the HDR. This type of masking is a technique that I use often and to great success with subjects in motion or under different lighting conditions. The final image has elements from 7 different images masked-in to control light issues and of course, the whirling Orbiter...
So the point of all this drabble is to illustrate that auto-bracketing is not always the way to go, even if your camera supports it, and to remind others that a techno-whiz camera is not needed to capture HDR brackets. And also, one must consider the scene in front of them and do a little planning for the final image and how you intend to process it. Experiment with settings you are not familiar with and think about individual components of the scene, taking specific exposures to encompass them, with the intention of masking them into the final image...
Have a great weekend everyone!
For a nice tutorial on shooting in manual mode, see Ryan Pastorino's article today on Disney Photography Blog:
www.disneyphotographyblog.com/2011/11/some-benefits-of-sh...
The Federation is another conjectural starship class designed by Franz Joseph using hull components of the Constitution class. It is designed to fill the role of a battleship, making it Starfleet’s first purpose-built war ship (NOT the Defiant NX-74205). However, since a dedicated battleship was at odds with the UFP’s peaceful mission, it was a problematic concept at best. Even the naming conventions alluded uncomfortably to a persistent authoritarian streak within Starfleet. Therefore the few dreadnoughts that were actually built did not serve for long and were later disassembled.
The Orbit gas station is still going strong, built in 1963, architect Ed Ward’s iconic structure has a four point concrete roof. One of several in the Sacramento area, we have found three of them and this is the only one that’s still a gas station Anyone know if there are more still standing.
I took a number of shots of the ArcelorMittal Orbit Tower while they tested the lights. This shot is similar to one posted before, but this shot is more about the tower and less about the light streaks. Taken slightly earlier that evening :-)
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'CEG Orbit' approaches Barton on the Manchester Ship Canal, bringing a load of Irish Cement from Drogheda. This was her third trip this year to Premier Cement at Weaste. She has had a repaint since February: bright red has replaced blue.
She's a classic 'low air draught' coaster designed to fit under low bridges on navigable rivers in Europe, but these days tends to potter around the Irish Sea on a variety of duties.
Extraterrestrial vessel orbiting our blue planet. (View from surveillance camera GHr02 - rear garbage hatch) :))
To be honest, this is only a part of the facade of the Marco Polo Tower, Hamburg.
Tools: Aperture, Color Efex Pro 4.
Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, Sratford
The ArcelorMittal Orbit stands tall as the UK’s tallest sculpture, part of the Olympic legacy that transformed East London, and a landmark in its own right, transfixing and delighting visitors with its offer of a unique view of the city.
I recently got an awesome oppertunity to shoot onstage with Orbital, the only problem was that as it was being televised I only had 90sec on stage to capture the one shot I had been planning since I got offered the gig.
Armed with my trusty camera, I had to make a gamble with the lens, setting, and monopod set up. Slung the whole lot over my head and went for it!
After the alloted time I crept away into the darkness like some sort of photo ninja! ha it was awesome!
What a RUSH!!!
The ArcelorMittal Orbit (often referred to as the Orbit Tower or simply just the Orbit) is a 114.5 metre (376 feet) tall sculpture and observation tower in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, London. It is Britain's largest piece of public art, and is intended to be a permanent lasting legacy of London's hosting of the 2012 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, assisting in the post-Olympics regeneration of the Stratford area. Sited between the Olympic Stadium and the Aquatics Centre, it allows visitors to view the whole Olympic Park from two observation platforms.
Orbit Coaches D18ORB, a 2008 Van Hool TD921 Altano, was seen at Sheffield Interchange, whilst operating a Rail Replacement service to Stockport, on behalf of East Midlands Railway.