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An outtake from my R3 Get Pushed! challenge.
This is SOOC except for a crop and 180 deg rotation.
HCS!
Found these dead leaves lined up and the sun shining on them. It looked really beautiful even though they were dead.
copyright, 2012, Ferran Cubedo.
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This photo was taken as a candidate for #Toys theme on the "Weekly Theme Challenge" group.
Photo taken at Randfontein in South Africa.
Using the Tamron SP AF 60mm f/2 Di II MACRO 1:1 LD (IF) (model G005N II) lens.
I Shoot Raw and edit in GIMP.
I am open to critique.
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The world from your back door seems so wide, the house so tiny it is from inside. The box that you're still living in I cannot see for why, you think you've found perception doors but they open to a lie.....Hawkwind 'Mask of Morning'
[...] Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world [...]
-- Quote by Hans Margolius
Nikon D200, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, 50mm - f/4 - 1/500s - HDR 5xp +2/-2EV
Oasi di Ninfa, Italy (June, 2012)
"Our hearts are wild creatures, that's why our ribs are cages."
-Unknown
Oh goodness, I wish you could see this one in person, the depth didn't translate back into photo very well! Whitney is a dancer and the grace I hoped to capture seemed effortless for her!
Growing up, the sighting of a butterfly was magical. They were so delicate, free, and always sought out beauty (in the form of flowers). It seemed perfect to have a butterfly represent a heart then. The roses and wings are emerging from a rib cage that has been cut out of the canvas.
** As a reminder, these are manually edited photographs, not straight paintings **
Name: Perception
Real Name: Unknown
Status: Villain
Powers and Abilities: Sometimes people see exactly what they want to see, or what they expect to see. Perception’s powers make use of this, making everybody within a 50 yard radius see him exactly how their brain expects. He is also an expert at voice manipulation, quick wardrobe change, and acting.
Main Weakness: Because of his power, people may see him as someone they’re angry at or a really close friend, both of which get uncomfortable. Also, his power only works at a quick glance, so when people look at his face for a long time they notice that something’s off.
Bio: Perception grew up in an orphanage, and never knew his parents, nor his real name, and because of his powers, the everyone there mistook him for someone else. Eventually, feeling lonely and invisible, he ran away. Throughout his teen years he grew a better understanding of his powers, and used them to his advantage. However, he suffered an identity crisis when entering adulthood, and decided upon a specific look for himself that he would focus on whenever he came upon his own reflection, so as not to lose his mind. After this, he tried having a normal life, one with friends and a job, but none of that worked out due to his “curse,” as he calls it. So in order to get money to support himself, he resorted to a life of crime, working mainly as a thief. He now lives comfortably, yet alone, and continues to thieve, both for the resources, and for the excitement it brings to his otherwise lonely life.
I have been thinking about how we look at things that aren't real. I'm talking about spaceships, cars and photoediting.
I mean, we know how a car is supposed to look like. We see them every day, real cars, our brains are tuned to them in terms of how they look and move around us. Spaceships are a different thing, we're not that used to seeing them around. Does that make a difference when making images with a scale model? Is a spaceship an easier sell than a car?
I made an experiment with the Maserati Boomerang model I've been building during the past couple of months.
This is My Brother, although this image is a self portrait
this is how I saw him...
No confusion between man and machine.....
frozen in time as a strong reflection of my perception of others.
strong character,
strong heart.
Enjoy!
A photographer that I follow on Flickr often posts distinctly beautiful scenes, full of the spectrum of forest colours, and I often appreciated them for what I thought was as much good treatment as good source material. But my visit to the USA in autumn, in particular Arlington cemetery, rebalanced that perception a little.
Check out slight clutter.
Depending on where we stand, the view of the world is blurred to some degree. Change your position change your view.
Day 350. 12/06/2011
We,humans like to have perceptions about things- people, countries, cultures, etc.
We perceive things from what we hear from others, who has probably heard it from somebody else.
The perception about Islamic women is one such example. Westerners think those females are caged and nothing more. Fortunately, thats not the truth.
Just because she covers herself, doesn't mean she's oppressed. Islam has given men and women equal rights.
Please dont generalise, and please dont have false perceptions about things you dont know about.
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Day 350! Expected some flowers on my stream? Or something happy go lucky? Sorry to disappoint you guys then:p.
La vipère aspic est sourde, comme beaucoup de serpents, mais sa langue bifide lui permet de percevoir son environnement proche. ( Vipera aspis )
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I’m often asked about the world that insects can see when people enjoy my UV fluorescence images, often confusing two very different things: UV reflectance and UV fluorescence. This post will hopefully demystify that, with a simple Shasta Daisy!
On the left, we see the visible-light image of the flower. Pretty ordinary! It’s really just here for reference to the images in the center and right. The central image is UV reflectance, and the right image is UV fluorescence. You can see why I do a lot more UV fluorescence work!
UV Reflectance is the direct observation of ultraviolet light. This requires some tricky hardware, you need:
- A camera modified for full spectrum photography (shot with a converted Lumix GX85)
- A bright source of UV light
- A lens that has very good ultraviolet transmission properties
- A VERY good “UV Black” filter that allows for the transmission of ultraviolet light but zero visible or infrared light.
In contrast, for Ultraviolet fluorescence photography, you need:
- A pure ultraviolet light source
UV Reflectance can reveal hidden patterns in flowers that insects are able to perceive along with visible light. They don’t see UV light exclusively, but their vision extends into this spectrum and some flowers take advantage of that. Daisies do not. Sunflowers, on the other hand? Solidly yellow petals to our eyes will reveal a dark bullseye pattern in the ultraviolet spectrum: donkom.ca/bts/DKP_9769-UV.jpg . Marsh Marigolds have a slightly more complex pattern ( www.flickr.com/photos/donkom/34783610615/ , which also shows visible and infrared versions). Not all flowers use this technique of reflecting back UV light to guide insects towards them, and while it is fun to explore the patterns it doesn’t have the same drama and colour as UV fluorescence.
Directly observing UV light is difficult, but UV fluorescence is a much easier subject to tackle. You use your regular camera to collect regular light, albeit in a darkened room. You just need a good pure UV light source that doesn't leak into the visible spectrum which would contaminate the results. When ultraviolet light hits the flower, some of that light excites electrons in the atoms of the flower. Those electrons rise to a higher orbit but very quickly decay back down, and in the process of doing so release energy in the form of… visible light! UV light goes in, visible light in much smaller quantities come out. You camera captures this visible light.
This is “unnatural” in the sense that there is no way to observe this in nature – the sun clearly emits visible and infrared light in far more abundance than ultraviolet light. UV fluorescence is not what insects can see, it’s what no living thing could see without the aid of the inventions of mankind. It’s “real”, but also hidden from reality. And on the other side, there is something elegant about the mostly-black flower that we know to be white to our own perceptions. The world beyond our own reality is worth exploring.
Can you tell I’m going through my shot list for my upcoming book?? This kind of information will be found within the pages of Macro Photography: The Universe at Our Feet, currently being funded on Kickstarter - www.kickstarter.com/projects/donkom/ - it would be great to have your support for the project and also get a copy when it’s out in December!
…. Oh hey, you’re still here? You actually wanted to know MORE about UV reflectance? Sure, here we go.
The lenses with the cheapest cost and best transmission properties can be found on eBay from the seller “igoriginal”: www.ebay.com/itm//273878542781 .
The filters included with that lens are decent, but if you want the very best at cancelling out visible AND infrared light, you need a two filter combo from maxmax.com:
XNite 330C: www.maxmax.com/shopper/product/15065-xnite33052c-x-nite-3...
XNite BP1: h www.maxmax.com/shopper/product/15072-xnitebp152-x-nite-ba...
Those links are for 52mm filters, which would fit on the above-mentioned lens. You’d still need a camera converted to full-spectrum photography, and one of the biggest outfits for that is LifePixel: www.lifepixel.com/?ar=3
Down the rabbit hole you go. :)
Gallery Assis - Saturday, November 24th, from noon
SLT until 2:00pm, for the opening of My new series,
"Beyond Perception".
I will have five new pieces featured, which are exclusive to Assis.
There are far too many judgments and misconceptions with everything, though some often carry more then others. But if you take the time to look beyond those, you can see what's really there. I would like you to come have a look for yourself, and tell Me what you see.
While you're here, be sure to have a look around at all the other talented Artists' work.
There is no dress code, just come as you are. Be yourself, be comfortable and have some fun.
Olympus OM2n / Zuiko 35mm f2.8 / Kodak Ektar 100
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Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK