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Hehehe this is something really different and I think I like it.
And I've just realised that my stream has alot of photos of people holding jars hahaha
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Some bright spark took a photograph of the sistine chapel ceiling when your not surposed to ........
No flash was used in making this picture....... Tch !!
He was playing on the sidewalk
For passing change
When something strange happened
Glory train passed through him
So he buried the coins he made
In peoples park
And went looking for a woman
To court and spark
This weeks Macro Mondays theme is Silhouette.
My submission this week has a little spark to it. This is an actual spark plug sparking.
HMM.
"No machine can replace the human spark of spirit, compassion, love, and understanding."
Louis. V. Gerstner Jr
Connection spark. A real one - not photoshopped! I wanted to show electrical sparks when metals at different voltages come in contact.
I ended up building a simple circuit with a large capacitor to deliver large currents (at about 40 volts) that generally were enough to just weld the two metals together.
Raised fond memories of fun messing about with big capacitors as a young boy!
I put a UV filter on my lens! Single shot. The hemispherical part of the stainless steel pin is 8.5 mm diameter. The coil is lacquered copper wire.
The exposure was about 1 second and the current was applied by manually touching the pin gently with a "live" wire toward the end of that second. Surprisingly effective I thought!
I thought I would need flash, but LED lighting seemed to work just fine.
The boat in the center is called Vital Spark, The Vital Spark is a fictional Clyde puffer, created by Scottish writer Neil Munro. As its captain, the redoubtable Para Handy, often says: "the smertest boat in the coastin' tred".
The weather was not very kind on my recent Scotland trip, so much so that this is an unusual shot for me, it is not often it take shots from a moving car dodging the downpours. By no means a perfect photo but I liked the feel of it and it summed the holiday up, WET!
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I am the spaceman flying high
I am the astronaut in the sky
Don't worry, I'm okay now
I am the light in the dark
I am the match; I am the spark
Don't worry, I'm okay now
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Voila le résultat d'une sortie particulière... Courir après le soleil couchant n'est pas chose aisée... Au final il a été plus rapide que nous c'est ballot 😜
Mais on a de la ressource et l'improvisation est en nous!
Abstract
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
Robin Williams
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin
A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst and it sparks extraordinary results. (Wade Boggs)
EXPLORE - March 20, 2012
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Mystery 2: No idea how Owner Settings was not over-ridden by Account Setting.
On Sunday I visited Inveraray for some fresh air and a walk
On returning to the car the sky started to change colour from pinks to purples quite an amazing site.
by the time I grabbed the camera from the car the best of the colours were fading but the whole of the sky was this beautiful purple glow
So I grabbed a quick shot of the vital spark
The Vital Spark was a fictional Clyde Puffer made popular in short stories published in the Glasgow evening news in 1905 by Neil Munro . It later got made into several T.V series through time where a nation got introduced to Para Handy , Dan McFail and sunny Jim on there funny mishap adventures ferrying cargo between the islands
Friends of mine asked me to shoot them for their band pics, appropriately, the band name is Spark Notes, so I had to use sparklers, on the shore of Sarasota Bay with the city in the background,with a roman candle for some bling....
Ethernet plug.
No, this is an unmanipulated single-capture macro image without digital additions...
Yes. It’s visual trickery :)
What I did was place the RJ45 plug in front of my PC screen and then using Corel Painter I used a particle brush to paint the spark behind the plug on the LCD screen which formed the background. I did the painting while viewing the result through the camera as that made it quicker to get the height and dimensions correct.
As you can probably tell from the quality it’s more of a proof of concept than a refined work, but time was short and this was already Plan B. I think it was more successful than I anticipated, though like all experiments I’d do it differently next time. The main problem with using it for a macro was the pixelation in the screen background which becomes obvious if you zoom the image. I really needed to focus a bit nearer to the camera to blur the background.
I guess the best result would be with adding the spark digitally after the capture using Painter. But, for me anyway, I didn’t feel that was in the spirit of the Macro Mondays group challenge Plugs and Jacks, for which this was created.
The image is cropped to a three-inch width to fit in the group's limits.
Curiously Plan A was helpful too. The idea there was to use the PC screen as a polarised light source and put a polarising filter on the lens to generate wonderful colour highlights through the plastic (which changes the polarity of the light).
Well, wonderful they were but there is so little plastic in the plug we really needed to be a micro group to see it.
But what I did discover is that you can use the polariser on the lens to vary the perceived brightness of the LCD screen and its background image, which helps to balance it with the ambient lighting on the object in front.
I shall leave you with a final thought which seems apposite: We have the technology... it’s just the cable we’re missing :)
Thanks for taking time to look. I hope you enjoy the image. Happy Macro Mondays!!!
[Tripod; remote release; manual focus in LiveView; VR off.
LCD screen and ambient daylight.
Processed in Affinity Photo using Levels to drop the background to black. Selectively changed the colour temperature of the plug to harmonize the ambient light with the PC screen background; sharpened mainly using a High Pass filter in Linear Light blend mode.
Crop; cleaned up using Inpainting brush (Healing tool), and then sharpened overall with Unsharp Mask.]