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This week I handed in my notice - I have been in my present organisation for 11 years. In 10 weeks time I will leave behind a team of people I love and respect in a field I am passionate about, because I know I will not survive the organisation with my sanity intact if I stay for very much longer. This has been the most difficult decision of my career, but I am glad that finally.....I have made it.
I thought the serenity of an endless expanse of Weston Mud was an appropriate image to leave at the head of my flickr-stream tonight. :-)
Some pictures to try my prototype diffuser fins out.
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Lamp EJS Model 1204, 1959
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why such a weird title? bcz in this shot we were trying the diffuser that came with R1C1...(the flash light kit, not like the andriod from star wars)
he looks constipated, doesnt he?
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Just playing around with the diffuse glow filter before going to bed. Long day and unorigional i know but im tired and need rest.
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Diffused version: no harsh shadows, no hot spots on the lenses. I also cleaned up a seam on the upper-right corner. See the next photo in my stream for the harsher-light version.
An exercise in how quickly I could set up, light, capture, and take down. This all went off in about five minutes.
Strobist info:
SB-600, left, 1/4th, through paper
SB-600, right, 1/4th, through paper
It took all of about 10 minutes to convert a plastic pencil box into a nice flash diffuser. All I did was cut a hole in the box using a nibbler then taped some aluminum foil to the back side.
new diffuser project, polymorph mouldable plastic with concave inner diffusion sheet and 2 different sheets on outside [ bogan/manfrotto diffusion pack sheets - hampton frost inside and 253 &129 on outside ]
I call this a Semi-DIY project because the piece in the far upper left, which is somewhat complex, comes from a disassembled cheapo ringlight which I'd purchased for $38 but decided to return. Instead, I made a deal and simply got a $28 refund while keeping the item. So this plastic and velcro piece cost me $10. It works very nicely.
The funnel was cut to have four tabs with holes drilled in them (look closely) to match the four screw-holes in the attachment dingus. I used my own nuts and bolts and the two parts are very securely connected.
I sanded the inside of the funnel just to make sure the paint would stay put. One coat of some latex enamel. I cut a circle of small-bubble bubble wrap from a large sheet of the stuff I often use as diffusing material. Taped into place this alone does a nice job, as can be seen in photo #5.
But I wanted the final illuminated disk to be larger, and I wanted to make sure the light would be thoroughly and smoothly diffused, so I cut the flat inside panels out of three plastic bin covers. I bought a bunch of these shoe-box sized containers for $1 each to organize my stuff on bookshelves and with incredible foresight had saved all the covers. Three cut-out panels wrapped around the funnel and taped into place then trimmed to size added just enough extra diameter for me. The plastic is light and flexible - this whole unit will pack well and take a beating; it weighs the same as four AA batteries. The final diameter is 7.5 inches - between a softball and a volleyball.
Last step: I cut two circles of see-through fabric and taped them separately into place, taut and with the "grain" of the two pieces at right angles. In photo #6 the result is tested with a Nikon SB-600 speedlight. The SB-600 is set for maximum spread with the wide-angle flap down. I expected a nice circle of projected illumination but was surprised at just how smooth it was and how nice the edge fall-off looked.
This is a wide-angle device and would very likely get in the way of the shot if I tried to use it to illuminate just a part of the subject. From a few feet away it will illuminate the entire frame quite evenly. The nice fall-off on the edges gives me the ability to use this on half the frame to even out other lighting or get an effect. Though I'm not much of a portraitist I can see this being a nice unit for that purpose; it would make very nice reflected highlights in eyeballs. But this will really come into its own for macro and close-up work. Placed just outside the frame this will act like a huge softbox (costing $thousands) does with a human. It will be like half a light tent, but much easier to use and maneuver than either a real softbox or tent.
Note that there is a horizontal rectangular area of slightly more intense light in the center of the projection - matching the shape of the speedlight. It's subtle enough to not be a problem. Total cost (guesstimate) if you count only $10 for the manufactured part and include $1 for each of the three plastic covers: $15.
Madame René de Gas, 1872/1873
Edgar Degas
West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 86
Degas painted this moving portrait of his first cousin and sister-in-law, Estelle de Gas, in New Orleans, where she lived. Estelle was nearly blind, and Degas, whose own vision was deteriorating, was deeply affected by her condition.
The portrait may suggest dimming vision. The light is diffuse, the details blurred. And the palette of grays, pinks, and whites is almost monochromatic (one color). But the painting does not allow us to enter fully into Estelle’s experience. Positioned off center, she faces to the side. Her eyes seem unfocused, and her expression betrays nothing of what she is thinking or feeling. Isolated and withdrawn, she is unknowable.
The impressionist style was incompatible with Degas' meticulous paint handling and premeditated method of composing, and he preferred "independent" or "realist" to "impressionist" as the name of the movement. Degas did help establish and direct the impressionist organization, however, and participated in seven of the eight exhibitions. He selected insistently modern themes -- ballet dancers, laundresses, prostitutes, cafés and café-concerts, and racetracks -- and depicted them in numerous variations. One other recurring genre was portraiture. Degas selected family and friends as models rather than paint commissioned portraits, and his portraits are often unconventional characterizations. This portrait of Estelle Musson Balfour de Gas, the artist's first cousin and sister-in-law, was painted during Degas' 1872-1873 visit to New Orleans.
The 1871 discovery of the deterioration of his own vision sensitized the artist to Estelle's near-blindness when he visited the next year. Posture, gesture, accessories, and activities were often used by Degas to characterize the models in his portraits. Such incidental details were deliberately omitted here, a similarly informative decision. The soft focus of the painting, subdued and nearly monochromatic color harmonies, and Estelle's unfocused gaze parallel her limited visual capacity and indicate the artist's respect for Estelle and compassionate understanding of her situation.
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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC is a world-class art museum that displays one of the largest collections of masterpieces in the world including paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, and decorative arts from the 13th century to the present. The National Gallery of Art collection includes an extensive survey of works of American, British, Italian, Flemish, Spanish, Dutch, French and German art. With its prime location on the National Mall, surrounded by the Smithsonian Institution, visitors often think that the museum is a part of the Smithsonian. It is a separate entity and is supported by a combination of private and public funds. Admission is free. The museum offers a wide range of educational programs, lectures, guided tours, films, and concerts.
The original neoclassical building, the West Building includes European (13th-early 20th century) and American (18th-early 20th century) paintings, sculptures, decorative arts, and temporary exhibitions. The National Gallery of Art was opened to the public in 1941 with funds provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The original collection of masterpieces was provided by Mellon, who was the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury and ambassador to Britain in the 1930s. Mellon collected European masterpieces and many of the Gallery’s original works were once owned by Catherine II of Russia and purchased in the early 1930s by Mellon from the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad.
The core collection includes major works of art donated by Paul Mellon, Ailsa Mellon Bruce, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Samuel Henry Kress, Rush Harrison Kress, Peter Arrell Browne Widener, Joseph E. Widener, and Chester Dale. The Gallery's collection of paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, sculpture, medals, and decorative arts traces the development of Western art from the Middle Ages to the present, including the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas and the largest mobile created by Alexander Calder.
The NGA's collection galleries and Sculpture Garden display European and American paintings, sculpture, works on paper, photographs, and decorative arts. Paintings in the permanent collection date from the Middle Ages to the present. The Italian Renaissance collection includes two panels from Duccio's Maesta, the tondo of the Adoration of the Magi by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi, a Botticelli work on the same subject, Giorgione's Allendale Nativity, Giovanni Bellini's The Feast of the Gods, Ginevra de' Benci (the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas) and groups of works by Titian and Raphael.
The collections include paintings by many European masters, including a version of Saint Martin and the Beggar, by El Greco, and works by Matthias Grünewald, Cranach the Elder, Rogier van der Weyden, Albrecht Dürer, Frans Hals, Rembrandt, Johannes Vermeer, Francisco Goya, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, and Eugène Delacroix, among others. The collection of sculpture and decorative arts includes such works as the Chalice of Abbot Suger of St-Denis and a collection of work by Auguste Rodin and Edgar Degas. Other highlights of the permanent collection include the second of the two original sets of Thomas Cole's series of paintings titled The Voyage of Life, (the first set is at the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York) and the original version of Watson and the Shark by John Singleton Copley (two other versions are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Detroit Institute of Arts).
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Andrew W. Mellon, who pledged both the resources to construct the National Gallery of Art as well as his high-quality art collection, is rightly known as the founder of the gallery. But his bequest numbered less than two hundred paintings and sculptures—not nearly enough to fill the gallery’s massive rooms. This, however, was a feature, not a failure of Mellon’s vision; he anticipated that the gallery eventually would be filled not only by his own collection, but also by additional donations from other private collectors. By design, then, it was both Andrew Mellon and those who followed his lead—among them, eight men and women known as the Founding Benefactors—to whom the gallery owes its premier reputation as a national art museum. At the gallery’s opening in 1941, President Roosevelt stated, “the dedication of this Gallery to a living past, and to a greater and more richly living future, is the measure of the earnestness of our intention that the freedom of the human spirit shall go on.”
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Taken with Sony A7, 90mm TSE macro, Fotodiox EOS Adapter, Auto Extension Tube, Youngnu Flash, and Flash Diffuser.
This material I got from the dollar store.. It's suppose to be for dusting, but didn't work worth a dam. The light is perfect, see my too~kan~>! flic.kr/p/9MAcbQ
Ok, this new version looks more like the pic did in camera. Thank you again PGMB! I just used picnic to fix this.
Kerrie at sunset with my new flash.
Im having issues getting the brightness, tone and tint correct between Flickr and Photoshop. Odd how different the pic is between the two programs when viewed on the same screen. Very odd indeed.