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I've been up all night trying to get some work done, and thought I'd take a break by playing around with some photos in GIMP. Due to lack of sleep, my judgement is a little impaired and I thought I'd try two things I told myself I'd never do.
This is number 2: add text (let alone poetry) to an image. I remembered this poem when I was looking at my contact sheet and just couldn't resist. You can tell I wasn't really committed to the idea because the text is so small, you probably won't be able to read it unless you view it large. Do you think this works, or is it just lame?
btw the poem is:
春雨や傘さして見る絵草紙屋
正岡子規
which translates roughly to:
spring rain,
browsing under an umbrella
at the book stall
My girlfriend gave me a Polaroid Snap camera for my birthday! It's an interesting mix of digital and analog technique. The camera saves a digital version of every shot on a memory card and prints one version on paper. Also, it's not really a "printer camera", since the development of the shot is, like in traditional Polaroid cameras, inside the paper itself. But instead of using chemicals (at least I think there are non involved) the paper uses some kind of crystals that takes on the colors of the shot.
The camera also has some handy features, like the choice of using a classic Polaroid frame or not and the choice of black&white, color and vintage color shots. Also, there is a photo booth feature that takes four shots in a row and prints them on the same paper!
It might not be as elaborate or fully interesting as the classic instant films, but it's surely more convenient and a lot cheaper (about a third of the price per shot). These are some of my favorites from the first 20 papers I've used. I've chosen to scan the paper versions rather than uploading the digital versions, to preserve the colors and feeling from the pictures as I see them. There will probably be more to come.
Profession gardien de Zoo à mi-temps, il faut assurer le repas bi-hebdomadaire des tardigrades de l’expérience Cell Science 4 🔬. Les chercheurs étudient les effets de l’impesanteur et de l’environnement spatial sur ces créatures microscopiques qu’on surnomme parfois oursons d'eau. L’espèce la plus grande peut mesurer jusqu’à 1 mm de long, mais en général ils sont microscopiques… Ces créatures sont incroyablement résistantes, capables de survivre à des environnements extrêmes sur Terre comme dans l’espace : certains sont revenus de plusieurs jours à l’extérieur, dans le vide, avec des températures de +100 à -100 degrés, sans un dommage... Dans le cas de Cell Science 4, les scientifiques essayent d’identifier les gènes qui leur permettent de survivre durant des séjours plus ou moins longs dans l’espace, et d’évaluer comment l’utilisation de ces gènes change au cours des générations dans le but d’exploiter pour les humains les secrets de leur incroyable résilience !
Feeding the tardigrades! 🌱 Researchers are investigating the effects of microgravity on these microscopic creatures, also known as water bears, through an experiment called Cell Science 4🔬 #DYK the largest tardigrade species is just over 1mm in length and they're incredibly hardy – surviving extreme environments in space and on Earth. In this case, researchers want to characterise the genes that allow tardigrades to survive during short and long periods in space, then assess how the use of these genes changes across generations Maybe we can harness their secrets!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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Another experiment in creating a stereo image from video. This image is captured from a Travel + Leisure video posted on FaceBook.
Stereo image processed in StereoPhotoMaker and StereoMasken.
Cross eyed stereo viewing instructions
i made a little logo for myself the other day using some type i created. i decided to flesh it out into the rest of the alphabet and see what happened.
Here's an experiment... both in shooting and post-processing. Shot with available light only... and 'worked' to get a bit of a mixed photograph/painterly feel to it. Also the first time I used Photomatix software to create an HDR original to start from... for those of you who are into that level of 'geek'! =)
Getting this far with the image has opened up a few ideas for where I will ultimately take it for the actual project it is intended for... again... starting over from the beginning.
Learning by doing! Old dog, new tricks! More than meets the eye! Choose your cliché.. they all apply.
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Seen in EXPLORE! Thanks all... (in on August 19... best position #244)
Shout out for the textures to:
www.flickr.com/photos/rosellen/sets/72157606352917184/
www.flickr.com/photos/ghostbones/sets/72157603698161108/
and:
Anna is crazy about doing experiments. She went out on the patio tonight with a whole bunch of things to conduct some serious experimental work. She loves discovering new things.
Experimenting with a bright flashlight to do light painting this morning using the new Canon 6D, before sunrise, at home, at the Golden Gate, and the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA. I'm not impressed, could've taken these easily with a cheaper camera. My guest bedroom in the far end had lights on, I used the flashlight to illuminate the corridor.
This was my first real attempt to create a finished illustration in the "tradigital" mode - an traditional drawing/painting with a digital finishing. I painted with acrylics and watercolors over a graphite drawing on a 300gms Fabriano paper, scanned and then retouched/enchanced some details on Photoshop. This illo is a landmark for me, and it definetly synthesizes a new way of creating images for the future. The result is so more organic, fluid than the digital paintings!
Hope you enjoy the result, too.
Profession gardien de Zoo à mi-temps, il faut assurer le repas bi-hebdomadaire des tardigrades de l’expérience Cell Science 4 🔬. Les chercheurs étudient les effets de l’impesanteur et de l’environnement spatial sur ces créatures microscopiques qu’on surnomme parfois oursons d'eau. L’espèce la plus grande peut mesurer jusqu’à 1 mm de long, mais en général ils sont microscopiques… Ces créatures sont incroyablement résistantes, capables de survivre à des environnements extrêmes sur Terre comme dans l’espace : certains sont revenus de plusieurs jours à l’extérieur, dans le vide, avec des températures de +100 à -100 degrés, sans un dommage... Dans le cas de Cell Science 4, les scientifiques essayent d’identifier les gènes qui leur permettent de survivre durant des séjours plus ou moins longs dans l’espace, et d’évaluer comment l’utilisation de ces gènes change au cours des générations dans le but d’exploiter pour les humains les secrets de leur incroyable résilience !
Feeding the tardigrades! 🌱 Researchers are investigating the effects of microgravity on these microscopic creatures, also known as water bears, through an experiment called Cell Science 4🔬 #DYK the largest tardigrade species is just over 1mm in length and they're incredibly hardy – surviving extreme environments in space and on Earth. In this case, researchers want to characterise the genes that allow tardigrades to survive during short and long periods in space, then assess how the use of these genes changes across generations Maybe we can harness their secrets!
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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There has to be an experiment going on that they forgot to tell us about. Some test that we're unaware of but are supposed to pass. In the last year we've had a professional football team go winless, a mayor removed from office, our largest industry on life support and needing a government bailout, houses reduced to selling for 1 penny, Tiger Stadium was finally destroyed, the number of abandoned houses approached 100,000, unemployment was between 18 and 50% depending on who's statistics you looked at, a staggering estimated 30,000 homeless people ( determined by the post office ) , and Detroit's population decreased for the 52nd year in a row. Surely this is a bad joke, right?
FOV: 6" wide.
This experiment was an attempt to recreate the fluorescence of chromium activated corundum (aka 'ruby'). Aluminum hydroxide was mixed with 1-4 drops of Cr(III) oxide in a basic solution. This was placed on a small amount of aluminum sulfate in an aluminum foil container and a bit of water was added.
The sample was then heated, first with a propane torch until the water was removed and then with a MAPP gas torch until the aluminum sulfate expanded into foam, trapping the aluminum hydroxide which was calcined into aluminum oxide by the torch's flame. (at least that was the plan)
Shown also is a natural ruby from Mysore, India.
See ruby excitation spectrum here (0.03% Cr):
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Contains:
Ruby (FL Red >GR,BL/UVa)
Ruby Foam (FL Red >GR,BL/UVabc)
Shown under white light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
BL = 450nm, GR = 532nm
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Ruby2
24 Dec 2016
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