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I just want to process this shot following a vintage nostaligic mood. I've tryed to ricreate something i lived in the seventies when I was a little girl. I have some doubt about the results, but this is my best for now.
Today, Rusty informed me that if I took some Marmite and hit it for a while, it would change colour, going from dark brown all the way through to white. My attention span isn't *quite* what it could be, so I haven't got as far as white, but I did get to a very pale yellowy brown before getting bored. Then I added a dollop of fresh Marmite for colour comparison purposes. Photoshop has not been used; Marmite really *does* go that pale when whacked with a spoon for half an hour! (You can see some of the intermediate shades of brown around the edges as well. ^_^)
I'm thinking about spraying on a fixative and submitting this piece to the Tate Modern with the title 'Colossal Waste Of Time'. People will either love it or hate it (o ho ho ho).
A concrete pump operator finished work here at this location and begins folding down to relocate. This construction site is part of highway Interstate 69 In Rosenberg, Texas, near Houston. In support of America’s international trade routs, when finished, the highway will stretch border to border across America and connect Mexico to Canada. The project will take decades to finish.
Threw together this MOC in lightning time this morning to add to my civilian cars, no mean feat as it is the police mustang from ages ago minus the sirens and tweaked slightly. I tried to experiment with adding the racing stripes in photoshop and I think they turned out good from far but far from good :)
Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are experimenting with new interactive storytelling ideas, from shadow puppets to poetic robots.
Our first experiment is ‘Ubu’s Dreams’, a shadow puppet show featuring Père Ubu, the hero of Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays at the turn of the last century. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, interacting with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.
This week, we did a number of test to explore different ways to perform these stories with simple puppets, lights, shadows and sounds. We tried using a high-quality projector, which gave us better focus and a greater range of motion than the previous overhead projector. This also lets us project video backgrounds behind the shadow puppets, with very encouraging results.
We then played with a variety of character shapes, from simple wire figures to illuminated objects, talking masks and robot bases. They all showed a lot of promise, and we’ll probably use some of these techniques in different scenes.
Last but not least, we tried using a large mirror to reflect our projector, so that it could be placed right below our shadow screen, instead of five feet away. This has important implications for many of our art projects, where space is limited and projections have to be self-contained.
We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit this fall at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach. I’m also developing a ‘Magic Theater’ course combining maker art and storytelling for our lower and middle school students.
View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884
Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:
Learn more about the Magic Theater project (first called Théâtre Mécanique):
Another shot from the first roll through my Agfa Record pinhole camera, I will be experimenting with this a bit.
Trying to learn something about PS functions. Today I experimented with layering texture.
Your opinion and/or advice welcome.
Textue by me.
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for a laugh you must watch this video sent to me by my dear friend Tao of Jonathan it is simply adorable and a guaranteed smile!
She has not been on Flickr in a while, so some of you may not know my sweet companion of fourteen years, yes this little beauty is fourteen years old..
We have welcomed many years together, and will do so again this New Year's Eve, with maybe a friend or two who may drop by for an egg nog.
Notice her littlefblack heart on her nose. It was not there the first year of her life, and one day it just appeared, honestly.
Have a great day,
billie
FOV: 4" wide.
This experiment demonstrates the shift in color from yellow-green to blue-green of minerals containing the uranyl ion in conjunction with carbonates.
On the right ~15mL of calcined garden gypsum (rinsed) was combined with 7.5mL of a boiling solution containing sodium chloride, sodium carbonate and uranyl nitrate in an aluminum form. The mixture released much gas (CO2 ?).
On the left ~15mL of DAP Plaster of Paris (containing CaCO3) was combined with 7.5mL of the cooled previously mentioned solution after it had been treated with HCl to remove the carbonate ions. The still acidic solution reacted with the CaCO3 in the Plaster of Paris mix and was mostly neutralized by the CaCO3 becoming CaCl2 and CO2 gas (and H2O). The mixture was left to set in a plastic form.
Contains:
Uranyl with carbonate (FL Blue-green >BL/UVabc)
Uranyl without carbonate (FL Yellow-green >BL/UVabc)
Shown under UVc light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
Blue = 450nm,
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
Uranyl + Carbonate Based Fluorescence
9Nov2015
Much appreciation to Gordon Czop for the uranyl nitrate.
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps
Waterfall ICM (Intentional Camera Movement)
A great idea to experiment with as you can do it hand held. Trying different exposure lengths combined with moving the camera in various ways during the exposure.
Lots and lots of them don't work but the odd shot can work out rather well.
Seaside experiments. A pair of crossed polarizers, ~15+ stops of effective ND, E-M1 and 12-40. Sometimes, we need to experiment to see what works...
Oh yes: no filters/ apps/ etc. All optical except the B&W conversion. Odd colors courtesy of the crossed polarizers...
Detail of ArnoFlash module with LED Module type 1. Status april 2015.
One 123 Lithium Battery or its rechargeable equivalent has sufficient capacity for more as 1000 flashes ... There is no ON / OFF switch because the PIC goes in sleep mode after every load cycle. Only the first Flash cycle after a long period of inactivity must be skipped.
While thinking about lenses, I'm playing with old ones. I think next time, I'll pull out the tripod and think a little more about what I'm doing.
Fluorescent mineral experiments: Precipitates - UVc
FOV: 12" wide
Fluorescent mineral experiments created by precipitation. The rock on the left is a specimen from Franklin containing hydrozincite, calcite and willemite. The plastic bags contain curing samples of precipitates.
Contains:
Hydrozincite (FL Orange/ Blue white >UVab/c)
Calcite (FL Red >UVc)
Willemite (FL Green >UVabc)
Shown under UVc light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosporescent
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps
Experiments of all sorts are scattered throughout the lab.
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Experimenting with creating vintage rail posters that were created over 50 years ago. A shot taken with my compact and processed in Photoshop
Not sure if quite got the style but maybe will progress this if I people take to it.
This is the sort of thing I am trying to replicate: www.travelpostersonline.com/inverness-lmslner--railway-tr...
I know this one doesn't look quite vintage if anyone knows the Forth Rail Bridge as it has these white covers on it, but you get the idea
Moody Experiment.
Some photos from a place you might already recognize, as there're many photos of it here. This time I tried to make something different out of the familiar views. After all, this is a landscape that probably is not scenic this time of the year. At least not for me, not in the usual sense. But of course there's a certain mood -- which might be something that comes out of myself, but I'm sure not without some stimulus, outside, it is really there, somehow. Can it be pictured? Can it be conveyed? How can you depict the actual first impression?
On a technical note: All done with old 50mm f/1.7 lens, all wide open, I used a Kenko nostaltone blue for diffusion and color shift. „Enhanced" in LR & PS.
FOV: 2.75" wide.
Uranyl nitrate and sodium chloride from a previous experiment was dissolved in water. Approx. 6mL of this solution was added to ~5mL of dry sodium metasilicate along with water in a small watch glass. This was rehydrated every few days for about two weeks as the sodium silicate would crystallize and then dissolve again. At the end of the two weeks it was dried under a small electric light bulb resulting in a clear glassy substance with a tinge of green color. On the surface formed large crystalline layer. Before the substance dried it was not very fluorescent. After drying and crystallizing, it became very fluorescent yellow-green under all UV wavelengths.
Because of the crystalline nature of the substance, I don't think I succeeded in creating hyalite opal which is amorphous and not crystalline.
Contains:
Pseudo "Hyalite" (FL Yellow-green >BL/UVabc)
Shown under white light.
Key:
WL = White light (halogen + LED)
FL = Fluoresces
PHOS = Phosphorescent
Blue = 450nm,
UVa = 368nm (LW), UVb = 311nm (MW), UVc = 254nm (SW)
'>' = "stimulated by:", '!' = "bright", '~' = "dim"
"Hyalite Opal"
19Nov2015
Much appreciation to Gordon Czop for the uranyl nitrate.
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18 Watt Triple Output UV lamp from Polman Minerals - Way Too Cool UV lamps
We've been experimenting for years to find the right pizza dough recipe. The permutations have been endless: different kinds of flour, yeast, and amounts of salt, sugar, oil, etc. I lamented that I didn't know how to knead properly. We were convinced that the water temperature was wrong every time we put it in, even though we always checked the temperature. Oh, the troubles and disappointments on Saturday night when the pizza came out of the oven! Too bready. Not chewy enough. No bubbling or lifting. Sigh. We felt doomed to failure.
And then I found the perfect pizza dough recipe. It's a no knead/long rise recipe that requires some planning ahead (the dough needs to sit for 12 to 24 hours) but it yields pizza perfection. This Saturday night's pizza was so spot-on that I finally got out the camera to commemorate the event!
Of course it's not only the dough recipe, it's also the fact that we broke down and got a pizza stone (well, we asked for one along with a pizza peel for Christmas). The stone is definitely a key factor in pizza perfection. As is using whole milk mozarella for proper cheese melt. Hooray for good, homemade pizza!
some work in progress, further with this bamboo paper, exposing with UV-flashlight only, trying some old formulas but they seem to behave different on this paper. They will probably darken when completely dry a bit further.
I’ve got the gray hair to go with the Red Hat Society’s red and purple. Do I look convincing as a Red Hatter?
Vest, Tinseltown (cut from a consignment jacket). Shirt, Keller’s. Skirt, Thailand. Shoes, Katie & Kelly. Sunglasses, Girl Props. Earrings, Super Silver. Bag, Nordstrom Rack.
I've been somewhat obsessed the past few days trying to find ways to salvage my Pirates of the Caribbean shots in Lightroom. I shoot so many photos on that attraction, but maybe process .01% of them - and even then the failure rate is still very high.
I've been trying a lot of new techniques though, and Lightroom 4 has not been letting me down. Today's shot I went a little crazy with in the post-processing department however, just for the hell of it.
I have such a love hate relationship with the skeleton in the photo above. I love seeing him in the attraction, as the effect with the wind & lightning is haunting. I hate however trying to photograph him as it's extremely difficult to get a good shot.
Made for some fun experimenting today though.
Thanks for checking out my shot - please let me know what you think. And remember....
Dead men tell no tales....
ps - while it may look like I used a flash in this shot, I promise I did not. No one wants to be that guy :)
Canon EOS 7D
1.0 sec at f/20 | ISO 400
EF24mm f/1.4L II USM