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I've had a pretty lazy Sunday and haven't even left the house today so I just took this. It's a fiber-optic light.
closeup of an optic fiber lamp
you can listen to this. i think it goes well with the photo
photo taken with a canon 400d
lens: canon ef 50mm f/1.8 II
I am, er, rather, Graham is a talented musician and a great friend who I’ve been pleased to know for a long time now. The reason for my stutter is referencing to how him and I were often confused for each other, jokingly I’m sure. Average looking white males, all the same, am I right? But that was years ago. The kid has a beard now! I also got taller. Now it’s almost like we’re unique individuals. Almost.
I met Graham in early highschool. I had been coaxed into getting Facebook, and then told I had to have a profile picture. I decided I had to try to be better than everyone else and ended up taking a bunch of selfies (NOTE: BEFORE SELFIES WERE COOL) with lavalamps, glowsticks, fiberoptic lamps, and many other things. The shots got me some attention with friends and I ended up being asked to take photos of a band my friends were in called Fall With Them. Graham was on guitar and vocals. That’s how we met and after that everything fell into place.
Eventually Fall With Them disbanded and while it was unfortunate, everyone moved on to new things. One of those things being GDAD which, if you read yesterday’s post you’d know, became Good For Grapes whom I continued to photograph for. I’ve basically been taking photos of Graham for as long as I’ve been a photographer. It never really occurred to me until I wrote that last sentence. It’s an odd thought, though comforting knowing that I’ve had friends who’ve been there throughout my growth as an artist. I’m excited to see what will happen next in our ongoing journey through music and photography.
What the Internet looks like as it races past to destinations unknown. ICM at the Arboretum Winter Lights exhibition. 20231210_DSCF4140
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Had a lot of fun with new light painting tools from LightPaintingBrushes, along with models, Katherine and my son.
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Lauren very kindly offered to help again on tonight's shot so I immediately reached for my diffusion sheet as I haven't done one with her for a while. I also successfully hunted down Riley's old coat with the funky lining which had escaped my clutches for a couple of months. Happy days.
1 x girlfriend behind said diffusion sheet then 1 x pop of the beauty dish from directly above. Liberal wafting of the black fibers from LP Brushes gelled orange, quick sweep of my star image played on the dlw from top to bottom then a lens and tripod swap to my Nikon 20mm at closest focus for the coat lining. Lit generously with a bluish gelled torch from all angles.
That's 159 shots in and well past the point of no return.
Happy days.
On my first attempt at fiber optic light painting, I experimented with my son's guitar before trying it with people. After three tries, I finally captured this shot. No AI, just fun.
Here is the 'studio' view of how things were staged for that day's photo. The small 'lantern' with the fiberoptic filaments was from Surf Internet at their summer County Fair booth. I received two with different lights, so I may use them in the future.
The final 'product' is shown int eh comments.
Optical fibers can be used for communications, but they can also make for a nice photo! Look at all the pretty lights!
Explored (#132, September 8, 2009)
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In the high technology, maximize profit world, twisted pair and fiber communications take a backseat to wireless. People like "cheap" until an earthquake or storm knocks out their phone service. Remnants of the days when there was only wired service still exist across the Mojave desert.
I think this was an independent company which was bought by General Telephone (GTE). They changed names to Verizon. Then they sold their twisted pair and fiberoptic infrastructure to Frontier.
…the business model of commercial wireless remains linked an 80/20 way with consumers over business and industrial customers… [A] dimension of the competitive consumer-centric environment has to do with reliability. Competitive winners are those [local exchange carriers], cable companies, and wireless internet service providers (WISPs) that can snag customers without incurring much cost. Levels of service naturally drop to the lowest common denominator that consumers can tolerate, with service providers often choosing to skip things such as backup power for repeater locations. Unfortunately, the minimum level consumers can tolerate is not always acceptable to support [critical infrastructure like utility power.]
— F. H. “Rick” Smith
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This is a five-frame panorama showing one of the elderly microwave towers that used to carry analog telephone calls in the era of telephones with wires.
** Technology **
You know how the stars 'twinkle' at night? The same thing happens with radio signals. The KS15676 horn antennas are paired for diversity reception. Bell Labs designed these so a second receiver antenna could be placed a few feet away. There's a low probability that both receivers will experience a fade at the exact same moment. Your wired telephone call sound would be sturdy so long as one of the two receivers still had a signal from microwave tower at the other end. (If your eyes were further apart and summed the light received, the stars wouldn't twinkle.)
According to public documents, the circular horn facing this way still connects via 10 gigahertz with a companion on Mount Laguna. The tower is about 162 feet tall. The tower legs are maybe 30- or 40-feet apart, keeping the narrow-beamed antennas pointing in exactly the right direction in spite of winds or earthquakes. This is a possible benefit of monopoly where the sole provider is required to meet a service level. The current model is designed for quarterly profits instead of reliability.
The next tower east of here was in the city of Brawley. I say "was" because it was dismantled about 15 years ago. This means the three horn-type antennas on the far side appear to be unused.
This building has a crap-load of fiberoptic lines going into it as evidenced by miles of signs along this road. In other words, all the stuff that used to be carried by microwave radio is now carried by digital fiberoptic links, it appears.
** End of Technology **
Because some percentage of people in law enforcement are Brady cops, I generally stay away from electronic sites. Although the site is within about 50 feet of the road's edge, I shot this from the road 0.8 miles east on S22 and did not get near the site except for the few seconds it took to drive by.
That's the Salton Sea and the Chocolate Mountains in the background. The site is a few hundred feet east of the county line inside San Diego County. The terrain you're seeing is almost entirely in Imperial County.
The paint scheme is called aircraft obstruction marking paint. This thing also has a nice set of lights, keeping aircraft away during dusk and night.
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Spaceship Earth is another one of the major Walt Disney World icons that no matter how many times I photograph it I just keep going back for more. In fact, I think Spaceship Earth offers more unique shots than Cinderella Castle. You've so many different features you can include such as the ground fiber optics here, the fountain on front and back, the Leave a Legacy stones, the front entrance planter, the monorails and more. Plus it really lends itself to shooting at some funky angles, far more than Cinderella Castle in my opinion. As for this shot I always try to shoot a couple different shots of Spaceship Earth with the fiber optic lights and with the ground wet I was really interested to see how it would effect the shot. The water had not puddled up here but you still had a nice sheen from the water. Ultimately it really enhanced the photo I believe. The shine on the ground is phenomenal and it really helped reflect those gorgeous purple and red colors. The yellow lights sprinkled in the color really looks great. I will mention it seems a year or two ago they changed the lighting scheme on Spaceship Earth a bit and I don't like how it photographs as much as I did with the previous scheme. I'm not sure if they changed the colors up or just the type of lights but its definitely not the same.
This was shot with the Nikon D810 with the Nikon 14-24 2.8 at F8. I shot a 5 bracket exposure which I then chose to blend in Photomatix. I then blended a single exposure for the sky and did my signature blend of levels adjustments, color balancing and other techniques. Enjoy.
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For this week's assignment, I chose to focus on my kids. Although they bring chaos into my life, I consider it a good thing and feel blessed to have them. I used a black fiber optic brush to create the lighting effects for this project. Initially, I attempted to capture both in a single take, but it proved challenging due to longer exposure times. So, I decided to shoot them individually and combine the shots in post.
Fun light painting session with my son and a friend's daughter. Wonderful light painting tools from @Lightpaintingbrushes
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ABC's and 123's T is for Tiny Tree
This little fiber optic tree is at least 25 years old and still in great shape. It is part of every holiday.
Walt Disney World
EPCOT Future World
This is one of my favorite fisheye shots because of the fiber optic walkway starlights, one part of EPCOT that I was fascinated with as a child (and now my kids are fascinated by them as well). This particular image was processed using Photomatix Exposure Fusion (6 exposures in all) and then finished off in CS5. Very tough to keep that EPCOT neon in it’s natural pink color. It often wants to slip deeper into the red family in post.
What’s your favorite part of EPCOT?
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Corridor avant d'arriver à l'entrée du musée Grévin à Montréal, sur la rue Ste-Catherine.
Corridor before arriving at the entrance to the Grevin museum in Montreal, on Ste-Catherine street.
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