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Firewall: a system for stopping malicious computer intrusion and disrupting civilian air traffic... talk about multi-purpose! One of those days when it all falls into place: a static atmosphere, the low sun - and a wall of cumulus clouds enveloped in haze...
Large scale street art on Redchurch Street. A massive improvement on the previously blank grey wall.
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Nature at its best.
These leaves often disguise old or dirty walls, a long green season and then, a brief moment of short-lived beauty, Autumn!
A Virginia Creeper (parthenocissus) clinging on very elegantly.
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A fairly similar image to the one posted yesterday in terms of the setup – this one switches up dandelion seeds for Prairie Smoke wildflower seeds gathered on my recent trip to Calgary. Here’s a behind-the-scenes of the setup: donkom.ca/bts/_1090409.jpg
The really key to success here is having your light source very close to the background flower, allowing the seeds in the foreground to fall into silhouette. All of the light on the seeds come from the flower, giving it an orange glow and all the refractions of the flowers. The base (Platypod Max), gooseneck arms and lights are all available as a Black Friday bundle right now, so if you’re itching to get a setup similar to this, here’s your chance to get it all at once: platypod.com/tripods/max-macro-bundle
Other key ingredients here are “third hand tools”, with two different varieties being used. Just search for that term in Amazon and you’ll find a ton of options starting at US$7. You’ll also need a wide dish with a flat bottom, maybe 5 inches deep or so. I shoot over the corner of the square container here so that I have more water surface available for reflection.
The droplets are created with a simple spray bottle, but you need to be cautious with these Prairie Smoke seeds – the water droplets tend to roll down, collecting all of the smaller droplets in their path. This means you need to shoot very quickly, as the subject is much more temporary than droplets on a dandelion seed.
The camera is in position, on a tripod – which I normally do not use for these images, but it’s a requirement when shooting with the high-resolution mode found on the Lumix S1R. This gives me ample ability to crop in on a 187MP image to increase me depth of field, but intentionally shooting at a lesser magnification. This doesn't come without a few caveats though: try to limit your aperture to F/11 at the smallest, because diffraction will noticeably reduce your overall quality. You also have to ensure that your lights are at their brightest so that each exposure happens quickly – if a droplet rolls down the “spine” of one of the seeds during the 8-shots required in this mode, you’ll have some motion blur to contend with.
I wasn’t able to get all of the seeds to be perfectly within the same focal plane, so while my depth is greater than usual for a single frame (no focus stacking!), some of it still falls out of focus… but I don’t mind that. It adds a bi of extra dimension to the image.
Want to learn more about these types of images? I was honoured to shoot a video with Evelyn Drake for The Camera Store TV which you can find here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuMK1NZJQLE
Even when the temperature is hovering at freezing, a scene like this can warm you right up. Osprey on Mud Lake.
I know, I know. It's months later than I said.. But I'm finally finishing up my takes on the top 3 finishers of my contest. Here's slight of bricks' character Firewall, that I made my own version of. Here's a link to his original entry to the contest. I'll try to get Prismatic, and Dim Reaper done soon as well.
www.flickr.com/photos/slightofbrick/36751906882/in/pool-3...
A thousand vertical feet of erosion patterns on the side of a large mesa, in an otherworldly and remote area of Utah.
You may have seen the first (non-panoramic) version of this image last year, as well as the wider, more symmetrically-composed twilight image "Funnel Factory". While finally finishing up the processing of images from that trip this week, I realized I had made one exposure with both the better light, and the better composition. Not sure how I missed it the first time around, but here it is.
Feb 17th - second night shooting the Firefall. I had some beautiful light and some clouds drift through above the falls. Just not a ton of flow in the falls.
Welsh sunsets always have a surprise ready and I had my camera ready to take this 'Firewall' back home which was a very special day for me ...
Sky over West Wales (Ceredigion)
Sunset in Welsh = Machlud Haul
Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ200
ƒ/4.0
24.8 mm
1/200
ISO 100
Flash off (did not fire)
Dedicated to C.F. (ILYWAMHASAM)
Here is my build for week two of the RogueOlympics where the prompt was “Internet”. It took a lot more thought this time to settle on a concept I liked.
In the end, I went with this imaginative cyber scenario of a firewall under attack by vicious viruses. The scene uses 100 elements.
There are a few more images including the parts spread on Brickbuilt.
CNN - Users Rage Against China's "Great Flickr Firewall"
BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Yang Zhou is no cyberdissident, but recent curbs on his Web surfing habits by China's censors have him fomenting discontent about China's "Great Firewall."
Yang's fury erupted a few days ago when he found he could not browse his friend's holiday snaps on Flickr.com, due to access restrictions by censors after images of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre were posted on the photo-sharing Web site.
"Once you've complained all you can to your friends, what more can you do? What else is there but anger and disillusionment?" Yang said after venting his anger with friends at a hot-pot restaurant in Beijing.
The blocking of Flickr is the latest casualty of China's ongoing battle to control its sprawling Internet. Wikipedia and a raft of other popular Web sites, discussion boards and blogs have already fallen victim to the country's censors.
China employs a complex system of filters and an army of tens of thousands of human monitors to survey the country's 140 million Internet users' surfing habits and surgically clip sensitive content from in front of their eyes.
Its stability-obsessed government says the surveillance machinery, commonly known as the "Great Firewall," is necessary to let Internet users enjoy a "healthy" online environment and build a "harmonious" society.
Yang just thinks it's a pain.
"I just want to look at some photos! What's wrong with that?" said the 24-year-old accountant, typical of millions of young urban-dwelling professionals who are increasingly aware of and fed up with state intrusions into their private life.
Within days of the blocking of Flickr, links to browser plug-ins and how-to explanations to subvert the filters and see Flickr photos were gleefully posted on blogs and in chat-rooms.
Many posts were preceded by tirades against the censors for "harmonising" Flickr.
One blogger posted an image of a voodoo doll, calling it the Great Firewall and inviting users to -- digitally -- stick pins in it.
Yang said restrictions on Flickr probably wouldn't motivate him to write a blog, much less push him down the road of "potentially dangerous" activism.
But he liked the idea of the Great Firewall voodoo doll.
"Have you got the link? Maybe I'll go stick a pin in it," he said.
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