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At 100 feet on a vertical wall at night, my buddy and I turned off our dive lights and scanned the millions of bioluminescent lights for pairs that moved in unison... that would be a flashlight fish! Approaching with lights still off until I was very close I suddenly stunned the light sensitive fish with my lights, caught it in my left hand as it made for a hole in the reef and shot with right hand. It cuddled into my hand as if it found some sense of safety there. This image was made just after I released the fish and as it was turning to enter a hole in the reef. The kidney bean shaped bioluminescent organ under each eye has a lid which closed while the fish made it's dark getaway. Flashlight fish are very rarely seen by divers due to their nocturnal behavior and habitat. Not many divers want to turn off their flashlights at 100 feet, on a vertical wall that drops to 6,000 feet, in the middle of the night. It's kinda spooky.
Using my new Vello wireless remote control, I made a few long exposures of my kids playing with flashlights. This was Rebecca, solo. Notice the accidental "4" in the middle, which is her favorite number, and the (almost) "H" around it, which is the only letter she can write on paper.
Exposure: 6 seconds
I reamed out the inside of the unthreaded side of the female coupling ( ::hears the sniggering:: hey, don't blame me, that's really is what it's called), glued like crazy, and slipped it over the end of the thermos where the original slip fitting had come off during my early abuses. You can see the off-white lumps where the glue expanded and bubbled out around the edges, inside and out. I will clean this up some, but since it's just the prototype, I don't plan on going to a whole lot of trouble.
For the same reason, I'm not planning to lop off that giant square protrusion on the screw cap. I could, the cutting would be easy enough, but a) it's be a real pain in the butt to fix the resulting hole (that square thing is hollow) and b) thats the only way to unscrew that cap; if I took that off, I'd have to engineer something else (inset D-ring that folds flat?). More trouble than it's worth, all the way around, for just the prototype. So there it stays, even if it is kinda ugly and ruins the lines. Works like a charm though, and I gotta say, I give high points for functionality :)
I made a small run of flashlights in empty Altoids tins. I wanted to do something fun with them, so I put them all up on eBay with 100% of the sale going to the Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund (sandynjrelieffund.org/).
Wicked bright and lightweight flashlight. Digitally controlled Cree LED. Puts out 220 lumens in "turbo" mode. Weighs only 1.7 oz (w/o batteries)!
My new metal bodied flashlight is just slightly too long and too skinny for the side pocket of my Carhartt trousers. Without the extra width of the added band of tape, the flashlight tended to fall out.
Ever have Flashlight Wars when you were a kid? Why do we stop doing those fun things just because we age?? Anybody wanna play?
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More in my set, "Star Light Star Bright:"
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These are LED flashlights that charge with a few turns of a built-in crank. They're little token from Robert Munro to our workers in Haiti. They'll be very useful to people, especially since power is out over much of the area we'll be visiting.
Btw, Robert has been instrumental in developing large parts of Mission 4636. I added our new Samasource stickers to them.
My sister, slightly perturbed by the routine family argument during a 4th of July fireworks show, crawls to a corner of the balcony to read by flashlight.
A personal favorite of mine because it captures something about her character.
first attempt at the light orb.
Strobist: Orange gelled sb800 behind subject triggered with cybersync. Pink plastic cup over led flashlight.
I frequently use an LED flashlight to spotlight something I am taking a picture of. The other day I noticed a significant color shift in a flower - perhaps I had not noticed sooner because I had not taken apicture in daylight, and then with the flash.
Time to experiment. Camera on tripod, sheet of very white typing paper taped to wall. Camera set to P. All pictures taken in RAW (Sony) and opened in the raw converter that is part of Elements 11.
The flip-up flash on the camera (Sony A580) was used for the top picture.
The column of pictures on the left are screen shots of the images down the left side of the raw converter, and the histograms are screen shots from the raw converter.
I was surprised that the level of gray was not more similar. The color shifts were expected.
Addendum - I just went back to the raw processor and used the white balance tool on the white paper. The histograms were corrected for the major areas, with just some discrepancy at the left.
Takeaway: use a proper gray color patch in the photograph.
Just funny that with low clouds three light beams on the top of the Space Needle come together like a giant LED flashlight.