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I've been unhappy with my macro lately. Lots of macro has been too dark, and the flash is too powerful. I figured the perfect fix would be a small pocket flashlight. At Target the maglite was $6, plus it used AAA batteries. The only AA battery flashlight was this Hello Kitty flashlight, and it was only $3.
I'm beginning to regret that decision to go cheap. The light isn't very strong, and I can't change the beam width.
Oh, and I look like a total idiot when I whip it out while hunched over the street.
Clayton's favorite -- more play with lighting.
Tools: Internet for background, Photoshop elements for editing and flashlight effect.
"Dance on the Outside" because that used to be the name of my photography myspace(that i no longer use).
I couldn't find any single AAA battery holders (2AAAs @ 6V being the replacement for the 9V), so I'm going to cut down these, cut the wires to the adjacent tabs, solder my wires to what remains, and call it good enough.
There's two because I want to keep the center divider to help hold the battery in place, so I'm only removing like 45% of each double holder. A tad wasteful, but these are around $0.75 each.
Using longer camera exposures lets me move my X-ray source vacuum tube further away from the phosphor screen, thus giving me some slightly sharper images which is useful for thicker items.
I didn't get to the batteries (other distractions) but I did spend a couple hours wandering through various stores, including the hardware store, twice. In the course of which I considered and rejected, well, more options for that access/butt extension than I really care to recall or list.
This is what I eventually came up with. ABS instead of PVC, much harder and more durable, and not prone to eating itself when stressed. Apparently I was just on the wrong aisle the first time. (Also note my vernier calipers in the background - checking the size. They're just fun; I just groove on good tools in general :)
Trevor reading by flashlight at school. He was excited the whole week previous for this to happen! 😋
Imagine MY surprise when I happened upon this awesome flashlight for 99 cents at a local junk store.
I had fallen in love with it ever since seeing one that Missy had found at a yard sale (as seen in this photo): www.flickr.com/photos/boopsiedaisy/4676760933/
I was so envious of her find, and now I have one of my own!!! I need to put batteries in him, and of course he will live with my Frankenstein collection! ♥
And this shows the hole I cut in the bottom of the inner flask to make room for the reflector. Compare this to the earlier pic, with just the bottom of the outer shell gone. And you can't really see it from this angle, but I've also removed some more metal around the edges; there was a cuff that slipped off, that's why the outer rim looks so clean.
For the technical side (how-to):
you will need:
- doom 3 (duh!)
- irfan view (free)
- anamaker (free)
- anaglyphic glasses (very cheap, see your optician for the cheapes cardboard models)
For a phototour i recommend fiddling with your console (when fiddling with your console you can MESS THINGS UP - so do some reading on how to back up your config files!!!).
open up the console:
CTRL+ALT+^
enter:
GOD (so you cannot die)
NOCLIP (for flying and passing through walls for nice perspectives)
NOTARGET (so monsters will stay lurking in the dark instead of attacking you)
you do not want your guns and HUD in the screenshot, so what I did (alternatives are possible):
enter:
bind F11 "set ui_showGun 0; set g_showHud 0; screenshot"
(this will hide weapons and HUD from your screen and make a screenshot)
then type:
bind F12 "set g_showHud 1; set ui_showGun 1"
now you will take "clean" screenshots using F11, if you wanna proceed playing/killing, press F12.
SHOOTING PICS:
find a nice perspective. Start "left", take screenshot using F11, then slightly strafe right and take next screenshot(s). The closer the object, the less strafing you should do in between shots (just "tap" your "strafe right" key).
Take loads of shots.
When taking pics of Monsters, take even more and try to sync it with the movement (its tricky), for example the moment when the Zombie looks to its right or the monster flicks its tongue.
There is also a "freeze" command in the console but I have not tried it yet - would be cool though for action shots!
Note that Godmode and Noclip has to be reentered at the beginning of a new level.
Screenshots will be saved to (standard setting) C:\programs\base\screenshots
in .tga format.
As Anamaker can only handle .jpeg and .bmp files you will have to use irfanview to batch convert the .tga-files to .jpeg.
Now you have everything you need.
Open Anamaker.
Choose "left eye" and flip through your screenshots folder. As they are just given names shot0001 through shot9999 it is easy to find the first pic of a series.
So lets say choose "shot0013" for left eye. Now choose "shot 0014" for right eye and make an anaglyph (check the color anaglyph tab). Put on your anaglyphic glasses and enjoy.
You can fiddle a bit with the cross-shaped buttons to shift the two pictures.
Once you are satisfied, save your work.
If the effect is not as desired, choose the next pair of your set. Say, choose shot14 for left and shot 15 for right eye.
It takes only a little practise and if you are anything like me, the results will leave a big smile on your face.
Works with other 3d-games as well, but be shure you figure out a way to loose the weapon and HUD in the screenshots.