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I took this photo at 11:18 p.m. on a Saturday night in downtown Nashville on Legislative Plaza as a lone state trooper walked past me, shining his flashlight into corner of the public plaza just past where I was standing. The photo was taken as I was on the Plaza with numerous other photographers, news crews and reporters to document the third straight night that a small band of political protesters were under the threat of arrest by state troopers if they failed to abide by the newly instated curfew - a curfew created out of thin air, with no legal authority, and selectively enforced against only the political protestors on the Plaza. I could have been arrested for being there - on a PUBLIC plaza at the physical and metaphysical heart of state government in Tennessee - all because the governor is tired of the protesters and wants to make them go away.
Politically, I'm not in sync with the protesters. But I am 100 percent in support of their First Amendment right to assemble on that plaza and speak their mind for however long they want to be there, until they feel as if they have said all that they wanted to say.
This is the woman I was talking about. Who is this? It's the same as in my sister's flashlight, and it's a bit of a mystery to us. Now, we know you get some strange stuff at the trinket stores (that's why we buy our presents there - it's fun), and it could be that this is just some woman they found a photo of and just decided to put in there, but why go through all that trouble? Maybe you're supposed to change the photo to that of a loved one? I haven't tried to open it, but I might just give it a try some day.
Now, my question is this: If this is NOT a random photo, then who the heck is she? And why is she hidden in this flashlight?
12 feet from target, on high, with three D-sized 12000mAH NiMH batteries
This 3D MagLite was modified by Nailbender, and has a d2Flex PWM driver to adjust brightness and runs for a VERY long time with this battery setup, even on high. It has a light orange-peel reflector. The DSVNI-binned P7 has very nice "buttery" tint.
For strobist: Testing new Ebay triggers (received yesterday) with DigiSlave 3000 firing into umbrella high above and slightly to right. F8 @ 1/250 with ISO 50. Triggers work great. Gonna have to point flash a people soon!
The forward-facing, narrow-angle beam uses 5 ultra-bright, 5mm white LEDs, and the downward-facing wide-angle beam uses 3 - and together these light sources enable you to feel safer while walking in the dark. There are multiple lighting options available with the flashlight’s 3-way switch: the front light alone, both front and lower lights, and lower lights only.
Each of these shots contains a Gretag-Macbeth Color Checker classic (http://www.xrite.com/product_overview.aspx?ID=820) which is "an array of 24 scientifically prepared natural, chromatic, primary and gray scale colored squares in a wide range of colors. Many of the squares represent natural objects, such as human skin, foliage and blue sky. Since they exemplify the color of their counterparts and reflect light the same way in all parts of the visible spectrum, the squares will match the colors of representative sample natural objects under any illumination, and with any color reproduction process."