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The homemade paper instamatic cartridge with an 36 exp., here Fuji sensia 200 iso.. Actually it works. This cartridge is made of black paper, lightproof tape and an ordinary film 135 m,m film. The mask inside is made of sliced 120 film neg to get more clean edges. To make it fit into instamatic camera I have used an paperclip. After bending and gluing the paper together - you pull the film out of the film canister and roll it together and place it in the black box. last step is to tape it together. I have used this "126" film in my kodak 500
These are almost done, but I'm noticing that they are sticking because I put them on the plate too close together.
Here you can see that this cheap craft store necklace chain + clasp have lost their silver-plating. Additionally, this chain has reacted with my skin and turned it green. One of the best ways to prevent this from happening with jewelry chains, is to use a higher quality metal (i.e. sterling silver, not sterling silver-plated).
Lissajous figures are interesting curves that occur in systems where oscillation happens in more than one direction, for example when a pendulum hanging from a string moves in the plane.
These pictures are from an easy persistence of vision approach to playing with Lissajous figures. Read more about this project here.
Want to know what I'm up to? Read "Company Headquarters" and How to make a stone wall with egg carton.
Everyone should have a pair of furry leg warmers, of course. They can also double nicely as a pair of boot covers. I just whipped up a pair for Halloween.
Want to know what I'm up to? Read "Company Headquarters" and How to make a stone wall with egg carton.
Attention: Please do not waste your time and talent by mounting your beautiful needlework with tape, glue or adhesive spray.
From top left: 1. Cut acid-free matboard to fit with some excess fabric. 2. Place matboard on 100% cotton backing fabric and cut a piece slightly larger than matboard. 3. Cut thin acid-free batting to fit matboard. attach using acid-free adhesive spray. 4. Machine stitch backing to long edge of needlework. This photo shows the needlework with backing attached on top of the matboard. 5. Flip and stretch backing fabric to opposite side and pin turned under edge closely. 6. Use same technique on the remaining sides. Keep as taut as possible. Use the lines in the needlework fabric to keep it aligned with the matboard. Whip stitch or ladder stitch backing fabric to needlework fabric. As it isn't glued or taped to the board. you can make slight adjustment to the position even after it is stitched together. Use a fine tip permanent marker on the backing fabric to add your name and date.
I often find cheap packages of matboard pieces in the framing department of Hobby Lobby. They are the matting cutouts.
Finished spiderbot, This one has LED eyes (although they are not normally powered, this photo shows them being powered from the battery via a small length of wire resting on the -ve LED terminal and the top of the battery).
I had a request for an explanation of how I set up "Topaz Ring, Macro", so here it is. This is taken from nearly above to best show the arrangement of the elements. Note:
-ring on stone fragment at center (film plane was parallel to stone fragment)
-white flat as backdrop, angled with respect to the stone and film plane
-gelled flash on backdrop, positioned to spill light across backdrop
-main light is flash into a 45" white umbrella, about 45 degrees offset from stone in both the horizontal and vertical
-camera was positioned parallel to stone, about 6" from the ring.
-there was also a white flat to the right when I took the original, but I was just holding it with my right hand (camera on tripod with two-second timer and 1-second mirror lockup so I had time to grab the flat)
The real trick here was angling the backdrop. When I didn't angle the backdrop, the main light overwhelmed the gelled light. But by putting the backdrop at an extreme angle to the main light, I could effectively weaken the main light, and since the backdrop is featureless and will be greatly out of focus anyway, you can't tell in the final image that it was angled. (I already had the umbrella'ed flash as low as I really wanted it to go, and the gelled flash isn't very adjustable.)
This shot was lit with two tungsten hotlights, one 100W pointed at the setup, and one 200W pointed at the ceiling for a little more fill. When taking the original shot, the flashes were wired with Wein HH units and household cord, but I left that out here for clarity.
If I were doing the whole thing again, I think I would place a large white flat under the whole shebang for more bounced light. (The bit of cardboard that says "PARAMOUNT" is just so the stone won't scratch the top of my chest of drawers...)
I made a little video showing how to make this slipcover. Video and diagram on my blog: studiocherie.blogspot.com/2016/03/sweet-slipcovers-video-...
some people, online magazines, webloggers find it hard to give credit to authors using a Creative Commons license.
couldn't be more simple!
on the right on every photo page you see Additional Information. check the link to the Creative Commons license, click on it. then on the next page you can see the above box. click on it and copy it. then on your blog paste it. that's it. link and license are now included in your blogpost and can be read by machines (read: search engines like Google who indexes Creative Commons licenses as well)
click on this link and you see what I mean: