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The Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods in Smallholder Systems (SAMPLES) Program aims to identify pro-poor mitigation options in smallholder farming systems, focusing on opportunities to both benefit farmers’ food security and contribute to climate change mitigation.
This photo was taken at the SAMPLES Annual Workshop June 25-28th, 2013 in Nyando District, western Kenya. Photo by K. Foster (ICRAF).
I went shopping for colors today, again. To help me, I've made a sample page of all the acrylic colors I've got, so I could compare them with colors I wanted to buy, and avoid doubles.
I wasn't really expecting to find: a) that I have so many already; b) that I have a few doubles is there. 2 Ultramarine,2 Carmine (why in the hell?), 2 Hookers green, 3 bright yellows and enough Ochre and vermilion to paint poppy fields for the rest of my life.
and apperently, I don't have red of any kind. I'm a cmyk artist these days.
UPDATE: we have Cadmium red medium.
The ultra wide angle! I wanted to step into ultra wide photography with my MFT set but the Panasonic 7-14mm was way too expensive which makes me concerned regarding the wide-open front element.
The Sigma 8-16 is wider (but smaller aperture) and half the price of the Panny! It makes me less (though still) concerned about the front element.
This lens does not take filter so I'll have to use my handiness to work out a way to use an ND filter on it. Stay tuned! :D
First, a note: I am not a professional, nor do I pretend to be. The usual frantic pace of the end of the semester has kept me from “playing” with the new toy for any length of time.
Conditions of the test
This particular gym is dark and has mixed lighting. Without an Expodisk, the D200 (and the D50 I used last year) rendered images with a strong yellow and/or green cast.
Settings
I used a variety of settings during this tournament. All pictures were shot using auto ISO and auto white balance. The picture controls were normal, with sharpening set to 7. Noise reduction was set to low. I finally settled on the manual mode, 1/400th of a second with an aperture of f2.8. I used a variety of auto focus modes but most of these were shot in single point mode. The metering mode was centerweight.
I used a Nikor AF-S 80-200 f2.8 for all of these shots.
Post Processing
I used Capture NX to convert the files from RAW to JPEG—after I backed everything up, as Capture NX supposedly doesn’t play well with OS X 10.5. The first images are straight from Capture NX, with no additional processing except for a little resizing in Photoshop (the JPEG files out of NX were over Flickr's 10 mb file size restriction). The second example was post processed in Photoshop CS3 with the Define 2.0 plugin.
Conclusions
The D300 is a complicated beast, far more so than the D200. I’ve used a variety of focusing modes: the 3D tracking is a wonder to behold, in the right conditions. A basketball court full of players with similar uniforms isn’t the best situation. I’ve had good results with focus priority (9 point), but I seem to get the best results with the good, old fashioned single point mode.
The auto WB is a wonder. Exposure is quite good, although I was admittedly pushing it with these images. The end of the gym I usually shoot from has an overhead track that prevents any light from reflecting back onto the players’ faces, resulting in a bad combination of dim light and silhouetted players. The D300 handled the situation quite well.
The noise is quite acceptable for my use. Yes, it’s there and quite evident, particularly at 100%. Given that most of these shots were taken with an ISO of 2000 or above, I don’t think that’s bad.
What’s also present is detail: in one shot, the threads on the player’s uniform are quite visible. I could not have done that with the D200 under these conditions, period.
I printed a 13” by 19” shot from a different game that looked good at normal viewing distances (I did clean it up with Define). That might be stretching it, but it also gives you an idea of how much the high ISO game has changed in the past few months.
I’m not a pixel-peeper, so I’ll let viewers form their own judgments. I’ve only held a 40D in a store, I’ve never used a Canon dSLR and I’m neither inclined nor qualified to render a judgment on the image quality of the respective devices. I’m a neutral party in the Canon/Nikon war. Both companies make fantastic cameras, and I’m sure the 40D is capable of giving fine results in similar conditions.
Slovenian hunter collecting genetic sample from wolf urine in Northern Dinaric Mountains in Slovenia - part of the study of wolf genetics and ecology withing the Life+ project SloWolf (www.volkovi.si)
Note: Room size, layout, and furniture configuration may vary. Unfortunately we cannot provide photos of specific rooms.
Public Domain Book:Illustrated sample book & price list of Palm's patent transfer letters
ornaments & trade designs for signs, wagons, cars, machines, etc
manufactured by the Palm Letter Co
Published 1901 in Cincinnati .
Written in English.
openlibrary.org/works/OL16718075W/Illustrated_sample_book...
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Spent an afternoon painting these, to demonstrate how quickly and easily Tau can be painted. Chose Vile Green as the main armour colour as we have about a dozen pots of it kicking around in our club - no-one knows why.
The Standard Assessment of Mitigation Potential and Livelihoods in Smallholder Systems (SAMPLES) Program aims to identify pro-poor mitigation options in smallholder farming systems, focusing on opportunities to both benefit farmers’ food security and contribute to climate change mitigation.
Photo: Training SAMPLES students from Maseno University in the field in Nyando District, western Kenya.
Camera : OLMPUS E-5(Sample)
Lens : ZUIKO DIGITAL ED 12-60mm F2.8-4.0 SWD(Sample)
at OLMPUS Photo Festa OSAKA
Samples awaiting analysis by ICP-MS in SAL. (Seibersdorf Analytical Laboratory, Seibersdorf, Austria, 12 March 2007)
Photo Credit: Dean Calma/IAEA
An environmental specialist takes a monolith sample. The section shows successive layers of occupation on this part of the site. Below the thick, rammed, chalk floor surface is a thinner chalk floor. Below that is a layer of cobbling which lies over the Roman dark earth layer. At the bottom is the pre-Roman soil.
Find out more at www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/county/hampshire/28-jewry-s...
Our housing event was a blast. The ladies turned the sampling program into an entire spa day, and they loved the skin care samples.
Susanne transfering the sample of gas from the strange bubbles to a container for later analysis. Ytterby mine on the island of Resarö near Waxholm, Stockholm. A world record number of at least seven elements have been described from the mine, four of which have been named after the mineral ore and the village (yttrium, erbium, terbium, and ytterbium), the other three are holmium, thulium and gadolinium. The mine is a ASM International Historical Landmark. Later the mine shaft was sealed and the mine used as storage for petroleum. Today the remediation process is almost completed.
Biologists use a sterile gauze pad to carefully remove spots of oil from the body of a young green sea turtle. This gauze was to be tested to determine if the oil was from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
View related news release: FWC rescuing oil-impacted sea turtles with help from Gulf fishermen
these are some samples I created using inks and a heat press machine. To create pattern and texture I crumpled paper and used the heat gun against the light fabric.