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A little 10cm square ornament that we bought a few weeks ago, set on a glass-topped indoor windowsill.
Lighting
Three old Vivitar 283 hotshoe flashes, Cybersync triggers.
Flash in 60x60cm double-diffused Lastolite softbox behind the setup (the white background).
Flash with cardboard snoot and blue gel (Lee 165, "Daylight Blue") right up against the softbox on camera-left.
Flash with cardboard snoot and pink gel (Lee 002, "Rose Pink") right up against the softbox on camera-right.
The double overlapping reflections in the foreground are due to the glass reflecting from both upper and lower surfaces. There is in fact also a faint third reflection (or rather a shadow) from the white-painted sill on which the glass is placed, slightly raised on little rubber spacers.
The light on the trees and front edges of the wooden frame is due to light bouncing back onto the object from the window frame on the camera side.
Set building space for musical Beauty and the Beast
backstage area at the John R. Armstrong Performing Arts Center in Mount Clemens, Michigan
218b 3 - TAC_9790 - lr-ps - frame
To become a westbound in a little while, as I would catch it leaving Symington Yard. The engines in the far back ground are the service line at the shop and the one in the foreground is another train ready to leave. This curve is headed out to Beach Junction, and the Reddit or Rivers Subs
This was taken on 94th Street and Lexington Avenue...
I guess this is what a typical pair of NYC teenagers looks like today ... but like I said in the caption for the photo, I have a feeling you could see these two almost anywhere in the country. Or almost anywhere in the world. And while you're looking at a photo taken on April 2, 2014, I'm not sure it would have looked all that much different 20 or 30 years ago.
Well, maybe the headphones are an indicator of our time. Maybe the skateboard. Maybe the boots that the girl is wearing. But I'm not so sure ...
Note: I chose this as my "photo of the day" for May 7, 2014.
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This set of photos is based on a very simple concept: walk every block of Manhattan with a camera, and see what happens. To avoid missing anything, walk both sides of the street.
That's all there is to it …
Of course, if you wanted to be more ambitious, you could also walk the streets of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. But that's more than I'm willing to commit to at this point, and I'll leave the remaining boroughs of New York City to other, more adventurous photographers.
Oh, actually, there's one more small detail: leave the photos alone for a month -- unedited, untouched, and unviewed. By the time I actually focus on the first of these "every-block" photos, I will have taken more than 8,000 images on the nearby streets of the Upper West Side -- plus another several thousand in Rome, Coney Island, and the various spots in NYC where I traditionally take photos. So I don't expect to be emotionally attached to any of the "every-block" photos, and hope that I'll be able to make an objective selection of the ones worth looking at.
As for the criteria that I've used to select the small subset of every-block photos that get uploaded to Flickr: there are three. First, I'll upload any photo that I think is "great," and where I hope the reaction of my Flickr-friends will be, "I have no idea when or where that photo was taken, but it's really a terrific picture!"
A second criterion has to do with place, and the third involves time. I'm hoping that I'll take some photos that clearly say, "This is New York!" to anyone who looks at it. Obviously, certain landscape icons like the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty would satisfy that criterion; but I'm hoping that I'll find other, more unexpected examples. I hope that I'll be able to take some shots that will make a "local" viewer say, "Well, even if that's not recognizable to someone from another part of the country, or another part of the world, I know that that's New York!" And there might be some photos where a "non-local" viewer might say, "I had no idea that there was anyplace in New York City that was so interesting/beautiful/ugly/spectacular."
As for the sense of time: I remember wandering around my neighborhood in 2005, photographing various shops, stores, restaurants, and business establishments -- and then casually looking at the photos about five years later, and being stunned by how much had changed. Little by little, store by store, day by day, things change … and when you've been around as long as I have, it's even more amazing to go back and look at the photos you took thirty or forty years ago, and ask yourself, "Was it really like that back then? Seriously, did people really wear bell-bottom jeans?"
So, with the expectation that I'll be looking at these every-block photos five or ten years from now (and maybe you will be, too), I'm going to be doing my best to capture scenes that convey the sense that they were taken in the year 2013 … or at least sometime in the decade of the 2010's (I have no idea what we're calling this decade yet). Or maybe they'll just say to us, "This is what it was like a dozen years after 9-11".
Movie posters are a trivial example of such a time-specific image; I've already taken a bunch, and I don't know if I'll ultimately decide that they're worth uploading. Women's fashion/styles are another obvious example of a time-specific phenomenon; and even though I'm definitely not a fashion expert, I suspected that I'll be able to look at some images ten years from now and mutter to myself, "Did we really wear shirts like that? Did women really wear those weird skirts that are short in the front, and long in the back? Did everyone in New York have a tattoo?"
Another example: I'm fascinated by the interactions that people have with their cellphones out on the street. It seems that everyone has one, which certainly wasn't true a decade ago; and it seems that everyone walks down the street with their eyes and their entire conscious attention riveted on this little box-like gadget, utterly oblivious about anything else that might be going on (among other things, that makes it very easy for me to photograph them without their even noticing, particularly if they've also got earphones so they can listen to music or carry on a phone conversation). But I can't help wondering whether this kind of social behavior will seem bizarre a decade from now … especially if our cellphones have become so miniaturized that they're incorporated into the glasses we wear, or implanted directly into our eyeballs.
Oh, one last thing: I've created a customized Google Map to show the precise details of each day's photo-walk. I'll be updating it each day, and the most recent part of my every-block journey will be marked in red, to differentiate it from all of the older segments of the journey, which will be shown in blue. You can see the map, and peek at it each day to see where I've been, by clicking on this link
URL link to Ed's every-block progress through Manhattan
If you have any suggestions about places that I should definitely visit to get some good photos, or if you'd like me to photograph you in your little corner of New York City, please let me know. You can send me a Flickr-mail message, or you can email me directly at ed-at-yourdon-dot-com
Stay tuned as the photo-walk continues, block by block ...
Nesting bowl set
Largest bowl 7 x 11 inches
From a series of pots, inspired by a friend, whose main goal in life was to be "the pebble in the pond"
Running the car park shuttle for the Swansea bus museum running day was this recently restored eastern coach works 1980 built bristol VRT, formally a first bus, now preserved in SWT livery.
This is most of my new Strobist set up.
I say most, I've probably forgot to include something...
I'll list where and why I got them, and for how much.
So frooom the top...
2x Lastolite Umbrella Tiltheads with Hotshoes - Warehouse Express - £16.99 each.
Its compact and light weight, but nice and sturdy. Its got a ratcheted tilt action, so its more secure, and has a thumbscrew for securing a brollie shaft.
The shoes strange. It has a metal edge, out of contact of the pins, but the middle is a sort of soft metallic covering.
Its triggered the flash a couple of times when putting it on, so some electrical tape is on the cards...
2x Lastolite Lumen8 Pneumatic Stands - Warehouse Express - £24.46 each.
As I'm just dabbling in the world of Strobism, I couldnt justify buying the Manfrotto Nano stands, as much as I'd like them.
I toyed with the idea of cheap Ebay ones, but in the end settled for these. Safer bet buying from a reputable brand.
Nice and sturdy, and not too heavy. Fold down to about 85cms. About 95-100cm with the flash stand ontop.
Air cushioned, so it doesn't go colapsing down and trappin' your fingers. Really well built.
2x Westcott 43" Convertible umbrellas. - Bought from a private seller, here on Flickr, although available from the States. - £32.50 each.
As endorsed by the Strobist, David Hobby himself.
These big arsed umbrellas lull you into a false sense of security.
They double fold, as in the umbrellas its self is hinged, and the shaft is in 2-3 pieces. Collapsed, they're only 15in long, and fit nicely in the side pocket of my carry case.
When opened, they're huuuuge!
I got the 'Convertible' ones. They're satin white, with a removable black back, so they can be used as reflective, with the cover on, or shoot throughs, with the cover off.
The shafts are a bit thin, but I've reinforced mine with cut down pencils. See here.
Over all, really pleased with them. Good light transmission when used reflectively, and lovely soft, even light when used as shoot through. Plus they fold up nice n small.
2x Nikon SB-28 Speedlights/Flashguns. - Bought second hand. One back when I started photography 3 years ago, the other a couple of weeks back - Expect to pay between £70-120.
I got one back when I started in photography, a few years back with an old Nikon F90x film camera.
I could have got another flash cheaper. But it would have meant learning to use another, and I still struggle with the SB-28 =D
Nice and powerful, GN of about 118 (ft), 36 (m). Reliable. And really user friendly, like most Nikon strobes.
The Cactus V4's.
2x Revievers. 1x Transmitter. - Direct from Gadget Infinity.Set = £25.91 aprox. Spare Reviever = £15.53 aprox.
After reading so many horror stories about the V2's, and then the first batch of V4's, I was apprehensive.
But after the second batch was released, good reviews started coming out, and people started raving about them.
For the price, I figured it was a safe gamble. They don't cost much. And if they do what people say, then they're definitely worth it.
I haven't had any problems with mine, at all, so far. And thats with alot of testing.
Theres not much to say really...
If you're wondering how mine are attached, see here.
1x 1 meter coiled Screwlock PC to Screwlock PC sync cord. - Flash Zebra - £11.06.
I got this for quick, off the cuff, off camera shooting.
Has the Nikon Screwlock fitting, so it attaches securly to the camera and flash.
Relaxed its about 1ft long. Stretched out it reaches about 1m.
2x custom LEE gel sets. - www.skategoat.com/ - £3.29 each.
Put these custom sets together myself. Wide range to choose from, and premade sets available too.
Mine have full, 1/2 & 1/4 CTO. full, 1/2 & 1/4 CTB. full, 1/2 & 1/4 window Green. Lee 103 Straw & Lee 790 Moroccan Pink.
2x Nikon AS-19 Flash Stands - Warehouse Express - £5.25 each.
For table top shooting.
They have a cold shoe that'll take any flash [except the SB-900], not just Nikons.
Thats it really...
Uniross 2500MAh rechargeable batteries and cases. - Batteries from World Of Batteries - Ebay Cases from RPT Batteries and chargers
I got the batteries at the same time as two Uniross X-Press 700 chargers, which each came with 4 of the same batteries.
I'm now rocking 16 in total. 4 in each of the flashes. 8 spare, 4 for each.
The cases I bought to keep track of what needed charging and what didn't.
Blue = ready to use. Red = needs charging.
See, I can be organised...
2 x Hama 1 meter coiled PC - PC sync cords. - Speed Graphic - £7.50 each.
A pair of male PC to male PC cords. Got these for when working close up with both flashes, incase the radio triggers don't like the close range.
1x Multipurpose Hotshoe Adapter - Flash Zebra - £6.95 aprox.
Got this for when I'm working close up and want to use both strobes.
This also works well when using my light tent.
This behind it, on a Cactus V4 reciver, this leading to both strobes via PC cables.
The Battery Case
4x Uniross AAA Hybrio batteries for the Cactus V4 recievers.
4 [was 5]x Duracell L1028/23A 12v Alkaline batteries - Cactus Transmitter.
2x button cell type batteries - Nikon ML-L3 IR remote, for my D70.
The Uniross AAA Hybrios are the only real interesting thing in there.
They come fully charged. Are rechargeable. And if not used, will hold their full charge for upto a year!
Perfect for the recievers.
Calumet Extra Large Tripod Bag - Calumet - £29.99.
To carry everything in, basically...
I probably could have got away with the shorter one. But I figured I'd go with this.
Plenty of space in there for the stands.
The side pocket it just over 15in long, so takes the Westcott umbrellas perfectly, and it has a little pocket inside that which I keep cables, the AS-19 stands, and other bits and pieces in.
And I think thats it really...
Anything else you wanna know.
Feel free to ask.
Portuguese review: oficina.blogs.sapo.pt/review-lego-76387-hogwarts-fluffy-1...
Unboxing and speedbuilding video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYEcA20IfSA
A very misty morning in Norfolk, Departing Reedham the driver gives the traction motors on 47853 a couple of thousand amperes to think about! the first time I have had this machine on the short set and its a real smoker!
set up for glasses shots.
Long exposure, arduino sound triggered flash: www.flickr.com/photos/vincentriemersma/5337184952/in/set-...
Der zweite von den drei Lkw dieser Serie, der bei mir im Einsatz war. Übrigens ein seltsamer Maßstab, er passt nicht zu den übrigen Sets der damaligen Legoland-Welt – die Fahrzeuge sind viel zu groß. Das ändert aber nichts daran, dass es sich um gelungene Modelle handelt, mit denen man gut und gerne spielen konnte. Sie verfügen sogar über eine „Hand of God“-Lenkung, wird der „LEGO®“-Stein auf dem Dach gedreht, wird erfolgreich gelenkt. Auch die Türen lassen sich öffnen.
Der Stil entspricht einem Kurzhaubenlastwagen, die heute fast ausgestorben sind, damals auf den Straßen aber noch recht häufig anzutreffen waren. Darüber, dass sie über zwei Kühlergrills verfügen (der schwarze Stein oben in der Schnauze und der aufgedruckte zwischen den Scheinwerfern), sehen wir gnädig hinweg. Wir wollen nicht kleinlich sein.
In der Mechanik des Gabelstaplers fehlt eine Feder, daher bleibt die Gabel immer unten. Das erschwert das Be- und Entladen des Lkw ein wenig. Was wird da überhaupt transportiert? Giftmüllfässer?
The prize for this month's art bead scene challenge! A set of Humblebeads Starry Night Disks and 6-hole Spacer bead.
blogged:
artbeadscene.blogspot.com/2009/01/monthly-challenge-prize...
They are ready to race!These dice never stop...and even after an intense day at the studio they are always keen in racing each other..they love the spotlight!
This shot was done on a shoe box and was an unexpected result...see,the lines on the box are straight but here they are converging to the centre! This was a first for me so expect more shots with this tecnique....cheers and thank you all so much for keeping me going...