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'Life in an Alpine Meadow'
An eclectic collection of macro and close-up images from our recent trip to the Western Tyrol region of Austria, where I was able to spend time photographing subjects that I would normally ignore and experimenting with different techniques that I haven't tried at home. Rather than letting these photos 'gather dust' on a hard-drive, I thought I'd make a Flickr album as a useful reminder for when we return next year.
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This first photo of an ant foraging deep inside the throat of a Trumpet Gentian [Gentiana acaulis] is a classic example of a situation where you need plenty of time. Getting in close with a macro lens was pretty straightforward, but locating a suitable plant, finding the right angle with the sun and blurring out the stamen with a wide aperture was time consuming. After achieving some pleasing results it was then a case of finding a flower that was occupied. Most were, but by tiny springtails that you could hardly see, so it was a case of looking for something a bit bigger like an ant. The problem though was that the ant spent most of the time with its head buried inside gathering nectar. As a point of interest, the trumpets on these plants are probably around 60mm or 70mm deep so to achieve full magnification my lens had to be very close to the front of the flower, which is why the angle was so critical to avoid shadow. Next time I may try experimenting with a flash or possibly even trying to backlight, but in the meantime this image provides a reminder of what I managed to achieve on this trip.
This is a single image iPhone 4S photograph, unapped apart from cropping and colour adjustment. These photographs are what is seen through my camera lens when I employ various in the moment shooting techniques to create blur effects and distortions.
I figured the tree technique I came up with (using stacked lassos) might work pretty well for microscale so I gave it a treehouse :)
The museum at Ósvör (Bolungarvík, Iceland) is a reconstructed fishing station, recreated as a memorial of almost forgotten Icelandic industrial activity.
As you can see, it's a turf construction. Icelandic turf houses were the solution to a harsh climate and the relative difficulty in obtaining construction materials in sufficient quantities. They offered superior insulation compared to buildings made solely of wood or stone.
I can still feel the smell of the place. The wood of old, humidity... It was actually a very comfortable feeling inside the hut.
Exif: ISO 200 ; f/4.5 (with 10 stop ND filter) ; 32 sec ; @18mm
Magic Cloth Technique. Rainy, cold & windy.
This one made it to Explore.
Excerpt from the plaque:
Flower Board Crafting Technique
During traditional festivals or celebrations, our attention is often drawn to the large and colourful flower boards which bring a festive ambience to the events. At the same time the flower boards represent the respect of the sender for the recipient, as a reflection of etiquette and social relations.
A flower board is composed of supporting frames made of bamboo strips and iron wire. For flower boards used for greetings, the main function of the characters on the flower boards is to send such congratulatory messages. Masters usually prepare a draft design of the flower board for confirmation of the customer’s requirements. The characters on the flower board are painted on cardboard paper. Achieving a match between the colour of the characters and that of the background is of utmost importance in flower board crafting. For example, characters in an orange or red colour are matched against a green background and bordered with a black or white outline. Gold paper is sometimes placed between the characters to make them stand out even more.
Masters draw patterns of dragons and phoenixes on the components of the flower boards. Although flower boards are usually used for one-off events, some components are reusable after repair, given that there is a centern standardisation in terms of the sizes of the flower boards.
Cyanotype on watercolor paper: photogram + contact print. 6.25" x 8"
this is a new technique that I discovered, which involves pairing 3D objects with negatives for contact printing.
For Smile on Saturday - a picture of a paper butterfly I made using the quilling or paper filigree technique!
I've been trying out some no border techniques lately, and this was one of my favourite ones. Hope you guys like it got some more stuff in the works. Schools really busy right now so not building much, but keep your eyes out for some new stuff.
I finished a design video for the *cockpit* of my custom LEGO spaceship, Astrea. It’s at https://youtu.be/XTm9-6GDWlo.
I tried a new, digital approach/format for this video because I'm currently away from my physical models. (I plan to create some additional videos for other parts of Astrea in this format, and I'll be releasing the full digital file. Kindly stand by!)
Additional materials (photos, background, digital design) for Astrea and my other LEGO creations are at https://www.galacticplastics.com.
A solution I found for a 180 degree reversal in a 1x3 brick package. I like the symmetry and the fact that there are two studs on each side. I used this in www.flickr.com/photos/96739476@N04/14201282524/in/photost....
I reckon I've come up with a new building technique using a 30134 - Staircase 7x4x6 as rafters. I apologise in advance if this technique has been posted before.
The advantages of using a 30134 - Staircase 7x4x6 piece in this context is allowing the roof to be structurally stronger and they also represent the wooden rafters that go diagonally across a typical roof. Follow the link below to see the breakdown of the technique used in this MOC.
Roof Support (Rafter) Technique
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Camera
-Apple iPhone SE
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Project 13 from Sweetwater Precision Weapons. A modification of the P90 with a side pivoting magrelease.
Credit to:
Cpt Cupcakes for the holo-carryhandle combo.
Cami for the darkness technique
I know this is the same idea as Black Ops 2's PDW57. I had the same idea a couple of weeks before the release of Blops 2.
And the lines on the shading is because it would take days to fix, and I didn't want to take days.
Panning is tough. Especially since these IndyCars go so fast.
I throw out more images than I keep, but it's fun trying to capture the visage of one of these giant angry mosquitoes.
I put my Canon 50D on a short length on my monopod. I settle it on a cement barrier, and then pick a point along the track to focus on. My AI Servo is selected so that the camera will continue to re-focus as I pan.
Got some awful shots, lots of fronthends, rearends, and massive blurs, but I got a few crystal images, too.
It's the timing of the car. Sort of like knowing when the sky will fill with fireworks after hearing the blast.
I got better at it. I am looking forward to practicing more tomorrow during the big IndyCar race.
Blessings,
Sheree
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My extreme thanks to new Flickr friend, Adam Fick, for his great advice on lenses and panning technique. Check out his Indy images, too.
Wire Wool Spinning, a technique I had been wanting to try for a long time.
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Tried this earlier this year and this was from my last outing.
It had rained for most of the day, so with the underpass flooded I had a wee spin to capture the reflection.
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Manual settings with an exposure of thirty seconds.
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Looks much better when viewed large in a darkened room.
I jumped out for a moment with the camera, but remembered that the tripod was in the car I had not at home and a little child sleeping inside. - But things happened fast and I had the opportunity to practice steady grip techniques - leening on a pole, or wall, or lying flat on the belly on the ground - brrrrrrr that was cold.
Perhaps of use.
Speaking of useful, if you only have a phone and struggle with photographing your stuff properly, have a look at my latest video here here.
Join The Workshop 'n say hi.
I decided to give Clemmy a little makeover and here is her new crazy wild hair.... I hope you like her :D... if anyone would like to know how to do this then please do leave comments or feel free to message :D
Thanks for the visit :)
Inspired by Richard S. Warner’s Tai Chi Approach to the PANO-Sabotage technique on newest generation of iPhones. Slower is better!
Featured "In Explore". March 12, 2020
A candid photo taken in the Amazon area a few miles up river from Iquitos, Peru. A black and white cropped edit from a previous upload.
A photography blog about the compositional technique of framing
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The Tadich Grill is an American seafood restaurant located in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1849, it is the oldest running restaurant in California. Based in the Financial District, the restaurant sits on 240 California Street. The dining experience features Croatian-style cooking techniques that include grilling seafood over mesquite- and charcoal-broilers for varying flavor profiles and uniform broiling.
The original restaurant opened in 1849 as a coffee stand on Clay Street in San Francisco, California. It was founded by Nikola Budrovich, Frano Kosta, and Antonio Gasparich, three immigrants from Croatia, who launched their restaurant as "Coffee Stand". The establishment was renamed "New World Coffee Stand", following a move to the New World Market, a local market place in San Francisco.
In 1887, their restaurant was purchased by and renamed after John Tadich, a Croatian hailing from Stari Grad on the Island of Hvar. In 1928, Tadich sold the restaurant to another Croatian family, the Buichs. In 1967, the restaurant moved to its present location at 240 California Street; this was after Wells Fargo bought the Clay Street location for redevelopment. The current space is one-third larger than the original, and the Buiches worked with contractors to recreate the Art Deco interior design that the Clay Street space had. All of the moldings and woodwork were copied, and the original Clay Street bar was moved to the present location. The restaurant reopened within one month of moving.
In 1925, Louis Buich implemented Croatian-style cooking at the Tadich grill, requiring chefs to use a mesquite broiler for cooking seafood. The restaurant's use of the grilling technique became popular, and in a single day the restaurant can go through four 40-pound bags of mesquite charcoal. Little has changed in regards to the restaurant's cooking methods, and the restaurant has had only seven chefs since 1925 (as of 2011). After operating at several locations in the previous century, the restaurant's last move in 1967 was to a location on the California Street cable car line.
In 1999, R.W. Apple called the restaurant, "old-fashioned, a nostalgic shrine to local piscine tradition." According to Apple, the restaurant's best known dish is cioppino, a seafood soup created in San Francisco, and other California seafood specialities like Petrale sole and sand dabs. Herb Caen, longtime columnist of the San Francisco Chronicle, was a fan of Tadich's version of the Hangtown Fry, a Gold Rush era combination of scrambled eggs, bacon and oysters. In The New York Times, Sadie Stein wrote in 2013 that the restaurant is "Festive without being stuffy, it offers a taste of the San Francisco of yore while embracing the present day." The restaurant operated a branch in Washington, D.C. from 2015 to 2018
The matte painting (which can be translated with painting backgrounds) is a technique used mainly in film used to allow the representation of landscapes or places otherwise too costly or impossible to reconstruct or reach directly.
So this is a setup shot taken to show what I did to take the previous, "One Word" shot.
This was a real world, practical setup to create the shot. No heavy-handed "Photoshop" work was done to create the image of the planet and word inside the drop of water.
To do this you need to set a lot up before you take the shot. Three things need to be lined up for a successful shot.
1) The subject and camera need to be lined up so you can see the drop of water on the end of the blade of grass in this case. Distance for the magnification and height to just see the thing.
2) Then I bring in the background/refraction subject. That needs to be lit harshly, yet no spill over light onto the drop of water. I use a focusable hand held flashlight. The angle of this light is very important.
But the distance of the background is something that you need to figure out by moving it up/down, left/right and forward and back. Each direction makes a small change in the refracted image inside the drop of water.
The background can be anything you want it to be. For the image I created I used a restriction free image that NASA released to the world a while ago. Its called, "The Blue Marble."
I then drew the letters for the word (a couple times actually to get the size right) and colored them in and cut them out using a razor blade from the single stick labels I made them out of. Then I stuck them onto the image.
This is a real image that was created in a practical way. Not all done in photoshop. Hell, I don't even own that software.
There are plenty of videos on YouTube covering this technique, just search Water Droplet Refraction.
Technique: Sometimes the subject I'm shooting gets so use to me being close that it just goes about its business as if I'm not there. All I had to do is set the camera to under expose the natural light in the background, and I shaded the subject so that the flash was the only significant light source on the mantis (to freeze motion). Not long after I took this frame the Mantis climbed onto one of my flash diffusers :)
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens with 37mm of extension + a diffused MT-24EX (flash head "A" set as the key and "B" as the fill, with the key on a Kaiser flash shoes). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
Some of you asked me about the lockers which I built for the Star Wars Crew Room: flic.kr/p/2gShdgj
It isn't that complicated, I used SNOT brackets. The technic bricks are necessary to attach the lockers to the wall.
a second one from the serie
making of, in French - www.focus-grenoble.fr/technique/makingof-bouteille-pression/
Oh, and I have tryed this Chevrolet. More pictures are in the Book. (Lego Tips,Tricks and Building Techniques: The Big Unofficial Lego Builders Book)
Pnoi_APL asked for it.
This is the technique I used for the Skipper Kite and a soon-to-be-photographed MOC, as well.
No, the gap isn't completely closed, but it's real close, so I can't be arsed to find a better-fitting technique that compensates for that tiny slot.
I'm not sure if this has been done before or not, but here you go.
Some may have already seen this but I decided to upload this on my main account too, just to share. I've been thankful for a ton of behind-the-scenes pictures of other builders, so yeah…check out my second Acc. if you like it. :))
I've started to develop this technique in 2016 and improved it from time to time. New pieces made it less part intensive and more versatile. The technique allows to completely regulate every gap between the tiles/plates/ingots/clips/etc., to achieve an organic look without being to chaotic.
You can find this and quite a few other techniques on my Second Account/
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