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Yes, I decided to take the bricks out for a blast. One of the side effects was this, and I am pretty happy with it. It is a kitchen chair, so that explains the long back in it.
TASCA Conti d'Almerita - Nero d'Avola, Sicilia DOC 2012.
tascadalmerita.it/it/vini/lamuri-d-almerita_5
Commercial product photography - Darktfield lighting technique according to chapter 7.1 of "Light, Science and Magic: An Introduction to Photographic Lighting." book.
Just discovered this while sorting my pieces. Not entirely mathematically accurate, but creates a nice texture with pieces that are widely available in an average LEGO collection.
Can be repeated ad infinitum.
If you've done Calotypes, I'd like your expert opinion. On some of my negatives, I get these scuffs and smears. It seems like it's from my brushing - all my chemicals are brushed on with clean cotton - but I'm not positive which step.
My workflow is: brush on double iodide of silver and potassium. Dry and wash for several hours. Yields the light yellow iodide of silver.
Sensitize with dilute aceto-nitrate of silver.
Dry. Load into film holder. Expose.
Develop: First pass, gallic acid .5%. Second pass, gallic acid plus aceto-nitrate of silver, roughly 2:1
These show up after the last pass but I don't know that they're not caused earlier.
Any advice welcome.
Black&White photographic paper Fomaspeed C 312 Hard/Matt
Technique of pinhole camera with direct transfer on black&white photographic paper in order to create a negative photo. The positive image was created digitally from a scan of the negative image.
Untitled, from ObscurePeople series
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I really wanted a 1 x 2 cheese slope stuck on each end of that girder. The one end was easy, but the other was not. That's pneumatic tubing around the minifig hands. The 1 x 2 plate helps to hold it, but isn't necessary.
Here are a few more visor techniques I found and have queued up. I like to save them until I use them before I post, but they're starting to overflow.
I don't know if some of these have been found but in the case that they aren't, I'm posting them here.
p.s. I still have a ton of techniques that I haven't shown yet.
oh we haven't finished yet
The bottoms of the 1 x 2 dark grey plates are flush with the edges of the 1 x 3 light grey plates. The dark grey 1 x 2 tiles can be arranged to either protrude 1/2 plate or recess 1/2 plate.
A Square, a Pentagon, a Hexagon and a Heptagon made of 1x2 bricks with clip. The first three are pretty wobbly, but the last one is quite firm (though it breaks under pressure). The heptagon may also be the smallest heptagon possible with Lego. Feel free to prove me wrong. Instructions are provided in this post on Mocpages.
A moc I used a while ago in a Time Cruisers contest. Updated with new parts and techniques, soon with (Premium) instructions on Rebrickable!
Split Tone is an editing technique where the shadows are toned one color, and the highlights a second color. Split toning is often used with color grading in the media to give a scene a desired look and feel.
I needed a 6x6 cylinder for a project I'm working on. I came up with this. Thought I'd share. Enjoy!
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Objective3: Composition Techniques
1. Rule of Thirds: in this photo, the main focal point is the railroad. The railroad is on the lower and higher left dot on the rule of thirds, making it a strong focal point, and one of the main focuses in the photo. This photo wouldn’t be as strong if the railroad was off the rule of thirds, but it would be as strong if it was on the right side of the rule of thirds.
2. Perspective and Depth: this photo was taken laying down on an angle, making the photo a lot more complex, because people would not normally lay down on the railway tracks and look at the rail. The depth also makes the eye more attracted to the main focal point on the photo, the rail.
4. Backgrounds: the background is blurred and pretty consistent, which helps the viewer focus on the main focal point, the rail. The background follows the rail to the end in the same pattern, so that also helps with focus. The background overall supports and makes the photo stronger.
5. Leading Lines: the leading line in this photo is the rail on the railroad track. It adds to the photo by catching the eye to follow it, along the main focal point to the middle of the background, along the invisible dots of the rule of thirds.
Objective 4: Lighting the photo is an example of really soft lighting, which really helps bring out the colours, and helps the photo to be easier to look at, making it a stronger photo in general.
Objective 5: Post Production: I did not edit this photo a lot, because I thought any changes would hurt this specific photo. I slightly darkened the photo, to make it easier to look at, and added slight contrast, to improve colours on the rail.
Objective 6: Critique:
Strengths: my strengths I believe are my perspective and depth, and my leading lines. Those three composition techniques add the most strength to my photo, by adding a lot of focus to the rail.
Area for growth: my area of growth that I need to work on this photo is adding more texture, and focusing on a little more of the photo in the foreground. Also I could have heal brushed a dot on the rail, and a tree that sticks out in the background.
More sturdy than a single clip in the underside of a plate. www.dagsbricks.com/2015/09/lego-techniques-clip-it-good.html
Bucovina is one of the few regions where the art of egg painting is among the most lively and well preserved traditions.
Compared to other folk art manifestations this craft is impressive due to its artistic, decorative compositions and colorful design. In time, the Romanians consolidated the tradition and the custom of redden and painting the eggs in the spring, for celebrating the Christian's greatest feast - The Easter. The painted and decorated egg, a substitute for the Christian divinity that dies and comes back to life again, at the vernal equinox, sacramental eaten on Easter Day, is a symbol of death and resurrection of time and space.
In Romanian language there are a lot of terms used to describe the decorated eggs.The terms "red eggs" or "Easter eggs" refers - through extension - to all types of coloured or decorated eggs, even though not all of them are red or used only for Easter.
These worked eggs require craftsmanship and patience. The most praiseworthy are painted or handwritten eggs, entirely decorated, whose ornamental composition is more like spontaneous rather than elaborated. After playing an important role within a serious of traditional ceremonies and rites, the eggs are meant either for eating - called "lifeless" eggs, scanty decorated - either for being home preserved - these are the "living ones" (not boiled, hollow-out eggs) richly decorated.
Due to the fact they were meant for preservation, "the living eggs" were imbued with remarkable meanings. These eggs are only painted by genuine artists. Each of these eggs, true craftsmenship masterpieces, has its own unique design incorporating delicacy , refinement and imagination.
Egg painting is a moment of great joy, fully attained by the entire family. In countryside villages, especially in Bucovina region, live women famous for their crafts, delicacy and hand skills that have resulted into a perfect egg-painting art. What makes these women so famous is the chromatic harmony and the balanced aesthetics of the art they practise.
Egg-painting is a sophisticated craft, reflecting great refinement, combining talent, sensibility, vocation and moral qualities as well. The decoration technique, the ornamental composition and the chromatic palette decoration are crucial for realizing a beautiful " written egg". For ensuring quality hot wax-writing, the shape, the size and the strength of the egg are essential characteristics to be considered.
The drawing technique consists of covering the egg surface in wax and then, using a special tool made of a thin metal pipe, with a very small diameter, the egg is patterned (written with ornamental motifs).
After the egg shell is carefully cleaned, the egg is hollowed out: these preparations are a must in order to begin the writing of the model, thing that elderly women know from experince. Of ovoid shape, the egg requires a compositional conception often difficult to accomplish. The egg shell is either divided in four sections by drawing two axles (a horizontal line and a vertical one), or considering eggshell's volume, an integrated composition is made.
After the first patterns are made, the egg is dipped in a light color, usually yellow. Then the egg is put into the melted wax just to cover the dye mark. The wax seals the dye so the egg can be dipped in several colors without them running into one another. With each dipping more and more ornamental line are added. The last color to be used is black. In the end, the egg is gently heated, the wax melts down and the egg reveals its whole decorative, multicolor and original beauty. This beauty carries a message of harmony, equilibrium and expressivity. The chromatic palette has its own importance and symbolism, comprising a series of basic colors like yellow, red, navy blue, black and even white. The basic pattern of the compositional register include the geometrical, astral, fito and zoomorph elements; in addition, there is a whole compositional inventory extremly rich in color. There are myriads of motifs used on painted eggs. The most popular ones are: the stray path, the sun , the moon, the ram's horn, the cross, the star, the snail, the prayer, the plogh share, the wave, the zigzags and the stylised flowers.
Nicely arranged in a basket, the eggs are taken into the church so they can be blessed by the priest, are offered as present, sacramental eaten, or, most often, they are preserved for the whole year inside the house, for their aesthetic value. (http://ejournal.eduprojects.net)
OK all you Lego geniuses out there. Figure out an easier way to do this. I've got a project in the works that needs 5 or 6 of these lined up like this, but i'm wondering if there's an easier or more low profile way to do it.
Increased saturation and contrast on an old posting. Interesting technique in Photoshop (with the right start image).
Just wanted to quickly share how I manually ballasted my BrickTrax R104 curves that I received in the switch set. If you plan on ballasting your BrickTrax switch set, you will have to do most of it by hand... however this isn't as bad as it seems.
For example, the R104 switch turn-in curve is slightly different than a normal R104, and one pro is that you can fit 1x2 plates in between the gaps on the narrow end, creating a very flush look. The other side is less clean and has to be gapped, but this is completely forgivable.
Ballasting a normal R104 is different though. Gaps between ties on the narrow end do not permit 1x2 plates, only 1x1 plates (1x1 plates with a vertical clip do fit however, and fill a little more space and have a little more texture.) The best thing to do for these is to buy some R104 ballast plates from trixbrix.eu . I have not tested this to prove the two brands fit together, but I assume they do.
Hope this was helpful!
Having a creative moment with a university assignment using the
" knolling," technique. Knolling is an arrangement of objects set out in a grid fashion then photographed from above. I set this image up to a long exposure allowing me to zoom the lens out to give me this effect.
Ballenberg is an open-air museum in Switzerland that displays traditional buildings and architecture from all over the country. Located near Brienz in the municipality of Hofstetten bei Brienz, Canton of Bern, Ballenberg has over 100 original buildings that have been transported from their original sites.
In addition to the main attraction of the buildings themselves, some of the industrial and crafting buildings still operate to give demonstrations of traditional rural crafts, techniques and cheesemaking. There is also a sizable number of farmyard animals in the grounds.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballenberg
A rich Bernese Midlands area house in Ballenberg
Using 318 magic and travis bricks to fit parts that do not follow brick math. Non purists can cut the support tubes to length for perfect fit.
Here is a small bridge I built trying a new technique.
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I just got the GoPro Hero 5 Black so I will be posting videos and stuff with it there. It is a huge improvement over the Hero 5 and Hero 4 session.
Hand of Peace. Horizonal side-step "In the Round" multi-exposure technique with cataract eyes.
For years I have been living with cataracts, which have worsened this past year, especially in my left eye, to the point where I wasn't able to drive at night safely. Even during the day, eye strain became headaches, but I never put my camera down. Luckily my right eye wasn't as bad, but of late, that eye has become increasingly troublesome. Difficult to manually focus on just about anything, my saving grace was the old school technique of quickly turning the focusing collar from very blurry to ok blurry, then tweak it a bit to the best of blurry. Yes, there is auto focus, which I do use with a small amount of distrust in the older Pentax line during any fast action shooting. Its accurate, it's just slow, but a blessing.
A trip overseas started on the same day that I could of have scheduled my cataract surgery, no earlier appointments where available, damn luck. I had to schedule it a week after our return. So off we go, once in a lifetime, to see other parts of the world, all of us having the clarity and vision of a young child, except for me. But with my good humor, I joked that I would see twice as much as them, with my blurry eyes and occasional double vision. I also noted that the women at the pool, in thongs, I would only see them half-assed so not to worry about any gawking...as I sit with my 300mm at poolside!
It was a fantastic trip. We had a tremendous and fun time. The weather was perfect, and the people were kind and friendly. To bear witness to other cultures and traditions was remarkable and unforgettable. Despite my terrible vision, it seemed that my mind overcame most of the visual inaccuracies and I too, could view the world with a wee bit of clarity. Simply a beautiful world.
I had cataract surgery on my left eye the 15th of this month. Thinking that my right eye was not as bad as the left, I'll be back shooting in manual soon, and shooting in general, I thought. Not so. My right eye is so bad, compared to the new vibrant, crystal clear and sharp left, that now it's even harder to pick up my camera and photograph with confidence. The images through the viewfinder are a dingy yellowish in color with softness and no contrast. And to think that was my good eye all these years!
I'm scheduled to have surgery on my right eye in early December. The surgery is life changing, bringing such a rebirth of vision to these "Vintage eyes".
Peace in Hand, at the port of Kusadasi, Turkey.
2x2 spinny pieces stacked on top of each other are really flexible. This could be useful for buildings or streets or something.
A group shot of all the techniques I have come up with so far. I posted instructions for all of these in a detailed post on Mocpages. To see photos of each technique individually on flickr, check out the album.
Some bokeh technique I picked up while I was out of town and thought of trying it out myself in a recent party.
I would make another one real soon, this time I hope to see multicolored lights to have a better feel of the image.
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BLYTHE-A-DAY
A flickr Group
NOVEMBER 2023: "PHOTOGRAPHY TECHNIQUES"
DAY 10: "Free Friday" ... Blythe Fifth Avenue's Choice:
TURRETS, TOWERS, AND MURDER HOLES ... OH MY!
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LENA LAROSSE ... channeling her inner RENAISSANCE PRINCESS ...
back to the days of sprawling CASTLES ... and thinking ...
"wow, could WE here at Blythe Fifth Avenue USE all that STORAGE SPACE !!"
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Combining 12V and 9V parts to make a wheelset....
Had some of those old 12V wheelsets lying around and thought the whole had a good size for the old 9V wheels. They do roll quite nicely, can't tell how they compare to other techniques though... :/
Liquid pigments brush painting on black Fabriano hard paper. #WorldArt #Inktober #Inktober2020
A new technique conceived by ©WhiteAngel.
( In response to the great artwork: Burn me Alive made by our friend the artist Jacob Sibbern & dedicated to him by White Angel )
I'm sure most seasoned AFOLs are familiar with this technique for creating tiled floors. The vertical part of the panel elements is 1/5 of a stud wide, so putting 6 2x2 tiles side-by-side, separated by a total of 5 panels is equivalent to 13 studs (12 from the tiles, 1 from the panels). What I think is unique about my design is some of the panel elements and hidden 1x2 tiles are attached to the floor to make the design a little more secure. The hidden 1x2 tiles are attached by a single stud to the base, which allows them to have 1/5th stud adjustments relative to the base in either direction paralell the the tile's length (this only works immediately adjacent to the perimeter wall which holds it in place, because doing this elsewhere requires making 1/5th stud adjustments in two perpendicular directions, which is impossible without using a lot more pieces and making the assembly a lot taller). This pattern can still be used by replacing the blue 2x2 tiles with any brick, plate or tile with equal or greater length in both lateral dimensions (so long is neither dimension is odd, meaning 2x3 and 3x3 plates won't work).
Edit: Since I uploaded this photo, 1x3 panels have become a thing, so you can do some cooler stuff with this design now