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I hope this is interesting. It is more about information than sharp photography.
Top L - Hovering hunting technique
Top R - The catch
Bottom L - Lunch and uninvited guest
Bottom R - Note the relatively small talons for such a large Hawk. They are quite adequate for capturing the small mammals which account for most of their prey.
On their arctic tundra breeding grounds they feed heavily on lemmings. During high population cycles, lemmings may be more than 80% of summer diet. In winter and migration, they eat voles, mice, ground squirrels and sometimes small passerines such as Snow Buntings, Longspurs, and American Tree Sparrows.
During the winter they are not above eating carrion and stealing from smaller hunters like Short-eared Owls.
(Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Audubon Field Guide)
Rough-legged Hawks often employ a hovering technique using frontal wind while searching for prey. I have also seen them launch from the top of a power pole and capture a vole 100 meters away in a stubble field. According to an article I read in Wikipedia, there is evidence that suggests that their eyes can detect scent trails left by voles which are only visible in the ultraviolet range.
Images from Sturgeon County, Alberta.
Technique used for achieving half a plate in height for the tapered roof end.
Very high setting render from Stud.io
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Alternative technique: www.flickr.com/photos/93468412@N08/53034068511/in/datepos...
The water itself is based on the old technique of using a net to bring a bit of flexibility to a bunch of 1x1 plates + 1x1 rounds. Underneath, there's a short gear sequence connected to 2 rows of spinning technic beams that push the net up.
Here is a new set of LEGO ideas and techniques, made with LDD
I'm sure you'll find a use to this idea
I tried to make the explanation readable thanks to the colors as if we had a tutorial
Do not forget to watch the album with all the right techniques on your right =>
Find all my creations on Flickr group « News LEGO Techniques ».
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- Ideas for new LEGO pieces
- Techniques for assembling bricks
- Tutorials for making accessories, objects, etc.
Day 5!
To balance out the very piece-intensive technique from yesterday, I thought I should post a simpler one today. This one is a very simple method of reversing stud direction, based on 1x2 grille tiles and mini blaster triggers. As you can see in the picture, you just line up two grille tiles with the stud receiving ends outward and push the flat ends of two trigger pieces through the slots, one from each side. This is commonly done using lever pieces, but using trigger pieces, the structure is only 2 studs wide instead of 3, which can be beneficial. It also allows you to use those trigger pieces, which are generally pretty useless.
The round bits of the triggers do stand out a bit past the sides of the grille tiles, which makes this technique slightly less versatile, but it's still quite effective.
As always, please let me know if you've seen this technique before.
Here are some of the photos I took when I was interviewing a village that is making wooden ships using traditional shipbuilding techniques. The place was Bunaken Island, Indonesia. Bunaken is a small island at the northern end of Sulawesi Island in Indonesia. At that time, I owned a Nikon F4 and F801, and the film was Kodak's Ectachrome. The four-month long stay was an unforgettable experience that changed my outlook on life.
This connection of the Throwbot Visor is one of the most rigid and useful I've come up with. The trigger from the minifig shooter fits almost perfectly into the lever base.
A parent osprey explains to its chick how to use googly eyes to face down wildlife photographers. Yesterday, along Point Molate.
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Saturday Self Challenge
Our next challenge will be "panning".
This is the technique of creating movement though following a moving object as you take the picture.
This has got to go down in my history book as the most difficult of the Saturday challenges so far. The tutorials and videos made it look relatively easy, well it maybe for some but not for me. I started on Sunday and by Thursday all I’d managed to achieve was hundreds of images of everything from buses to birds that ended up in the bin.
Getting desperate on Thursday morning my husband offered to drive our car up and down at varying speeds until I managed to get a shot (Thanks Karen for planting the seed of an idea) So off we went to a quite road by the reservoir about a mile away, to attempt what I now thought was near impossible. The good news was that it wasn’t raining, but it was freezing cold and blowing a gale. It wasn’t too long before I couldn’t feel my fingers, or see very much as the wind was making my eyes water. Seems it was quite warm and cosy in the car ! Anyway, after several drives passed, plenty more rubbish shots and before I froze to death, I managed to get this, it’s not perfect but I’ve accepted it’s the best I can do. I’m informed the car was travelling at the super fast speed of 23 mph, any faster and it was a blur, slower and the background was in focus too. The strange white patches on the grass are blurred sheep, who were all looking quite puzzled at the strange goings on.
In case anyone is wondering the title ‘I Roll’ is the make of car, derived from Latin.
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Taking a look at a sci-fi design this week!
I used this technique in my last SHIP, and hope you all find it interesting.
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playing around with these water/glass shots. A tighter crop with a high-pass sharpenng technique used (duplicate layer, run high-pass filter and set to overlay)
Macrophoto d’une chieuse volatile, toujours dans les prémices de la macrophotographie avec la technique du pauvre et l’inversement d’objectif à la main.
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Macrophoto of a volatile bastard, always in the beginnings of macrophotography with the technique of the poor and the reverse lens in hand.
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I tried the Icosahedron that Five posted. It's so much tougher to build than it looks. I changed a few thing to make it more stable and not require the full sphere for support. Using 2 2x2 dishes per node, the pin joints almost click into place.
The 4x4 dishes also needed to be 1 more plate above the the 2x2 dish (in the original that Five posted) so that they don't interfere with each other. The way I did it doesn't need an extra plate.
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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.
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~While Messing around with my Mushroom Plates I came up with these two ways to make more authentic Mushrooms. The First one uses the new Frill piece from the new "Shakespeare" minifigure. The second one may not be new but I still like it.
Also, there is a new Lego Mushrooms
group for all of your Lego Mushroom Needs. Feel free to use the first one as long as you give credit where needed. :D
A quick roof tutorial.
tried a new technique this week, you might have seen it before and wondered how it's done. Looks incredibly advanced on the putside right? Well let me show you one simple trick :D
Continuing on with the agriculture theme, this was one of the last shots I took before the sun set and the light was gone. It's amazing just how dark and quiet everything gets in rural farm country when the sun is gone for the day! At the beginning of the tour I was able the climb up to the top of the silo in this photo and take a few shots from 60' up. This farm has been in the family for several generations and is very precious to them, I hope my photos represent it well...
I used a couple different techniques to achieve the final look. I created additional exposures through the RAW editor in CS5 then used Topaz DeNoise on each exposure followed by adding back some sharpening. The exposures were put in the Photomatix blender and I used the resulting image as my base. Addition single exposures were run through NIK software's HDR Efex 2 then portions were blended/masked into the base image as necessary. Lots of filtering from NIK's Color Efex 3 & 4 were brushed in (especially the polarizer, glamor glow and tonal contrast filters) to add and subtract light and detail where needed. After a couple hours of tinkering I had had enough and this was the result!
Further to the previous installment…
When packing models, it good to pack similar models together. In the unlikely event that parts do break off in transit, parts will often be interchangeable making the models much easier to reassemble. One of our club members demonstrates this technique here using his S-class diesel and steam locomotives.
This is one of many ways to make a nifty round shape fit into a brick-built hull. Go crazy and view it large.
Got the exterior to the front entrance of the mansion near complete. So far so good. My client is happy so I am happy :D
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A new technique for me: photo stacking. This picture consists of six pictures, each at a slightly different focus point to get the lake fly in focus from front to back. Taken with my good old Nikon in combination with extensions tubes, since I don't have a macro lens.
I found the (dead) lake fly near our bedroom window and placed it on a mirror for this picture.
52 weeks of 2020 - Week 28: Photo Stacking
Got inspired by GolPlaysWithLego to try some more ways to attach the Throwbot Visor.
Just two box wrenches and two wheels. Tried to attach the wrenches to binoculars but it stresses the visor and the wrenches + it’s unnecessary. The wrenches are actually trapped by each other here, and it holds together nicely.
A studs-on-top technique for building 45-degree wall corners with no gaps and without using hinges or floating walls. The wall is completely interlocked and solid, with no gaps at the seams or on the top surface.
Lamnamkok NP, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Family : Vespidae
Subfamily : Vespinae
Species : Vespa velutina
Vespa velutina is a medium sized hornet with the queens typically measuring around 30mm in length while males are 24mm. Workers are smaller at around 20mm in length. It is an opportunistic hunter and can sustain itself from a number of different food sources from very small insects to dragonflies and grasshoppers. They are among the best hunters in the insect world and have amazing flight skills. The species has a long life cycle with the queens awakening from hibernation in late March or April and the colony lasting until the following January.
It is considered a pest in many areas as it has a special liking for honey bees and can wipe out whole colonies in a matter of hours. In Asia, the Eastern Honey Bee has evolved a strategy of avoiding hornets by rapid entry and exit from the hive and also by using another technique called thermo-balling. Up to 500 bees engulf the hornet in a ball. Vibrations produced by the mob of bees increases the temperature inside the ball to 47 degrees C, which is lethal to the hornet. Accidental importation into Europe has seen the species increase and spread, causing great concern to beekeepers as European bees are much easier prey than their Eastern counterparts.
All my insect pics are single, handheld shots of live insects in wild situations.
I am reading the new book "Digital Capture After Dark" by Amanda Quintenz-Fiedler and Philipp Scholz Rittermann. The book intrigues me again on the night photography.
But I am born to be a lazy photographer. I do not want to go to the remote or exotic places for night photography. I do not shoot RAW and I do not use a lot of post-production techniques as suggested by the writers. I don't even use DSLR for night shooting as everyone said compact camera has too much noise in the small sensor.
Anyways I just walk in the back alley in my neighbourhood and shoot in JPEG. I am just too lazy to fiddle around the white balance and therefore shoot in the B&W mode in-camera.
My photo club friends always tease me as crazy guy that associates photography with philosophy. Yes there is the philosophy that inspires you to see the beauty in mundane subjects and I believe there is a special charisma of night too. When the night falls, you can see some sort of special beauty even in a back alley.
Do you think so?
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Here is a new set of LEGO ideas and techniques, made with LDD
I'm sure you'll find a use to this idea
I tried to make the explanation readable thanks to the colors as if we had a tutorial
Do not forget to watch the album with all the right techniques on your right =>
Find all my creations on Flickr group « News LEGO Techniques ».
This Flickr group includes:
- Ideas for new LEGO pieces
- Techniques for assembling bricks
- Tutorials for making accessories, objects, etc.
ESA’s ultra-precise deep-space navigation technique – Delta-DOR – tells us where spacecraft are, accurate to within a few hundred metres, even at a distance of 100 000 000 km.
In order to navigate a spacecraft around our Solar System we have to know how far away it is, how fast it is travelling and in what direction. Each of these steps are explained in this new infographic, "How not to lose a spacecraft".
Credits: ESA
Moving on up! Got the second story started :D
I see I am going to have to go back through the tower and give it come more texture to match the other walls.
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I saw this egret fishing technique like a live show in display. It used the left or right foot to stir the water under almost like swirling and then pounce precisely to fetch the fish. It’s like a martial artist applies jabbing technique before delivering the powerful punch.
Here's how I built the wall in my last moc- it's pretty simple, basically just a bunch of jumper plates connected in a repeating pattern.
Sorry about the terrible picture :P
A look at how I assembled the roof of this pagoda. You could potentially strengthen it with another layer of rounded 1x2 plates, but that might just make fixing it more annoying.
An alternative method can be used to create thinner ribs of only 1 plate thickness which can be located within the structure of the van in the same way. I didn't use this technique because the panels would have been too small and the van would have ended up too short as a consequence. The parts coloured red are PN:11211 and PN:30414.