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While tinkering with one of my old City WIP's in LDD, I came up with this design for a sliding door to use on vehicles. I haven't seen it done before and since I'm not at home I can't test how strong or how well it works, but here it is anyway.
When the door's in the closed position, the frame of the vehicle should be enough to hold it in position and when it's open, the tap part gets locked between the plate with slide and the top of the frame. I'm hoping that the door's light enough for the single clip to hold it though.
Feel free to use this, I'd like to know if it works.
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.
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.
Performans tekniğe bağlıdır. Parmaklarınızı açmanız, kollarınızı çekme stiliniz, nefes almanız; her şey sonunda performansı etkiliyor.
Your performance in the water all depends on your technique. How you crawl, how you breathe are important parameters. Here open fingers and both arms stretched forward should result in bad performance.
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
Before, I've posted a photo of a snowy egret that was baiting fish by disturbing the water with its beak. Once again I have been amazed by the intelligence these birds demonstrate. Notice the water around the left foot has been disturbed. The bird was rapidly shaking its foot to disturb anything resting below the surface. By watching intently, anything that moved became a meal. It isn't going hungry.
The Witches Tower build techniques. When I make these large builds I usually try to come up with a technique I haven’t seen before or try something I haven’t done before. It helps make these projects more interesting to build and makes bulk ordering parts a lot simpler.
This build I wanted to try messing around with flex tube to get the correct spacing I wanted for the bricks. I did try mixel ball joints and hinges but I quickly realised the price would get expensive quick. Flex tube just ended up being the simpler option and gave me a lot of options to attach things to.
The technique I use for the framing in the rock has been used in all my show displays. It is the best solution I have come up with to help make elevated terrain. It is very strong and light for transport. Its also quick to build and easy to change if need be.
"the artists of the "Casa del Musical" group (House of Musical)".
“gli artisti del gruppo "Casa del Musical".
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A history of Taormina: chronicles of a forbidden love and its great secret (not only Paolo and Francesca) with an unexpected "scoop".
This story is an integral part of the story previously told, the historical period is the same, the place is the same, the various characters often meet each other because they know each other; Taormina, between the end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s, in an ever increasing growth, became the place of residence of elite tourism, thanks to the international interest aroused by writers and artists, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , or great personalities like Lady Florence Trevelyan: Taormina becomes so famous, thanks to the paintings of the painter Otto Geleng and the photographs of the young Sicilian models by Wilhelm von Gloeden; in the air of Taormina there is a sense of libertine, its famous and histrionic visitors never fail to create scandal, even surpassing the famous Capri, in which, to cite just one example, the German gunsmith Krupp, trying to recreate the he environment of Arcadia that one breathed in Taormina (thanks to the photos of von Gloeden) was overwhelmed by the scandal for homosexuality, and took his own life. Taormina thus becomes a heavenly-like place, far from industrial civilizations, where you can freely live your life and sexuality; this is the socio-cultural environment in which the two protagonists of this story move, the British painter Robert Hawthorn Kitson (1873 - 1947) and the painter Carlo Siligato (born in Taormina in 1875, and died there in 1959). Robert H. Kitson, born in Leeds in England, belonged to a more than wealthy family, as a young engineer he had begun to replace his father in the family locomotive construction company (Kitson & Co.), on the death of his father in 1899 sells everything and decides to move very rich in Sicily to Taormina (he had been there the previous year with a trip made with his parents, here he had met, in addition to Baron von Gloeden, also the writer and poet Oscar Wilde who came to Italy, immediately after having served two years in prison in forced labor, on charges of sodomy); Kitson settled there because he was suffering from a severe form of rheumatic fever (like von Gloeden was advised to treat himself in the Mediterranean climate milder), and because as a homosexual, he leaves England because the Labouchere amendment considered homosexuality a crime. The other protagonist of this story is Carlo Siligato, he was from Taormina, he had attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, a very gifted painter, he was very good at oil painting (he exhibited his paintings in an art workshop, even now existing, in via Teatro Greco in Taormina), the meeting with the painter Robert Kitson, led him to adopt the watercolor technique: almost to relive Dante's verses on Paolo and Francesca "Galeotto was the book and who wrote it" the common passion for painting led the two artists to live an intense love story. Kitson built his home in the "Cuseni" district of Taormina, called for this "Casa Cuseni", the house was built between 1900 and 1905, its decorations were entrusted to the artists Alfred East (realist landscape painter, president of the Royal Society ), and Frank Brangwyn (painter, decorator, designer), he was a pupil of William Morris, leader of the English movement "Arts and Crafts" which spread to England in the second half of the nineteenth century (the Arts and Crafts was a response to the industrialization of Europe, of mass production operated by factories, all this at the expense of traditional craftsmanship, from this movement originated the Art Nouveau, in Italy also known as Liberty Style or Floral Style, which distinguished itself for having been a artistic and philosophical movement, which developed between the end of the 19th century and the first decade of the 20th century, whose style spread in such a way as to be present everywhere). Casa Cuseni has kept a secret for 100 years that goes far beyond the forbidden love lived by Robert and Carlo, a secret hidden inside the "secret room", that dinning room that was reopened in 2012; entering the dining room, you can witness a series of murals painted on the four walls by Frank Brangwyn, in Art Nouveau style, which portray the life and love story between the painter Robert Kitson, and his life partner, the Carlo Siligato from Taormina, but the thing that makes these murals even more special, full of tenderness and sweetness, is that "their secret" (!) is represented in them, it is described visually, as in an "episodic" story that really happened in their lives: Messina (and Reggio Calabria) are destroyed by the terrible earthquake with a tsunami on December 28, 1908, Carlo Siligato, Robert Kitson, Wilhelm von Gloeden and Anatole France leave for Messina, to see and document in person the tragedy, the city was a pile of rubble, many dead, Robert and Carlo see a baby, Francesco, he is alone in the world, without parents who died in the earthquake, abandoned to a certain and sad destiny, a deep desire for protection is born in the two of them, a maternal and paternal desire is born, they decide to takes that little child with them even knowing that they are risking a lot ... (!), what they want to do is something absolutely unthinkable in that historical period, they are a homosexual couple, what they are about to do is absolutely forbidden ..(!) but now there is Francesco in their life, thus becoming, in fact, the first homogenitorial family (with a more generic term, rainbow family) in world history: hence the need to keep the whole story absolutely hidden, both from an artistic point of view , represented by the murals (for more than 100 years, the "dinning room" will be kept hidden), both of what happens in real life, with little Francesco cared for lovingly, but with great risk or. I have allegorically inserted, in the photographic story, some photographs of the artists of the company "Casa del Musical", who came to Taormina to perform during the Christmas period: today as yesterday, Taormina has always been (starting from the last 20 years of the 19th century) center of a crossroads of artists and great personalities, Casa Cuseni also in this has an enormous palmares of illustrious guests, too long to state. The young boys painted on the murals of Casa Cuseni, wear white, this is a sign of purity, they wanted to represent their ideal homosexual world, fighting against the figure dressed in black, short in stature, disturbing, which acquires a negative value, an allegorical figure of the English society of the time, indicating the Victorian morality that did not hesitate to condemn Oscar Wilde, depriving him of all his assets and rights, even preventing him from giving the surname to his children. The boys are inspired by the young Sicilian models photographed by Wilhelm von Gloeden, dressed in white tunics, with their heads surrounded by local flowers. The only female figure present has given rise to various interpretations, one could be Kitson's detachment from his motherland, or his detachment from his mother. On the third wall we witness the birth of the homogenitorial family, both (allegorically Carlo and Kitson with the child in their arms) are in profile, they are walking, the younger man has a long, Greek-style robe, placed on the front, next to him behind him, the sturdier companion holds and gently protects the little child in his arms, as if to spare the companion the effort of a long and uncertain journey, there is in the representation of the family the idea of a long journey, in fact the man holding the child wears heavy shoes, their faces are full of apprehension and concern: in front of them an empty wall, so deliberately left by Frank Brangwin, since their future is unknown, in front of them they have a destiny full of unknowns (at the same time, their path points east, they go towards the rising sun: opening the large window the sun floods everything in the room). In the "secret room" there is the picture painted in 1912 by Alfred E. East, an oil on canvas, representing Lake Bourget. Carlo Siligato later married Costanza, she was my father's grandmother's sister, they had a son, Nino, who for many years lived and worked as a merchant in his father's art workshop. I sincerely thank my colleague Dr. Francesco Spadaro, doctor and esteemed surgeon, owner and director of the "Casa Cuseni" House-Garden-Museum, who, affectionately acting as a guide, gave me the precious opportunity to create "this photographic tour" inside the house- museum and in the "metaphysical garden" of Casa Cuseni. … And the scoop that I announced in the title ..? After photographing the tomb of Carlo Siligato, in the Catholic cemetery of Taormina, I started looking for that of Robert Kitson, in the non-Catholic cemetery of Taormina: when I finally found it (with him lies his niece Daphne Phelps, buried later in 2005) ... I felt a very strong emotion, first of all I was expecting a mausoleum, instead I found a small, very modest tomb on this is not a photo of him, not an epitaph, not a Cross, not a praying Angel to point it out, but ... unexpectedly for a funerary tombstone ... a small bas-relief carved on marble (or stone) depicting ... the Birth ... (!), obviously , having chosen her could have a very specific meaning: a desire to transmit a message, something very profound about him, his tomb thus testified that in his soul, what was really important in life was having a family, with Carlo and baby Francesco, certainly beloved, saved from a certain and sad fate, in the terrible Messina earthquake-tsunami of 28 December 1908 ... almost recalling in an absolute synthesis, at the end of his life, what had already been told in the "secret murals" of Casa Cuseni.
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Una storia di Taormina: cronache di un amore proibito e del suo grande segreto (non solo Paolo e Francesca) con inaspettato “scoop”.
Questa storia fa parte integrante della storia precedentemente raccontata, il periodo storico è lo stesso, il luogo è lo stesso, i vari personaggi spesso si frequentano tra loro poiché si conoscono; Taormina, tra la fine dell’800 e l’inizio del’900, in un sempre maggiore crescendo, diventa luogo di residenza del turismo d’élite, grazie all’interesse internazionale suscitato ad opera di scrittori ed artisti, come Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, o grandi personalità come Lady Florence Trevelyan: Taormina diventa così famosa, complici i quadri del pittore Otto Geleng e le fotografie dei giovani modelli siciliani di Wilhelm von Gloeden; nell’aria di Taormina si respira un che di libertino, i suoi famosi ed istrionici frequentatori non mancano mai di creare scandalo, superando persino la famosa Capri, nella quale, per citare solo un esempio, l’armiere tedesco Krupp, cercando di ricreare l’ambiente dell’Arcadia che si respirava a Taormina (grazie alle foto di von Gloeden) viene travolto dallo scandalo per omosessualità, e si toglie la vita. Taormina diviene quindi un luogo simil-paradisiaco, lontana dalle civiltà industriali, nella quale poter vivere liberamente la propria vita e la propria sessualità; questo è l’ambiente socio-culturale nel quale si muovono i due protagonisti di questa vicenda, il pittore britannico Robert Hawthorn Kitson (1873 – 1947) ed il pittore Carlo Siligato (nato a Taormina nel 1875, ed ivi morto nel 1959). Robert H. Kitson, nacque a Leeds in Inghilterra, apparteneva ad una famiglia più che benestante, da giovane ingegnere aveva cominciato a sostituire il padre nell’impresa familiare di costruzioni di locomotive (la Kitson & Co.), alla morte del padre nel 1899 vende tutto e decide di trasferirsi ricchissimo in Sicilia a Taormina (vi era stato l’anno precedente con un viaggio fatto coi suoi genitori, qui aveva conosciuto, oltre al barone von Gloeden, anche lo scrittore e poeta Oscar Wilde venuto in Italia, subito dopo aver scontato due anni di prigione ai lavori forzati, con l’accusa di sodomia); Kitson vi si stabilisce perché affetto da una grave forma di febbre reumatica (come von Gloeden gli fu consigliato di curarsi nel clima mediterraneo più mite), sia perché in quanto omosessuale, lascia l’Inghilterra perché l’emendamento Labouchere considerava l’omosessualità un crimine. L’altro protagonista di questa storia è Carlo Siligato, egli era taorminese, aveva frequentato l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, pittore molto dotato, era bravissimo nel dipingere ad olio (esponeva i suoi quadri in una bottega d’arte, ancora adesso esistente, in via Teatro Greco a Taormina), l’incontro col pittore Robert Kitson, lo portò ad adottare la tecnica dell’acquarello: quasi a rivivere i versi di Dante su Paolo e Francesca “Galeotto fu ‘l libro e chi lo scrisse” la comune passione per la pittura condusse i due artisti a vivere una intensa storia d’amore. Kitson costruì nel quartiere “Cuseni” di Taormina la sua abitazione, detta per questo “Casa Cuseni”, la casa fu costruita tra il 1900 ed il 1905, le sue decorazioni furono affidate agli artisti Alfred East (pittore verista paesaggista, presidente della Royal Society), e Frank Brangwyn (pittore, decoratore, designer, progettista), egli era allievo di William Morris, leader del movimento inglese “Arts and Crafts” (Arti e Mestieri) che si diffuse in Inghilterra nella seconda metà del XIX secolo (l’Arts and Crafts era una risposta alla industrializzazione dell’Europa, della produzione in massa operata dalle fabbriche, tutto ciò a scapito dell’artigianato tradizionale, da questo movimento ebbe origine l’Art Nouveau, in Italia conosciuta anche come Stile Liberty o Stile Floreale, che si distinse per essere stata un movimento artistico e filosofico, che si sviluppò tra la fine dell’800 ed il primo decennio del ‘900, il cui stile si diffuse in tal modo da essere presente dappertutto). Casa Cuseni ha custodito per 100 anni un segreto che va ben oltre quell’amore proibito vissuto da Robert e Carlo, segreto celato all’interno della “stanza segreta”, quella dinning room che è stata riaperta nel 2012; entrando nella sala da pranzo, si assiste ad una serie di murales realizzati sulle quattro pareti da Frank Brangwyn, in stile Art Nouveau, che ritraggono la vita e la storia d’amore tra il pittore Robert Kitson, ed il suo compagno di vita, il pittore taorminese Carlo Siligato, ma la cosa che rende questi murales ancora più particolari, carichi di tenerezza e dolcezza, è che in essi viene rappresentato “il loro segreto” (!), viene descritto visivamente, come in un racconto “ad episodi” quello che è realmente avvenuto nella loro vita: Messina (e Reggio Calabria) vengono distrutte dal terribile sisma con maremoto il 28 dicembre del 1908, partono per Messina, Carlo Siligato, Robert Kitson, Wilhelm von Gloeden ed Anatole France, per vedere e documentare di persona la tragedia, la città era un cumulo di macerie, moltissimi i morti, Robert e Carlo vedono un piccolo bimbo, Francesco, egli è solo al mondo, privo dei genitori periti nel terremoto, abbandonato ad un certo e triste destino, nasce in loro due un profondo desiderio di protezione, nasce un desiderio materno e paterno, decidono di prende quel piccolo bimbo con loro pur sapendo che stanno rischiando moltissimo…(!) , quello che vogliono fare è una cosa assolutamente impensabile in quel periodo storico, loro sono una coppia omosessuale, quello che stanno per fare è assolutamente proibito..(!) ma oramai c’è Francesco nella loro vita, divenendo così, di fatto, la prima famiglia omogenitoriale (con termine più generico, famiglia arcobaleno) nella storia mondiale: da qui la necessità di tenere assolutamente nascosta tutta la vicenda, sia dal punto di vista artistico, rappresentata dai murales (per più di 100 anni, la “dinning room” verrà tenuta nascosta), sia di quanto accade nella vita reale, col piccolo Francesco accudito amorevolmente, ma con grandissimo rischio. Ho inserito allegoricamente, nel racconto fotografico, alcune fotografie degli artisti della compagnia “Casa del Musical”, giunti a Taormina per esibirsi durante il periodo natalizio: oggi come ieri, Taormina è sempre stata (a partire dagli ultimi 20 anni dell’800) al centro di un crocevia di artisti e grandi personalità, Casa Cuseni anche in questo ha un enorme palmares di ospiti illustri, troppo lungo da enunciare. I giovani ragazzi dipinti sui murales di Casa Cuseni, vestono di bianco, questo è segno di purezza, si è voluto in tal modo rappresentare il loro mondo ideale omosessuale, in lotta contro la figura vestita di nero, bassa di statura, inquietante, che acquista un valore negativo, figura allegorica della società inglese dell’epoca, indicante la morale Vittoriana che non ha esitato a condannare Oscar Wilde, privandolo di tutti i suoi beni e diritti, impedendogli persino di dare il cognome ai suoi figli. I ragazzi sono ispirati ai giovani modelli siciliani fotografati da Wilhelm von Gloeden, vestiti con tuniche bianche, col capo cinto dei fiori locali. L’unica figura femminile presente, ha dato spunto a varie interpretazioni, una potrebbe essere il distacco da parte di Kitson dalla sua madre patria, oppure il distacco da sua madre. Sulla terza parete si assiste alla nascita della famiglia omogenitoriale, entrambi (allegoricamente Carlo e Kitson col bimbo in braccio) sono di profilo, sono in cammino, l’uomo più giovane ha una veste lunga, alla greca, posto sul davanti, accanto a lui, alle sue spalle, il compagno più robusto sostiene in braccio e protegge con dolcezza il piccolo bimbo, quasi a voler risparmiare al compagno la fatica di un lungo ed incerto percorso, vi è nella rappresentazione della famiglia l’idea di un lungo percorso, infatti l’uomo che regge il bimbo indossa delle calzature pesanti, i loro volti sono carichi di apprensione e preoccupazione: davanti a loro una parete vuota, così volutamente lasciata da Frank Brangwin, poiché il loro futuro è ignoto, davanti hanno un destino pieno di incognite (al tempo stesso, il loro cammino indica l’est, vanno verso il sole nascente: aprendo la grande finestra il sole inonda ogni cosa nella stanza).
Nella “stanza segreta” c’è il quadro dipinto nel 1912 da Alfred E. East, un olio su tela, rappresentante il lago Bourget.
Carlo Siligato, successivamente si sposò con Costanza, una sorella della nonna di mio padre, da lei ebbe un figlio, Nino, il quale per tantissimi anni ha vissuto e lavorato come commerciante nella bottega d’arte del padre. Ringrazio di cuore il mio collega dott. Francesco Spadaro, medico e stimato chirurgo, proprietario e direttore della Casa-Giardino-Museo “Casa Cuseni”, il quale, facendomi affettuosamente da cicerone, mi ha dato la preziosa opportunità di realizzare “questo tour fotografico” all’interno dell’abitazione-museo e nel “giardino-metafisico” di Casa Cuseni.
…E lo scoop che ho annunciato nel titolo..? Dopo aver fotografato la tomba di Carlo Siligato, nel cimitero cattolico di Taormina, mi sono messo alla ricerca di quella di Robert Kitson, nel cimitero acattolico di Taormina: quando finalmente l’ho trovata (insieme a lui giace sua nipote Daphne Phelps, seppellita successivamente nel 2005)…ho provato una fortissima commozione, innanzitutto mi aspettavo un mausoleo, invece ho trovato una tomba piccola, molto modesta, su questa non una sua foto, non un epitaffio, non una Croce, non un Angelo pregante ad indicarla, ma … inaspettatamente per una lapide funeraria…un piccolo bassorilievo scolpito su marmo (o su pietra) raffigurante…la Natalità…(!), evidentemente, l’averla scelta potrebbe avere un significato ben preciso: un desiderio di trasmettere un messaggio, qualcosa di molto profondo di lui, la sua tomba testimoniava così che nel suo animo, ciò che in vita fu davvero importante fu l’aver avuto una famiglia, con Carlo e col piccolo Francesco, certamente amatissimo, salvato da un molto probabile triste destino, nel terribile terremoto-maremoto di Messina del 28 dicembre del 1908…quasi rievocando in una sintesi assoluta, al termine della sua vita, ciò che era già stato raccontato nei “murales segreti” di Casa Cuseni.
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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.
The reddish brown tiles represent the outer wall, the 1x1 column represents the corner of the wall that the roof slopes to.
A breakdown of how I built the corner roof sections on the Green Goblet: www.flickr.com/photos/66620538@N04/15599693464/.
This is an entry into the CCCIX Siege Weapon Category and part three of my CCCIX storyline:
THE DOORKNOCKER
After the Treaty, Gorang returned home supplied with new techniques, new funding, and a new vigor for the hunt. He and his men spent the winter building a new weapon to make the enemies tremble, quake, and then fall to their knees: the DoorKnocker!
With the coming of spring, the Bear Claw Clan emerges from their den ready and moves south toward history!
If you missed them, here are the earlier chapter:
Enjoy!
Sorry for the lack of uploads, but I'm a kind of person who builds something maybe once a month.
I was segregating parts, and when I connected a few of those black pieces together, I realised, that it would make a wonderful tree trunk. What do you think about this technique?
(sorry for the dust)
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.
Here is a technique for a cylinder which I've been messing about with.
You can do this with just one set of treads, but the tiles are not securely attached and it becomes too fiddly to work with.
12 or 13 is the maximum number of tiles you can use without putting undue stress on the tread links. The 13-tile version shown here is perfect for fitting a 4x4 round brick (6222) on either end.
Did some study on how to get a correct exposure recently base on the meter in our camera. It look simple, but to master the it seems not that easy.
What i know about photography now is very elementary. I have to increase my knowledge so as to improve my skill especially on exposure.
I would like to thank my friend Toonman for lending some of his book on photography.
I may share some of my reading here if possible.
This picture was processed in HDR with three exposures. HDR does help in producing a nice picture, but i tell myself i must master the technique of photography one day instead of staying at shooting and deleting level......
My first exposure for this shot was good enough, but the high contrast of the spot light make a mile over exposure at the lower part of the building. So i down one to two stop for the other two exposures and here is the final result.
Well, while I have been building for CCCX I have found some fun ways to use fig parts, so here are some of the things I have come up with lately.
#1- Possible Steampunk Captain, or just castle adventurer.
#2-The new standard for a sci-fi faction called K Korps that I hope to do a few builds for in the near future. Also, a purist way to build an awesome looking sniper rifle.
#3-A turkey warrior, avenging his lost brotheren.
Long Live Purism!
A Marwood Outfoxer and the Harpy Queen show us their backs. They rarely to that in their natural habitat.
Technique: It was a cool morning (17C) and the sun had gone behind the clouds. So I went looking for something that might be effected by the sudden lack of heat and I found this male Red Mason Bee.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 400) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (2x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
The sting of a Honey Bee. Note, I use the word "sting" with some trepidation and fear that I am rising above my station, shunning my roots, or something like that. Because, of course, any untainted American will tell you that bees have "stingers" not "stings." We have Stinger Missiles not Sting Missiles, if you had any doubt. But, just like the difference between eating Venison and "Deer Meat" , these differences call attention to the murky line between people who have been cultured up by too much education and those who aren't under the influence of the precepts of the upper classes. I wonder if British kids call them stings or stingers? (And really, why do Americans use the term "Deer Meat" (real Americans I mean)? No other animal flesh as the term "meat" applied after it.) Now that I have finished exposing one of my multi-decadal chronic irritations (I am firmly of the "Deer Meat" clan) we can move on and point out that this stinger (whoops) is barbed and that is why it stays in our skin. However, most other bees do not have barbed stingers but smooth ones. However, I believe that Laurence Packer (a stingologist and originally from Britain) once told me that other species also have barbed stings. Perhaps @packerlab will report out. This bee came from Phil Frank who brought a series of honey bees in to take pictures of for his upcoming book. More to deep thoughts to come. ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{0}}}}}}~~~~~~~~~~
All photographs are public domain, feel free to download and use as you wish.
Photography Information:
Canon Mark II 5D, Zerene Stacker, Stackshot Sled, 65mm Canon MP-E 1-5X macro lens, Twin Macro Flash in Styrofoam Cooler, F5.0, ISO 100, Shutter Speed 200
We Are Made One with What We Touch and See
We are resolved into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart's blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
- Oscar Wilde
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Want some Useful Links to the Techniques We Use? Well now here you go Citizen:
Best over all technical resource for photo stacking:
Art Photo Book: Bees: An Up-Close Look at Pollinators Around the World:
www.amazon.com/Bees-Up-Close-Pollinators-Around-World/dp/...
Free Field Guide to Bee Genera of Maryland:
bio2.elmira.edu/fieldbio/beesofmarylandbookversion1.pdf
Basic USGSBIML set up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-_yvIsucOY
USGSBIML Photoshopping Technique: Note that we now have added using the burn tool at 50% opacity set to shadows to clean up the halos that bleed into the black background from "hot" color sections of the picture.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bdmx_8zqvN4
Bees of Maryland Organized by Taxa with information on each Genus
www.flickr.com/photos/usgsbiml/collections
PDF of Basic USGSBIML Photography Set Up:
Google Hangout Demonstration of Techniques:
plus.google.com/events/c5569losvskrv2nu606ltof8odo
or
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4c15neFttoU
Excellent Technical Form on Stacking:
Contact information:
Sam Droege
sdroege@usgs.gov
301 497 5840
NeoView KOLON- OLED technique (South Korea)
wikipedia :
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_light-emitting_diode
2010 oled expo :
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To fulfill the dream of reproducing true natural color that current LCDs have not actualized, NeoView Kolon has developed and is producing an innovative OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display. OLED exceeds existing LCDs and other display instruments in quality, luminosity, resolution, field of vision, response performance, and power consumption. Unfortunately a few technical difficulties are hindering the wider use of OLED at the present time. NeoView Kolon is overcoming these technical difficulties and is obtaining all technologies and systems needed for mass-producing OLED. With the base of devoted researchers and engineers whose focus have been OLED only, unique equipment, and know-how, it intends to provide highly reliable OLED products at competitive price.
NeoView Kolon is about to produce mono/multi and full-color panels for cellular phones in passive matrix mode by using already developed 4'' full-color panel technology and supplying them to clients in the latter half of this year. It is also arranging to supply panels for PDAs and developing panels in active matrix mode as well.
NeoView Kolon does not limit itself to OLED. It has a larger vision of reproducing true natural color in almost anything. With the vision at heart, it is challenging OLED first. To obtain true natural color in OLED is still out of reach, but it moves at least one step closer to the actualization of the true color.
NeoView Kolon will move closer to the natural color actualization, and seeks our reason of existence through customer satisfaction, affection and senses. So, NeoView Kolon wants to be remembered as a pioneer in An era of Progress in Display.
I downloaded a large picture. It should be clear enough to grasp the technique. 4 levers are placed in the visor hole first. Then a half pin is inserted with 2 levers on either side (one lever pointing in the opposite direction). Then a hose head with a minifig hand through it goes into the half pin to keep it securely in place. This hand will not fall apart (not easily at least). Taking it apart is a pain too. I used rigid hose for the thumb and soft hose for the knuckles.
One of the biggest thing's that i pride myself on is using in camera techniques and doing all my photos like that to create effects and not ever using photo shop to add in extras -thats a no no in my books all my motion,blurred, throwing object's, flares, double exposures, circle thing-e, reflections floating clouds (ect) and Light Painting photos are all done in camera. I really try to make sure of that, and its like a challenge to me to figure that out and keep trying ideas as ridiculous as they seem.Every time i pick up my camera i hope to learn something and on day 12 this is what happened.
I knew i wanted something abstract and some color for day 12 and wanted to give the "oil in water" attempt some hours worth of my time. So i grabbed some colored blue and red paper, a yellow o henry and orange reese pieces mini chocolate bar (for the background color) i did eat them after :0 and i set up for this shot.
Its a glass dish raised up off the counter with 2 mason jars(you can see the mason jar and the glass dish with the oil and water on the right side of the frame, have a look-- so cool it came out in the double exposure) and underneath the glass dish with the oil and water is where i added in all the colored paper and chocolate bars,--Thats how you get the different blends and color for the photo. The slightest movement and camera angle will give you a whole different look, its great fun to get lost in that world of abstract colors and bubbles. So after i had all the water and oil set up i did a bunch of photos of just that and then i got the idea of adding myself in there somehow with a double exposure. So here we go"oil and water" was right now to add side light on me and try to position myself at the right place so i would be inside that floating bubble. (Lets just say it was harder then it looked) but after some testing testing and more testing everything started to come together and to top it off i got myself inside that oil bubble and even got the placement for right eye (camera left eye) to be in the spot where that group of little bubbles were floating. And then guess what, as i was going in to take the next photo i bumped the counter and the whole big dish of oil and water went flying through the air like some kind of slow motion movie and slammed on the kitchen floor exploding everywhere. Wow did that clean up for sure not rank in good ways to end a photo shoot.
Specs and Strobist--
1st exposure SB-800 (bare)Zoomed 35 fired at background paper 1/128thpower
2nd exposure Sb-800 (bare)Zoomed 35 fired camera left(because of the flip around for the double exposure) at 1/128 power both fired via nikons cls,
as well i underexposed each frame by half of a stop to compensate for the double exposure and balance the light.
All in camera(sooc)
An idea for a technique for locking parts together without studs using 1x1 cheese slopes. It exists currently as an idea which I have not yet tested.
... and fun with flash. This technique lets you create the look of night time. It was actually mid afternoon. I set the camera's white balance to around 3500k which made the whole scene blue. I set one bare flash behind her camera left. Then I set another flash in front of her camera right with a CTO gel on it to correct the color of the subject.
Technique: It was early in the morning and this Wool Carder Bee was having a tough time getting its metabolism going. I was holding onto the stem of that flower with my left index finger and thumb, and resting the lens on that same hand to keep everything steady. The bee would occasionally move, and when it stopped I'd roll the flower's stem with my fingers to turn the critter toward the camera and look for a composition.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F16, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 3x) + a diffused MT-24EX. This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
In the darkest deepest oceans, beautiful creatures like Jelly-fish illuminate their surroundings and their environment. However, dont be fooled by their cute looks, they are extremely venomous and fast killers
I had a few of these lying around.
Anyone thinks this could be used for a Mech Gun Magazine?
Also, quick side note: it's fragile.
I just made an article in diyphotography how you can use a single bare flash to create 7 different lighting techniques!
Check out the whole article here:
www.diyphotography.net/7-single-flash-portraits-technique...
Strobist info for this shot:
Studiostrobe shot thru softbox camera left @ 1/16
Studiostrobe shoot thru umbrella camera right @ 1/16
Young Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abeli) named "Aisha" is not yet 29 months old but she is strong, agile, and seemingly fearless when climbing and swinging on the ropes.
San Diego Zoo
Conservation Status: Critically Endangered
I learned this on Scott Kelby's Wednesday Guest Blog. It's a technique used by a guy named Calvin Hollywood, which turns out to be a really hilarious name for some German dude who sounds even more hilarious in the video on the post. But anyway, that's another story. Some of his stuff is a little overdone for my tastes, but I do like the manner in which he brings out the details in a photo. Obviously, he's working with a much more professional setup than me, so his lighting and stuff is spot on, whereas the shot above is just some natural light coming from the window. Still, I liked how this turned out, so I thought I'd use it as a tutorial example.
First, I cropped the original image below to a square, and added just a bit of exposure to it in LR2. Then I transferred it into CS4 and did the following:
1. Control/Command-J to duplicate the background Layer.
2. Set this layer's blending mode to "Vivid Light". The shot will look pretty dark now.
3. Go to Image>Adjustments>Invert or just use Control/Command-I. This will look really funky.
4. Go to Filter>Blur>Surface Blur and adjust radius and threshold to your liking. This is weird because you'd think that blurring the image would not be what you want to do, but it works, trust me. Be careful with the threshold so that you don't see too much "halo-ing" around the edges of your subject.
5. Once the image is blurred, it will look really odd. However, now press SHIFT+ALT+CONTROL/COMMAND and the letter E. This will create a new layer with all of your work so far combined. Change the Blending Mode to "Overlay".
6. Now here's the key: Delete the first duplicate layer you made and you will now see the results of the enhancements. Pretty cool, isn't it?
Well, if you did it right anyway...haha.
Let me know if you try it, i'd love to see what you can get out of it if you like it :)