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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)
Dark Knight the Mustard Lover. Deep blue with purple overtones and dark wings this is the Dark Knight of the Dutch Bee world (Andrena agilissima). A dark knight that feeds mostly on mustard plants (or their ilk). Photo license: CC-BY-SA. This photo can be reused as you wish. When doing so, please credit the creator (USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab) and the source (Naturalis Biodiversity Center) and adaptations must be shared under the same terms.
The specimen in this photo is provided by Naturalis Biodiversity Center in The Netherlands. For inquiries please contact: Frederique Bakker, email: frederique.bakker@naturalis.nl.
This image is part of the photo series ‘Cool bees of The Netherlands’. For more information: marten.schoonman@naturalis.nl
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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
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
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
I shot this over the heads of the participants at the dance photography workshop yesterday using a rather unorthodox technique.
The lighting was set up for a standard white background shot. Two Bowens heads either side of the background at 45° and one bowens head camera left in a 80cm softbox triggered with RF-602. The heads were set to give f5.6 at 100 ISO.
I shot over the head of the photographer with the flash trigger. I could see roughly where he was taking his shot so I knew when the flash would fire. I set my exposure to 1s at f11 and shot early so as to get the flash roughly in the middle of the exposure.
Some of the shots showed more movement than other, depending on how fast Verity was pirouetting across the set and the amount of daylight hitting the backdrop.
This is a comp of four shots converted to B&W with a colour overlay.
Left: although the chimney shape seems basic in the final model (and in reality), it's quite detailed. To achieve the finer details, brown tiles are attached sideways to a tower with black SNOT bricks on each corner and minifig neck brackets in between.
Top right: by contrast, the Switch House tower is incredibly complex but luckily the four projecting angles of the pyramid match the angles of LEGO wedge plates fairly closely. To reduce the 'zig zag' of the vertical angles, each layer is offset by half a LEGO stud. This made the build much more challenging as did the inclusion of the windows. I will rebuild this when the new wedge plates (parts 24299/24307) appear in brown.
Bottom right: making the Millennium Bridge at such a small scale gave me many headaches until I remembered part 2852, which I had bought a few dozen of the year before for no reason other than they looked interesting!
Technique: I found a spot in my Lavender bush where I could bait the bees with some artificial nectar and photograph them with the sun at my back. Fortunately the angle of the sun was high enough so that I could shadow the subject and not the background. I needed the natural light to keep the background from being black, and the flash to freeze as much motion as possible in the subject. Lots of deleted frames due to a light breeze and a less than cooperative bee.
Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 200 with highlight tone priority) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (1x) + a diffused MT-24EX (both flash heads on the Canon flash mount, E-TTL metering with -1 2/3 FEC). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held.
...hauling away large pieces ... Uhaul ....
Newfoundland Flicker aka Woodpecker ... Carving/ Excavating Nest...
The cleaning technique of large pieces in later stages of the nest carving/excavation is here demonstrated ...
Taken May 2, 2016
Thanks for your visits, faves, invites and comments ... (c)rebfoto
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
Technique: I worked the picture in raw, gave it a yellowish tone and desaturated. I used a texture which I "multiplied" and then used a "humid paper" filter, also used new layer orange color which I also multiplied.
I was looking at the picture which I had treated and asked myself why did I treat it this way? Why a faux vintage. It´s because it it looks better, well, I would cenrtainley not say it looks better but different. And then I realized the way I treated gets closer to how I remembered that place, to how I wanted to file it in my memory. That´s my self reasoning why I gave a vintage treatment to the picture ; )
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 :)
Trying this new lighting technique for cars. I think I really like it. I can finally achieve a night photo of my black car using controllable lighting. This is just in front of my apartment, but I see a lot of potential.
Canon 5d + Rokinon 35mm f/1.4
overlay technique
(thanks to commeberenice for the texture)...
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Wanted to try my hand at more astrophotography, so this is a collage of several techniques combined with a long exposure (25 second exposure) while light painting with a 100 lumen flashlight and a 20 photo stack of Orion's Nebula (ISO 12,800 at 1 sec exposures, ƒ/1.8).
I took these shots close to home as I didn't feel like driving to the Malahat which is a little ways out. So the noise pollution was there which made for a interesting way to frame the trees but I was actually surprised how little it affected my shots of the Nebula,
Anyhow fun shots for the evening. Will have to seriously look at doing more astrophotography one day.
UPDATE: I've also included the full sized version of this file to see the details of the stars.
Explore #343 - Jan 24, 2009
When I teach this technique, I often refer to it as "studio quality lighting crafted by hand" and this one is a good example. This is the kind of light you can achieve using a softbox and stobes. But the interesting part is that I am not behind the camera. I am with the model, and I decide, by drawing by hand, where I'm going to add highlights, shadows, contrast, and empty space.
Fresh from yesterday: one-second #lightpainting with Esther Gaudette.
How do I create pictures like this? All of the answers will be given at my next workshop at Adobe's headquarters on July 29th. ericpare.com/creative-photography-light-painting-workshop...
Left to right: 3/4 pin technique, thin L liftarm technique, MackBricks balanced disc technique, and MackBricks compact disc technique
Technique: I injected artificial nectar into a Lavender flower, and even though I was using bait it was still a difficult shot. Of all the bees in my yard this one is the most skittish.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/250, ISO 400) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens + a diffused MT-24EX (flash head "A" set as the key and "B" as the fill, both on the Canon flash mount). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. Camera set to expose the natural light in the background, with E-TTL flash metering exposing the subject.
Fals Polaroid
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Fake Polaroid
Sortida de l'AFE (Agrupació Fotogràfica d'Esparreguera) al Montseny
Texture: Polaroid Template (2008) by St Boniface's Catholic College
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Don't know why I hadn't tried this before, but the other day I put the mp-e65 on two sets of extension tubes and cackled maniacally as lightning clashed outside. This is the tip of a ballpoint pen, uncropped. You can see the thickness of ink.
Also, if anybody thinks this doesn't belong in poor man's macro let me know. I feel like the group is based more around trying new techniques than about actual investment in photography equipment but if that's not the case I'll remove it.
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.
The wall can be built very solidly by anchoring the diagonal section every third brick layer and interlocking the side walls to the center.
See the entry and support the project on Bricklink:
www.bricklink.com/v3/designer-program/series-1/331/PCS-99...(Remote-Travel-Logistics)
Before the likes of the LL-924 and LL-928 were winging their way through the stars, the galaxy was being explored by the members of the Pre-Classic Space agency. PCS charted new worlds and built relationships across the galaxy.
But that requires infrastructure and support! PCS-99-RTL is one of the workhorse hover vehicles employed by the agency to carry materials to remote outposts. The PCS-99-RTL floats above the surface of even the most hostile planets to deliver needed supplies anywhere the PCS needs them. From craters to icy oceans, the PCS-99-RTL can cross them with ease.
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This model is inspired by the collaborative fan theme created in the early 2000s within the AFOL community. The theme’s hallmarks are the curved canopies and color schemes which harken back to the classic space theme of the 1980s, but using advanced building techniques we’ve developed since then.
Built for expansion, the PCS-99-RTL uses a modular design for containers allowing you to design your own mimicking the three provided. In addition, there’s no limit to the length of a PCS train you can build!
The set includes two minifigures to help guide the train on its important journeys. The set has 535 elements, including a number of hard-to-find parts that are critical to bringing your own PCS creations to life.
Technique: I injected artificial nectar into a flower so this male Drone Hoverfly would have a reason to let me get close.
Tech Specs: Canon 70D (F11, 1/125, ISO 200) + a Canon EF-S 60mm macro lens with 25mm of extension + a diffused MT-24EX (flash head "A" set as the key and "B" as the fill, both on the Canon flash mount). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. Camera set to use natural light to expose the background. I shaded the subject so the only significant light source for it would be the flash.
Ювелирная фотосъемка. Съемка ювелирных изделий и украшений в Днепропетровске
Из-за своего маленького размера кольца, серьги и броши сами по себе являются проблемными объектами для съемки. Существуют различные методы съемки для получения разных результатов.
Съемку ювелирных изделий можно разбить на несколько видов:
- Съемка для каталогов.
- Съемка для интернет магазинов.
- Рекламная или индивидуальная съемка изделий.
Фотосъемка ювелирных изделий и часов, осуществляется как в студии так и с выездом к клиенту, как в Днепропетровске, так и по всей Украине. Для этого у меня есть специализированное мобильное оборудование, освещение и приспособления, исключающие блики на отражающих поверхностях.
Мой сайт:
Jewelry photography. Shooting jewelry in Dnepropetrovsk
To the small size of the ring, earrings and brooches are themselves problematic objects to shoot. There are various shooting techniques to produce different results.
Shoot jewelry can be divided into several types:
- Shooting for catalogs.
- Shooting for online stores.
- Advertising or individual survey items.
Taking pictures of jewelry and watches, are both in the studio and on-site customer in Dnepropetrovsk and in Ukraine. For this, I have a specialized mobile equipment, lighting and appliances, excluding the glare on reflective surfaces.
My website:
Sabrina concludes Elizabeth (Juliet Barbie) will need more than a day's lesson to master the basic techniques of knitting and instead offers take-home instructions.
I searched for a solution to add something to 'jumpered'/half-stud offset wall. The ring wins with his clutch power, but I will go with the handcuffs, just because I have more of them available...Moc will be uploaded on main acc soon...
4K Version:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwOQnSf1vU4
Please note that the crossbow archer should have put the crossbow on the ground, stepped in the front hoop, and pulled the string up with both hands, then fitted a bolt in to shoot. (That's how it will be done in my future medieval / castle / fantasy battles.)
I figured out a way to cut the bow and crossbow pieces while maintaining both an intact string and a usable arrow / bolt. Even the little piece of the arrow cut off the back of the string can be glued into the middle of the arrow to keep its length consistent. So, yes, the arrows need to be glued together again, but at least the cutting doesn't ruin them or the bow (unless you think cutting pieces in the first place ruins them).
Anyway, this was a test to see if this method is practical enough to use in a large fight, and indeed it seems to be. If case you're interested, the arms are held on with rubber bands and switched left for right and vice versa to achieve the range of movement necessary.
Any feedback and / or criticism is greatly appreciated!
Feel free to use this technique however you want, and don't give me credit, since I probably wasn't the first to invent it.
Discovered this yesterday, figured I'd share it in case some of you didn't know about it already. It would be useful for microscpace or mech building.
Cameo glass is primarily a product of the early Roman Empire and is specifically associated with the elite and royal of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Its manufacture is therefore mostly limited to the decades around 25 BC – AD 25 and it is rare; less than twenty pieces have survived in their entirety. The technique imitates cameos carved from shell or colored stone and the most popular color scheme is white over a blue background. In this case, the tiny flask was first blown in translucent blue glass; after a brief period of cooling it was dipped in opaque white glass, after which it was carved and polished by a lapidary artisan.
The annexation of Egypt in 30 BCE and the arrival in Rome in 10 BCE of two obelisks from Heliopolis helped to develop a milieu in which the use of Egyptian motifs thrived, inspiring Roman artists to evoke the imagery and iconography of ancient Egypt. While it has been suggested that the scenes on this flask might represent specific gods, such as Amon-Re, Horus and Thoth, the meaningless hieroglyphs on the obelisk as well as the general obscurity of the iconography prevents a specific reading of the narrative. Instead, the figures and motifs would seem to evoke through setting and characterization the exotic Egyptian atmosphere so popular in the art of Julio-Claudian Rome.
25 BCE-25 CE, Roman Empire (created).
Getty Villa Museum (85.AF.84)
Hylaeus nelumbonis. The bee likes wetlands and... wetland plants, by implication, love this bee. American lotus (Nelumbo) and water lily were early on noted as hosting this species on its flowers. Side note. I wonder how Robertson (the guy who described the species and whose mission was to document floral use by bees) collected these bees - on at least water lilies, which lie on the surface of the water (Lotus has the good sense to project its flowers above the water). If you try to net a bee on a water lily, everything gets wet and essentially goes under water and you end up with nothing. I know this from first hand experience. When I was trying my hand I had to slowly glide up on a waterlily, wait for a bee to land and crawl inside the waterlily, then grab the whole head of the flower with my hand and throw the everytthing in a net to extract the bee (and not fall out of the canoe by reaching a bit too far). In any case, these bees can be found on a variety of flowers, but always in and around wetlands. It is unclear why this should be. What is it that keeps them next to wetlands if not that they need some of those flowers specifically? Maybe its the pollen of one of the plant groups that is required for its young but it will sip nectar and party with the males on a variety of other flowers. H. ornatus and H. schwarzii do pretty much the same thing (more to the east). A nice tidy research project that could save the world (because you never know what you will discover when you poke around Mother Nature). ~~~~~~~~~~{{{{{{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
You can also follow us on Instagram - account = USGSBIML
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
Technique: a combination of zooming out and intentional camera movement (ICM). No post-processing was done.
Copyright J.R. Devaney
I originally built my previous LEGO Technique as an assembly to deal with the gavel. Then things got crazy. See my writeup at www.dagsbricks.com/2013/11/lego-techniques-bring-down-gav...
Serving female officers with the Metropolitan Police who have got motorcycle licences were invited to a day at the Mets training facility in North West London with a view to recruiting them into motorcycle duties with the Met. There are several different groups in the Met who use Motorcycles including, Traffic, Diplomatic Protection, Royalty Protection, Special Escort Section and Surveillance. The ladies were allowed to try out the bikes and had an afternoons teaching in some of the techniques required of motorcycle officers. The Met is keen to recruit more women into motorcycle duties as only 1 in 30 motorcycle officers are female.
A result of what I found in my kids' LEGO bin. See the write-up at dagsbricks.blogspot.com/2013/10/lego-techniques-one-from-...
The technique I used was very simple, as seen in the photo. This cylinder is useful for many things, a trash can for example.
There's some sort of myth that keeps perpetuating in AFOL-land about the LEGO logo causing studs to be excessively tall. Not. True. In this image I'm using two hollow studs and a LOTR ring to prove that the studs themselves are about 1.7mm or 1.8mm tall. You can see that there's a tiny gap between the top of the ring and the LBG travis brick as well as a minor height difference between the travis tower and the orange tower.
Of course, the logo will only add more to this, but it is not the problem itself.
LEGO studs are not half a plate tall. They're slightly taller. Try it for yourself.