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I spotted this pair in a lot of shoes on thebay -- I have never seen this color before, they are like a translucent neon pink? With just a sight orange cast. Unmarked, and they have a faint chemical odor somewhat like insecticide? I washed them with soap and water and that helped some. Because of the chemical odor they will NEVER touch doll legs unless the doll is wearing socks.
The coolest part about San Miniato was these panels of very, very thin marble near the altar. When the sun shone on them outside, they glowed red — not enough light got through to illuminate the place, but just enough to give the walls a freaky red glow.
This small breviary, having more that five hundred folio, is extraordinary for its length, considering it is the summer portion of a two-volume breviary for the use of Liège. The manuscript was completed for ecclesiastical use at Cathedral of Notre-Dame and St. Lambert in Liège in 1420 circa. The attribution is evidenced for instance by the Petitions to the congregation of this Cathedral (fols. 114v-117v), as well as the armorial shield of the family of Surlet de Chokier of Liège represented at the opening of the Psalms. The manuscript has a modest, but interesting, decoration with historiated and non figural initials that mark the liturgical texts. The folios opening the major divisions of the texts, display a border decoration with natural motifs and angels playing instruments. The most notable pictorial effect is probably found in the initials inhabited by transparent figures on rich blue ground. The technique is visible, for instance, on fol. 156r with the gold monstrance hold by the translucent angels for the feast of the Corpus Christi.
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I'll bet you can't tell what this is. I've done no fiddling (apart from a minor white balance correction).
Go on, have a guess.
Dauin, Philippines.
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A bit battered already, but then I suppose the birds would have been hungry after the winter.
Seen at Mamhilad Park Estate during my lunchbreak.
The problem with doing a shot like this is that unless you light the front of the item, the label part is going to be dark. I'll post some of the setup shots so you can see what happens in my stream. You'll have two choices here.
1. Use a snoot that carefully lights just the label area. Try to diffuse it so it doesn't cause a direct reflection.
2. Live with the fact that if you light the front you're going to end up with some sort of direct reflection. In this case, I used a different flash lighting the bottle from the top through a diffuser (a white cutting board). you can see the direct reflection in a few places, but it doesn't turn out all that bad.
Also, I used a gobo (a black piece of poster board) to control how much the diffuser lit the front of the bottle. You can see how the gobo is helping by noting that the top of the bottle is nicely lit and the triangular highlight is not too hot.
There's a glassy piece of poster board at the bottom of the image. The background is a white piece of poster board behind the bottle. There's a gap between the edge of the glassy poster board and the white poster board background.
There's a Vivitar 285HV lighting the white poster board from the bottom of the table.
Good edge definition here, although if I was really picky I would have used a black background. The edges are being defined here by what's beside the edge of the poster board which is just my room.
I did some cleanup to remove the seam at the bottom, plus I had inadvertently let a piece of my flash and the diffusion board at the top which were edited out. Other than that, the rest is in camera.
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