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Strobist info: Nikon SB900 shot through white umbrella, camera left, triggered by Yong Nuo radio triggers
Chevrolet Camaro SS -10
Strobist:
Nikon SB-800 camera left
Canon 430EX camera right
Triggered with Cactus triggers
strobist info:flash con paraguas reflectante a 45 grados por la derecha, otro flash con un ctb a 90 grados por la izquierda, ambos disparados con cactus V4
book 27
Model: Lil' Red Bettie (Unchained Girls)
[ Strobist Info -- AB1600 camera right through 32" x 40" softbox, LP120 through 45" umbrella camera left. CTR301p triggers. ]
This is my VidCam Sound trigger. I use the bouncefree circuit when I photograph breaking glass. It eliminates multiple flash exposures from the sound of scattering shards. For balloons, all I need is the SCR. (Not resonsible for damage to your equipment. Use this info at your own risk.)
Strobist:
- VIvitar 285 con paraguas translucido delante a la derecha
- Vivitar 285 desde atrás a la izquierda para separarlo del fondo
- 10 segundos de exposición para dar movimiento a la luna y nubes.
- Disparadores Cactus
after the trigger was remounted, the holder guides needed to be shimmed out (note the washers between the guide and hammer body), making the contact between the trigger-switch roller and the top edge and radius-ed corner just the right distance from one another.
Couleur : Ancient white - Sangria
Logo : Poscas & bombes
Vernis UV mat
Typographie sur base de "ChronoFont charvie"
Vadu Amka© 2012-2014
A crossbow bolt just about to burst a pink balloon. The point of the bolt has already pierced the skin. Joint effort at "stopping time" with Mkratty and MooseMalloy - three cameras and a sound trigger - so you could see three pretty similar sets of pictures appearing on Flickr! Strobist info: Vivitar 283 and Canon 540EZ in front of subject, Vivitar 283 behind and to the left. All on minimum power (1/128 or so). Triggered by Yongnuo 602s activated by a HiViz sound trigger. The rear Vivitar is high voltage, so is fired by a Hama optical slave.
(methods and equipment used outlined in this blog)
This drum trigger pad I made in about 15 minutes for testing Alesis D4 drum module. It consist of synthetic leather (better use mousepad) glued on one side of tin sheet and piezo glued on the other. All this is glued on the spnge for absorbing vibration. For testing purposes it is easiest to solder cable with connector directly on the piezo. If you tap on piezo and module is working you will hear the sound.
Love & Will Productions / The Cockpit present:
Cosmic Trigger Play by Daisy Eris Campbell
Adapted from Robert Anton Wilson’s seminal autobiography Cosmic Trigger: The Final Secret of The Illuminati
4th – 27th May 2017
The Cockpit - Gateforth St, Marylebone, London NW8 8EH
“Robert Anton Wilson’s 'Illuminatus!' had a profound effect on me and the Cosmic Trigger Play will no doubt do the same for a whole new generation.” Alan Moore, writer/author of V for Vendetta, Watchmen and Jerusalem
Turn On. Tune In. Find The Others
In 1976 revered maverick playwright and director Ken Campbell staged Robert Anton Wilson’s, Illuminatus! - a nine-hour stage epic play that helped launch the careers of Jim Broadbent and Bill Nighy. It also led to the backstage conception of a baby girl; Daisy Eris Campbell.
“one of the most original and unclassifiable talents in British theatre of the past half-century”
The Guardian obituary for Ken Campbell – 2008
Now Love & Will Productions and The Cockpit are delighted to announce the debut full run of Daisy Campbell’s adaptation of Wilson’s seminal countercultural text; Cosmic Trigger. Part sequel, part revisit, part homage, part new writing; this is the story behind the notorious conspiracy satire, 'Illuminatus!', the extraordinary life of the novel's author, Robert Anton Wilson, and the unstoppable force that was theatre legend Ken Campbell.
Daisy Campbell says; "Reading Cosmic Trigger changed my life and the lives of many others - and the book is dedicated to my dad! Wilson's uniquely optimistic and radically agnostic philosophy is incredibly relevant in these crazy times. We are absolutely thrilled to be working with The Cockpit on this production. They are the perfect co-conspirators to help us bring the wit and wisdom of Robert Anton Wilson back to life."
The original work reinterpreted world history as a giant conspiracy theory and Daisy’s new work gives a backstory to the original production, featuring the lives of Wilson and Campbell, as well as the counterculture figures Timothy Leary, Alan Watts and William Burroughs, whom Robert Anton Wilson befriended.
Set in the late sixties and early seventies, the play recounts the period of Wilson's life around the conception and writing of Illuminatus. During this time, he befriended heroes of counterculture, took LSD and experimented with the magical rituals of Aleister Crowley with predictably - and unpredictably - mind-blowing results.
With many of the original cast returning and Alan Moore appearing via specially recorded audio and morphed video projections Cosmic Trigger is a celebration of all that has gone before it as well as a vital venture in its own right. This is a highly ambitious production, with projections in the round, phantasmagorical multiple narratives, and a different actor performing as William Burroughs every night, it is designed to evoke the real-life hallucinogenic trip through conspiracy, paranoia and enlightenment that transformed Robert Anton Wilson from ‘Playboy’ editor to much-loved counter-cultural icon.
Dave Wybrow, Artistic Director of the Cockpit and co producer of Cosmic Trigger says; “We are putting together a venue, a tribe and new ways of networking and creating work. It’s about joining low tech to hi tech, low culture to high culture and low budgets to high levels of audience reach and social impact. This first venture looks at counter-cultural legacy. But the vision is an open artistic community for the future.”
Cosmic Trigger previously played for two days in November in Camp & Furnace in Liverpool and five days at Lost Theatre Vauxhall in London in 2014 – this is the play’s first full run.
A shot I took last-minute for an online 'photo day' on a forum I frequent. Been wading through the Strobist site, fathoming out all that glorious info that Mr Hobby has committed to the Internet. I most of it has escaped from my brain...
There's actually a lot of things associated with this shot that are 'me' so to speak - my records; the grass-like rug I persuaded the missus to buy; the painting behind (done by my mum to symbolise me and the missus); the cuddly toy, which is one of my little boy's favourites; a turntable that's in the shadows, which has provided great music moments over the years.
It's also late in the day, a time when I have time to myself, and when I often feel most enthusiastic when it comes to trying the things that have been circling round my head all day.
Lighting is pretty straightforward - bare SB800 from camera right, flagged by a book, set to 1/16th, and there's a 28" Westcott Apollo on camera high left with an SB800 set to 1/8th. Both flashes are triggered by Phottix Strato triggers.
*Nikon D2x
*Sigma 14mm f/2.8
*ISO 800
*1/100th @ f/4.5
*A fair bit of levels, vignette and luminance tweaking in Lightroom 3
Press this trigger and POOF! the tripod disappears. (Well, almost: you can still see it if you look carefully.)
Equirectangular panorama built from 8 pictures (EXIF data from the first one).
Original 10000x5000 on demand, it's too big for flickr (13MB).
See also its stereographic projection.
I had the RS-80N3 trigger for my Canon camera, and I wanted to trigger the camera remotely with my Pocketwizards. I searched for and found Thomas E Witte's site, describing how to make my own pretrigger cord, to connect the wizard to a Canon camera:
www.gophotography.net/tips/releasecanon.html
Here's another site for Nikon:
www.sportsshooter.com/rritari/nikon_pw_cable/
This cord triggers my 20D fine. The switch is optional and it is designed to avoid a "camera sleep mode", which would slow the camera reaction time if the camera had gone to sleep. When the switch is closed, the camera thinks the shutter release button is half-depressed, which readies it for a next shot and which limits review on the LCD screen. Of course if you limit sleep mode the camera batteries will need to be recharged sooner. The camera works fine with the switch in either the closed or open position. However, when the switch is closed, you have to remember to leave the camera on continuous shooting drive mode, or it won't work properly. I found out the hard way that leaving the camera in single shot mode with the switch closed will result in a freeze of the camera after a single shot. There is no harm done but you can't take more pics until you review the images. For a discussion of that point, see here:
www.sportsshooter.com/message_display.html?tid=23493
With the switch closed, you can't review images on the LCD until you open the switch. And you need to open the switch if you want to change camera settings. To later review images on the LCD screen, you open the switch and then review images. I can take rapid-fire images with my PWII+, though the recycle time for my strobes is a limiting factor. On my EOS 3 and 1dMKIV it works fine as well. The way this cord is made, normal function of the RS80-N3 is preserved. If you want to also trigger this hardwired, make a long cord with a switch on one end and a female 1/8" monoplug to hook up to the male plug above. Works fine as a backup if your PW's fail.
Thankyou, Thomas!
Save some dough, and have a little fun with a soldering iron.
Dave
The Italian luxury brand sparked controversy earlier this month when local citizens, snapping photos of the store from the street, were told to stop, while others from China and other foreign countries weren’t. Local media recorded the store’s security staff enforcing the policy, triggering accusations of discrimination against Hong Kongers in favor of the wealthy mainland-Chinese tourists who keep such stores in business.
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Dolce & Gabbana Drama Riles Up Hong Kong
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Dolce & Gabbana Hong Kong sparked outrage this month when it forbade locals, but not Mainland Chinese, from taking photos of the store. Following public protest, the Italian luxury brand has apologized. WSJ's Deborah Kan and Jason Chow discuss.
More than 1,000 protesters outside Dolce & Gabbana’s store in Kowloon forced it to close early Jan. 8, and the topic simmered online as well, with commenters debating on news articles, blog posts and D&G’s Facebook page.
As Chinese New Year — a critical shopping season in Asia — drew near, Dolce & Gabbana issued a formal apology.
“We understand that the events which unfolded in front of the Dolce & Gabbana boutique on Canton Road have offended the citizens of Hong Kong, and for this we are truly sorry and we apologise,” it said in a statement posted to the store’s windows on Tuesday. “The Dolce & Gabbana policy is to welcome the Hong Kong people and that of the whole world respecting the rights of each individual and of the local laws.”
For Hong Kongers, it was a hard-fought apology that wasn’t forthcoming after the Jan. 8 protest. (At the time, it said “We wish to underline that our company has not taken part in any action aiming at offending the Hong Kong public.”)
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Protesters demonstrated again last Sunday, with several people taping posters outside the store saying “Apologize or get out,” according to news reports.
China’s growing wealth has been a boon to Hong Kong’s luxury sector, as mainland consumers flock to the city’s lower-taxed shopping outlets. But the photo controversy fanned complaints that rich mainlanders get favored treatment in Hong Kong. Even after the apology (which was taken down from the Canton Road store by Wednesday), the sentiments persist.
“We are not idiots,” one commenter wrote on Dolce & Gabbana’s Facebook page. “We fully understand your purpose of your ‘apology’. You don’t really care about [Hong Kong] people. You just don’t want to lose the turnover from the mainland (Chinese) tourist during the Lunar New Year holiday.”
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I noticed the other day when we got back from Puerto Rico that one of our bird of paradise plants was blossoming, so today I brought it in to exploit.
Strobist info: I wanted the translucent feathers (I mean petals) to glow so I put a YN560-II in a Rogue Grid behind the flower camera left at 1 o'clock to act as the main light. To fill in the areas that weren't backlit, I put a YN560 in a 24 inch softbox, camera left and in front at 7 o'clock. The strobes, in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N.
Other plants, flowers, fruit or thingys that I've photographed using strobes can be seen in my Strobe Lit Plant set. In the description for that set, I list resources that I've used to learn how to light with off camera flash, and the equipment that I use. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157628079460544/
Other pictures I've take of these beautiful flowers can be seen in my Birds of Paradise set, if you like this sort of thing. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157631967781801/
Model - Kristina
Nikon D800
85.0 mm
ƒ/2.2 85.0 mm 1/100 ISO100
Snooted SB800 camera left triggered by PW2's
Rim light SB600 camera right triggered by PW2's
got my cactus triggers in the mail today. had to try them out on something!
music is my other "thing"...
strobist: Vivitar 285 on 1/4 power bare, nikkor 50mm 1.8d on my d200.
iso100, 250th @ f8 i believe, didn't look
Nothing special, just a first test of a piezo-trigger used to fire two flashes when the coins hit the table.
An Arduino is connected to a wireless flash trigger using an SCR, which is activated when the analog line from a piezo elements reaches a given threshold (from sounds or shock - from the coins hitting the table).
Video of the trigger: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVLuTsm9_0Y&hd=1
//What a disaster
William Saunderson-Meyer says the floods just another blow to a province that was already on its knees
KwaZulu-Natal has declared a provincial state of disaster to try to cope with the devastating floods of the past week.
This is normally a temporary mechanism of which the primary purpose is to facilitate speedy national government assistance to hard-pressed provincial and local authorities. It also triggers the release of emergency funds from the National Treasury.
But in KZN’s case, they might as well make it permanent. This is a province that has been on its knees for some time and it ain’t getting up any time soon.
After all, KZN hasn’t even staunched the bloodied nose it suffered nine months ago. That’s when one wing of the African National Congress government — the Radical Economic Transformation followers of former president Jacob Zuma — tried to bury the other — the so-called reformists led by President Cyril Ramaphosa.
KZN hasn’t even properly tallied the body blows it suffered then. The official estimates for the insurrection were 45,000 businesses affected, R50bn in economic damage, 129,000 jobs lost, and 354 killed.
These estimates are probably on the low side. For example, the number of people who were killed in the mayhem doesn’t include the many whose bodies were simply never found and counted.
And the true economic cost is incalculable. There’s been substantially increased emigration of minorities, cancelled investment, and the loss of international confidence in KZN as a safe tourist destination. In at least a dozen small, country towns, all the business infrastructure was destroyed, paradoxically by the very people who worked and shopped in those buildings.
Now the floods. The death toll is over 300 and still rising. Some 6,000 homes have been destroyed and road, water sewage and electrical infrastructure uprooted. As I write this, roaming mobs are opportunistically plundering container depots, stranded trucks, abandoned homes and vulnerable businesses, reportedly unhindered — as was the case during last year’s riots — by the police and army.
Naturally, no disaster is complete without a scapegoat. Ramaphosa, as is his style, was quick off the mark to finger the culprit — climate change.
“This disaster is part of climate change. It is telling us that climate change is serious, it is here,” Ramaphosa told reporters while inspecting a devastated Durban. “We no longer can postpone what we need to do, and the measures we need to take to deal with climate change.”
What balderdash. Whatever role climate change may or may not have played in the larger scheme of things, it’s nonsense to pin on it responsibility for the plight of KZN. That lies with the ANC government.
First, this was not an unforeseeable bolt from the heavens. The forecasters warned months back that this was likely to be an exceptionally wet summer because of the La Niña weather pattern that occurs every few years.
There are also historical precedents for extreme weather in KZN, which a prudent administration would have taken note of.
In 1984, Tropical Storm Domoina wreaked havoc in a swathe from Mozambique, through Swaziland to KZN. Although the current downpour is worse, the scale is nevertheless in the same ballpark.
This latest storm — as yet unnamed — dumped 450mm of rain on Durban in 48 hours. Domoina let loose 615mm in 24 hours on Swaziland and northern KZN.
But the true difference between those events, 38 years apart, lies in the lack of preparedness on the part of today’s authorities. In 1984 the SA Air Force deployed 25 helicopters to airlift people to safety. In the 2000 Mozambique floods, 17 SAAF helicopters rescued more than 14,000 people.
This time, according to a News24 report, the SA Police Service and the SAAF, combined, have been unable to put a single chopper in the air. The erosion of South Africa’s military means that of the SAAF’s 39 Oryx helicopters, only 17 are serviceable.
Durban-based 15 Squadron has not a single helicopter available for search and rescue — they are reportedly primarily used as VIP transport — but two SAAF choppers supposedly have been despatched from Gqeberha to help. The SAPS airwing has only one serviceable helicopter but “the pilot on duty has been booked off sick”.
Second, throughout the province, local government is also in a state of disaster and unable to do its job. The scale of the KZN impairment can be measured in the flood destruction of homes.
Some 4,000 shanties have been destroyed, many because officialdom was too lax to forbid building on the floodplain and against precariously unstable hillsides. Another 2,000 of the homes swept away were so-called RDP houses, shoddily built during the kickback-and-steal bonanza of the government’s Reconstruction and Development Programme of the late 1990s.
In Durban, the eThekwini metro is bloated and inert. It carries a rates and services debt of R17bn, of which R1bn is owed by the national government.
Durban is also infamously corrupt. Former mayor Zandile Gumede — along with 21 co-accused — is facing fraud, corruption and money-laundering charges in connection with a R320m municipal tender.
Yet at the weekend, even as the rain was bucketing down, she won the ANC’s regional leadership contest hands-down, despite the party’s supposed “step-aside when accused” rule.
The ANC-aligned Ahmed Kathrada Foundation has no illusions about the party it supports. It issued a statement calling on the government to ensure that unlike the plundering of Covid-19 emergency relief funds, the KZN disaster funds were not stolen or misused.
Fat chance. The ANC has already announced that its parliamentary constituency offices in KZN would become “hubs for humanitarian support” and appealed for the donation of relief supplies. Watch the trousering by the ANC’s public representatives of anything that the public is dumb enough to leave with them.
It’s in KZN where the ANC’s brazen indifference to the law and antipathy towards the Constitution is at its most obvious and most destructive.
On Monday, Zuma's corruption trial once again failed to take off in the Pietermaritzburg High Court when he successfully blocked the process with another round of delaying legal actions. His lawyers also had some carefully threatening words for the judiciary in a separate Supreme Court of Appeal action.
They urged SCA President Mandisa Maya to reconsider the dismissal of his latest corruption prosecution challenges. They warned that last year’s deadly July unrest was “in part, traceable to a perceived erroneous and unjust judicial outcome” that put Zuma briefly in prison for contempt of court.
“When such conceived mistakes are committed, the citizens (wrongly) feel entitled to resort to self-help…”
Floods, fires and locusts are devastating but at least happen relatively rarely. The ANC, alas, is a seemingly unending plague.
Today was a beutiful today, however, I spent most of it inside trying to figure out how to get the software for my Palm m515 working correctly. After several hours, I realized I had downloaded the wrong version of the desktop software. Sheesh. So, I hadn't been able to enjoy the beautiful day until I called my neighbor up and asked if she wanted to do some shooting. She did (even though the sun was going down and it was actually quite chilly outside). I used her name in the title because I'm getting tired of referring to her simply as "neighbor.: :-)
This is the setup shot for the parking lot pictures. I had to back up significantly to get the whole setup in the frame using the 70-200 lens.
strobist: 2 flashes (Vivitar 285HV & Vivitar DF400MZ) camera left, full power, shot through a white umbrella. 1 Vivitar 285HV, camera left (slightly behind subject), 1/4 camera, bare for rimlight. I used a .6 (4x) B&W ND filter as well as my 70-200 lens in order to get as soft a bokeh as possible.