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I just wanted to throw this up really quick for anyone that follows my work. On Saturday I met up with Gerard and Johne at sunrise to shoot for www.grip-set.com. It's not every day you come across two cars with such different personalities that still compliment each other so well. The same goes for the owners, two rad dudes I'm glad to have had the pleasure talking, riding, and shooting with.
I'll wait to post the rest of the pictures until the article drops on the website, but stay tuned. It's gonna be good.
Thanks to Gerard and Johne for the good time!
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'Make' up for Paanchaali..
Kathakali artist Ranjini nair getting prepared for depicting Paanchaali..
Abu Dhabi - 2011
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two hundred and thirty
inaugural Wall Wednesday shot.
You guys should try give this group that patchworkbunny created a whirl!!!
ATSF 5326 west meeting UP 4234 east at Ottawa Kansas 7-29-1993 on the UP
Hoisington sub both trains were detours from flooding around Kansas City.
This is most of my new Strobist set up.
I say most, I've probably forgot to include something...
I'll list where and why I got them, and for how much.
So frooom the top...
2x Lastolite Umbrella Tiltheads with Hotshoes - Warehouse Express - £16.99 each.
Its compact and light weight, but nice and sturdy. Its got a ratcheted tilt action, so its more secure, and has a thumbscrew for securing a brollie shaft.
The shoes strange. It has a metal edge, out of contact of the pins, but the middle is a sort of soft metallic covering.
Its triggered the flash a couple of times when putting it on, so some electrical tape is on the cards...
2x Lastolite Lumen8 Pneumatic Stands - Warehouse Express - £24.46 each.
As I'm just dabbling in the world of Strobism, I couldnt justify buying the Manfrotto Nano stands, as much as I'd like them.
I toyed with the idea of cheap Ebay ones, but in the end settled for these. Safer bet buying from a reputable brand.
Nice and sturdy, and not too heavy. Fold down to about 85cms. About 95-100cm with the flash stand ontop.
Air cushioned, so it doesn't go colapsing down and trappin' your fingers. Really well built.
2x Westcott 43" Convertible umbrellas. - Bought from a private seller, here on Flickr, although available from the States. - £32.50 each.
As endorsed by the Strobist, David Hobby himself.
These big arsed umbrellas lull you into a false sense of security.
They double fold, as in the umbrellas its self is hinged, and the shaft is in 2-3 pieces. Collapsed, they're only 15in long, and fit nicely in the side pocket of my carry case.
When opened, they're huuuuge!
I got the 'Convertible' ones. They're satin white, with a removable black back, so they can be used as reflective, with the cover on, or shoot throughs, with the cover off.
The shafts are a bit thin, but I've reinforced mine with cut down pencils. See here.
Over all, really pleased with them. Good light transmission when used reflectively, and lovely soft, even light when used as shoot through. Plus they fold up nice n small.
2x Nikon SB-28 Speedlights/Flashguns. - Bought second hand. One back when I started photography 3 years ago, the other a couple of weeks back - Expect to pay between £70-120.
I got one back when I started in photography, a few years back with an old Nikon F90x film camera.
I could have got another flash cheaper. But it would have meant learning to use another, and I still struggle with the SB-28 =D
Nice and powerful, GN of about 118 (ft), 36 (m). Reliable. And really user friendly, like most Nikon strobes.
The Cactus V4's.
2x Revievers. 1x Transmitter. - Direct from Gadget Infinity.Set = £25.91 aprox. Spare Reviever = £15.53 aprox.
After reading so many horror stories about the V2's, and then the first batch of V4's, I was apprehensive.
But after the second batch was released, good reviews started coming out, and people started raving about them.
For the price, I figured it was a safe gamble. They don't cost much. And if they do what people say, then they're definitely worth it.
I haven't had any problems with mine, at all, so far. And thats with alot of testing.
Theres not much to say really...
If you're wondering how mine are attached, see here.
1x 1 meter coiled Screwlock PC to Screwlock PC sync cord. - Flash Zebra - £11.06.
I got this for quick, off the cuff, off camera shooting.
Has the Nikon Screwlock fitting, so it attaches securly to the camera and flash.
Relaxed its about 1ft long. Stretched out it reaches about 1m.
2x custom LEE gel sets. - www.skategoat.com/ - £3.29 each.
Put these custom sets together myself. Wide range to choose from, and premade sets available too.
Mine have full, 1/2 & 1/4 CTO. full, 1/2 & 1/4 CTB. full, 1/2 & 1/4 window Green. Lee 103 Straw & Lee 790 Moroccan Pink.
2x Nikon AS-19 Flash Stands - Warehouse Express - £5.25 each.
For table top shooting.
They have a cold shoe that'll take any flash [except the SB-900], not just Nikons.
Thats it really...
Uniross 2500MAh rechargeable batteries and cases. - Batteries from World Of Batteries - Ebay Cases from RPT Batteries and chargers
I got the batteries at the same time as two Uniross X-Press 700 chargers, which each came with 4 of the same batteries.
I'm now rocking 16 in total. 4 in each of the flashes. 8 spare, 4 for each.
The cases I bought to keep track of what needed charging and what didn't.
Blue = ready to use. Red = needs charging.
See, I can be organised...
2 x Hama 1 meter coiled PC - PC sync cords. - Speed Graphic - £7.50 each.
A pair of male PC to male PC cords. Got these for when working close up with both flashes, incase the radio triggers don't like the close range.
1x Multipurpose Hotshoe Adapter - Flash Zebra - £6.95 aprox.
Got this for when I'm working close up and want to use both strobes.
This also works well when using my light tent.
This behind it, on a Cactus V4 reciver, this leading to both strobes via PC cables.
The Battery Case
4x Uniross AAA Hybrio batteries for the Cactus V4 recievers.
4 [was 5]x Duracell L1028/23A 12v Alkaline batteries - Cactus Transmitter.
2x button cell type batteries - Nikon ML-L3 IR remote, for my D70.
The Uniross AAA Hybrios are the only real interesting thing in there.
They come fully charged. Are rechargeable. And if not used, will hold their full charge for upto a year!
Perfect for the recievers.
Calumet Extra Large Tripod Bag - Calumet - £29.99.
To carry everything in, basically...
I probably could have got away with the shorter one. But I figured I'd go with this.
Plenty of space in there for the stands.
The side pocket it just over 15in long, so takes the Westcott umbrellas perfectly, and it has a little pocket inside that which I keep cables, the AS-19 stands, and other bits and pieces in.
And I think thats it really...
Anything else you wanna know.
Feel free to ask.
Why rare bees are attracted to me? A question that doesn't really keep me up at night, but...here consider this Dieunomia nevadensis. (Nice orange legs there, lady Di). This bee is known from one site in Maryland. So it is rare. It also has not been found in the surrounding states...so this population would appear to be very special. You have to go to North Carolina to find a record. Interesting in a Bermuda Triangle sort of way is the fact that this site is only a couple of miles from my house. How cool is that? This particular specimen collected by Tim McMahon, but the very first one (and there was only one) I found at a sand mine at the same spot. This has happened repeatedly, I am seemingly surrounded by rare bees that are attracted from long distances away to be near me. Or, perhaps it is not so much my beeaura but the fact that there are so few people really looking for bees? How are bees really doing then? Don't ask me I have beeaura issues. Photo by Brooke Goggins.
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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:
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:
ftp://ftpext.usgs.gov/pub/er/md/laurel/Droege/How%20to%20Take%20MacroPhotographs%20of%20Insects%20BIML%20Lab2.pdf
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
-- are you sure we don't have any larger suitcase?..
lol Tweety Pie is packing up all the things she thinks she'll need at the seaside :)
we're leaving tomorrow and I decided to take her with me
Pompeii is a little more ominous and mysterious in real life, than I remember Frankie Howerd depicting it. ;-)
The make-up collection and working palette from the incredible and calm Stormi. Used to create her magic.
UP train YFX82-27 with a baby wings SD40N on the point gets ready to depart UP's Quindaro Yard up in Kansas City, KS for a short trip across the state line to Neff Yard in Kansas City, MO. 5/27/15.
UP SD70M 4570 leads a intermodal east on the new mains in Elkhart, IN. The old NYC signal bridge still stands unused for now.
This is for GhostWorks Self Portrait Collaboration discussion here
Thank you very much to Magnera for allowing us to work on his self portrait, the original is here
Textures with thanks to ~ rjg329 & Skeletal Mess
Also for S2 Wraps Blends Beyond Blends group
~ Explore ~ #54 ~ Aug 9, 2009 ~
The main body of fire was knocked down quite a while ago but the mop up continues with water still flowing out of the structure. This was a vacuum cleaner company building in Suffern N.Y. which also housed some sort of fancy garment business. Pictured is Nyack NY's ALF 10-99 from Chelsea H&L Co.No.2. 1955 700 Series ALF 100FT Tiller 7-75-TEO. She was originally built as a 75 footer and had a fourth ladder section added in 1967. Howard Kent Jr. 07-14-1974
My first try of the classic "middle of the stairs looking up" shot, hope you like it ;-)
Handled inside the Arc de Triomphe - Paris
EXIF : Nikon D50 / Nikkor 18-55mm @ 38mm f/5,6 1/3s ISO800
Mon premier essai de la très classique photo "en regardant vers haut depuis le centre de l'escalier", j'espère qu'il vous plaira ;-)
A main levée, depuis l'intérieur de l'Arc deTriomphe - Paris
Toutes vos critiques et commentaires sont les bienvenus! / Critics and comment welcome! :-)
This bodystyle wasn't available in Spain, hence I was eager to spot one on this trip. Judging by its age, it's a pretty late French-built example. Newer models were assembled in Argentina.
The tracks in Sri Lanka are known as Up and Down depending on which direction you want to go.
This shot is from a footbridge above Colombo Fort Station,
3 shots exposure blended with Photomatix
I realized I never took a 'face to face' comparison picture of these girls when I was making Pajelle, so here one is :)
I've been meaning to upload this follow-up picture for a while now!
It shows XOU525V, a Kenworth K series operated by John Golding Heavy Haulage of Wotton-under-Edge, Glos, with a fairly wide 8-wheeled trailer now seen with its tracked crane load aboard.
I'm fairly sure this is an ex Pickfords Scheurle 16-wheeled drawbar trailer converted to semi-trailer spec.
A photograph taken by Joe Sullivan, now in my collection.
A71 notches up around the corner into Allansford with a late running 9203 DOWN Warrnambool Goods - 23/9/2013
Black and white version of Up!- My neice Madaline and nephew Aiden play in the waves in the Outer Banks, NC 2007. Link to the original here, which do you like better? www.flickr.com/photos/14781202@N04/1548179572/
Available for liscence on Getty Images
In what was nearly an all-blue consist on the MDMPR-10 (Des Moines-Proviso), UP 2001 leads the CSX 8324, 7560, 7753, 4740, and UPY 1432 under the coal tower at DeKalb, IL, at 8:30 AM on 1-11-12.
Diptych #37: wake up, sleepyhead
Diptych collaboration with *Peanut (Lauren)
left pic: mine
right pic: Lauren's
Dip-It-Thursday ~ Dip-It collaboration
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If you could only see {acoustic} ~ Tonic (i <3 this!!!)
A nice looking UP ACe trails at the rear of a eastbound stack train, passing the new control point in Wheaton, IL. UP can't seem to make up their mind on what to name this, they've already changed the name three times! First it was Wheaton, then College, and now it's University! We'll see how many weeks until UP changes the name again! Haha