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The Moscow airshow (officially called the Moscow International Aviation and Space Salon) is like a Cold War spies wet dream. Most of the current russian airforce makes an appearance, along with some of the other exotic stuff that you dont get to see so often on the other side of the curtain.
Full Writeup/guide comming soon.
Canon 20D with 100-400mm lens.
Built in Japan. Made around 1958.
Nicknamed "Judy" This is a big and extremely solid radio.
I really like the grill pattern with it's multiple sizes and offsets.
Again there is a great writeup on this one at
My opinion piece about illustration on Rethink's site.
www.rethinkcanada.com/rethink-news/opinion/
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As the world of illustration and art hurls towards the clinically flawless realm of pixels and polygons there’s still a quiet and robust appetite for good old, handmade, tactile, back-to-basics illustration art.
Case in point, the work of Jean Jullien of London, England. Jean (or, as I like to call him, Mr. Jullien) creates quirky illustrations out of cut coloured paper, then photographs these illustrations to create visually arresting pieces that have a nice blend of depth and simplicity. And yes, in case you’re wondering, I have a total man-crush.
Another illustrator I truly admire is Piet Parra (aka man crush No. 2). He creates wildly vivid illustrations from simple blocks of colour and strokes. His style also has a very strong handmade feel, despite the fact that he refines his work on the computer. But I won’t hold that against him.
Kozyndan is a husband-and-wife illustrator team from Los Angeles whose work is as whimsical as their name. In a good way, of course. Their incredibly intricate panoramic illustrations– such as their 10 foot wide piece Nakano in Spring– are drawn by hand and coloured in digitally. Nakano in Spring melds reality and fantasy kinda like Who Framed Roger Rabbit? but a thousand times more fresh.
In conclusion, I was going to write something whimsical and deep but then I remembered I’m not a writer so um, well, yeah.
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A juvenile chimpanzee dissected over 300 years ago by Edward Tyson.
His writeup was an important landmark in the history of comparative anatomy.
More information:
www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccol/bomarch/bomnovde...
This is a laser cut plexi glass enclosure made for Seeedstudio's Rainbow Cube Kit. Below is a link to their product.
Blog Writeup Here:
www.synthetos.com/blog/rainbow-led-cube-case/
www.seeedstudio.com/depot/rainbow-cube-kit-rgb-4x4x4-rain...
Jakes Branch County Park, New Jersey
Blog writeup - daveblinder.wordpress.com/2014/09/19/photographing-wildli...
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Unauthorized use or reproduction for any reason is prohibited
The Seventh Wave Festival of Electronic Music No1
Live electronic performances at The Flapper, Birmingham, 12th November 2016
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Just another shot for self promotion.
I added a couple of other edits with different background colors - let me know which one you like the best!
I decided to do a fairly in-depth writeup on my blog about how this image was made. Check it out if you have time!
These cool rock formations are located off Highway 128 about 25 miles northeast of Moab (near Hittle Bottom).
The writeup on Fisher Towers from Go-Utah.com:
Few of natures geologic creations are more bizarre to look at than Utah’s Fisher Towers. About a dozen of the strange monoliths stand near the Colorado River east of Moab, grouped together like petrified skyscrapers from some prehistoric city. The brick-red sandstone skyscrapers rise abruptly from the desert floor, while a network of gullies and canyons form the city’s avenues and boulevards below. The residents of this weird metropolis are an endless collection of goblins and gargoyles frozen in the canyon walls beneath the towers.
I've been planning this shoot for quite a while now. It's part of a pet project which I feel will now cross over very nicely with my 52. The concept is to shoot friends and acquaintances replicating portraits of people who inspire them. Jeff is a dear friend and currently my roommate. Like Dirt McGirt said about Mariah Carey, we go back like babies and pacifiers.
The inspiration for the shoot? A portrait of Marcel Duchamp, an artistic genius gutsy enough to confront the entire art world with what amounts to a giant, extremely well-thought-out "f-you."
full writeup on the blog, weeklyportraits.blogspot.com
Strobist Info:
SB-800 through lasolite softbox directly to the right of the subject
SB-600 through homemade softbox at camera right
SB-600 at back camera left
Camera Settings:
1/250 f/9.0 at ISO two freaking thousand
see writeup for explanation (read: apology)
Behind the Scenes/Writeup on my blog:
-Canon 1dsmk2, 24-70 2.8L
-Sigma DG500 Triggered by Optical Slave cam right full power
-Nikon SB600 Triggered by PT04 cam left full power
Protection Detail and repair of a nasty scratch carried out by DeVille Detailing. Read the full detail writeup here: www.devilledetailing.co.uk/1/post/2014/01/mazda-6-sport-p...
"Homework"
I've been working on a "whole-body health jumpstart" plan for my chiropractor, which I refuse to label a detox - instead its a 4 week plan to "reset" the body's natural performance to allow it to return to a state of balance on it's own. Fascinating stuff... and NO starving!
A writeup to accompany these pictures can be found here: blog.neonmonster.com/gallery/last-gasp-40th-anniversary-l...
Edna Mode from the Incredibles. Cosplay at Long Beach Comic Con 2018.
Check out my writeup of the con!
Jason's enthusiasm for the Bandit 29 resulted in a great writeup of his first experience on a big wheeler. Check out his words and my photos here. Thanks to Matt at North Shore Bike Shop for letting us take her out!
Visit www.speedexposure.com and follow me @joedfoto on Twitter
To see her writeup go to joedantone.com/?p=474
Another Canon Powershot G1X photo. Visit my blog for a writeup about my initial impressions of it.
This time a portrait taken in window light. Daylight in january here where I live isn't particularly strong, so I bumped ISO to 800 to achieve 1/30 at f/8. This was taken at full zoom, i.e. 65mm (35mm equivalent: 112mm). In my opinion this shows two things: At ISO 800 the camera is virtually noise free, and also that the image stabilizer works well.
Shot in RAW, and processed without any adjustments trough the DPP software that came with the camera. Further adjustments, such as a slight crop, contrast, some sharpness, etc., in Lightroom 4 beta. (I guess using a pre-release camera and pre-release software is kind of a nerd variant of living on the bleeding edge...)
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I like the other photos in this set better overall, but this one's sharper and shows more of the backdrop.
@CasualCosplayKatie as Hogwarts Professor Sybill Trelawney at Long Beach Comic Con 2018.
Check out my writeup of the con!
Interesting place as a shoot…
Camp 18, Hy-way 26, 60Miles E of Portland.
I stopped there 6 years ago, loved shooting the Massive rusted old collection of bygone Logging equipment. So many huge pieces there, old Tractors, steam shovels, all kinds of crazy odd contraptions. Gigantic pieces of rusting machinery, and old train cars too. A babbling brook, "Humbug Creek" there too which I did not see. Setting is country/rural with some trees.
I hear the food is good too, and served in true Paul Bunnyan style portions!
Here are a Few web sites
www.roadfood.com/Reviews/Writeup.aspx?ReviewID=1537&R...
www.epinions.com/content_75624910468
www.roadtripusa.com/routes/oregontrail/oregon/or_camp18.html
Salma Mahomed of Muslim By Design has included Muslim Mate in her list of must-have Islamic apps that pack a power punch! Here’s the complete writeup
Pictured is the iMBranded Service Writer Desk, seen in our Windsor Mahogany finish at Ourisman Chrysler in Alexandria, VA.
Jason's enthusiasm for the Bandit 29 resulted in a great writeup of his first experience on a big wheeler. Check out his words and my photos here. Thanks to Matt at North Shore Bike Shop for letting us take her out!
Hyatt parking lot--the Lambda Car Club was meeting there, so the parking lot was awesome.
Maker Faire Detroit writeup here.
Victory Boogie Woogie is an experimental literary game created by De Gids and Hubbub. Project writeup here: whatsthehubbub.nl/projects/victory-boogie-woogie/
Looking for a lightweight alternative to my fully manual Pentax KM, I decided to try the Vivitar V3800N. Featurewise, the cameras are pretty comparable. Also, since they're both very basic, fully manual 35mm SLRs, they're both common student cameras (well, the K1000, not the KM… but very similar). I'm going to do three writeups here — this one will be initial observations, the second will be field experience, and the third will compare the kit lenses. Let's begin!
As I mentioned, the initial reason I wanted to try the Vivitar was weight. The Vivitar weighs about half as much as the Pentax. Obviously, in order for this to be true, a lot of plastic needs to replace a lot of metal. The Vivitar is rumored to be made by Cosina, who also makes the current Voigtländer rangefinders. My Voigtländer Bessa is obviously plasticky, but still of good build quality. I was hoping for the same from the Vivitar, and for the most part I'm not disappointed. Some very obvious, unnecessary concessions have been made, however — most noticeably, the plastic tripod threading. All in all, the body feels very solid, however, and instills confidence in me. The weight savings are immediately noticeable — body & a basic 50mm lens weighs as much as the Pentax body weighs on its own. This changes the balance to be more lens-heavy, depending on how you shoot it could be a positive or a negative, but I generally like this feel.
Both cameras use Pentax K mount. I've never had any trouble mounting anything to the genuine Pentax. Nor have I had any issue mounting to the Vivitar, except that my Sigma extension tube mounts pretty tight. Unadvertised is that the viewfinder accessory mount seems the same as Pentax K series as well.
Pentax uses a cloth shutter, Vivitar is metal. I believe the Vivitar uses a Copal Square shutter. Top speed on the Pentax is 1/1000, the Vivitar goes one stop higher to 1/2000. Additionally, flash synch is one stop faster on the Vivitar — 1/125 vs 1/60 on the Pentax.
Viewfinder on the VIvitar is slightly dimmer than the Pentax and feels far blurrier. But, I really need dioptre adjustment anyway, I guess. Neither camera has inbuilt viewfinder dioptre adjustment. Fortunately, the focusing aid on the Vivitar is far better (in my opinion) than the Pentax. Pentax is microprism only. Vivitar has a (diagonal) split-image prism, surrounded by a far coarser microprism. I prefer this enormously, though the Pentax will probably work better in low light. Viewfinder on the Pentax has .87x magnification and 93% coverage. Vivitar is .91x and 92% coverage. Both cameras show meter in viewfinder — Pentax is match needle, Vivitar is match diode. The Vivitar's match diode is of the simple, three LED variety, providing less information than the Pentax's needle.
The Pentax has a basic 'straight' body, with no grip formed into the body. The Vivitar has a bit of protrusion for front grip, and a bit in the rear as well. I prefer straight bodies, or something more along the lines of the Bessa, which only has subtle form in the rear. Grip material is nice soft textured rubber on the Vivitar, vs the leather or leatherette of the Pentax, hard with age. Lens release button is properly placed on the Vivitar, meaning that lenses w/ blind mounting nubs can be mounted blindly. DOF preview is to the lower right of the lens barrel (lower left while shooting) on the Vivitar, which is far less convenient in my mind than the Pentax's upper left (upper right while shooting) location. DOF preview is much lighter, and therefore quicker on the Vivitar, however. Self-timer is slightly lower on the Vivitar, and fires with the normal shutter release vs the special timer release on the Pentax.
Self-timer is far more useful on the Vivitar. This is because the Pentax has no provision whatsoever for mirror lock-up. The Vivitar, on the other hand, locks the mirror up at the beginning of timer release. Thus, use of the self-timer will prevent mirror slap.
The other big (relatively speaking) extra feature on the Vivitar is the provision for multiple exposure. A button on the front disengages the film wind, allowing the advance lever to cock the shutter w/o advancing the film.
Frame indicator is far easier to read on the Pentax. The Pentax also has a shutter-cocked indicator, which the Vivitar lacks. Finally, Pentaxes from this era have a red dot on their rewind buttons (not knobs) which rotate as the film pickup rotates.
There are two kits available, I grabbed the prime/standard, 50/1.7. 50 is my least favorite in the 35mm standard spectrum, but that's okay. Lens is made in China, and I can't say how it performs yet. I can say it handles nicely, with very nice focus damping. Aperture is an odd combination of half and full stops, just like a classic Pentax.
That about sums both cameras up, as far as initial observations. If you're buying a used Pentax kit, you'll probably just get the body, a 50/2 or 50/1.7 lens, and maybe a strap and/or case. The Vivitar comes in two kits – 50/1.7 or some zoom that I don't remember or care about. Kits include an old-style two-piece fit case, a very tasteful (no giant VIVITAR wording) strap, meter batteries, manual, collapsible rubber lens hood, and a weird attachment for shooting half-frames. This attahment would be kind of neat if a: it snapped at the halfway points, and b: it threaded onto the lens rather than fitting into the collapsed hood. It's kind of bizarre, but neat, I suppose.
I haven't taken it out into the field yet (the Pentax I have taken out a seemingly infinite number of times). Maybe I'll hate the lightweight handling for real work. But, for travel, and for street moments without the expense of rangefinder glass, having a lightweight SLR body w/ so many lens options is pretty fantastic. For $170 (kit, not body!) that's… not a bad deal at all. Unless you really need something that is indestructible, I have a feeling it's a great option for a fully-manual body.
...until someone loses an eye (or two).
At Long Beach Comic Con 2014. ← My writeup of the convention.
Pictured is the iMBranded Service Writer Desk, seen in our Windsor Mahogany finish at Ourisman Chrysler in Alexandria, VA.
Sign outside the convention center proclaiming Long Beach Comic Con 2014. ← My writeup of the convention.
Here I articulated a Skylanders Spyro's Adventure figure! If you'd like to see how I did it head here for a full writeup--> www.angelfire.com/mech/jinsaotome/JinsDangerousToys/Skyla...