Thursday, August 30, 2012
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Doors of Reflection
I was leaving the office, and saw this shot. Something about the car's reflection in the glass & the distortion, I liked. I made it a selective color image though the areas I removed color from were already close to desaturated when I shot the image.
Friday, August 24, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Mitutoyo 118-107 Sheet Metal Micrometer
It's a deep throat long reach Mitutoyo 118-107 Sheet Metal Micrometer tool.
For the Weekly Challenge
Strobist info:
Canon 40D 17-55mm
Canon flashes 580EX2 & 430EX2 fired E-TTL by ST-E2 IR wireless. Camera left with white bounce car, fired towards ceiling and camera right fired through cheap diffuser. Both strobes above subject about 2 feet.
All editing was done in Adobe RAW except the border and text.
1918 Fokker DR.I Triplane
Painted in the colors of the Red Baron's brother, who served and survived the war to end all wars.
Shooting into the sun makes for difficult exposures!
More info.
Grimes Airfield Flying Circus Panorama
Technical details of image:
21 images shot freehand using a Panasonic Lumix GF3 with 14mm Panasonic lens. Stitched in Adobe Elements 9. Original image dimensions were 20,948 x 2,965 pixels after cropping the stitched images. A few items were fixed and the the exposure was altered slightly. Elements did a good job of getting rid of the large amount of vignetting from this camera nad lens combination.
Let me know what you think!
The air show was fun. Weather was great. More images will be posted!
Friday, August 17, 2012
Thursday, August 16, 2012
Underneath the exposure, the composure lies.
Trackside Station Grill & Bar. Mediocre experience. Great potential, wasted.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Museo Pablo Casals
This museum is devoted to the memorabilia left to the people of Puerto Rico by the musician Pablo Casals. The maestro's cello is here. This is a small 18th-century house.
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
House of the Acolhua people
Heritage Edition? All I know is that a good friend brought me several of these straight from Mexico some years back.
Yes, this is what happens at the end of the bottle. I enjoyed every drop.
17-55mm Canon 40D
Strobist:
Canon 580EX2 master on camera pointed at ceiling
Canon 430EX2 slave behind bottle, fired as slave using Canon's wireless
LED flashlight behind head for extra modeling of face
Black background
Why the long face?
Strobist:
Canon 580EX2 master on camera pointed at ceiling
Canon 430EX2 slave behind bottle, fired as slave using Canon's wireless
LED flashlight behind head for extra modeling of face
Black background
Rikou Patina
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The Rikuo was first built in Japan in 1932 by Sankyo Nainenki (later Rikuo Nainenki) under license from the Harley-Davidson Motor Company. Military versions were built for the Japanese army during WWII, and when production resumed following the war, the motorcycle was limited largely to police and courier use.
While the original design was 750cc, the engine was later enlarged to 1,000cc and 1,200cc. The RT2, featuring telescoping front forks was the last 750cc version built.
The Rikuo was the result of a deal structured in 1932 by Alfred Rich Child. As Harley-Davidson's exclusive business agent in the Orient, Child saw sales declining with the approach of war and he struck the best deal he could to salvage some income from the declining market.
At home, Harley-Davidson was in the throes of the Great Depression, and it badly needed the relatively small amount of revenue derived from licensing production of the Rikuo. Child could not have guessed that Rikuo would exploit Harley-Davidson's design for nearly 30 years!
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Monday, August 6, 2012
As the sun hides.
Disney California Adventure Park
Taken from the hotel room, 2003
Handheld, braced against the window,
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Shooting the Canon
Strobist info:
Shot using a Canon G3 with ST-E2 on top. Canon 430EX2 under the 40D camera aimed at wall, and the 580EX2 attached to the 40D aimed at the shooting camera. The lens is a 70-200mm IS2, at 200mm, obviously with the lenscap off. The strobes were shot E-TTL +2 compensation, and at a ratio of !:8. Oh yeah, and I held a white paper reflector to reflect some flash back to the subject.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
I'm leaving, on a jet plane.
I found an old roll of 35mm film. It was double exposed. Ooops! One set of exposures from 1997 in a Kodak P&S camera, and the other in my Nikon 4004s a few years later. How did that happen?
It's worth trying to save some of the images. Here's the initial scan I did of one section just to see how it looked and if anything could be saved....
