06 Apr 2011, 1:35 am
That's astonishing!
Did you use the bulb setting and just fire the flash for the exposure - and what mechanism did you use to break the glass?
Inquiring (and inspired!) minds need to know.
Yep, I stuck in bulb mode, most of the shots were around 10 sec. exposures. it wasn't completely blacked out, but it was pretty close, so I just timed it by ear, my sister was manning the BB gun used to break the glasses, so I would just go by the sound of the gun firing and/or the glass breaking.
I bet! You must have been a good customer at the glassware shop for a while!Actually most of them came from the thrift store, so they were about 10 cents each.
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do you have a proper workshop?
what flash did you use?
sorry, but i am curious by nature
No workshop, these where taken on the front porch, to the great confusion of my neighbor.
The flash was a Vivitar 285hv
06 Apr 2011, 12:41 pm
I like this...
06 Apr 2011, 1:23 pm
thank you! it was a sunset as seen through a gigantic icicle.
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06 Apr 2011, 10:10 pm
thank you! it was a sunset as seen through a gigantic icicle.
Very nice! I would not have guessed that is what I was observing. I enjoy abstract:
06 Apr 2011, 10:54 pm
thank you. those slats are sooooo satisfying.... i also have no idea what i'm observing!
06 Apr 2011, 11:15 pm
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06 Apr 2011, 11:17 pm
thank you. those slats are sooooo satisfying.... i also have no idea what i'm observing!
They look pretty cool.
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06 Apr 2011, 11:21 pm
[img][img][800:768]http://i1119.photobucket.com/albums/k621/PatrickNeville91/DSCF4215.jpg[/img][/img]
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Those are all very good pics. Birds are funny animals that are full of personality.
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06 Apr 2011, 11:24 pm
i like the angles in this pic, and the shadowy foreground.
The angles are very nice.
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06 Apr 2011, 11:42 pm
They're shutters next to my picture window.
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06 Apr 2011, 11:51 pm
I did go though a fair number of glasses to start with, but once I figured out what I was doing it went pretty well.
The hard part was doing the set up, I probably spent longer setting everything up then I did taking photos.
And, just because I can, I'm going to post another one.
That's a very cool picture.
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06 Apr 2011, 11:57 pm
a picture i took today, the lighting was amazing, captured in raw and edited with capture one, amazing program.
it allows you to have the dynamic range of a jpeg HDR while only working with one exposure, now for trying using 3 seperated RAW pictures for HDR.
as for the timing of those shots, the easiest way is a completely dark room, then you use the bulb setting and fire a flash as the exposure, a flash has a much faster reaction time than the camera so the timing is less of an issue, i never tried it, mainly because i lack a decent flash and a dark room.
I love those buildings!
09 Apr 2011, 9:33 pm
I was stopping near this pub on a couple of days in County Durham the other week. I looked up the area on Google Street View and saw the pub. I then checked the website and saw that it did food and a variety of real ales. When I came to the area I was told that the pub had been closed since 2009 (yet I couldn't find any mention of this on the web!).
I was a bit peeved on learning this as the nearest pub is almost four miles away and there are no transport links whatsoever from the village.
So I walk up the road to take a photo of the pub to document its closed status. I love pubs and drinking - in fact, part of the reason for travelling within Britain is to check out different places to drink, socialise and have fun times.
Anyway I take the photo (as best I can - I slipped a little and ended up shooting into the light unfortunately) and walk down the road. The fella at the window comes racing out of the pub, follows me down the road and starts bellowing at me and my mum. Why are you taking a photo of me in my bedroom (I didn't even realise there was anyone on the premises until I heard a knock and a guy chasing me down the street!), I'm going to phone the police, why are you taking photos of my house, but he's taking photos of me in my bedroom, blah blah blah.
There was absolutely no reasoning with him so we just drove off.
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09 Apr 2011, 10:45 pm
I was stopping near this pub on a couple of days in County Durham the other week. I looked up the area on Google Street View and saw the pub. I then checked the website and saw that it did food and a variety of real ales. When I came to the area I was told that the pub had been closed since 2009 (yet I couldn't find any mention of this on the web!).
I was a bit peeved on learning this as the nearest pub is almost four miles away and there are no transport links whatsoever from the village.
So I walk up the road to take a photo of the pub to document its closed status. I love pubs and drinking - in fact, part of the reason for travelling within Britain is to check out different places to drink, socialise and have fun times.
Anyway I take the photo (as best I can - I slipped a little and ended up shooting into the light unfortunately) and walk down the road. The fella at the window comes racing out of the pub, follows me down the road and starts bellowing at me and my mum. Why are you taking a photo of me in my bedroom (I didn't even realise there was anyone on the premises until I heard a knock and a guy chasing me down the street!), I'm going to phone the police, why are you taking photos of my house, but he's taking photos of me in my bedroom, blah blah blah.
There was absolutely no reasoning with him so we just drove off.
I love that shot. I enjoy looking at pictures of old buildings.
10 Apr 2011, 6:36 am
What a twat.
Quite apart from it being in a public place and therefore available to photograph by anyone, it would have helped if he hadn't left his house disguised as a public bar.
10 Apr 2011, 6:54 am
Plus, the website is still fully operative two years after it closed.
Their menu (a screenshot taken after I had got back):
So if he had called the police, unless they were utterly vicious, power-crazed a***holes (which isn't rare in the north-east apparently) then he would have lost, and lost badly.
