Photography 2

[DarisMulkin]

OK, this is for ws6owner to guess................ you other guys have seen these.

all I see are black boxes with an x in them. Unless that is the pictures you posted they could be interesting trying to figure out what they are of.

Daris

 

[Darol Wester]

The white lines turned solid .

"And the fence post looked like a picket fence"?

 

[Nick]

Couldn't take my eye off the road to find out .

 

[ws6owner]

OK, this is for ws6owner to guess................ you other guys have seen these.

I have no idea but those are cool.

 

[Nick]

You have to buy the glasses from Hi to see the photos .

 

[highup]

I have no idea but those are cool.

The first image is some Dial liquid soap bubbles.......... very tiny bubbles.
I made a 1" square glass cube, and filled it with soap. I also made a plywood platform that had a glass covered opening on the top side, so that I could place my flash unit under the glass to illuminate the soap filled glass cube from the underside.
I whipped some air into the soap bubbles, and as I watched the bubbles slowly rise through the viewfinder I pushed the cable release. When the 'best looking' bubble combo appeared, I took the shot. I don't recall exactly, but I think that the actual size of the bubble image is about 1/8 of an inch square. The image you see is the full frame of the slide .............so them bubbles are really, really tiny. Taken on Kodachrome. I used a flash meter to guess the aperture settling. Depth of field is almost non existent. I had to watch the bubbles slowly rise, and when the closest part of a bubble appeared sharp enough, I made the shot.

Second shot is the tip of a ball point pen. To get an idea of the magnification, look at the roller ball on a ballpoint pen, then look at that image again.

I removed the glass from a screw on filter and replace it with a piece of aluminum. I cut a hole in the aluminum and used JB Weld to attach an old Kodak projector lens over the hole in the aluminum. Screw this lens contraption on to a zoom lens and you get a super duper macro. (a long fixed lens might work as well)
Looking through the viewfinder, the image is extremely dark. I needed to illuminate the soap filled cube with a small flashlight in order to see the bubbles rising.
Not sure, but I might have used a doubler on my 70-210 lens in addition to the screw on lens contraption.

I bought a book by John Shaw called Closeups in Nature. He sorta described making this lens extension thingy.
It's sort of a cap shoot finding the "correct" projector lens. If you make one of these and it works.......... then you found the right lens. If it didn't work, then you look for a different lens.

 

[highup]

all I see are black boxes with an x in them. Unless that is the pictures you posted they could be interesting trying to figure out what they are of.

Daris

Daris wins........ they are X's

 

[Floorist]

Omaha Zoo Aquarium

 

[highup]

Man............... is that Abe in the tank, or do I need a beer right now?

 

[ws6owner]

The first image is some Dial liquid soap bubbles.......... very tiny bubbles.
I made a 1" square glass cube, and filled it with soap. I also made a plywood platform that had a glass covered opening on the top side, so that I could place my flash unit under the glass to illuminate the soap filled glass cube from the underside.
I whipped some air into the soap bubbles, and as I watched the bubbles slowly rise through the viewfinder I pushed the cable release. When the 'best looking' bubble combo appeared, I took the shot. I don't recall exactly, but I think that the actual size of the bubble image is about 1/8 of an inch square. The image you see is the full frame of the slide .............so them bubbles are really, really tiny. Taken on Kodachrome. I used a flash meter to guess the aperture settling. Depth of field is almost non existent. I had to watch the bubbles slowly rise, and when the closest part of a bubble appeared sharp enough, I made the shot.

Second shot is the tip of a ball point pen. To get an idea of the magnification, look at the roller ball on a ballpoint pen, then look at that image again.

I removed the glass from a screw on filter and replace it with a piece of aluminum. I cut a hole in the aluminum and used JB Weld to attach an old Kodak projector lens over the hole in the aluminum. Screw this lens contraption on to a zoom lens and you get a super duper macro. (a long fixed lens might work as well)
Looking through the viewfinder, the image is extremely dark. I needed to illuminate the soap filled cube with a small flashlight in order to see the bubbles rising.
Not sure, but I might have used a doubler on my 70-210 lens in addition to the screw on lens contraption.

I bought a book by John Shaw called Closeups in Nature. He sorta described making this lens extension thingy.
It's sort of a cap shoot finding the "correct" projector lens. If you make one of these and it works.......... then you found the right lens. If it didn't work, then you look for a different lens.

Very nice and great work! Patience pays off.

Nice aquarium shot! I love aquariums.

 

[highup]

Omaha Zoo Aquarium

Is this from your vacation or something new?
There's a really neat aquarium 75 miles north of me, but I haven't seen it in 20 years. I think they have made major improvements to it since I was there.............. It's where Keiko lived. It was the basis of the movie Free Willy.
Be kinda fun to see it again some day.

 

[Floorist]

Is this from your vacation or something new?
There's a really neat aquarium 75 miles north of me, but I haven't seen it in 20 years. I think they have made major improvements to it since I was there.............. It's where Keiko lived. It was the basis of the movie Free Willy.
Be kinda fun to see it again some day.

From my vacation a couple weeks ago.

 

[highup]

From my vacation a couple weeks ago.

Question was pure jealousy ...thought maybe you'd been travelin around because you won the lottery and hadn't shared it with me.

 

[Floorist]

Question was pure jealousy ...thought maybe you'd been travelin around because you won the lottery and hadn't shared it with me.

At my age, probably the last long trip I will make, so I took a lot of pictures. Over two hundred.

 

[highup]

That would be about $200 if it was on Kodachrome, and also made into a cheap CD.

 

[highup]

At my age, probably the last long trip I will make, so I took a lot of pictures. Over two hundred.

What do you use for an editing/resizing program? I still use IrfanView for the basic stuff. I also use it for my main search engine for looking for stuff in my computer.

 

[highup]

It's been windy as usual here, today was 65.7 here on the coast. I mean "near" the coast. I'm a few miles inland, and the summer winds and fog flow southward and typically, directly down the coast line. 3 to 10 miles inland, temps can be 5 or more degrees warmer.
I know a lot of you are baking................ so here's a little snow to cool off.

 

[Jon]

You guys know how to take neat photos I can never get photos like that. I need teaching

 

[ws6owner]

Very nice snow shots.

You guys know how to take neat photos I can never get photos like that. I need teaching

I can't speak for everyone, but the way I learned is to get out and just do it. When I was starting out, it was nothing for me to take 1000 pics in a weekend. Also hundreds of hours of YouTube videos helped too.

 

[ws6owner]

Here's a couple shots of my old cars I stumbled across earlier. 1964 rambler and 1996 trans am ws6. The trans am photo was taken on my first ever camera which was just a cheap Panasonic point and shoot.