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 05/20/2007 05:45:22 PM · #201
Originally posted by Kelli:
Hi everyone! Miss me?? I'm in serious internet withdrawal! I posted a few days ago in my DPL thread but forgot to post here. I'm currently without internet at home and have to come borrow my cousin's connection. Hopefully everything will be fixed soon. My DSL modem is broke. I either have to fork out the money for a new one or switch to cable. I was in the process of switching to cable, but they cancelled my install 2 times, then told me I couldn't get the package deal I was supposed to be getting because I already have cable tv. Now they are offering a different deal (though it's actually the same deal), but I'd have to sign a 2 year contract to get it.


Isn't that nuts? I didn't have internet for quite a while recently. I hope you get everything sorted out soon.
05/20/2007 05:46:44 PM · #202
Cable is faster than DSL. If you figure you're going to have internet for two years no matter how you get it, the cable thing may be a good deal. Of course, then you're dealing with the cable company, which is never a fun thing. And I too hope you get it sorted out soon!
 05/20/2007 05:46:48 PM · #203
Hi gang. I'm back from two days of camping with the Girl Scouts. Griz, I'm delighted to hear you were validated!

I finally have a shot to contribute to the beachhouse. Granted, the beach here is maybe 10 feet wide, and it's the Potomac River, not the ocean, but hey, it's sand and water. :)



Message edited by author 2007-05-21 11:29:38.
 05/20/2007 06:57:20 PM · #204
Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:
My random discovery for the afternoon:
if your camera has a built in flash which prevents the use of a softbox or any kind of similar piece of apparatus, it's still possible to sort of diffuse the light by holding a stretched pair of tights wrapped around the flash as it goes off. Who needs proper equipment anyway :p


Being able to improvise is the best tool!
 05/20/2007 07:05:05 PM · #205
Originally posted by purpleflutterby13:
My random discovery for the afternoon:
if your camera has a built in flash which prevents the use of a softbox or any kind of similar piece of apparatus, it's still possible to sort of diffuse the light by holding a stretched pair of tights wrapped around the flash as it goes off. Who needs proper equipment anyway :p


A couple layers of a tissue (But NOT the lotion kind) works well in a pinch.

My P&S has several layers of tissue taped on with Scotch tape over the flash.
 05/20/2007 10:07:43 PM · #206
Okay.....I'm in Desat, simply because I haven't done anything in a while. I have never done it before..... Konador has a terrific tutorial in the Tutorials section......and I ended up with two that I was tossed up on choosing. The one that I went with will probably get clobbered and if for no other reason, Lisa wanted me to enter this one.....



Tis one *IS* appropriate for the Beachhouse, though.......8>)
 05/20/2007 10:18:31 PM · #207
Originally posted by krnodil:
you can also cut of the bottom of a 1/2 gallon (empty!) plastic milk jug and stick that over the flash...


NOW you tell me...

~Terry
 05/20/2007 10:19:50 PM · #208
Originally posted by kashi:
A couple layers of a tissue (But NOT the lotion kind) works well in a pinch.


I have several pieces of tissue paper like you'd put in a gift bag, in different colors. I loosely tape a piece over my clamp lamps to diffuse them, so they hang several inches in front of the lamp. I've also used white sheets and pillowcases, although those tend to be too thick and swallow too much light. I've even used an old translucent water bottle!

One of the things I've learned is that the closer the light to your subject, the larger it appear, so the more diffuse. And the further from the lamp the diffuser is, the more it diffuses.

Put those together and what you want is a very bright lamp a few feet away from your subject and ideally a diffuser 1 inch out of sight of the camera's field of view. That's why those diffuser panels on tripods are so handy, but for now, tissue in front of clamp lamps is working for me. :)

Oh, and that's why it's so great to have a subject close to a big window on a cloudy day - the entire window becomes a diffuser panel.
 05/20/2007 10:24:01 PM · #209
Originally posted by ClubJuggle:
Originally posted by krnodil:
you can also cut of the bottom of a 1/2 gallon (empty!) plastic milk jug and stick that over the flash...


NOW you tell me...

~Terry


hee, hee - I'm nothing if not thorough

Just go lie on the floor with some cats, they'll clean you up in no time at all.
 05/20/2007 10:34:27 PM · #210
Originally posted by levyj413:
One of the things I've learned is that the closer the light to your subject, the larger it appear, so the more diffuse.


Could you explain/fix/rewrite this statement? I'm taking notes!
 05/20/2007 10:42:23 PM · #211
What *IS* all this reference to cats?

Let's take a TS tally of cats.....I have seven.
 05/20/2007 10:44:51 PM · #212
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
What *IS* all this reference to cats?

Let's take a TS tally of cats.....I have seven.


Eight. BUT...I inherited three when I moved in with my boyfriend, so I'm a crazy five-cats lady, not a crazy eight-cats lady. I just want to make that clear. :D
 05/20/2007 10:47:18 PM · #213
We only have two. I feel so inadequate!
 05/20/2007 11:35:10 PM · #214
Originally posted by posthumous:
We only have two. I feel so inadequate!

I had 3, but I had to find new homes for then when I moved across the country :(

In other news, I'm in for Shapes, but I think it'll be another 4.2-4.5 scoring shot.
 05/20/2007 11:40:25 PM · #215
Wow, I just noticed the Selective Desaturation challenge has over 500 entries! Maybe I'll manage to squeek through without getting any comments..
 05/21/2007 12:03:09 AM · #216
DPL Album Cover results are in our Challenge Results Thread.
 05/21/2007 12:24:49 AM · #217
Originally posted by posthumous:
Originally posted by levyj413:
One of the things I've learned is that the closer the light to your subject, the larger it appears, so the more diffuse.


Could you explain/fix/rewrite this statement? I'm taking notes!


Think of a subject, like a tennis ball, and imagine lighting it with a lamp that's 5 feet wide, but at two extremes of distance:

1) 50 feet away. Even with its large size, the lamp's going to look pretty much like a point source, so you're going to get a sharp shadow line across the ball.

2) 1 foot away. the lamp is so huge compared to the tennis ball, that the light is going to wrap a long way around the ball, creating a pretty soft shadow line.

Heck, I can see it even in an experiment I just did: hold a round coffee mug six inches from your monitor with other lights turned off. The light/dark line will be quite diffuse.

Now move the mug back a couple of feet, and you'll see the line sharpen up a lot.

Now, if you take a light that's really only 3 inches across, like a light bulb, but you put a five-foot wide square of tissue in front of it, the entire tissue square lights up and becomes the effective light source. But the actual lamp has to be far enough back to light up the entire square.

Hence the combination of a very bright lamp a decent distance behind a large diffusing screen, with the screen close to the subject.

I know I've seen diagrams on the Web somewhere ...

Message edited by author 2007-05-21 00:26:47.
 05/21/2007 12:27:06 AM · #218
Originally posted by krnodil:
Originally posted by NikonJeb:
What *IS* all this reference to cats?

Let's take a TS tally of cats.....I have seven.


Eight. BUT...I inherited three when I moved in with my boyfriend, so I'm a crazy five-cats lady, not a crazy eight-cats lady. I just want to make that clear. :D


I am owned by two.
 05/21/2007 12:32:02 AM · #219
Zwei katzen. (Two cats.)
 05/21/2007 12:34:30 AM · #220
Here's another series of pics from this weekend. One of the other dads works at the Agriculture Department. Each of the past two years, he's brought a flag that's ready for retirement, and we have a special ceremony for it. A few girls read a bit about how to honor an old flag, he cuts the flag into pieces, and people take turns tossing them on the fire. It's pretty moving, and it teaches the girls about ceremony in a way that shows the adults acting respectfully.

The guy in the last shot is who I'm talking about. The woman in the second shot is the leader of our group of troops. I worked these up to make 4x6 prints for the people in the shots.



If anyone's interested, this was challenging to shoot because it was just about dusk. I deliberately underexposed to keep the shutter speed reasonable, and went up to ISO 100 because any higher and the noise gets awful on my camera. I also had to zoom in a decent amount. Fortunately, it has image stablization or these really would've been a mess. Finally, no one was stopping to pose, so I locked focus once and just went with it afterward. As it was, it took a lot of strong sharpening limited to faces and the fire.

This might've been a time to use flash, but I don't know whether it would've done much from 15 feet away, and it definitely would've hurt the solemn nature of the ceremony.
 05/21/2007 01:13:01 AM · #221
These early votes aren't much of an indication of final score, but I can go to bed happy.

Selective Desaturation II
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 05/21/2007 02:19:53 AM · #222
3 cats here. Currently slowly learning how to use a cat-flap.
 05/21/2007 02:21:56 AM · #223
Originally posted by mist:
3 cats here. Currently slowly learning how to use a cat-flap.


Is that a special flap in your pajamas so the cat can crawl in and snuggle with you? *grin*
 05/21/2007 02:36:48 AM · #224
Ah. I see in the thread and in my email inbox that Kelly picked a camera. Let the donating begin. :)

My paypal account is jeffrey at cliffclimber dot com.

Replace "at" and "dot" with the usual characters; that's just my feeble attempt to keep spambots from grabbing my address.

I'll check back with the team after a few days to be sure everyone who's gonna chip in has done so, then buy it online using my paypal account.

Thanks!
 05/21/2007 03:01:24 AM · #225
Don, I believe you just achieved Goal #3. You can quietly put this on your profile page - no big deal. :-)

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