Alien Artifact Discovered in Area 51
Feb 25, 2016 15:48:40 #
Pixelmaster wrote:
The late English sculptpr Henry Moore would have been interested in
seeing this bit of art.
seeing this bit of art.
Point well taken.... I live in Dallas & have been a big fan of Sir Henry Moore's work since the 'Dallas Piece' was placed in front of the then new city hall complex. (An inverted pyramid designed by I.M. Pie) I believe it's one of his largest installations. The Nasher Sculpture Center at the DMA also has several of his pieces
Feb 25, 2016 15:55:45 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
Congrats on seeing the photographic possibilities here! Super-interesting textures and shapes. #2 works best for me - the light and perspective.
Thanks, Linda...... Don't know who said it but the phrase 'photography is painting with light and shadow' sticks in my mind. Add 'textures and shapes' into the mix and the results CAN be interesting.....
Feb 25, 2016 16:01:27 #
Bob Yankle wrote:
Kudos for capturing such a unique piece of material with such great design. You handled the light very well.
I appreciate your kind words. I darkened the room... That along with the long exposures and f16 allowed me to use a small LED flashlight to create various shadow effects.
Feb 25, 2016 16:14:49 #
James56 wrote:
Amazing stuff. Yes I remember having to redesign many of our trucks to accept the new Cummins engines due to tighter emissions regulations.
Yup... I have a love / hate thing with Cummins. When I turned a wrench I worked on the big 6'es in a fleet of Kenworth & Peterbilt conventional's.
I loved that gig. Unfortunately the newest version of the Cummins power plant for city buses is a different critter. Running high compression ratios to offset the CNG power loss does all sorts of bad things to an engine. Their earlier CNG engines used a lower compression factor.
Feb 25, 2016 16:34:54 #
SDB777
Loc: Edwards, AR USA
Hippie juice.....
I would have never known what the piece of ceramic was if you hadn't taken the time to photo it, and then get the B&W to look good.
Scott (squeezing enough hippies to make juice is hard) B
I would have never known what the piece of ceramic was if you hadn't taken the time to photo it, and then get the B&W to look good.
Scott (squeezing enough hippies to make juice is hard) B
Feb 25, 2016 22:20:24 #
SDB777 wrote:
Hippie juice.....
I would have never known what the piece of ceramic was if you hadn't taken the time to photo it, and then get the B&W to look good.
Scott (squeezing enough hippies to make juice is hard) B
I would have never known what the piece of ceramic was if you hadn't taken the time to photo it, and then get the B&W to look good.
Scott (squeezing enough hippies to make juice is hard) B
Appreciate that...... I'd challenge anyone to ID this item without an explanation! I shot in color with a black card stock background. The 'artifact' is grey. The LED light gave everything a decided blue tint. There is an opensource freeware program called Faststone. It's a photo viewer / manipulator that can handle RAW files. All I did was desaturate to about 75% and bump the contrast a bit for the most part. I did adjust the tone curve on a couple to get the histogram where I wanted it.
Feb 25, 2016 22:32:08 #
ajohnston3 wrote:
Well...... not really :) :) :) But it kinda looks like it could be....... This is actually a piece of ceramic material from a Cummins LNG engine's catalytic converter. The engine ran so hot it actually melted the ceramic element in the converter. This chunk is about 1.5 x 1.5 x 2 inches. I used a 90mm Tamron SP Adaptall macro lens, manual mode with my Nikon D7100, set the ISO at 400 and did 1 sec. exposures. I used f16 with the lens.
Whoda thought that piece of junk could be converted into a work of art? It's interesting you saw the possibility of it becoming a good photo subject, ajohnston.
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Feb 25, 2016 23:24:29 #
Annie-Get-Your-Gun wrote:
Whoda thought that piece of junk could be converted into a work of art? It's interesting you saw the possibility of it becoming a good photo subject, ajohnston.
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Thanks much... As photographers, I believe folks like us see the world a little differently.... :)
Feb 26, 2016 08:12:29 #
ajohnston3 wrote:
Well...... not really :) :) :) But it kinda looks like it could be....... This is actually a piece of ceramic material from a Cummins LNG engine's catalytic converter. The engine ran so hot it actually melted the ceramic element in the converter. This chunk is about 1.5 x 1.5 x 2 inches. I used a 90mm Tamron SP Adaptall macro lens, manual mode with my Nikon D7100, set the ISO at 400 and did 1 sec. exposures. I used f16 with the lens.
you did a great job on these . interesting and amazing shots.
Feb 26, 2016 09:39:02 #
Feb 26, 2016 12:32:27 #
Very interesting piece and I like how you have photographed. Now you need to recreate it in gigantic form and get some art museum to pay you millions to put it on permanent display.
Feb 26, 2016 14:01:18 #
merrytexan wrote:
you did a great job on these . interesting and amazing shots.
Appreciate that.... You never know what you might find. The mechanic replacing the Cat. converter on the bus was throwing this stuff in the trash. I just happened to walk by at the right time.....
Feb 26, 2016 14:18:17 #
LennyP4868 wrote:
It makes for an interesting abstract picture
Thanks much.....
Feb 26, 2016 14:27:37 #
AuntieM wrote:
Very interesting piece and I like how you have photographed. Now you need to recreate it in gigantic form and get some art museum to pay you millions to put it on permanent display.
Or make 32 copies for a composite print..... Andy Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans sold for 15 million!
Feb 26, 2016 15:28:59 #
ajohnston3 wrote:
Or make 32 copies for a composite print..... Andy Warhol's 32 Campbell's Soup Cans sold for 15 million!
Works for me, but you look much nicer than Andy Warhol.......
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