Posts for: newtoyou
Jul 19, 2020 21:30:02 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
Thanks, Bill. You have been a mentor, provider and most importantly a true friend. Much of what I do now I attribute to your sharing of knowledge and providing me with specimens that I am be able to stage and share with others. The alcohol does take its toll on the softer bodied insects and the lighter colored eyes such as this.
My niche?
My pleasure.
Bill
Jul 19, 2020 19:46:34 #
sippyjug104 wrote:
This is a Leaf Mimic which is quite a unique specimen from the collection of Bill (newtoyou) that I posed for a focus stacking session. Its body and limbs have evolved to resemble leaves which provides them with camouflage from predators.
I see a familiar face.
Life in a rose bush beats death in a vial of alcohol anytime, you think?
The green is fading, the eyes LOOK dead.
Funny, on many insects, beetles, for example, the exoskeletons are such that, as you know, they allow arranging in a lifelike position that stays, once dry. And having fixed features and a hard exoskeleton, the ravages death takes on them is inside, hidden.
Much more photogenic to at least LOOK alive.
Some shelf fungus in one of the altered carryout boxes will go out to you this week.
Mark accepted one, too, so we can compair notes.
I am working on a list of insects, mostly beetles, in dried fungi.
Dozens. Will be a bit for one very abbreviated one.
Later, Gary.
Bill
Jul 19, 2020 19:28:04 #
lsupremo wrote:
I’m just curious as to why you and/or others want to take pinhole images? I thought this system of imagery went out about a 100 years ago.
What you may learn is better understanding of photographic principles.
This goes back 2000 years before photography.
It effects ALL of the visual arts.
Not an order,, but get Pinhole Photography.
It did not make my photos clearer, but it DID make my understanding clearer.
Bill
Jul 19, 2020 19:18:04 #
Sentinel4 wrote:
I am interested in buying a lens cap modified for pinhole use for my Fuji XT3 or 2. The Thingify reviews are not that impressive. Has anyone had a lens cap drilled or perhaps had someone use a 3D printer to make one?
Thanks for any info.
Sentinel4
Thanks for any info.
Sentinel4
The last place where I would expect to here a question like why do you want to do this is here, on a photography site.
Oh well ( great song, by the way).
I am suggesting an easily obtained book. Find it on Ebay, $5 or so.
Pinhole Photography, by Eric Renner. A must read for an artist and/or photographer.
All the info you need.
Use brass shim stock. Ask at an auto repair shop. Various thicknesses are available.
Punch out a few pieces with a paper punch.
Tap them flat with a hammer on a flat piece of metal.
Using a sewing needle with a roll of tape around the eye to spin the needle you will make a 'pinhole'.
Put a punchout on a piece of smooth wood, center the needle by eye and drill a hole. Practice makes perfect. The eye can "autocenter", the smaller the better. One of the reasons for a small punchout.
Clean and smooth both surfaces with FINE wet or dry paper. Blacken both sides with a magic marker. Set aside.
Get a tight fitting proper body cap for your camera.
With a drill press, using a .25 inch SPUR POINT BIT drill a centered hole from the back TILL THE SPUR BARELY PROTRUDES. Too deep you ruin the cap. I drill on a piece of metal. Positive stop.
Drill the tiny hole to 1/16th and beburr.
Glue the set aside pinhole into the .25 inch hole. I sparingly use super glue. A total seal is wanted.
I produced a half dozen this way.
Figured a way (with a Dremmel collet to hold the needle) to effectively reproduce these quickly and accurately.
A commercial made one has a clear glass protective cover, seals camera from dust. It is also LASER drilled.
Sold mine to patrons (I buy and sell cameras and gear) for $5, face to face.
Get the book, you will be rewarded many times over.
Bill
Jul 19, 2020 14:59:10 #
relbugman wrote:
You must not realize that at the distance this photo was taken there would be no apparent parallax, yet the 'buildings' are all at different angles. This is consistent with a viewpoint nearly at the level of the tops of the 'buildings', at which point the horizon would be nearly at the crater edge, not a wide field view. All leaning towers of Pizza???
With ham and pineapple?
I'm in.
Bill
Jul 19, 2020 00:56:07 #
DeanS wrote:
Not my ideaof a BLT, NTY. But I understand everyone is not as enamored as I with a BLT. Enjoy your goodie.
I enjoy a BLT built the same way.
Soft crabs are a regional summer food in MD.
Not better, but good.
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 19:32:10 #
DeanS wrote:
. . . was enjoyed for din-din tonight. That would be my fav meal, a BLT with my home grown dermaters! I would have posted a pix, but my puter went belly up couple wks ago, and new Mac hasn’t arrived yet. So just let visions dance through your cranial cavities of red ripe, home grown slices piled high with extra thick applewood smoked bacon, a leaf of crisp lettuce, all slathered in Mayo - - - mouth watering yet?
Sorry to put all y’all through this, but, man, was it ever delicio!!!
Sorry to put all y’all through this, but, man, was it ever delicio!!!
Burpee's Big Boys?
The best (my opinion).
Just about same size of a slice of bread.
And two just legal (small) fried soft crabs, or a crab cake.
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 18:53:39 #
yorkiebyte wrote:
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I ordered that DVD.
When it came I was all set to watch a movie of the local pro football team, the Ravens.
Boy, was I disappointed.
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 18:44:33 #
PixelStan77 wrote:
Bill, Very creative. Do you take orders?
If serious, $16 and I will pay shipping. Length wanted, a postal money and an address needed.
Have blue and white, or can order other color belts. Add no money, but two weeks, so about two to four weeks out.
Thanks for the response.
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 18:35:41 #
quixdraw wrote:
Good idea to use Obi. Back when wide straps and heavy hardware were used fairly commonly, it was standard practice to use leather or part of a plastic film can between the hardware and the camera body to protect from cosmetic damage. If I were using one of your straps, I would do the same today.
I have also used shrink wrap, unshrunk. Not as bulky. Just never got to it with these.
Thanks for the reminder.
Next hardware store run shrink tube is on the list
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 14:46:33 #
I see a lot of discussion about 'best'.
Since that is totally subjective, skip that.
With the coin shortage I am keeping my two cents to myself.
What works for me is a simple strap, all cotton.
A large button sewed to my walkaround jacket's shoulder prevents slipping.
I make the straps from martial arts belts.
There are pictures coming.
They will hold a lot. SS carabiners, sturdy split rings. 600 pound big gamefish swivels and gromets and sewing by a local sail shop. Sail Loft, 4th St., Annapolis. Hi Sean.
I am working on other designs. Oh, for a sewing machine again.
These cost about ten dollars each.
I have bag and camera straps and belts, one each color, for fashion sake. Red, white, and blue for The Forth.
The pictures.
Bill
Since that is totally subjective, skip that.
With the coin shortage I am keeping my two cents to myself.
What works for me is a simple strap, all cotton.
A large button sewed to my walkaround jacket's shoulder prevents slipping.
I make the straps from martial arts belts.
There are pictures coming.
They will hold a lot. SS carabiners, sturdy split rings. 600 pound big gamefish swivels and gromets and sewing by a local sail shop. Sail Loft, 4th St., Annapolis. Hi Sean.
I am working on other designs. Oh, for a sewing machine again.
These cost about ten dollars each.
I have bag and camera straps and belts, one each color, for fashion sake. Red, white, and blue for The Forth.
The pictures.
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 13:54:39 #
Mark Sturtevant wrote:
Its the frayed end of the green cord I use as a safety tether for the camera.
That' it.
I make an appointment for Lasik Monday.
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 13:51:41 #
tinusbum wrote:
yes, but the males are always fighting each other and will go after anything that flies to close.they are very territorial,but they cant do much without a stinger.
Yes.
They have a similar sexual manner to male ducks.
Bill
Jul 18, 2020 13:48:59 #
Jul 18, 2020 13:36:19 #
Streets wrote:
I copied this image from the NASA site: quickmap.lroc.asu.edu. It was back in 2016 and I took a shot off my monitor. These are very strange constructions in the middle of a very small crater that cannot be geological in origin. I think that some will find this thought provoking.
Looks like a cluster of lower buildings with two 'high rises'.
Maybe been there all the time, watching us. We have only had the telescope a few hundred years. Is it just being found and being seen?
Bill