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Technical Buffs

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Featured Work

Retroreflectors by Doug Greenwald

Macro view of a car turn signal showing the retroreflector pattern on the inside of the lens. Backlit. This was shot on Fuji Velvia 50 slide film. Equipment used: Nikon FM-2 body, 3 inches of extension tubes, 28mm lens mounted normally on the tubes. Shutter speed not recorded. Aperture f/22, one stop below maximum for the lens. Whole thing mounted on a tripod. Because of the amount of macro, the lens was resting against the outer plastic of the turn signal and the pattern you see is on the inside of the turn signal. One of the few successful times where the tripod was actually a bipod :-) Lighting was the sun shining straight through the turn signal, so this was very backlit. I exposed for the highlight and let the rest of the image fall to shadow. The biggest issue I had was looking into the view finder at a highly backlit turn signal lens further focused by the camera’s lens. I had to view from a steep angle that would allow me to see the in-camera’s meter without actually looking at the image itself.

Recent Work

Old Crane, Dusk and Horizon by Daidalos

Old Crane on an old dock / harbour which is out of activity. / Vina Del Mar – Valparaiso. / Pacific Ocean. Latin America. / Coast of Chile. / Canon Powershot G1. / 1958×1413 / F = 4.0 FL = 7.0(=38)mm t = 1/250s ISO 200 / JPG=734kB. / Chile.
Wheel by Globaleye

D80 / 18-135 @ 70mm / F 11 / 1/100 sec / ISO 200
9 cylinders by Globaleye

Starboard engine on the Highland Rover. Panoramic of 3 shots then processed and cropped in CS3 D80 / 18 – 135mm lens @ 18mm / F/6.3 / 1/60 sec / ISO 100 remote SB600 flash
Rocker by Globaleye

Exposed pushrods on the ship’s engine. / Best viewed large. Taken with a D80, Nikkor 50mm F1.4 at 1/20 sec f5 / Remote SB600 flash.
Harley by Daidalos

Classic Harley Davidson / at Walchensee / Germany / Summer 2009 / Nikon D90 and AF-S 18-105 VR / As is – No photoshop
Port Engine by Globaleye

A panoramic of 3 photos. / Part of the portside 9 cylinder main engine on the ship, Highland Rover. D80 / 18 – 135mm @ 38mm / F/4.5 / 1/60 sec / ISO 100 Remote SB600 Flash
Multi-Coloured DJ by Steph Lanfear

Model: Bill ‘Seraphim’ Ashby / His Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DjSeraphim / This photo was taken at a anual festival called Moonfest. It is held in Storiage Farm in Westbury Wiltshire. / I have experimented with the lights that was used there and the angle of the photo. / I have used a Canon EOS 1000D. And slightly used photoshop to make the colours brighter but this was hardly needed coz of the fantactic colours of the night.
Bill 'Seraphim' Ashby by Steph Lanfear

Model: Bill ‘Seraphim’ Ashby / His Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/DjSeraphim / This photo was taken at a anual festival called Moonfest. It is held in Storiage Farm in Westbury Wiltshire. / I have experimented with the lights that was used there and the angle of the photo. / I have used a Canon EOS 1000D. And slightly used photoshop to make the colours brighten but this was hardly needed coz of the fantactic colours of the night. Thank you to “Experimental” for featuring this photos.
Electronic Technology by Martin Darley

Closeup shot of a circuit board, microchips and other electronic components.
Meet the family... by monocotylidono

As most of my friends know, these days I shoot with a Sony a350 DSLR. However in the days of film, my tools of choice were manual Minoltas. And I have been collecting them since… Several of the ones you see here have been in active use in my hands over the years, and some I’ve just bought (and am still buying…) to complete the series. Some of them have particular significance… The first SLR camera I bought with my own money was the XG-M and the best quality camera that I ever owned (bar none!) was the XD-11. Probably the rarest in this set is the XK. The 5D is the odd-one out in the series as it was my first digital but it has a token place here as my first DSLR and the precursor to the Sony that I use today, since Sony bought Konica-Minolta. So in this family portrait is my collection. Top to bottom, left to right: / SR-1, SR-7, SRT101, SR-T Super, XK, XE-7, XD11, XG-M, X-700, Dynax 7000i, alpha-9xi, Dynax 5D [Collage of multiple shots]
Problem and Solution by Doug Greenwald

I can fix this…
Ancient Solution to a Modern Problem by Doug Greenwald

Camera/Image details: This was an exercise in mixed lighting. The screen image is both an image component and a light source and I needed to light the computer and sword. I chose the overall exposure for the screen. I placed 3 flash units to provide uniform light on the laptop and the sword. The main flash was high and to the right, pointing down at 45 degrees directly at the keyboard but not directly at the screen. It is a panel flash so it provides diffuse light. The secondary flash was at keyboard level to the left pointed to the front of the laptop and across the keyboard. A smaller flash was on the floor pointing straight up and provides the light on the sword. Camera: Nikon CoolPix 8700 / ISO: 50 / Format: RAW – slight adjustment of shadows to restore depth of the blue laptop / Shutter: 1/2 second / Aperture: f/5.3 / Primary light: Sunpak FP38 – flash triggered / Secondary light: Nikon SB-600 – off camera with a sync cord / Tertiary light: Vivatar ring flash – flash triggered Camera, primary, and secondary lights on tripods.

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This group has been created to enable photographers to have an area to share there pictures that show the beauty within the complexity of technology, people using the technology showing the connection between man and machine. If you can see that aspect of technology that other people miss then this is the group for you

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