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| Topic Started: Jan 23 2010, 08:57 PM (684 Views) | |
| Matt | Jan 23 2010, 08:57 PM Post #1 |
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Hmm yeah. Cba uploading, so clicky here: Matt's stuff 
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| J_HUI | Jan 24 2010, 02:09 AM Post #2 |
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Seems you Cbf making the URl to your DA link, click-able too xD, I had to copy and paste  Nah some nice pic there the night shot, flower and the mist's were cool, just hope it doesn't take another 4 year to upload some more new stuff on there. |
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| Sir Kieran | Jan 24 2010, 03:00 AM Post #3 |
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Fixed. Some nice stuff there man, landscapes and those two flowers have to be my favourites. |
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| Matt | Jan 24 2010, 03:17 AM Post #4 |
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I tried to make it clickable but it wasn't having any of it. Delve deeper, theres a fuckton of stuff in there, and also thats 4 years for the journal since I never update the bloody thing. Cheers for looking guys
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| Sir Kieran | Jan 24 2010, 03:40 AM Post #5 |
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To make clickable links you need to include http://, or at least you do for hyperlinks (the hyperlink button adds that anyway). |
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| gavin2610 | Jan 25 2010, 10:37 AM Post #6 |
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Nice stuff there mate, like the title 'Lily, or some other white flower' lol. |
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| Matt | Feb 21 2010, 01:45 AM Post #7 |
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Hello! I had an attempt at photographing smoke today. It didn't work. But heres what I did do anyway. I found the lid of an old scanner, and sprayed it flat black (and used the white inner bit for later, could make a good reflector). Screwed it to a bit of MDF, and placed a raised block in front of it. Raised block has a hole in the top for a match to sit in. Either side of that was two sewing needles for conductivity, at the base, squeezed between a needle and the match stick was the wire for current. Around the top of the matchhead was a bit of nichrome wire. This gets very hot when you pass current through it, so perfect for electronically lighting matches (and cigarettes :P) Set up looks like this. But imagine it drawn better.  As I mentioned, I failed a bit. One pic of smoke:  One pic of just the moment before ignition:  Things to do for next time: Make better and more reliable ignition rig. Easier to change spent matches. More light = faster shutter. Also more continous pics so can get more shots of ignition. This whole thing was a bit half arsed so I'll be putting it together better next time XD |
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| Sir Kieran | Feb 21 2010, 02:13 AM Post #8 |
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What was your lighting setup? Been tempted to give some smoke shots a go recently, got a couple ideas that I might try out tomorrow. |
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| Matt | Feb 21 2010, 02:19 AM Post #9 |
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The flashgun from the other thread, was darkish out though so gonna try it during daylight when theres more light through the windows and I can get some big lighting in there for faster shutters. |
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| Sir Kieran | Feb 21 2010, 03:05 AM Post #10 |
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I'm going to try it in a pitch black room so there's no ambient light. I'll probably bounce the flash off the background instead of trying to light up the smoke directly. A dark room will also mean I can use slower shutter speeds, will probably just bulb it and use the aperture to control the exposure. The flash is so brief, up to around 1/1000 of a second that no matter how short your shutter speed is it won't make any difference except controlling the exposure of objects from ambient light, of course a pitch black room won't have any. |
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