112. Eyeglasses - August 2-8, 2015
Jerry-
I managed to hire an extremely expensive super model who "gladly" wore an old pair of my glasses with a close up attachment for um, tying flies, intricate soldering, and reading really small print. After some minor adjustments I came up with this image.
This was with the D750 (just back from it's second recall - shutter replaced) and 105mm Micro Lens set to 1/200 @ f22, ISO 1600, SB700 Flash bounced off the basement ceiling.
I managed to hire an extremely expensive super model who "gladly" wore an old pair of my glasses with a close up attachment for um, tying flies, intricate soldering, and reading really small print. After some minor adjustments I came up with this image.
This was with the D750 (just back from it's second recall - shutter replaced) and 105mm Micro Lens set to 1/200 @ f22, ISO 1600, SB700 Flash bounced off the basement ceiling.
Don-
I was looking for something to use a star filter on and this picture filled the requirement. A friend shot a similar picture
with and old Bible and a pair of antique reading glasses. It was my intention to try my variation of his picture.
I shot this with my D810, no flash, f/3.5, shutter .77 seconds, ISO 125 and a focal of 70mm.
I was looking for something to use a star filter on and this picture filled the requirement. A friend shot a similar picture
with and old Bible and a pair of antique reading glasses. It was my intention to try my variation of his picture.
I shot this with my D810, no flash, f/3.5, shutter .77 seconds, ISO 125 and a focal of 70mm.
Byron-
I enjoy Halloween costumes. This pair of glasses has seen several uses over the years. When you first see them it looks like a pair of Ozzie Osbourne glasses until the light hits them just right. Then a 3D, hologram of a skull appears in each lens. From the wearers perspective they just seem like regular sunglasses. I used my shower curtain as a background, I used 2 flashes one for the background one to light the lenses. I needed a way to control the spread of the light so it wouldn't hit the background. The trusty Byro-Snoot was just the tool.
ISO 200, 50mm, f/4, 1/125 sec, color balance set to Flash.
I enjoy Halloween costumes. This pair of glasses has seen several uses over the years. When you first see them it looks like a pair of Ozzie Osbourne glasses until the light hits them just right. Then a 3D, hologram of a skull appears in each lens. From the wearers perspective they just seem like regular sunglasses. I used my shower curtain as a background, I used 2 flashes one for the background one to light the lenses. I needed a way to control the spread of the light so it wouldn't hit the background. The trusty Byro-Snoot was just the tool.
ISO 200, 50mm, f/4, 1/125 sec, color balance set to Flash.
Deron-
Making his triumphant return to WPOTM, is Revo. Rev is sporting Doggles, the latest in K9 eyewear.
Making his triumphant return to WPOTM, is Revo. Rev is sporting Doggles, the latest in K9 eyewear.
Kevin-
In my opinion, Calvin and Hobbes was the greatest comic strip in history. The story of a 6 year old boy Calvin, and his fantasy life with his tiger Hobbes (a stuffed toy when other people see him, but living in Calvin’s mind) was masterful humor, inspiration, and storytelling Sadly Bill Watterson the author/illustrator only published Calvin and Hobbes for ten years, from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. Then he simply decided to stop. He never merchandised the characters, so things like the bumper stickers you still see depicting Calvin are all unauthorized. But fortunately Watterson did publish books of all the work. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, a massive three volume hardbound set contains every comic strip in the series.
What better reason to put on eyeglasses than to enjoy the illustrations, the humor and the magic of ten years of Calvin and Hobbes comics and ideas like Speed Sled Base Snow Ball?
Nikon D4s, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor, tripod mounted. A single studio strobe with a snoot was used. I wanted to maximize the shadows of the glasses frame as well as the glasses themselves. ISO 100, 1/250th of a second (flash sync) @ f/16 (looking back I wish I had added an ND gel to the flash to shoot at f/8 instead). A large bounce card filled in the shadowed side of the book slightly.
If you want to see a wonderful movie tribute, view the documentary Dear Mr, Watterson. Berkeley Breathed has brought back Bloom County. Bill, please, It’s time for you to bring back Calvin and Hobbes!
In my opinion, Calvin and Hobbes was the greatest comic strip in history. The story of a 6 year old boy Calvin, and his fantasy life with his tiger Hobbes (a stuffed toy when other people see him, but living in Calvin’s mind) was masterful humor, inspiration, and storytelling Sadly Bill Watterson the author/illustrator only published Calvin and Hobbes for ten years, from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. Then he simply decided to stop. He never merchandised the characters, so things like the bumper stickers you still see depicting Calvin are all unauthorized. But fortunately Watterson did publish books of all the work. The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, a massive three volume hardbound set contains every comic strip in the series.
What better reason to put on eyeglasses than to enjoy the illustrations, the humor and the magic of ten years of Calvin and Hobbes comics and ideas like Speed Sled Base Snow Ball?
Nikon D4s, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor, tripod mounted. A single studio strobe with a snoot was used. I wanted to maximize the shadows of the glasses frame as well as the glasses themselves. ISO 100, 1/250th of a second (flash sync) @ f/16 (looking back I wish I had added an ND gel to the flash to shoot at f/8 instead). A large bounce card filled in the shadowed side of the book slightly.
If you want to see a wonderful movie tribute, view the documentary Dear Mr, Watterson. Berkeley Breathed has brought back Bloom County. Bill, please, It’s time for you to bring back Calvin and Hobbes!
Paul-
The great thing about the WPOTM is that when the theme is announced, our collective synapses start firing in unusual sequences, our pulses become elevated, and you can almost hear the parchment-dry running of palms together as we begin plotting our next photographic coup. Or it could just be me have some kind of seizure and smiling through it all. Everyone’s different.
Anyway, let’s talk about Origami. (And yes, this predictable somewhat-off-topic monolog of mine will come around to the topic of “Eyeglasses.” Don’t gripe: Everyone but Don should be pretty inured to this by now.) I have been paper folding since 5th grade. My proficiency at this millennia-old craft form is (by analogy) more or less on par with Kevin’s skill with a camera, Deron’s fortitude in rugged distance riding, or Byron’s talent in the transmutation of beans into something grown men happily weep over as they chew. I have a number of Origami books, some with “models” so dauntingly complex (and beyond my abilities) that experts can find themselves working with the folds, tucks, and creases for hours before they coax the desired three-dimensional figure out of a sheet of paper. (Seriously, guys. I’ll send you some diagrams if you doubt this. I’ll decipher the seemingly cryptic, but universally used, symbols, too.) I had intended to fold a large “devil’s mask” (rendered by using a much larger piece of paper than I usually do) and placing a pair of eyeglass on it.
The reason this appealed to me—but apparently not enough to follow through with the idea—was that in 2004 through 2005 I was working a book which contained my own Origami models for different kinds of masks. I actually created about 55 of them. Many are quite good; but certainly not all of them by a long shot. Whether anything ever comes of this odd project remains to be seen. But I’ve sent you a few pages of my hand-drawn instructions in a separate email to amuse you. (Or shake you heads in sad recognition, and in further evidence, of my chronic and esoteric weirdness.)
When I grew disenchanted with this idea, I was a little startled that I fell back on something uncontestably cliché. But I liked it despite (to my mind) it was something I just threw together.
Our story so far: Shot at 1/4 sec.; f/14; aperture priority; ISO1250; - 1/3 EV; 21 focus point patterned metering mode, 18-55mm lens set at 55mm. By the way, this is not a B&W photography. It was color, and I dropped the Vibrance and Saturation settings down in Lightroom until I got a B&W-like image I wanted.
Men with glasses don’t make passes.
And men bearing spectacles care not for their testicles.
Men with bi-focals are just rubes and dull yokels.
And if he has a lorgnette, he’s no man, you can bet.
And a prince-nez on his nose? An aloof dandy, I suppose.
Still, I like my specs (they keep my car out of wrecks).
The great thing about the WPOTM is that when the theme is announced, our collective synapses start firing in unusual sequences, our pulses become elevated, and you can almost hear the parchment-dry running of palms together as we begin plotting our next photographic coup. Or it could just be me have some kind of seizure and smiling through it all. Everyone’s different.
Anyway, let’s talk about Origami. (And yes, this predictable somewhat-off-topic monolog of mine will come around to the topic of “Eyeglasses.” Don’t gripe: Everyone but Don should be pretty inured to this by now.) I have been paper folding since 5th grade. My proficiency at this millennia-old craft form is (by analogy) more or less on par with Kevin’s skill with a camera, Deron’s fortitude in rugged distance riding, or Byron’s talent in the transmutation of beans into something grown men happily weep over as they chew. I have a number of Origami books, some with “models” so dauntingly complex (and beyond my abilities) that experts can find themselves working with the folds, tucks, and creases for hours before they coax the desired three-dimensional figure out of a sheet of paper. (Seriously, guys. I’ll send you some diagrams if you doubt this. I’ll decipher the seemingly cryptic, but universally used, symbols, too.) I had intended to fold a large “devil’s mask” (rendered by using a much larger piece of paper than I usually do) and placing a pair of eyeglass on it.
The reason this appealed to me—but apparently not enough to follow through with the idea—was that in 2004 through 2005 I was working a book which contained my own Origami models for different kinds of masks. I actually created about 55 of them. Many are quite good; but certainly not all of them by a long shot. Whether anything ever comes of this odd project remains to be seen. But I’ve sent you a few pages of my hand-drawn instructions in a separate email to amuse you. (Or shake you heads in sad recognition, and in further evidence, of my chronic and esoteric weirdness.)
When I grew disenchanted with this idea, I was a little startled that I fell back on something uncontestably cliché. But I liked it despite (to my mind) it was something I just threw together.
Our story so far: Shot at 1/4 sec.; f/14; aperture priority; ISO1250; - 1/3 EV; 21 focus point patterned metering mode, 18-55mm lens set at 55mm. By the way, this is not a B&W photography. It was color, and I dropped the Vibrance and Saturation settings down in Lightroom until I got a B&W-like image I wanted.
Men with glasses don’t make passes.
And men bearing spectacles care not for their testicles.
Men with bi-focals are just rubes and dull yokels.
And if he has a lorgnette, he’s no man, you can bet.
And a prince-nez on his nose? An aloof dandy, I suppose.
Still, I like my specs (they keep my car out of wrecks).