141. Slang - February 21-27, 2015
Paul-
“Axe.” (slang) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music, or a saxophone in jazz music. – source Wiktionary (paraphrased)
The great folks at Dietze Music (in Lincoln) wouldn’t call me a “regular.” But by the same token, some of them recognize me and can guess why I have stop by from time to time. It’s in roughly equal parts: 1) To drool over their percussion instruments (and support gear); and 2) To take pictures.
They’re pretty cool with both as long as I wipe my saliva of the big Zildjian crash-rides afterwards.
The in-store sax player was at lunch when I dropped in, but I was fortunate that another staff person knew at least how to hold a sax in such a way that it looked like he was playing it. Due to the way the store is laid out, it took a little searching to find a spot where, even with a limited DOF, I could get something without a distracting background. I finally found a darkish panel near the cash register.
I came up with two shots I liked—this is the one I selected.
All that jazz: 18-55mm with the lens set at 45mm; aperture priority; pattern-weighted metering; ISO 1250; 1/80 sec.; -1/3 EV; f/6.3. A combination of moderate florescent lighting from above and natural lighting from the front. Camera is hand-held.
“Axe.” (slang) A gigging musician's particular instrument, especially a guitar in rock music, or a saxophone in jazz music. – source Wiktionary (paraphrased)
The great folks at Dietze Music (in Lincoln) wouldn’t call me a “regular.” But by the same token, some of them recognize me and can guess why I have stop by from time to time. It’s in roughly equal parts: 1) To drool over their percussion instruments (and support gear); and 2) To take pictures.
They’re pretty cool with both as long as I wipe my saliva of the big Zildjian crash-rides afterwards.
The in-store sax player was at lunch when I dropped in, but I was fortunate that another staff person knew at least how to hold a sax in such a way that it looked like he was playing it. Due to the way the store is laid out, it took a little searching to find a spot where, even with a limited DOF, I could get something without a distracting background. I finally found a darkish panel near the cash register.
I came up with two shots I liked—this is the one I selected.
All that jazz: 18-55mm with the lens set at 45mm; aperture priority; pattern-weighted metering; ISO 1250; 1/80 sec.; -1/3 EV; f/6.3. A combination of moderate florescent lighting from above and natural lighting from the front. Camera is hand-held.
Jerry-
After struggling for something to illustrate slang by googling stuff (Jerry Sneak is early 19th century slang for henpecked husband!) I came up with "tinfoil hat". Supposedly it will shield me from out of control government or alien probing into my very special mind. I've always enjoyed hearing alternative takes on who killed whom, the illuminati, are there aliens held captive at Wright Patterson airbase, does area 51 have back-engineered spacecraft that can travel extra fast, etc. The internet is a fun place for that stuff.
Now who would be my model and not be insulted by the process. Me! This time I used the Nikon D5200 with its articulated lcd screen and took the selfie in our kitchen which has some deep dark red walls. The lighting came from my SB700 flash in bounce mode - no ByroSnute this time, I needed a more shotgun blast kind of light. I used the 16-85mm lens zoomed to 22mm, exposure with the flash was 1/60 @ f7.1, ISO 3200
Its been fun seeing all your slang photos so far, from white trash to axe, and a day at the "beach"!
After struggling for something to illustrate slang by googling stuff (Jerry Sneak is early 19th century slang for henpecked husband!) I came up with "tinfoil hat". Supposedly it will shield me from out of control government or alien probing into my very special mind. I've always enjoyed hearing alternative takes on who killed whom, the illuminati, are there aliens held captive at Wright Patterson airbase, does area 51 have back-engineered spacecraft that can travel extra fast, etc. The internet is a fun place for that stuff.
Now who would be my model and not be insulted by the process. Me! This time I used the Nikon D5200 with its articulated lcd screen and took the selfie in our kitchen which has some deep dark red walls. The lighting came from my SB700 flash in bounce mode - no ByroSnute this time, I needed a more shotgun blast kind of light. I used the 16-85mm lens zoomed to 22mm, exposure with the flash was 1/60 @ f7.1, ISO 3200
Its been fun seeing all your slang photos so far, from white trash to axe, and a day at the "beach"!
Don-
I chose to 4 slang picture to take. I didn't get the
four but took three.
The first is Soup. Soup is slang for the developer in a
darkroom as I am sure you all know. But among some
all of the fluid pans are considered "soup."
Then a photographer or in my case someone with a camera
taking a picture is considered in slang a "shooter."
My favorite was "beach." I stopped at the local golf course to
get a picture of a sand-trap that in golfer slang is "beach."
I chose to 4 slang picture to take. I didn't get the
four but took three.
The first is Soup. Soup is slang for the developer in a
darkroom as I am sure you all know. But among some
all of the fluid pans are considered "soup."
Then a photographer or in my case someone with a camera
taking a picture is considered in slang a "shooter."
My favorite was "beach." I stopped at the local golf course to
get a picture of a sand-trap that in golfer slang is "beach."
Byron-
My slang submission is not an expression that is commonly used in the English speaking world. It's not even a common Minnesota term. In fact, I'm the only person to use the term as far as I can tell. My slang word for this week is "Breather". That is my slang word for my CPAP device. I have often thought that when this contraption is strapped to my face it feels like I could do underwater exploration or I could be piloting an F-35. Of the 2 choices, underwater exploration would be the easiest to accomplish. Fortunately, there were only 3 people at the pool at the time of my eccentricity. 2 of them I know quite well so I explained what I was doing. The third person I didn't know so it didn't matter. My takeaway from this experiment yielded 2 results. 1) the mask is not water proof. 2) it difficult to inhale with the mask attached to my face and not the CPAP device. I became very good at the cycle of - pull mask away from face, inhale, let mask snap back, submerge and take pictures, resurface, pull mask away from face, inhale air.
I enjoy the 2 colors in the background, the aqua in the lower left and the dark blue in the upper right. On the right side you can also make out twisted disjointed images of palm trees. The Sun plays a prominent role which has been the case for me lately.
The camera I used was the GoPro in the waterproof case. I set it in the spot meter mode, auto white balance, pro color mode.
My slang submission is not an expression that is commonly used in the English speaking world. It's not even a common Minnesota term. In fact, I'm the only person to use the term as far as I can tell. My slang word for this week is "Breather". That is my slang word for my CPAP device. I have often thought that when this contraption is strapped to my face it feels like I could do underwater exploration or I could be piloting an F-35. Of the 2 choices, underwater exploration would be the easiest to accomplish. Fortunately, there were only 3 people at the pool at the time of my eccentricity. 2 of them I know quite well so I explained what I was doing. The third person I didn't know so it didn't matter. My takeaway from this experiment yielded 2 results. 1) the mask is not water proof. 2) it difficult to inhale with the mask attached to my face and not the CPAP device. I became very good at the cycle of - pull mask away from face, inhale, let mask snap back, submerge and take pictures, resurface, pull mask away from face, inhale air.
I enjoy the 2 colors in the background, the aqua in the lower left and the dark blue in the upper right. On the right side you can also make out twisted disjointed images of palm trees. The Sun plays a prominent role which has been the case for me lately.
The camera I used was the GoPro in the waterproof case. I set it in the spot meter mode, auto white balance, pro color mode.
Deron-
WHITE TRASH
WHITE TRASH
Kevin-
Back in my early Best Buy days probably the most overused slang word floating around the office was Dunzo, which as you might imagine means over, complete, done or finished. I laughed looking that term up on Urban Dictionary, as they seem to largely attributed Dunzo to an MTV show called Laguna Beach, which didn’t air until a few of decades after we started using that bit of slang. In the decades since I have found that the term can still occasionally enter my speech, when I am expressing the completion of some sort of project, especially something difficult or complicated.
Such was the case with a photograph that I was trying to shoot. On February 12th I had made a pre-sunrise trip up to Joshua Tree National Park. There I found a scene that I really wanted to capture in an area that for some unknown reason is called Hall of Horrors. I snapped some shots of a scene I liked, but I was disappointed by the fact that the Joshua Tree in the foreground was dark and didn’t have the level of detail that I was hoping for.
Just so you know, a pre-sunrise trip like that involves waking up by 4:00 AM, departing by 4:30 AM to arrive at the park by about 5:45 AM, than set-up and begin snapping test frames while, waiting for the pre-sunrise colors to appear, which sometimes only lasts for a few minutes!
I was happy with the general composition of the first effort, but not the execution. In particular the Joshua Tree that was the subject needed to be a tiny bit brighter. But if I had waited even a few moments longer to snap the shutter, the color in the sky behind would have been gone.
Having taken the class with Joe McNally in Los Angeles I decided to put a little of what I had learned into practice, and capture it again, this time with a little fill flash. I wanted the flash to add a tiny bit of light, but not be lighting that was visible. So I headed there again on February 18th. Unfortunately that day there were very powerful winds at Joshua Tree and using the softbox I had prepared was impossible as it would have blown away in moments. I quickly switched to straight flash (with no-softbox). This time the color in the sky only lasted for about three minutes.
It was better, but still not what I wanted. So this week I made the trip yet again, rising at 4:00 AM, departing by 4:30AM and heading up to The Hall of Horrors to capture an image at 6:10 AM (about 9 minutes before sunrise). Driving up to the park I saw the full moon in the sky, but didn’t think much about it, figuring it was a big sky and the moon wouldn’t be setting in the frame. Wrong! It was, as you can see, setting directly behind the Joshua Tree that was my subject. A totally unexpected bonus, though it was yet one more exposure element to manage.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted. 24-70mm f/4 Nikkor set to 28mm. ISO 400. f/11 at 1/5th of a second. A Nikon SB-910 flash unit was on a light stand, and mounted in a gridded softbox on a stand in line with where the sun would rise and adding just a touch more light to the tree. I felt good about the effort, but it wasn’t until I got back to my computer and loaded the images into Lightroom to see them on a screen that I said DUNZO!
Back in my early Best Buy days probably the most overused slang word floating around the office was Dunzo, which as you might imagine means over, complete, done or finished. I laughed looking that term up on Urban Dictionary, as they seem to largely attributed Dunzo to an MTV show called Laguna Beach, which didn’t air until a few of decades after we started using that bit of slang. In the decades since I have found that the term can still occasionally enter my speech, when I am expressing the completion of some sort of project, especially something difficult or complicated.
Such was the case with a photograph that I was trying to shoot. On February 12th I had made a pre-sunrise trip up to Joshua Tree National Park. There I found a scene that I really wanted to capture in an area that for some unknown reason is called Hall of Horrors. I snapped some shots of a scene I liked, but I was disappointed by the fact that the Joshua Tree in the foreground was dark and didn’t have the level of detail that I was hoping for.
Just so you know, a pre-sunrise trip like that involves waking up by 4:00 AM, departing by 4:30 AM to arrive at the park by about 5:45 AM, than set-up and begin snapping test frames while, waiting for the pre-sunrise colors to appear, which sometimes only lasts for a few minutes!
I was happy with the general composition of the first effort, but not the execution. In particular the Joshua Tree that was the subject needed to be a tiny bit brighter. But if I had waited even a few moments longer to snap the shutter, the color in the sky behind would have been gone.
Having taken the class with Joe McNally in Los Angeles I decided to put a little of what I had learned into practice, and capture it again, this time with a little fill flash. I wanted the flash to add a tiny bit of light, but not be lighting that was visible. So I headed there again on February 18th. Unfortunately that day there were very powerful winds at Joshua Tree and using the softbox I had prepared was impossible as it would have blown away in moments. I quickly switched to straight flash (with no-softbox). This time the color in the sky only lasted for about three minutes.
It was better, but still not what I wanted. So this week I made the trip yet again, rising at 4:00 AM, departing by 4:30AM and heading up to The Hall of Horrors to capture an image at 6:10 AM (about 9 minutes before sunrise). Driving up to the park I saw the full moon in the sky, but didn’t think much about it, figuring it was a big sky and the moon wouldn’t be setting in the frame. Wrong! It was, as you can see, setting directly behind the Joshua Tree that was my subject. A totally unexpected bonus, though it was yet one more exposure element to manage.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted. 24-70mm f/4 Nikkor set to 28mm. ISO 400. f/11 at 1/5th of a second. A Nikon SB-910 flash unit was on a light stand, and mounted in a gridded softbox on a stand in line with where the sun would rise and adding just a touch more light to the tree. I felt good about the effort, but it wasn’t until I got back to my computer and loaded the images into Lightroom to see them on a screen that I said DUNZO!