155. Marker - May 29-June 4, 2016
Don-
Gas Line Marker
Gas Line Marker
Byron-
This is the first marker I thought of when the theme was announced. It marks the 45th parallel. It is located at the very North edge of Theodore Wirth parkway. How does one make a rock look more interesting than it really is? I photographed it on an overcast day, and I enlisted the help of a human light stand. My friend Larry England (as in the country). He held a flash with a red filter off to my right. I held a flash in my left hand with an orange filter. When compared to the photos with no colored lights the improvement is noticeable.
ISO 100, f8, 1/125sec, 2 strobes with colored gels. No Byro products were used on this shoot.
This is the first marker I thought of when the theme was announced. It marks the 45th parallel. It is located at the very North edge of Theodore Wirth parkway. How does one make a rock look more interesting than it really is? I photographed it on an overcast day, and I enlisted the help of a human light stand. My friend Larry England (as in the country). He held a flash with a red filter off to my right. I held a flash in my left hand with an orange filter. When compared to the photos with no colored lights the improvement is noticeable.
ISO 100, f8, 1/125sec, 2 strobes with colored gels. No Byro products were used on this shoot.
Deron-
The grave marker of Wyatt's brother.
The grave marker of Wyatt's brother.
Kevin-
For Marker I decided early on to go for a boring definition of a marker as a tool to print or illustrate rather than something that shows presence, existance or location. Why? I think because my original idea gave me an excuse to create a studio shot.
Now, I can’t even draw a decent stick figure. And if it wasn’t for a keyboard I would be unable to write, as my attempts to print look more like the scribbles of a child. So rather than showing a marker marking something, as Paul and Deron might do, I decided to go the extreme macro route instead, showing off the tool.
I played around with six colored markers together, and with a smaller number of colors, but ultimately settled on this tip of one neon colored highlighter marker. I played around with the lighting until I was revealing only the minimum amount of detail needed to make the shot sing.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted. Two gridded and snooted studio strobes, providing light at 45 degree angles from behind. ISO 400, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens at full 1:1 magnification and stopped all the way down to f/57 (the minimum f/32 aperture gets even more minimum as you head to the the full macro setting). 1/250th of a second (flash sync).
For Marker I decided early on to go for a boring definition of a marker as a tool to print or illustrate rather than something that shows presence, existance or location. Why? I think because my original idea gave me an excuse to create a studio shot.
Now, I can’t even draw a decent stick figure. And if it wasn’t for a keyboard I would be unable to write, as my attempts to print look more like the scribbles of a child. So rather than showing a marker marking something, as Paul and Deron might do, I decided to go the extreme macro route instead, showing off the tool.
I played around with six colored markers together, and with a smaller number of colors, but ultimately settled on this tip of one neon colored highlighter marker. I played around with the lighting until I was revealing only the minimum amount of detail needed to make the shot sing.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted. Two gridded and snooted studio strobes, providing light at 45 degree angles from behind. ISO 400, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens at full 1:1 magnification and stopped all the way down to f/57 (the minimum f/32 aperture gets even more minimum as you head to the the full macro setting). 1/250th of a second (flash sync).
Paul-
In a somber sense, this submission is an understandable follow-up on my interpretation of last week’s theme “Crowd.” (It was a statue showing a trio of solders from different wars.)
The Vietnam War—which is also called the Vietnam “Conflict”…and don’t get me started here—took the lives of approximately 58,220 Americans. (And many, many more Việt Cộng.) Of those killed in a region where amber waves of grain and fruited plains were almost completely absent, were nearly 400 Nebraskans.
In Lincoln’s Veterans Memorial Garden, amid numerous monuments, plinths, and chiseled stones commemorating the wounded and fallen in too many wars, is a black slab solemn and spare in appearance. Designed in scale and engraving to represent the much larger emplacement in Washington DC, this is the Vietnam Memorial “Wall” for those soldiers from Nebraska.
This was not what I had intended to shoot for this week’s theme. But it’s quite near where my Tai Chi group practices outdoors and, fast coming up on Memorial Day, I felt I wanted to walk around this quiet place for a little while. I saw the “Wall” and the flowers left behind at the marker. I was touched and felt this was what to go with.
A less-than-magic marker… 55-200mm lens set at 70mm; aperture priority; ISO 1000; matrix metering; -0.33 EV; 1/320 sec. at f/4.
In a somber sense, this submission is an understandable follow-up on my interpretation of last week’s theme “Crowd.” (It was a statue showing a trio of solders from different wars.)
The Vietnam War—which is also called the Vietnam “Conflict”…and don’t get me started here—took the lives of approximately 58,220 Americans. (And many, many more Việt Cộng.) Of those killed in a region where amber waves of grain and fruited plains were almost completely absent, were nearly 400 Nebraskans.
In Lincoln’s Veterans Memorial Garden, amid numerous monuments, plinths, and chiseled stones commemorating the wounded and fallen in too many wars, is a black slab solemn and spare in appearance. Designed in scale and engraving to represent the much larger emplacement in Washington DC, this is the Vietnam Memorial “Wall” for those soldiers from Nebraska.
This was not what I had intended to shoot for this week’s theme. But it’s quite near where my Tai Chi group practices outdoors and, fast coming up on Memorial Day, I felt I wanted to walk around this quiet place for a little while. I saw the “Wall” and the flowers left behind at the marker. I was touched and felt this was what to go with.
A less-than-magic marker… 55-200mm lens set at 70mm; aperture priority; ISO 1000; matrix metering; -0.33 EV; 1/320 sec. at f/4.
Jerry-
I managed to find a marker of sorts while on a short vacation to visit my son Tim who is a sailor down in Gulfport, Mississippi. We were visiting "Beauvoir", once the home of Jefferson Davis, first and only president of the confederacy. This is the Mississippi state flag flying over Beauvoir, in all its glory with the controversial confederate battle flag part of the upper left corner. As we were in Dixie, I made sure not to speak much and reveal my Yankee roots when down south. There was a souvenir shop near by where you could buy the "flag" in many forms, from actual flags to key fobs and fridge magnets. I also saw the book "Little Black Sambo". Interesting place.
This was taken with the Sony A6300 with 16-50mm lens set to about 32mm, 1/1600 @ f16, ISO 800. I darkened it a little in photo shop to make the clouds more dramatic.
I managed to find a marker of sorts while on a short vacation to visit my son Tim who is a sailor down in Gulfport, Mississippi. We were visiting "Beauvoir", once the home of Jefferson Davis, first and only president of the confederacy. This is the Mississippi state flag flying over Beauvoir, in all its glory with the controversial confederate battle flag part of the upper left corner. As we were in Dixie, I made sure not to speak much and reveal my Yankee roots when down south. There was a souvenir shop near by where you could buy the "flag" in many forms, from actual flags to key fobs and fridge magnets. I also saw the book "Little Black Sambo". Interesting place.
This was taken with the Sony A6300 with 16-50mm lens set to about 32mm, 1/1600 @ f16, ISO 800. I darkened it a little in photo shop to make the clouds more dramatic.