223. Clean - September 24-30, 2017
Jerry-
Since it is October and Halloween is soon to arrive, I brought out Mr. Skull and put him to work in the washing machine.
Camera was the Sony 6300 with 16-70 zoomed to 20mm. Exposure was 1/20 @ f8, ISO 6400, bare bulb in the ceiling providing the light.
Since it is October and Halloween is soon to arrive, I brought out Mr. Skull and put him to work in the washing machine.
Camera was the Sony 6300 with 16-70 zoomed to 20mm. Exposure was 1/20 @ f8, ISO 6400, bare bulb in the ceiling providing the light.
Don-
I have a peculiar habit in that I like to hang my clothes to dry and I hang them in the house.
I like to do this because the drier ruins clothes and I like the smell and humidity the clothes
provides. Obviously the washed and drying clothes provides my theme for "clean."
Shot camera on tripod using a 24 to 70mm lens at 32 mm. Exposure was f/7.1; 1/6 sec; ISO 200.
I have a peculiar habit in that I like to hang my clothes to dry and I hang them in the house.
I like to do this because the drier ruins clothes and I like the smell and humidity the clothes
provides. Obviously the washed and drying clothes provides my theme for "clean."
Shot camera on tripod using a 24 to 70mm lens at 32 mm. Exposure was f/7.1; 1/6 sec; ISO 200.
Byron-
I usually clean these windows. I thought if I could get to Erl to clean a section for this photo she would finish cleaning it when we were done. It worked! She couldn't leave it half cleaned. I stood in the Dining Room with a flash controller mounted to my camera. The flash was outside next to Erl providing fake sunlight.
ISO 100, 1/200sec, f11, 50mm, no post processing.
I usually clean these windows. I thought if I could get to Erl to clean a section for this photo she would finish cleaning it when we were done. It worked! She couldn't leave it half cleaned. I stood in the Dining Room with a flash controller mounted to my camera. The flash was outside next to Erl providing fake sunlight.
ISO 100, 1/200sec, f11, 50mm, no post processing.
Darin-
I went in a different direction with the kinda quirky 'Clean Shave' photo.
I went in a different direction with the kinda quirky 'Clean Shave' photo.
Kevin-
For Clean I had a primary idea, and an alternate approach to take as well, and wound up going with the alternate which I admired for it’s simplicity.
When it comes to making myself clean I will confess that I am a bather rather than a shower guy. 99% of the time I will opt for soaking in a bathtub. The remaining 1% of the time I shower only when forced to because a hotel bathroom or guest bathroom is not equipped with a tub. And of course if you are going to bath in a tub it is essential to have bubble bath, and a rubber ducky.
This is totally available-light. Handholding the camera seemed like a bad idea. One slip would mean a very expensive wet and ruined Nikon. Putting the legs of the tripod in the water also created a small risk of things getting gummed up. But then I realized that I could extend the legs and angle them flat, using the tub as support, keeping the camera above the water. I set the camera up, then added the bubble bath, filled the tub and floated the rubber ducky, and started making exposures.
Nikon D4s mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 105mm f2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens, Aperture-Priority with +1 exposure compensation, ISO 100, f/11 at 1/5th of a second.
Rubber Ducky
You’re the one
You make bath time
So much fun
Rubber Ducky
I’m awfully fond of
Rubber Ducky
I’d like a whole pond of you
For Clean I had a primary idea, and an alternate approach to take as well, and wound up going with the alternate which I admired for it’s simplicity.
When it comes to making myself clean I will confess that I am a bather rather than a shower guy. 99% of the time I will opt for soaking in a bathtub. The remaining 1% of the time I shower only when forced to because a hotel bathroom or guest bathroom is not equipped with a tub. And of course if you are going to bath in a tub it is essential to have bubble bath, and a rubber ducky.
This is totally available-light. Handholding the camera seemed like a bad idea. One slip would mean a very expensive wet and ruined Nikon. Putting the legs of the tripod in the water also created a small risk of things getting gummed up. But then I realized that I could extend the legs and angle them flat, using the tub as support, keeping the camera above the water. I set the camera up, then added the bubble bath, filled the tub and floated the rubber ducky, and started making exposures.
Nikon D4s mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 105mm f2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens, Aperture-Priority with +1 exposure compensation, ISO 100, f/11 at 1/5th of a second.
Rubber Ducky
You’re the one
You make bath time
So much fun
Rubber Ducky
I’m awfully fond of
Rubber Ducky
I’d like a whole pond of you
Paul-
Modern day merchants, manufactures and mothers inveigle us to scrape and scour, polish and pumice, dust and disinfect, and then dare us to consider: “Is it really clean?”
Yes folks: Does what we own, is what we wear, are those we love, and (god help us all) is every square centimeter of our bathroom shimmering, bright, sparkling, and—with due credit to the Prestige Brands Corporation—spic and span?
Don’t get me wrong, a reasonably clean house is a reasonably happy house. Right? And having your kid cloistered in the CDC* because he or she hasn’t been thrived in a unhygienic environment is not going to get you votes when school board elections come around.
I get it. Honest.
But having NASA use your kitchen to put the final touches on Cassini (RIP) because their white room looks like a pig style in comparison means the culture of cleanliness-is-next-to-hyper-cleanliness rules supreme…
…until usurped by some nasty new bacteria one day. Yup, a whole strain just laughing their collective flagella off as our immune systems (which have kicked back and relaxed for a few decades while foams, gels, sprays, powders, aerosols, solvents, fresheners, bubbles, tablets, and wipes have done the dirty work) surrender en masse.
But this is all hyperbole, baseless speculation and fear mongering on my part. Just a little fun fiction. It’s not really gonna happen.
Gotta go. Need to clean my soap dish.
Just clean language: Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 48mm; ISO 1600; 1/60 sec. at f/16; matrix metered; Auto WB; the camera was hand-held. I used my camera’s flash (dialed down a bit) as a fill.
* Officially, The Center for Disease Control is now called The Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s still quite common to hear it called the “CDC”, however.
Modern day merchants, manufactures and mothers inveigle us to scrape and scour, polish and pumice, dust and disinfect, and then dare us to consider: “Is it really clean?”
Yes folks: Does what we own, is what we wear, are those we love, and (god help us all) is every square centimeter of our bathroom shimmering, bright, sparkling, and—with due credit to the Prestige Brands Corporation—spic and span?
Don’t get me wrong, a reasonably clean house is a reasonably happy house. Right? And having your kid cloistered in the CDC* because he or she hasn’t been thrived in a unhygienic environment is not going to get you votes when school board elections come around.
I get it. Honest.
But having NASA use your kitchen to put the final touches on Cassini (RIP) because their white room looks like a pig style in comparison means the culture of cleanliness-is-next-to-hyper-cleanliness rules supreme…
…until usurped by some nasty new bacteria one day. Yup, a whole strain just laughing their collective flagella off as our immune systems (which have kicked back and relaxed for a few decades while foams, gels, sprays, powders, aerosols, solvents, fresheners, bubbles, tablets, and wipes have done the dirty work) surrender en masse.
But this is all hyperbole, baseless speculation and fear mongering on my part. Just a little fun fiction. It’s not really gonna happen.
Gotta go. Need to clean my soap dish.
Just clean language: Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 48mm; ISO 1600; 1/60 sec. at f/16; matrix metered; Auto WB; the camera was hand-held. I used my camera’s flash (dialed down a bit) as a fill.
* Officially, The Center for Disease Control is now called The Center for Disease Control and Prevention. It’s still quite common to hear it called the “CDC”, however.