23. Anachronism - November 14-23, 2013
Paul-
The usual suspects: Olympus E500; 14.0mm-45.0mm f4.5 zoom lens set a 25mm; 1/15 sec. at f4.2; ISO 400; no flash; tripod used; hand-held light augmenting ambient light.
Some sawdust and minor sneezing cropped out of photograph.
The usual suspects: Olympus E500; 14.0mm-45.0mm f4.5 zoom lens set a 25mm; 1/15 sec. at f4.2; ISO 400; no flash; tripod used; hand-held light augmenting ambient light.
Some sawdust and minor sneezing cropped out of photograph.
Byron-
This photo shows the progress from the lowly slide rule to the mighty graphing calculator. In this photo I used the built-in flash. It provided illumination of the slide rule. The background is my iMac displaying a graphing calculator.
ISO 400 55mm f5.6 at 1/60.
This photo shows the progress from the lowly slide rule to the mighty graphing calculator. In this photo I used the built-in flash. It provided illumination of the slide rule. The background is my iMac displaying a graphing calculator.
ISO 400 55mm f5.6 at 1/60.
Deron-
Believe it or not, this is a major historical find... and I'd like to take most of the credit for it. This is a photo of an estimated mid-13th century gourd, which was unearthed during an archeological dig in the Namibian desert, which I took part in this week. Beautifully preserved, the red coloring on 'Artifact 106.7' is assumed to be caused by Namibian Nomad's staining their water receptacles with calf's blood... They were a forgetful people and bright colors helped them remember to take water on their hunting excursions. Now, the ingenious 'pop top' receptacle lid is a bit puzzling, as neither I, nor any of my scientist cohorts, have ever seen anything like it. And finally, the white design on the side of the gourd is possibly a Namibian family name, but that is yet to be determined. I'm frickin' good at astronomy, bro!
Believe it or not, this is a major historical find... and I'd like to take most of the credit for it. This is a photo of an estimated mid-13th century gourd, which was unearthed during an archeological dig in the Namibian desert, which I took part in this week. Beautifully preserved, the red coloring on 'Artifact 106.7' is assumed to be caused by Namibian Nomad's staining their water receptacles with calf's blood... They were a forgetful people and bright colors helped them remember to take water on their hunting excursions. Now, the ingenious 'pop top' receptacle lid is a bit puzzling, as neither I, nor any of my scientist cohorts, have ever seen anything like it. And finally, the white design on the side of the gourd is possibly a Namibian family name, but that is yet to be determined. I'm frickin' good at astronomy, bro!
Kevin-
As I began trying to sort out what to do this week for this theme, Anachronism I first thought about doing something like photographing an old typewriter, with an iPad perched above it. I was intrigued by the combination of the old and new. However, I don't have an old typewriter. I started searching for one on Craigslist but nice looking used ones seemed expensive for a single photo. And what the heck would I do with it afterward? Then two things happened. I started looking in some local antique stores, thinking that I might simply rent one for a day. But I wasn't to happy with the ones that I found there. See I was really looking for an old Underwood model, perhaps built between 1910 and 1920. The second thing is that I found a company online that was already taking old Underwood typewriters, fixing them up, putting USB ports on them along with other appropriate stuff and selling them for $700 as keyboards for computers, pads and such. So that idea felt taken already.
But as I was walking around these antique stores I noticed that they were filled with not just old stuff from eras past, but also with stuff from omy past! Things like film cameras, telephones with dials, and record albums. Okay, I know that we have passed from records to CD's to digital downloads to streaming during my life. And that's not even listing formats like 8-track, cassette, MiniDisc and such. But seeing LPs on the shelves of antique stores really floored me. But it also told me what I needed to do. Dig out my turntable, carry it upstairs to a place where there was room to shoot it, put on Steely Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill album on it, barely light it, then add a reflection of my iPhone with the same album on the screen shining off of the grooves of the record. Shot in near total darkness. My 24-70mm Nikkor was set to 44mm, ISO 3200, 1-second exposure at f/8.
As I began trying to sort out what to do this week for this theme, Anachronism I first thought about doing something like photographing an old typewriter, with an iPad perched above it. I was intrigued by the combination of the old and new. However, I don't have an old typewriter. I started searching for one on Craigslist but nice looking used ones seemed expensive for a single photo. And what the heck would I do with it afterward? Then two things happened. I started looking in some local antique stores, thinking that I might simply rent one for a day. But I wasn't to happy with the ones that I found there. See I was really looking for an old Underwood model, perhaps built between 1910 and 1920. The second thing is that I found a company online that was already taking old Underwood typewriters, fixing them up, putting USB ports on them along with other appropriate stuff and selling them for $700 as keyboards for computers, pads and such. So that idea felt taken already.
But as I was walking around these antique stores I noticed that they were filled with not just old stuff from eras past, but also with stuff from omy past! Things like film cameras, telephones with dials, and record albums. Okay, I know that we have passed from records to CD's to digital downloads to streaming during my life. And that's not even listing formats like 8-track, cassette, MiniDisc and such. But seeing LPs on the shelves of antique stores really floored me. But it also told me what I needed to do. Dig out my turntable, carry it upstairs to a place where there was room to shoot it, put on Steely Dan's Can't Buy a Thrill album on it, barely light it, then add a reflection of my iPhone with the same album on the screen shining off of the grooves of the record. Shot in near total darkness. My 24-70mm Nikkor was set to 44mm, ISO 3200, 1-second exposure at f/8.