244 - Apple Emoji - February 18-24, 2018
Darin-
I'm sending in my photo now, because I'm still under the weather and all Nyquil'd up... I may fall asleep for three days.
My Apple Emoji is Moai (Easter Island).
This is actually a sculpture I made in junior high school back in the '80's. Back then, I don't think Easter Island was the inspiration, but it sure does resemble those stoic rocks... But this guy looks as if Uncle Byron had told him a joke.
I tried to make it look like an old photo some explorer may have taken while visiting the island for the first time. If I were feeling better, I would have re-shot it to take out the background clutter and make it look a bit cleaner.
I'm sending in my photo now, because I'm still under the weather and all Nyquil'd up... I may fall asleep for three days.
My Apple Emoji is Moai (Easter Island).
This is actually a sculpture I made in junior high school back in the '80's. Back then, I don't think Easter Island was the inspiration, but it sure does resemble those stoic rocks... But this guy looks as if Uncle Byron had told him a joke.
I tried to make it look like an old photo some explorer may have taken while visiting the island for the first time. If I were feeling better, I would have re-shot it to take out the background clutter and make it look a bit cleaner.
Kevin-
So it was Apple Emoji week huh? Yes it would have been highly tempting to photograph a Tyrannosaurus Rex 🦖, or even a simple Blue Whale 🐋, But since the first became extinct about 65 million years ago, and the latter could only be encountered by traveling to the depths of the ocean, I decided to go with something more approachable, and safe. Which meant a Push Pin 📌.
I stopped at two different office supply stores. Unfortunately the only push pins they had were of the translucent variety, and my dream of a solid primary color (red) push pin, like the Apple emoji, fell flat. I also wanted to get a feeling of dimension, as the Apple emoji is represented with a slightly wide angle perspective. Unfortunately my Micro-Nikkor lens is 105mm, not wide angle at all. And I left the extension tubes I could have used on other lenses back in Minnesota. Byron left his extension tube there as well. At least the D850 has megapixels to spare, so I could shoot as close as focus allowed, and wide, and then crop heavily.
I decided that I would photograph the feature push pin on a sheet of glass, and to give the photo some direction include many more push pins scattered below. The lighting was simple. Two Nikon flash units, one as the prime source and one as fill.
Nikon D850 on a Manfrotto Carbon One 440 Tripod with an Acratech ball head, 14-24mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 24mm at f/5.6, ISO 100, 1/250th of a second (flash sync).
Not my best work, but with guests (Dan and Elaine) staying here all week I didn’t have much time to dedicate.
So it was Apple Emoji week huh? Yes it would have been highly tempting to photograph a Tyrannosaurus Rex 🦖, or even a simple Blue Whale 🐋, But since the first became extinct about 65 million years ago, and the latter could only be encountered by traveling to the depths of the ocean, I decided to go with something more approachable, and safe. Which meant a Push Pin 📌.
I stopped at two different office supply stores. Unfortunately the only push pins they had were of the translucent variety, and my dream of a solid primary color (red) push pin, like the Apple emoji, fell flat. I also wanted to get a feeling of dimension, as the Apple emoji is represented with a slightly wide angle perspective. Unfortunately my Micro-Nikkor lens is 105mm, not wide angle at all. And I left the extension tubes I could have used on other lenses back in Minnesota. Byron left his extension tube there as well. At least the D850 has megapixels to spare, so I could shoot as close as focus allowed, and wide, and then crop heavily.
I decided that I would photograph the feature push pin on a sheet of glass, and to give the photo some direction include many more push pins scattered below. The lighting was simple. Two Nikon flash units, one as the prime source and one as fill.
Nikon D850 on a Manfrotto Carbon One 440 Tripod with an Acratech ball head, 14-24mm f/2.8 Nikkor lens set to 24mm at f/5.6, ISO 100, 1/250th of a second (flash sync).
Not my best work, but with guests (Dan and Elaine) staying here all week I didn’t have much time to dedicate.
Paul-
I had very little idea what to go with this week. I even called up the listing of Apple emojis and searched through them for some kind of inspiration. There is a newish one that’s been added of a woman breastfeeding. I decied to do this one (with me as the model) on a lark. No. I’m not kidding. My wife didn’t even dissuade me from doing it. How weird is that?
I guess the surprise and fun factor didn’t hold for very long because I started to search for something else. I opted for folding an origami mask of a demon—for which there are more diagrams out there than you’d believe. And Apple has some devilish looking emojis, too. Problem solved!
Except as I was going through my library of origami diagrams (and it’s a big one), I saw a mask that could be used to represent a samurai, a kabuki character, or an actor in a Japanese Noh play. Surely Mulitnational Apple—who works hard to either shape the future so they can patent it—would have an emoji that fit any one of these descriptions. Naturally, I started folding without first checking.
Oh boy, big mistake.
Help me out here: How is it that in a world where it’s a simple thing to find the image of a smiling pile of steaming feces (or maybe it’s the other way around) to use an an emoji, I find zip. I suppose what I had in mind doesn’t really translate into a message as well as effectively as…you get the idea.
Icon of made it up as I went along: Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 26mm; ISO 800; 1/30 sec. at f/14; - 0.3EV; 11.3 flash compensation, matric metering; Auto WB. The folded model was place on a curve piece of white paper inside a light tend. I shot (handheld) until I got something I thought I could work with.
1) Basic edits were made in Lightroom. Since emojis tend to have a comic-looking appearance, I applied this option to the picture in Photoscape (with unimpressive effect); I also created the circle crop there. As opposed to a crop circle.
2) Back to Lightroom. I decided the teal paper I hadused to to fold the model wasn’t doing it for me, for I applied a split tone preset that changed the color to something that looked a lot more like paper. You be the judge.
3) Finally, I selected a white watermark and called it an unproductive day.
I had very little idea what to go with this week. I even called up the listing of Apple emojis and searched through them for some kind of inspiration. There is a newish one that’s been added of a woman breastfeeding. I decied to do this one (with me as the model) on a lark. No. I’m not kidding. My wife didn’t even dissuade me from doing it. How weird is that?
I guess the surprise and fun factor didn’t hold for very long because I started to search for something else. I opted for folding an origami mask of a demon—for which there are more diagrams out there than you’d believe. And Apple has some devilish looking emojis, too. Problem solved!
Except as I was going through my library of origami diagrams (and it’s a big one), I saw a mask that could be used to represent a samurai, a kabuki character, or an actor in a Japanese Noh play. Surely Mulitnational Apple—who works hard to either shape the future so they can patent it—would have an emoji that fit any one of these descriptions. Naturally, I started folding without first checking.
Oh boy, big mistake.
Help me out here: How is it that in a world where it’s a simple thing to find the image of a smiling pile of steaming feces (or maybe it’s the other way around) to use an an emoji, I find zip. I suppose what I had in mind doesn’t really translate into a message as well as effectively as…you get the idea.
Icon of made it up as I went along: Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 26mm; ISO 800; 1/30 sec. at f/14; - 0.3EV; 11.3 flash compensation, matric metering; Auto WB. The folded model was place on a curve piece of white paper inside a light tend. I shot (handheld) until I got something I thought I could work with.
1) Basic edits were made in Lightroom. Since emojis tend to have a comic-looking appearance, I applied this option to the picture in Photoscape (with unimpressive effect); I also created the circle crop there. As opposed to a crop circle.
2) Back to Lightroom. I decided the teal paper I hadused to to fold the model wasn’t doing it for me, for I applied a split tone preset that changed the color to something that looked a lot more like paper. You be the judge.
3) Finally, I selected a white watermark and called it an unproductive day.
Jerry-
I chose to make an emoji of my own face using Photoshop to spherize my already roundish head. I also tried out a back-up camera body, a Sony A5100 that takes all the lenses my A6300 does and can stay in the bottom of the camera bag until needed. Yet the A5100 is kind of neat in its own right, being even more compact and simple to use while having a very similar 24 megapixel sensor. It has a viewing screen that you can flip around to take selfies.
Exposure was 1/125 @ F5.6, ISO 1600, 20mm lens. Lighting from the bathroom lamps above the vanity.
I chose to make an emoji of my own face using Photoshop to spherize my already roundish head. I also tried out a back-up camera body, a Sony A5100 that takes all the lenses my A6300 does and can stay in the bottom of the camera bag until needed. Yet the A5100 is kind of neat in its own right, being even more compact and simple to use while having a very similar 24 megapixel sensor. It has a viewing screen that you can flip around to take selfies.
Exposure was 1/125 @ F5.6, ISO 1600, 20mm lens. Lighting from the bathroom lamps above the vanity.
Don-
I ended up with this, the pumpkin as my favorite though I worked on two pumpkins.
Focal was a 24-70 mm lens @ 32 mm.
Exposure was 1/20th sec; f/5.6; ISO 2200
I ended up with this, the pumpkin as my favorite though I worked on two pumpkins.
Focal was a 24-70 mm lens @ 32 mm.
Exposure was 1/20th sec; f/5.6; ISO 2200
Byron-
I looked through the emojis on my iPad for inspiration. I came across a camera emoji that looked just like my Fuji. There was one difference, the emoji has the silver top, mine is all black. I found another oddity. The camera emoji on my Mac Mini has a camera emoji but it is different. In fact, when I sent an email from my iPad to my Mac mini, with the emoji I want to use in the message, the emoji I saw in the Mac mini was a different camera. Oh well, I’ll try this anyway. My photo this week is to show the real life camera that the emoji is based on. I hope you receive the correct one.
Here is the emoji- 📷.
The photo specs are ISO 100, f1.4, 1/3500 sec, 50mm.
I looked through the emojis on my iPad for inspiration. I came across a camera emoji that looked just like my Fuji. There was one difference, the emoji has the silver top, mine is all black. I found another oddity. The camera emoji on my Mac Mini has a camera emoji but it is different. In fact, when I sent an email from my iPad to my Mac mini, with the emoji I want to use in the message, the emoji I saw in the Mac mini was a different camera. Oh well, I’ll try this anyway. My photo this week is to show the real life camera that the emoji is based on. I hope you receive the correct one.
Here is the emoji- 📷.
The photo specs are ISO 100, f1.4, 1/3500 sec, 50mm.