37. Chrome - February 23-March 1, 2014
Byron-
I found a large piece of chrome that when photographed from a certain angle, looks like a paint by number painting. The large piece of chrome is located at the entrance to the Palm Springs Art Museum.
The exposure was 1/100 sec at f5.6 ISO 200.
I found a large piece of chrome that when photographed from a certain angle, looks like a paint by number painting. The large piece of chrome is located at the entrance to the Palm Springs Art Museum.
The exposure was 1/100 sec at f5.6 ISO 200.
Deron-
My submission is a closeup of the Gao Brothers' sculpture, 'Miss Mao Trying To Poise Herself At The Top Of Lenin's Head'. This giant chrome sculpture is nearly 20 feet tall and sits at the corner of 4th and La Brea in Los Angeles, in front of the Ace Museum.
The sculpture is portraying Lenin's influence on Chinese political history.
If you look close, you can see my reflection about thirty times.
My submission is a closeup of the Gao Brothers' sculpture, 'Miss Mao Trying To Poise Herself At The Top Of Lenin's Head'. This giant chrome sculpture is nearly 20 feet tall and sits at the corner of 4th and La Brea in Los Angeles, in front of the Ace Museum.
The sculpture is portraying Lenin's influence on Chinese political history.
If you look close, you can see my reflection about thirty times.
Paul-
Stainless steel flatware (if we’re going to be literal, and for this submission we are) is hardly completely flat and is not composed solely of stainless steel. Utensils such as these are either nickel-plated—and, if so, not heavily for health reasons—or chromium (chrome) plated. Sometimes both, but the latter is in a higher proportion. Please discount what I think is a bit of gold plating at the bottom of each spoon. Anyway, it will be immediately apparent to Kevin and Byron exactly what is on the menu for this shot. Perhaps Deron, too.The five spoons represent one for each of the stalwart members of the WPOTM cadre to share in the ambrosia Great Shakes concocts, plus an extra spoon for me because I get more that way.
With a creased brow whose furrows were etched from of a thousand somber readings before this one, Alfred Pitchblende slowly unfolded the single piece of paper that constituted the Final Will of Mr. Harlen Battenby and (in the presence of the relatives who might better be regarded as opportunists rather than mourners) spoke the following in a voice dry as the dust the decreased would eventually return to: “Olympus E500; 14-45mm (f3.5) lens at 21mm focal length; 1/5 sec. at f11; ISO 200; the camera is mounted on a copy stand.”
Stainless steel flatware (if we’re going to be literal, and for this submission we are) is hardly completely flat and is not composed solely of stainless steel. Utensils such as these are either nickel-plated—and, if so, not heavily for health reasons—or chromium (chrome) plated. Sometimes both, but the latter is in a higher proportion. Please discount what I think is a bit of gold plating at the bottom of each spoon. Anyway, it will be immediately apparent to Kevin and Byron exactly what is on the menu for this shot. Perhaps Deron, too.The five spoons represent one for each of the stalwart members of the WPOTM cadre to share in the ambrosia Great Shakes concocts, plus an extra spoon for me because I get more that way.
With a creased brow whose furrows were etched from of a thousand somber readings before this one, Alfred Pitchblende slowly unfolded the single piece of paper that constituted the Final Will of Mr. Harlen Battenby and (in the presence of the relatives who might better be regarded as opportunists rather than mourners) spoke the following in a voice dry as the dust the decreased would eventually return to: “Olympus E500; 14-45mm (f3.5) lens at 21mm focal length; 1/5 sec. at f11; ISO 200; the camera is mounted on a copy stand.”
Kevin-
This week’s theme was Chrome. Obviously I could have done something like photographing a chrome bumper or chrome trailer hitch ball but I made the decision to instead photograph just a little bit of chrome, the thin chrome ring surrounding the BMW logo on our new X1. When I think of chrome I think of reflections. And I wanted to photograph that little bit of chrome in an environment where there were great overall reflections, which meant driving to the Palm Springs area wind turbines and constantly moving and repositioning the car until there were nice wind turbines, clouds and sun visible on the hood.
And the wind was really blowing again! The camera was tripod mounted of course, and yes the wind blew the tripod over (luckily before the camera was mounted on it). The lens was my 24-70mm Nikkor set to 70mm. The ISO was 200 The exposure was 1/40th of a second at f/22.
This week’s theme was Chrome. Obviously I could have done something like photographing a chrome bumper or chrome trailer hitch ball but I made the decision to instead photograph just a little bit of chrome, the thin chrome ring surrounding the BMW logo on our new X1. When I think of chrome I think of reflections. And I wanted to photograph that little bit of chrome in an environment where there were great overall reflections, which meant driving to the Palm Springs area wind turbines and constantly moving and repositioning the car until there were nice wind turbines, clouds and sun visible on the hood.
And the wind was really blowing again! The camera was tripod mounted of course, and yes the wind blew the tripod over (luckily before the camera was mounted on it). The lens was my 24-70mm Nikkor set to 70mm. The ISO was 200 The exposure was 1/40th of a second at f/22.