48. Screen - May 11-17, 2014
Kevin-
Oh, there were so many possibilities with SCREEN, as there are so many types of screens or definitions of screen. Maybe an action shot with a screen pass? Or perhaps a process oriented shot showing silk screening or the screens used for photos before printing. Of course there are all the TV, movie, laptop and phone related screens for communication and entertainment. And or a day or so I seriously thought about the small screens used in things like strainers (like when making a blueberry margarita).
But then I decided to go with a window screen. What I liked about window screens is that they are designed to let the outside in as much as possible. So I thought the ideal thing to do would be to bring this screen outside, really putting it in a position where it could let the outside in, in both directions! Lone Lake Park is less than a mile from our house and there was a nice dock leading out into the water. The ideal place for this screen.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted, Nikkor 24-70mm lens at 26mm, ISO 100, 1/160th of a second at f/11.
Oh, there were so many possibilities with SCREEN, as there are so many types of screens or definitions of screen. Maybe an action shot with a screen pass? Or perhaps a process oriented shot showing silk screening or the screens used for photos before printing. Of course there are all the TV, movie, laptop and phone related screens for communication and entertainment. And or a day or so I seriously thought about the small screens used in things like strainers (like when making a blueberry margarita).
But then I decided to go with a window screen. What I liked about window screens is that they are designed to let the outside in as much as possible. So I thought the ideal thing to do would be to bring this screen outside, really putting it in a position where it could let the outside in, in both directions! Lone Lake Park is less than a mile from our house and there was a nice dock leading out into the water. The ideal place for this screen.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted, Nikkor 24-70mm lens at 26mm, ISO 100, 1/160th of a second at f/11.
Byron-
I happen to like some things from my past that have disappeared over the years. One of the things I enjoyed was Drive-In Movie Theaters. We used to have one about 2.5 miles from my house. That is long gone and has been converted to a strip mall and a PetSmart. At least they named the area after the Theater. It is called "Starlite Center". Last Summer I went to the last showing of a movie at "Valley View Drive-In" That was the closest one to my house. Now the nearest one is about 100 miles away. That is why I decided to take some spare parts that I had laying around and create my own outdoor theater. The equipment includes a player (either a laptop or a DVD player), a projector and speakers. The star of the show is the projection screen. Without that, there is no movie.
The details are ISO 3200, f3.5, 1/25 second
I happen to like some things from my past that have disappeared over the years. One of the things I enjoyed was Drive-In Movie Theaters. We used to have one about 2.5 miles from my house. That is long gone and has been converted to a strip mall and a PetSmart. At least they named the area after the Theater. It is called "Starlite Center". Last Summer I went to the last showing of a movie at "Valley View Drive-In" That was the closest one to my house. Now the nearest one is about 100 miles away. That is why I decided to take some spare parts that I had laying around and create my own outdoor theater. The equipment includes a player (either a laptop or a DVD player), a projector and speakers. The star of the show is the projection screen. Without that, there is no movie.
The details are ISO 3200, f3.5, 1/25 second
Deron-
Well, I was hoping to come across the materials that I needed to shoot what I wanted to shoot, but I couldn't, so I went with my in-house models that work for biscuits. As you can see, there is just a screen that separates any intruder from a certain and painful death... Or a tackling and licks on the face.
By the way, my intended photo involved a beaker or test tube and some Mountain Dew.
Well, I was hoping to come across the materials that I needed to shoot what I wanted to shoot, but I couldn't, so I went with my in-house models that work for biscuits. As you can see, there is just a screen that separates any intruder from a certain and painful death... Or a tackling and licks on the face.
By the way, my intended photo involved a beaker or test tube and some Mountain Dew.
Paul-
“Life is messy, get dirty in it.” – Pavlo ben Moishe Goichman
Last week’s submission (“Needle”) took the longest for me to put together and shoot. This came a close second and was by far the messiest project I have undertaken since delving into the arcane mysteries of the WPOTM.
So here goes… I decided to capture bubbles being blown through a screen. How hard could that be, right? Some dish soap, a screen, a fan. Easy. I’m in and out of the (converted) darkroom inside 30 minutes—and still time to watch the end of “When Trout Attack” on TLC.
Nope. My darkroom smells like laundry mat, everything in there that’s not nailed down keeps squirting out of my hands, and I almost electrocuted myself. Oh, and my trusty little camera has some pretty strong feelings about executing burst mode at ISO1600. Go figure.
Anyhoo, this image is not remotely what I was envisioning at the outset, and I wish I could have done better with what I did capture. Still, Edison didn’t get to be famous by not experimenting. Nope, he also worked like a madman to trash, steal or slander anything remotely related to the genius Nikola Tesla. I digress.
This image was captured by taking a length of ½”, 19-gauge mesh (a.k.a. screen) and doubling it over unevenly to create smaller apertures for the bubbles. Then, wearing gloves I should have put on before messing with the sharp ends, the screen was messily lashed to a framework with way too much duct tape. A shallow basin was placed at the bottom to catch—which it largely did not—the sudsy solution I pretty much flung at the screen with my left hand while stretching out to reach the shutter button with my right. To the left of the screen was a small portable fan (a.k.a. electrocution hazard) turned to “high” and one desk lamp. Oh, and I did something I almost never do: I used my camera’s flash. (I’d forgotten it even had one.) That will go a long way in explaining the fascinating lighting effects. Well, I hope it’s fascinating. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether it’s an interesting submission. (It’s probably been done to death by now, but it’s the first time I tried something like this.)
Finally, I rotated the image 90-degrees counterclockwise and cropped the hell out of it. So let’s call this week an “experiment” and we’re good.
Our Story So Far… Far out to sea…far out where shoals become slopes, slopes became rifts, rifts fell away into trenches, and the trenches themselves were dwarfed by benthic chasms where sunlight was a myth and only a crushing weight and deathly cold held sway…out this far and this impossibly deep something still lived. Though recognizing it as life was at best scientific charity. It was here that an as-yet-undiscovered eel—longer and blacker than a man’s nightmare—sinuously circled an artifact from another world. A crumpled camera, clumsily dropped overboard a passing ship…the former, only hours before, having captured much of this metadata: “Olympus E500; 14-45mm telephoto lens at 20mm focal length; 1/40 sec. at f3.9; ISO 1600; the camera is on a tripod.”
“Life is messy, get dirty in it.” – Pavlo ben Moishe Goichman
Last week’s submission (“Needle”) took the longest for me to put together and shoot. This came a close second and was by far the messiest project I have undertaken since delving into the arcane mysteries of the WPOTM.
So here goes… I decided to capture bubbles being blown through a screen. How hard could that be, right? Some dish soap, a screen, a fan. Easy. I’m in and out of the (converted) darkroom inside 30 minutes—and still time to watch the end of “When Trout Attack” on TLC.
Nope. My darkroom smells like laundry mat, everything in there that’s not nailed down keeps squirting out of my hands, and I almost electrocuted myself. Oh, and my trusty little camera has some pretty strong feelings about executing burst mode at ISO1600. Go figure.
Anyhoo, this image is not remotely what I was envisioning at the outset, and I wish I could have done better with what I did capture. Still, Edison didn’t get to be famous by not experimenting. Nope, he also worked like a madman to trash, steal or slander anything remotely related to the genius Nikola Tesla. I digress.
This image was captured by taking a length of ½”, 19-gauge mesh (a.k.a. screen) and doubling it over unevenly to create smaller apertures for the bubbles. Then, wearing gloves I should have put on before messing with the sharp ends, the screen was messily lashed to a framework with way too much duct tape. A shallow basin was placed at the bottom to catch—which it largely did not—the sudsy solution I pretty much flung at the screen with my left hand while stretching out to reach the shutter button with my right. To the left of the screen was a small portable fan (a.k.a. electrocution hazard) turned to “high” and one desk lamp. Oh, and I did something I almost never do: I used my camera’s flash. (I’d forgotten it even had one.) That will go a long way in explaining the fascinating lighting effects. Well, I hope it’s fascinating. I’ll leave it to you to decide whether it’s an interesting submission. (It’s probably been done to death by now, but it’s the first time I tried something like this.)
Finally, I rotated the image 90-degrees counterclockwise and cropped the hell out of it. So let’s call this week an “experiment” and we’re good.
Our Story So Far… Far out to sea…far out where shoals become slopes, slopes became rifts, rifts fell away into trenches, and the trenches themselves were dwarfed by benthic chasms where sunlight was a myth and only a crushing weight and deathly cold held sway…out this far and this impossibly deep something still lived. Though recognizing it as life was at best scientific charity. It was here that an as-yet-undiscovered eel—longer and blacker than a man’s nightmare—sinuously circled an artifact from another world. A crumpled camera, clumsily dropped overboard a passing ship…the former, only hours before, having captured much of this metadata: “Olympus E500; 14-45mm telephoto lens at 20mm focal length; 1/40 sec. at f3.9; ISO 1600; the camera is on a tripod.”