Category: Ramblings
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The next generation of light painting
We’ve never done this before, but here goes. All the pictures and links you’re about to see belong to someone else. That someone is Darren Pearson, known on Flickr as DariusTwin. Now where we build tools that make light patterns, and our new friend Stuart makes pictures appear from nowhere in a studio, Darren makes…
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Naked Grinding (NSFW)
As you know, we love burning stuff here at Photoshop Scares Me. But even by our standards this one was quite extreme. Ask yourself what you’d do if you were locked in a room with a naked lady and a grinder? For those that don’t know, this is a grinder… When you hold it against…
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4 Days In Death Valley
[wzslider autoplay=”true”] We were delighted to be invited on a sleep depriving, dust breathing, 4 day shooting marathon in California’s Death Valley. This post documents the ordeal and showcases, what we’re sad to admit, are less than stellar photographs. Day 1. We arrive in Las Vegas as the light is fading. Not bothering with the…
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3 Essential Tripod Modifications
In our opinion, this is the world’s greatest tripod. It’s made by Really Right Stuff, weighs less than nothing, is phenomenally configurable, nearly indestructible and costs more than my first car. We love it. Love it. Love it. That said, it suffers from the same three missing parts that every single tripod on the market…
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One Nite In Yose-Mite
[wzslider autoplay=”true” info=”false” lightbox=”true”] I was lucky enough this week to have a spare few hours, so I ran away to Yosemite national park to play in the snow. Prep-work Check the weather forecast. Perfect. Big blue sky, little cloud, and shockingly low temperatures. Check the moon phase. Perfect. 20% waning crescent from 2pm to…
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Fire Whipping
Some of you may recall that I announced a while back on Facebook that I’d made a fire whip. Why you wonder have I not used it? Well, it’s freakin’ dangerous that’s why. We’ll post a tutorial soon on how we made these pictures, but for now just feel the warmth. We had to go…
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New Direction
Welcome to my new look. How’d you like it? Functionally, it’s the same as before. You still get to abuse me in the comments section, though I now accept Facebook sign-ins so, maybe that’ll be easier. I’ve moved a few things around to focus less on my snaps and more on the tutorials. Now all…
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Photos from Dickens Fare
Every Christmas people convert a local exhibition center, known as Cow Palace, in to Dickensian London. It’s a terrible idea. Bad accents, coupled with idealized nostalgia and dorks in costumes. Except it works. It really, really works. We are dorks. We did have bad accents. And we looked awesome in our costumes. We arrived just…
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Lower Antelope Canyon
You’ve now seen my multi-limbed goddess pictures taken in Lower Antelope Canyon, Page, Arizona. I thought I should show you the kind of images people usually take. So here for your viewing pleasure, is the Navajo sacred place known as Antelope. Enjoy and as a Facebook CFO would say, feel free to click an advert…
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Fire Painting Class 101
I am delighted to announce that the Star Circle Academy was stupid enough to let me co-host another ‘light painting with fire’ event with Eric. We spent Friday night on the beach with a brace of fire lovers burning things and capturing the results in full color glory. Light painting is cool. Painting with fire…
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Heavens Above – I’m in Photoble
Looks like I’ve made another list of lists kinda website. This picture is used in Photoble as one of 20 examples of long exposure. Colour me happy about it. It was one of the first real long exposure shots I took. The image is taken from Glacier Point, overlooking Half Dome at Yosemite National Park,…
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Grand Canyon Golden Falls
If you’re going to carry a tripod all the way to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you may as well use it for something interesting. This is Angel Falls. And it is spectacular. You get to climb up behind the water and look out over the alien landscape. To get some idea of just…