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SmugMug > keywords > plumbing > November 14th - I did my husbandly duty today and fixed the kitchen faucet.
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SmugMug > keywords > plumbing > April 15, 2009; Day 348. Valves at Sunrise. Sometimes the light just grabs you and makes you take notice. These valves are in my kitchen and I hadn’t paid them much attention until this morning when I noticed them in the glow of reflected golden sunlight. Right now the sun’s position is such that for a few minutes each morning, the light streams through the window on the east side of the kitchen and lights up the wallpaper on the west side. I was struck by the diffuse golden light and knew just what I had to do. I wasn’t expecting to like this angle best, so I didn’t worry this morning about the dark corner. This is probably the shadow of my toaster and there's also some of the kitchen countertop showing there. Cloning won't fix this. I could crop it into a squareish frame, I suppose, to the chagrin of 2x3 purists and/or pixel maximists. For now I’ll just live with it as a reminder to me to always examine everything in the viewfinder! If you'd like to see what the curves adjustment below is doing, you can compare it to the same shot processed with the much less intrusive "Linear Contrast" Curves preset, here. Kashaaf asked me why I didn’t just use a reflector rather than 2 flashes to light the lion on yesterday’s shot. Simple: I have some small amount of experience with a reflector, but I hadn’t yet tried commanding two flashes in the same shot before. With two flashes I have better control over the individual direction of the lights. I figured a reflector at the 5:00 position wouldn’t give me enough sidelighting to bring out the texture of the lion’s face. Did I at least try it? Of course I did! However, that was not taken with my normal reflector. I used a white napkin which worked fine. Still, I liked that I was able to create better texture with a more side-lit second flash. Raw: Color Temperature: 3250K; Tint: 0 Raw: Exposure: +0.3 Raw: Saturation: +6 PS: Lab a channel adjustment: “Soft light” at 50% opacity PS: Curves adjustment to give the effect of developing E4 slide film in C41 chemicals PS: Smart Sharpening: 180-1-Lens Blur
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SmugMug > keywords > plumbing > Photo A Day photo
SmugMug > keywords > plumbing > Photo A Day photo
SmugMug > keywords > plumbing > April 20, 2008 "Bucked" This is a crazy system of valves, pipes, and knobs that controls the sprinkler deluge system in a high school auditorium. HERE is another shot of it that shows more pipes, and knobs. Those who get the title will find this funny, so I apologize to the DP community for the inside joke. Hopefully, our mist pipe system for our next show will not end up like this...
November 14th - I did my husbandly duty today and fixed the kitchen faucet.
> November 14th - I did my husbandly duty today and fixed the kitchen faucet.
November 14th - I did my husbandly duty today and fixed the kitchen faucet.
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