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brown sugar flash

27 Sep 09
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brown sugar flashbrown sugar flash originally uploaded by steelmonkey

left: on-camera flash
right: on-camera flash with a packet of "sugar in the raw" slipped on (it's made of brown paper)

this is part of an ongoing obsession of mine to understand how to do photography under varying light conditions with a minimum of additional equipment, and possibly reusing available materials

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unfortunate uses: key to the lock

21 Jun 09
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Unfortunate Uses | Key to the Lock, originally uploaded by steelmonkey.

the bike store neglected to use washers with the screws, causing the bolt to cut through the plastic on tightening. the keys were the only thing available with a sufficiently wide hole to let the screw pass and sufficient stiffness and surface area to provide distributed pressure

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