No, this was not intentionally named after a song. This was taken by taking an old disposable camera I found around the house. I tore it apart, discharged the capacitor (this is important cause if you don't you can get badly shocked and burned) with the metal end of a pencil. From there I pushed the two metal leads that fire the flash closer together. This way, when i drop or even lightly tap the camera on a surface, the flash fires. So I timed my 1/60th of a second exposure on my D80 perfectly with the flash after about 20 times.... it was tough to get that flash to fire right within a 1/60th of a second window. I increased the contrast, and tweaked the brightness a bit to get it to "pop" and what you can see now is the white outline of my hand holding the camera, and the bright star-looking bit is the flash itself firing.
Moving On...
Update: I got a Pro Flickr account with the money I made from Prom Portraits, and so I'm planning to post a lot to there for now as I figure out the details for my official photography site.
Portfolio's up! But I use flickr mostly now...
So without further delay, here are my two shiney new URL's:
Official Professional Portfolio:
Flickr Account:
Update Update (Feb 07th 2012): HI! I still check this blog every once in awhile. It's fun to have an archive of my first Project 365 still hanging out on blogspot. Cool.
Anyway, in case anyone is wondering, my web home base is now stevemoraco.com - Simple enough right?
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Day 123: Shining Star
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4 comments:
This is sooo cool Steve! Besides the fact that you used that annoying thing to blind us in history class....the picture is fantastic! :D
Good to see your pics getting updated again! Now that's quite the shiner. Would really have been a hit around Christmas time for it quite resembles a certain star of the season. But no matter the time of year -- it is specstarcular! Sorry for being kind of nerdy with that comment.
you brought that thing to school? weirdo.
this is cool, but you're such a nerd for disassembling a disposable camera.
oh and i've gotta add... this is the coolest desktop background i've had in a long time. :]
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