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.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Day 123: Shining Star
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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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