... A few more ...

... Here they are ... Same lens, same light ...







BTW, i forgot to say that the camera flash was smoothed with a white tissue.

C u L8R.

Small cristal ornamentals ...

Some other few shoots, taken with the stock 18-55, daylight and camera flash, on a black thin cardboard.





Of course, these are jpegs cropped/resized from the original raw images.
Bigger sizes are available on the Fickr servers, by clicking on the photos.

More to come ...

Finally, some shoots ...

Hi all,

After some time spent playing with The GIMP and various raw photos converters, here are some results ...


A coffee cup from my friend's mother collection ...



A rose from her garden ...



As usual, the pictures have been taken with a Pentax K10D, either with the stock 18-55, or with a Sigma 70-300 APO ...
The originals are in Pentax raw format, and converted to JPEG (and scaled) by The GIMP ... More to come as soon as i decide what to publish ...

BTW, for the most curious between you, i am currently using The GIMP 2.2.14, with the ufraw plugin, and the Pentax Photo Laboratory software (based on the Silkypix engine) ...


C u L8R

A cheap remote control ...

Wishing to take some moon shoots, i realized i was lacking a remote control.
After some internet (read: Google) searches, i came across a few sites showing off some plans. Having almost all the hardware ready, i picked a small plastic case, and this is the result.



For all of you DIYrs (like me) the drawing below shows the full schematics. Note that for long (B-mode) shots, the shutter will stay open as far as the lever switch is closed (so the button switch really acts only as a trigger for the shutter ...).



I will not claim myself as the author, but i don't have (yet) the auths to mention him ...
But, for sure, i will thank him for the remote control at about 7 euros (8 US$) instead of the 65 euros for the original Pentax CS-205 (which has a shorter cable) ...

The bill of materials:

1 audio jack 2.5mm stereo
1 pushbutton normally open
1 switch (for focusing)
1 plastic box
7 ft of stereo audio cable

HaVe a NiCe Day.