Weekly Assignment #62: Christmas Lights

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  • Ken LappKen Lapp Registered Users Posts: 123 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2007
    Christmas in Leavenworth
    here is my entry:

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2007
    Here is my take.
    Thank you!
    It's a bit ordinary, but hey, it's Christmas! ;-)
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited December 29, 2007
    Ken Lapp wrote:
    here is my entry:
    Great shot, nice use of flash!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ShimaShima Registered Users Posts: 2,547 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2007
    Here's my take on having fun w/ the Christmas lights:

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  • moose135moose135 Registered Users Posts: 1,413 Major grins
    edited December 30, 2007
    The big tree on Long Island, with the full moon overhead.

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    moose135 wrote:
    The big tree on Long Island, with the full moon overhead.
    Very neat, thank you!
    I see you suffer from the DFS (Dirty Filter/Front element Syndrome), just like I do lol3.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    Shima wrote:
    Here's my take on having fun w/ the Christmas lights:
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    Thanks for the entry!
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • ShimaShima Registered Users Posts: 2,547 Major grins
    edited December 31, 2007
    moose135 wrote:
    The big tree on Long Island, with the full moon overhead.

    Yay Long Island!! Born and raised in Suffolk County myself :) (and people keep asking how I ended up in the midwest, lol)
  • ChrisJChrisJ Registered Users Posts: 2,164 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2008
    Just for Nik...
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    One of our favorite ornaments... push the button and he says "The force is with you young Skywalker...... but you are not a Jedi yet." A bit hard to tell, but his light saber glows, too.
    Chris
  • ShudderzShudderz Registered Users Posts: 346 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2008
    Christmas Rhapsody in Blue
    OK, here goes.....starting with this post, and working to catch up on 61 previous assignments.


    "Christmas Rhapsody in Blue"


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  • Chrissiebeez_NLChrissiebeez_NL Registered Users Posts: 1,295 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2008
    Love it! :D

    nice entry!
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2008
    Shudderz wrote:
    OK, here goes.....starting with this post, and working to catch up on 61 previous assignments.
    "Christmas Rhapsody in Blue"
    Nice blues, they are usually hard to capture well..thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 2, 2008
    ChrisJ wrote:

    One of our favorite ornaments... push the button and he says "The force is with you young Skywalker...... but you are not a Jedi yet." A bit hard to tell, but his light saber glows, too.
    Lol, thanks, Chris! thumb.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • jdfaithjdfaith Registered Users Posts: 172 Major grins
    edited January 5, 2008
    One from home:
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    A few of a friend's house:
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 6, 2008
    jdfaith wrote:
    One from home:
    A few of a friend's house:
    Thank you! thumb.gif
    Looks like somebody was having fun with HDR (or Shadow/Highlights dialog) ;-) mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • hawkeye978hawkeye978 Registered Users Posts: 1,218 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2008
    I took this one for the assignment and didn't get around to posting it here. So here is a New England Christmas.

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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 7, 2008
    hawkeye978 wrote:
    I took this one for the assignment and didn't get around to posting it here. So here is a New England Christmas.
    Thank you, Tom! Nice shot, and I even like the crop!clap.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • weronikaweronika Registered Users Posts: 44 Big grins
    edited January 12, 2008
    Beautiful photos, everyone!

    My lights are lot less Christmasy-looking, but I like them anyway ;-)

    For some reason I got obsessed with this particular detail of my living room today... I took 75 pictures of the damn things!

    Also, can anyone explain to me why an f8 aperture made my lights star-shaped?
  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2008
    weronika wrote:
    Beautiful photos, everyone!

    My lights are lot less Christmasy-looking, but I like them anyway ;-)

    For some reason I got obsessed with this particular detail of my living room today... I took 75 pictures of the damn things!

    Also, can anyone explain to me why an f8 aperture made my lights star-shaped?
    Thanks!
    As to the star - you should try f/22, they will be much more pronounced.
    Hint: you camera's diaphragm has 6 blades..mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • weronikaweronika Registered Users Posts: 44 Big grins
    edited January 12, 2008
    Hmm... But if it has six-blades, then the opening is always hexagonal, so why does the size matter? headscratch.gif

    Someday, I'm going to have a camera that has a minimum aperture lower than f8... :cry
  • pyrypyry Registered Users Posts: 1,733 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2008
    weronika wrote:
    Hmm... But if it has six-blades, then the opening is always hexagonal, so why does the size matter? headscratch.gif

    Someday, I'm going to have a camera that has a minimum aperture lower than f8... :cry

    The aperture should be round fully open, because the blades aren't cutting into it. It then changes shape toward a hexagon (in this case) with smaller apertures depending on the shape of the blades.

    The reason we see stars (pun intended :D) is diffraction. Each corner in the aperture causes two spikes. However, in apertures with odd numbered blades two spikes overlap and we see 2n-1 spiked stars. For even numbers of blades all spikes overlap with one other spike and we get n spiked stars, n being the number of blades. That's how Nikolai counted your blades :D

    Edit: Also, diffraction effects increase with smaller apertures - hence the f/22 test.
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  • weronikaweronika Registered Users Posts: 44 Big grins
    edited January 16, 2008
    Cool info, thanks!
  • sdways01sdways01 Registered Users Posts: 151 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2008
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  • sdways01sdways01 Registered Users Posts: 151 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2008
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited January 18, 2008
    sdways01 wrote:
    two pictures
    This is pretty cool, thank you! thumb.gif

    BTW, Weronika, that's how 7-blade diaphragm star looks like mwink.gif
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
  • FocalPointFocalPoint Registered Users Posts: 8 Beginner grinner
    edited February 22, 2008
    Hello.
    Another contribution. wings.gif
  • Antonio CorreiaAntonio Correia Registered Users Posts: 6,241 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    Paulo, at this speed you are going to make all the assignments in one day.:D
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  • NikolaiNikolai Registered Users Posts: 19,035 Major grins
    edited February 22, 2008
    FocalPoint wrote:
    Hello.
    Another contribution. wings.gif
    Wow, is it still Xmas somewhere? headscratch.gifmwink.gif
    Nice shot, thumb.gif but just a reminder - pictures should be taken fresh, i.e. AFTER you have learned after the assignment. No archives! :nono
    "May the f/stop be with you!"
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