Exactly. I have bought many sheets of white seamless at Calumet (may Calumet R.I.P.) and have made "elevated platforms" of white foam for shooting product with this same exact lighting configuration for ten years, and many other photographers (pro, semi-pro and even amateurs alike) have been doing the same exact thing for a hell of a lot longer than I have. Key lighting and multiple fill lights - this is hardly new or innovative by any stretch of the imagination - even the "fill light" behind the subject/product to light up the backdrop to eliminate shadows.
This is EXACTLY how product photography is normally done - key lighting, then fill lighting hitting the backdrop, and optionally fill lighting at other angles to fill in and remove other shadows and keep a nice even light, and possibly a additional light to add highlighting in addition to the key light.
Every good photography lighting book covers this exact method.
I'm going to patent a reflective umbrella where the flash will face forward, will have a translucent filter inside the umbrella, and a translucent filter on the front of the umbrella to make it a solid shape. The purpose will be to soften the light via both internal reflection and diffusion. I shall call this novel invention the "softbox" since it softens light, and will specify they may come in a variety of shapes including round, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal, etc. and also in varying sizes.
I will also cover the fact that it shall optionally have a method by which one may have an adjustable, optionally always-on lamp included in a flash (in either either a pack-and-head or monolight source) for the purpose of "modeling" the light so that it may be previewed by either eye or through the camera's viewfinder, so that you can see exactly how the lighting affects shadowing and highlighting. I shall call this feature a "modeling lamp."
I am always seeking to innovate new novel, never-heard-of-before methods of lighting. Following those innovative patents, I shall follow up with yet another new innovation no one has heard of: a dominant flash in a multi-flash setup, where the flash will be brighter than the rest to add desirable highlighting and shadowing - it will "key in" the lighting effect, if you will. I shall call this invention of mine "key lighting."
I will then patent a method by which you can take the photograph digitally so you no longer need film, then patent "$SAME, but on a smartphone" and also a method by which the photograph may then be "uploaded" (another innovation I must patent now that I think about it) to the Internet. I will then patent a "product description" which may optionally include an "image gallery" (see previous patents) so that users may then browse photographic representations of the product.
Then, I will sue Apple, Samsung, Mitsubishi, LG, GM, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, Sony, and of course Amazon (among many others) for infringing upon my inventions.
> They noticed that there was very little prior art
Bullshit. Most high quality product photos you see are shot with this method (Apple's products most definitely are based on how clean and free of hot spots the photos are), and ANY prior art at ALL is enough to render any alleged "invention" unpatentable, as is obviousness to those skilled in the art.
This is Photography 101, and any good photography lighting author worth his salt mentions this technique in his book.
I and millions of others have been using this exact technique to shoot product photos for years. This is not new, innovative, novel, or anything remotely otherwise worthy of a patent.
My prediction: they will next patent a method of shooting photos in a translucent box with lighting around the outside. I propose they call that invention a "lightbox." Oh hell, I've been building lightboxes for years too and so have others, so maybe I should patent the lightbox.
Agreed. Microsoft is inflexible and they are not above outright lying about system and license requirements to get a job sold even if specifically asked about best practices with several reps confirming, only to find later that you need several additional licenses for a configuration to work.
What happens with Lithium Ion batteries when you deep cycle them? That's right, you kill them; constant deep cycling of lithium ion batteries results in severely reduced capacity. The last thing you want is cars climbing highway hills at 15mph, or even 35mph because it's speed deltas that kill. Oh, and merging? Good luck with merging onto the highway in Boston, or in Brooklyn Heights (NYC). People merge poorly enough without a woefully undercapacity powertain. The whole reason there is no legal speed limit on on-ramps is to enable smooth merging.
The generator needs to be high enough capacity to not only charge the battery pack, but to provide enough power to keep the car moving at legal and safe speeds regardless of the grade of the road, and needs to provide enough power to enable the motors to produce enough torque to merge safely.
Of course, if you had a legitimate response, you would sign in, not post as AC, and you would state your objection based on science and logic rather than engage in baseless ad hominem attacks.
Agreed. The 30 second "FBI warning" is annoying and does not deter "piracy." The forced advertisements make the "pirated" version superior. Bloated menus only further justify piracy.
That said I much prefer the physical media. I use Netflix a hell of a lot but I still like to buy box sets, special editions, etc. to get commentaries, deleted scenes, etc.
Newer SAABs have abandoned mechanical keys. You still insert the fob into a slot (in the center console as usual) and turn in the 9-3 (the newest 9-5 eliminated the need for even that) but it's an RF key. You can just as easily drop the key in the cupholder, insert your finger into the slot and turn, and the key will allow the switch to authenticate, unlock the column and start the engine. The physical key is just for the driver-side door in the event the battery dies or the CIM malfunctions.
You can kind of do it with the 7D by hitting the AF button, and with STM lenses you avoid getting the AF noise. You're still best off with an external mic since the integrated mic on every DSLR is not intended for the best fidelity, but for ruggedability (and weather-sealed on the pro-level and prosumer bodies) and to be good enough to "just get the job done."
> Besides, why would I use a DSLR to shoot video? Wrong tool for the job. That's like using a Ferrari to haul construction equipment or using an F-150 on racing day.
Canon, etc. have been meeting market demands. Professional filmmakers have been clamoring for DSLRs because they give more flexibility in shooting locations, and manufacturers have responded. That it has filtered down to consumer-level cameras has only served to enable indie filmmakers on shoestring budgets and also wedding videographers - and hobbyists.
> Anyone who's serious about enterprise-quality hosting is using Windows Server.
You obviously don't know the first thing about anything. Microsoft claims the lowest downtime by redefining downtime to not include "scheduled maintenance windows" not by being realistic.
I haven't had any problems in my own machine nor in appliances manufactured for clients - not one return on a single SSD, a handful on server-class Seagate hard drives, But then, for SSDs I stick with Crucial(Micron), Intel, Samsung and Sandisk, and I even used a Crucial SSD as a swap drive for a while in a PC where the motherboard could accept only very limited RAM - with no ill effect.
Now that SSD capacities are close to outpacing hard drives, I may very well be replacing the Seagate drives in my home servers and workstations with Sandisk SSDs (perfect to complement my LSI card). It's awesome that SSD capacities are about to leapfrog hard drives. Maybe the 8TB SSDs will beat 8TB HDDs out of the gate.:)
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This is one such unit:
http://www.lgmedsupply.com/l8e...
many newer TENS muscles are dual-function and can do NMES.
Fun trivia: some fetishists buy TENS/NMES units sold as "e-stim" units for erotic purposes.
lucid dreaming = being self-aware, that is, being aware that you're dreaming, while you're dreaming.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...
You might be able to modify a TENS unit to do exactly that.
It is weird though to use VR to simulate a 3D experience in the real, physical world which is by nature 3D. >_>
Zoom in and watch the Oculus video with your eyes crossed then you get the 3D experience. Warning: you might end up with a headache.
Not at all.
Exactly. I have bought many sheets of white seamless at Calumet (may Calumet R.I.P.) and have made "elevated platforms" of white foam for shooting product with this same exact lighting configuration for ten years, and many other photographers (pro, semi-pro and even amateurs alike) have been doing the same exact thing for a hell of a lot longer than I have. Key lighting and multiple fill lights - this is hardly new or innovative by any stretch of the imagination - even the "fill light" behind the subject/product to light up the backdrop to eliminate shadows.
This is EXACTLY how product photography is normally done - key lighting, then fill lighting hitting the backdrop, and optionally fill lighting at other angles to fill in and remove other shadows and keep a nice even light, and possibly a additional light to add highlighting in addition to the key light.
Every good photography lighting book covers this exact method.
I'm going to patent a reflective umbrella where the flash will face forward, will have a translucent filter inside the umbrella, and a translucent filter on the front of the umbrella to make it a solid shape. The purpose will be to soften the light via both internal reflection and diffusion. I shall call this novel invention the "softbox" since it softens light, and will specify they may come in a variety of shapes including round, square, pentagonal, hexagonal, octagonal, etc. and also in varying sizes.
I will also cover the fact that it shall optionally have a method by which one may have an adjustable, optionally always-on lamp included in a flash (in either either a pack-and-head or monolight source) for the purpose of "modeling" the light so that it may be previewed by either eye or through the camera's viewfinder, so that you can see exactly how the lighting affects shadowing and highlighting. I shall call this feature a "modeling lamp."
I am always seeking to innovate new novel, never-heard-of-before methods of lighting. Following those innovative patents, I shall follow up with yet another new innovation no one has heard of: a dominant flash in a multi-flash setup, where the flash will be brighter than the rest to add desirable highlighting and shadowing - it will "key in" the lighting effect, if you will. I shall call this invention of mine "key lighting."
I will then patent a method by which you can take the photograph digitally so you no longer need film, then patent "$SAME, but on a smartphone" and also a method by which the photograph may then be "uploaded" (another innovation I must patent now that I think about it) to the Internet. I will then patent a "product description" which may optionally include an "image gallery" (see previous patents) so that users may then browse photographic representations of the product.
Then, I will sue Apple, Samsung, Mitsubishi, LG, GM, Ford, Toyota, Nissan, Hyundai, Sony, and of course Amazon (among many others) for infringing upon my inventions.
>_>
> They noticed that there was very little prior art
Bullshit. Most high quality product photos you see are shot with this method (Apple's products most definitely are based on how clean and free of hot spots the photos are), and ANY prior art at ALL is enough to render any alleged "invention" unpatentable, as is obviousness to those skilled in the art.
This is Photography 101, and any good photography lighting author worth his salt mentions this technique in his book.
I and millions of others have been using this exact technique to shoot product photos for years. This is not new, innovative, novel, or anything remotely otherwise worthy of a patent.
My prediction: they will next patent a method of shooting photos in a translucent box with lighting around the outside. I propose they call that invention a "lightbox." Oh hell, I've been building lightboxes for years too and so have others, so maybe I should patent the lightbox.
Agreed. Microsoft is inflexible and they are not above outright lying about system and license requirements to get a job sold even if specifically asked about best practices with several reps confirming, only to find later that you need several additional licenses for a configuration to work.
You're the idiot here.
What happens with Lithium Ion batteries when you deep cycle them? That's right, you kill them; constant deep cycling of lithium ion batteries results in severely reduced capacity. The last thing you want is cars climbing highway hills at 15mph, or even 35mph because it's speed deltas that kill. Oh, and merging? Good luck with merging onto the highway in Boston, or in Brooklyn Heights (NYC). People merge poorly enough without a woefully undercapacity powertain. The whole reason there is no legal speed limit on on-ramps is to enable smooth merging.
The generator needs to be high enough capacity to not only charge the battery pack, but to provide enough power to keep the car moving at legal and safe speeds regardless of the grade of the road, and needs to provide enough power to enable the motors to produce enough torque to merge safely.
Of course, if you had a legitimate response, you would sign in, not post as AC, and you would state your objection based on science and logic rather than engage in baseless ad hominem attacks.
Agreed. The 30 second "FBI warning" is annoying and does not deter "piracy." The forced advertisements make the "pirated" version superior. Bloated menus only further justify piracy.
That said I much prefer the physical media. I use Netflix a hell of a lot but I still like to buy box sets, special editions, etc. to get commentaries, deleted scenes, etc.
Newer SAABs have abandoned mechanical keys. You still insert the fob into a slot (in the center console as usual) and turn in the 9-3 (the newest 9-5 eliminated the need for even that) but it's an RF key. You can just as easily drop the key in the cupholder, insert your finger into the slot and turn, and the key will allow the switch to authenticate, unlock the column and start the engine. The physical key is just for the driver-side door in the event the battery dies or the CIM malfunctions.
Oh, not that U2. :)
You can kind of do it with the 7D by hitting the AF button, and with STM lenses you avoid getting the AF noise. You're still best off with an external mic since the integrated mic on every DSLR is not intended for the best fidelity, but for ruggedability (and weather-sealed on the pro-level and prosumer bodies) and to be good enough to "just get the job done."
> Besides, why would I use a DSLR to shoot video? Wrong tool for the job. That's like using a Ferrari to haul construction equipment or using an F-150 on racing day.
Canon, etc. have been meeting market demands. Professional filmmakers have been clamoring for DSLRs because they give more flexibility in shooting locations, and manufacturers have responded. That it has filtered down to consumer-level cameras has only served to enable indie filmmakers on shoestring budgets and also wedding videographers - and hobbyists.
> Seagate already announced a 6TB 3.5" for next year.
THIS year.
> With capacity like this they could put in a RAID0 option which halves the capacity but increases the reliability by orders of magnitude.
RAID0 doubles your chance of disk failure. You're thinking of RAID1.
For the first few months, until Intel, Crucial, Samsung, and the rest catch up.
> Anyone who's serious about enterprise-quality hosting is using Windows Server.
You obviously don't know the first thing about anything. Microsoft claims the lowest downtime by redefining downtime to not include "scheduled maintenance windows" not by being realistic.
I haven't had any problems in my own machine nor in appliances manufactured for clients - not one return on a single SSD, a handful on server-class Seagate hard drives, But then, for SSDs I stick with Crucial(Micron), Intel, Samsung and Sandisk, and I even used a Crucial SSD as a swap drive for a while in a PC where the motherboard could accept only very limited RAM - with no ill effect.
Now that SSD capacities are close to outpacing hard drives, I may very well be replacing the Seagate drives in my home servers and workstations with Sandisk SSDs (perfect to complement my LSI card). It's awesome that SSD capacities are about to leapfrog hard drives. Maybe the 8TB SSDs will beat 8TB HDDs out of the gate. :)
The Panasonic AG1980P is really great - as good as it gets when it comes to VHS.