06-08-11 – Scanner As Camera

Hey, how was the trip? Did you make it back with more or less the same count? Ya know, 10% is the maximum acceptable shrinkage in the camp guide industry. 😉

Glad you are back in one piece with all youngins accounted for.

Congrats to ravnostic this week!

No kidding, Well done, my friend, well done.

I’ve edited my post here to show final contest results.

And congrats, rav! I’m guessing you’re of the firm belief now that that was 60 bucks well spent, eh? 🙂

And here’s another feather in your cap – your vote total represents 9.05% of the total votes cast in this contest, which places you at #72 on that list. You might be saying, “72, big deal,” but that’s #72 out of almost 24,000.

And if anyone’s curious about who’s #1 on that list, it probably wouldn’t take long to guess – it’s millera9 in the Barbie (and Ken) contest. Dude took almost 25% of the votes in that one.

Oh, and for those who’ve forgotten about it or any newcomers who missed it, you can see the place rankings on the voting page by using my voting results script as described in this post.

Congrats r, money well spent, I’d say. The idea to scan a liquid was really creative. I couldn’t spot any telltale wrinkles–did you have plastic wrap on there for protection?

CauseISaidSo , thanks for the stats. I’ve been meaning to say that I can’t get the javascript vote ranking to work ever since my IE updated to “Version 9.0” . Am I the only one having this issue?

my best is #495 for “Me Love You Long Time.”

you joined in july of 2010 and i’m member 40 or 41 and have been here since jan 2006. my best finish is #451. i’d say you were doing ok.

and thanks for the stats.

mopsy, I can’t decide if you should read palms or go into business as a soothsayer. Thanks for the encouragement!

//I’ve already thought of hows to duplicate the effect for ‘Trickier’, but using an actual camera.

Best 60 bucks I’ve spent in some time, CISS. I’ll have to start scanning my old photos soon.

x^0; yeah, um; about the beer shot. No covering; straight on glass. But it’s not beer.

One of them stones (a small one, from the other shot) was placed into an empty (but definitely imbibed beforehand) can of Bud. Beer is too liquidish, and no color would come of it; I tried with a very *small* amount in a test, figuring that would be the case.

So I opted for corn syrup, a tiny bit of yellow food coloring, and used a fork to whip bubbles into it, which worked out rather nicely. The stone in the can made sure it was positioned to where you could see the red tab on the can. The syrup was poured directly on the bed (oh so very carefully, with a streak for the can to lay within)

Cleanup was messy and involved a lot of paper towels in small batches, always sweeping inward with a fresh lot of them, toward the center of the scanner, to prevent any from reaching the edge of a marble-verified non-tilted scanner bed. Followed with moistened towels doing the same, followed by windexed towels. Almost a whole roll of paper towels in the clean up.

But I think I wound up with all three in the top ten, and I’m pretty certain I haven’t done that before; needless to say, I’m pleased.

Usually after a 1st place, I tank the next week.

Do not–I repeat–do NOT presume that I plan on continuing that trend.

Thanks ALL for the congrats–I’m pleased as punch and surprised as hell, and now I have a buttload of images I have to review for possible future contest inclusion.