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Congratulations, Orionid. First and second, and tons of votes.
I think that’s the second week in a row we have had one guy take the two top spots as clear winners (ravnostic in “weather”).

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LeicaLens, I won’t presume to answer for orionid, but I believe he’s referencing the famous National Lampoon magazine cover, “If You Don’t Buy This Magazine, We’ll Kill This Dog”.

That’s it!!! That’s exactly was I was trying to think of. Thank you!
I feel like I’ve just had an persistent itch scratched 😀

/I didn’t get the Monty Python reference in the 5IRO theme until the hand grenade pictures started showing up.

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http://www.schneeworld.com/fsm/static-reports/highestvotegettersrecently.html

Ouch. Strong work orionid.

Crap! My name is on that list! Color me shocked and highly pleased!

Oh, and yeah, something, something, nice work orionid, something…

/Sorry, I am very self involved 🙂

Doubly so, it seems 😉

And orionid, I really have to ask: the dog picture, is it also referencing a movie or something? I am sure I have seen something like it, but I can’t think where or when. Was it a Fark meme for a while?
Whatever it is, the dog doesn’t seem too worried about the predicament it’s in, unlike the cat in Kestrana‘s shot, who seems very anxious about the setup.

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That does look to me more like mirror tricks. I was also misleading, sort-of. Morhp-plates is what I was calling it because of some enginerding changes I made, the basic concept is more well known as double slit photography.

There’s a short, but good write-up here.

I called mine morph-plates because I made slots at two different focal lengths for interchangable plates, then made a selection of plates for each at a gap-width calculated to that focal length including verticals, horizontals, and crazy designs (s-curves, Ys, etc.). That way, If I wanted to, say, distort something to twice as wide, I’d put a vertical slit up front (long horizontal focal length) and a horizontal slit in the back (short vertical focal length). My idea for finishing this is to KISS and just cut slits in opaque paper while rough-guessing the gap width.

I get it. Interesting stuff. I am kinda tempted to tinker around a bit and try it. In fact, I just got a bit of an idea.

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It’s kinda like a pinhole, but you use two different (changeable) plates with lines or squiggles on them to completely morph the image in camera. I made a device from a cigar box that attaches to my dslr and has changeable plates, I’m just having trouble fine tuning it. It seems black printer ink is not as opaque as one would like.

I’m still not quite getting it. I understand the purpose, but where do you out the plates? Between the pinhole and the sensor? I take it the plates are supposed to allow a certain amount of light through, and block out the rest, thereby distorting the image? The squiggly lines blocking the light?
A quick google and flickr search didn’t help me much.

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Oh, and I love Kestrana‘s booze, boobies and pussy shot. The look on the cat’s face is priceless.

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I will be interested to see how the cute children pictures fare, given that there is a pretty strong “anti crotchfruit” element on Fark. Not sure that those farkers populate the farktography thread, though.

I wondered about the same thing, which is why I mostly went with animal pics. Your baby monkeys are really cute, BTW.

Bees here. Had a hard time deciding this one, so any you-shoulda-used-that-one-instead’s are welcome.

Thanks! The baby monkeys really were cute little blighters. They grow up to be quite scary, though.

I liked your B of Bandit as a puppy (puppies–can’t go wrong), but the one of Bandit in the snow works just as well (different cuteness factor).
Anyway, your turtle (tortoise?) picture seems to have captured the farkers’ collective heart 😉

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I think the female farktographers may have a competitive edge this week 😆
I will be interested to see how the cute children pictures fare, given that there is a pretty strong “anti crotchfruit” element on Fark. Not sure that those farkers populate the farktography thread, though.
I have posted a couple of what I thought were cute child pictures in the past, and they didn’t do anything like as well as I expected. However, that may not have had anything to do with the subject, just that I suck.
Hmmm.

Anyway, a B:

http://flic.kr/p/9fhhjj

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Cue the McGuyver theme…. 😉

(I have no idea what a morph-plate is)

isn’t it what they made the little plasticine guy on?

That was actually my first thought. What was the name of Morph’s slightly evil twin/friend? He was made of a lighter coloured plastacine.

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I have have one half constructed on the to-finish-soon-ish shelf. I was hoping a) to have it done before this contest, b) to find something worthwhile to shoot with it.

I bought a ten pack of 12×12 mirrored tiles. I cut them into 3.5×12-inch strips. Even with a leveled rig, and a diamond wheel designed for glass, I went through half the box to get three strips that weren’t all mangled up or cracked along the edges. Next step is mounting them inside a 4″ PVC pipe (and installing a 1/4-20 thread tripod adapter on said pipe). So far, when op-testing the mirrors, they work okay with the 18-55 at 18mm, but really give the effect with a fisheye. I used the larger sheets of mirror to be able to fit over an SLR lens. With a point and shoot, you could probably either rip apart a toy-store kaliedoscope (hmmm…..) at just the eyepiece end to fit over the lens and take photos of the goodies inside, or both ends to photograph whatever you want.

/Also working on a prismascope. And an animorph. And a morph-plate box for an slr. And some format conversions like Polaroid 95A to 120 for Kestrana, Polaroid J66 to dual 35mm, and Instamatic 126 to 35mm. And some pinholes….. Ah, croikey.

Cue the McGuyver theme…. 😉

(I have no idea what a morph-plate is)

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I suspected as much.
And that leads to an interesting idea: a mash-up of Romeo and Juliet with Trainspotting:

“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?”
“I’m reet here, yer stupid wumman, battering the fook out of Tybalt”

/best read in a Scottish accent

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Congratulations ravnostic.
Not only the top two, but the top two in a very competitive theme!

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You got explored?
That sounds…dirty.

Congratulations–I can only imagine your shock (and delight).

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Why is the bird on the left telling us all to f*ck off? 😯

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Thanks to LeicaLens for the kind words as well! I was guessing a parachute for your wind b-side, but an awning makes a lot more sense. Let me turn the tables and say that your glider on a mountain shot should be getting way more votes IMO. Love it.

Thanks! Wish there were more voters like you 🙁

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