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Post by fernwood on Jun 19, 2017 8:25:52 GMT -5
Breathtaking.
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Post by ChicagoDave on Jun 19, 2017 8:47:58 GMT -5
Fantastic batch. #23 is my favorite.
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 19, 2017 8:57:24 GMT -5
Great rolls Randy,man do they shine!!!!!
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jun 19, 2017 10:07:55 GMT -5
Those are all awesome. What is }5? I really love that one, 6 are also super interesting. The green one that looks like ocean Jasper is also spectacular. I got to quit looking at your posts because they always get me all fired up to buy more rough and I am broke!!! I bought a bag of those bots from Rocktumbler.com a few months ago. Haven't finished any of them yet but from the way they are looking so far I don't think I will get any as nice as what you showed here. I don't know how you do it but you always seem to get the best out of the rough. Thanks, Richard. #5 is Flint Ridge and #6 is a piece of tiger iron on the right, hard to tell where the one on the left came from. The ocean jasper came from one of our cabbers here. I worked out a deal for a box of scraps and end pieces. That's one good way to get a variety of top notch material. They usually have better rough than us tumblers. I also found a supplier on Ebay that puts together a pretty good hodge podge of material. That's where my Flint Ridge material came from. Keep those Bots rolling. Mine went in at the beginning of March and are just finishing up. They are river rounded, but beat up, so they took a while to get to the point you see above. There are still flaws, but I didn't see any value in leaving them in longer.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jun 19, 2017 10:15:48 GMT -5
Sweet tumbles Randy. What are #s 13 & 23? Haven't seen the mix of moss & fortifications like those in 23. Thanks, Mike. Unfortunately, this will be a very unsatisfying answer. I don't have a clue what #13 is. It is something I've never seen before. Pretty sure it came from Roger. Interesting little stone.
#23 is from Mexico. My guess is a Laguna agate. That came in a box of mixed Mexican material from Mel, Sabre52. He may be able to give a definitive answer. #18, 19, 20 and 21 are from Mel also. #23 is my favorite too.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jun 19, 2017 10:16:45 GMT -5
Agreed. Neat little tube runs through it. Cool to look at in hand.
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Post by richardh on Jun 19, 2017 10:49:05 GMT -5
Those are all awesome. What is }5? I really love that one, 6 are also super interesting. The green one that looks like ocean Jasper is also spectacular. I got to quit looking at your posts because they always get me all fired up to buy more rough and I am broke!!! I bought a bag of those bots from Rocktumbler.com a few months ago. Haven't finished any of them yet but from the way they are looking so far I don't think I will get any as nice as what you showed here. I don't know how you do it but you always seem to get the best out of the rough. Thanks, Richard. #5 is Flint Ridge and #6 is a piece of tiger iron on the right, hard to tell where the one on the left came from. The ocean jasper came from one of our cabbers here. I worked out a deal for a box of scraps and end pieces. That's one good way to get a variety of top notch material. They usually have better rough than us tumblers. I also found a supplier on Ebay that puts together a pretty good hodge podge of material. That's where my Flint Ridge material came from. Keep those Bots rolling. Mine went in at the beginning of March and are just finishing up. They are river rounded, but beat up, so they took a while to get to the point you see above. There are still flaws, but I didn't see any value in leaving them in longer. You definitely know how to get the good stuff and the results really show. The bots I got sound very similar to what you got which is encouraging. Many of mine were very beat up and I used a tile saw to even them out some. Even then many have deep cracks but a few of them look like they will come out well eventually.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jun 19, 2017 11:11:16 GMT -5
Thanks, Richard. #5 is Flint Ridge and #6 is a piece of tiger iron on the right, hard to tell where the one on the left came from. The ocean jasper came from one of our cabbers here. I worked out a deal for a box of scraps and end pieces. That's one good way to get a variety of top notch material. They usually have better rough than us tumblers. I also found a supplier on Ebay that puts together a pretty good hodge podge of material. That's where my Flint Ridge material came from. Keep those Bots rolling. Mine went in at the beginning of March and are just finishing up. They are river rounded, but beat up, so they took a while to get to the point you see above. There are still flaws, but I didn't see any value in leaving them in longer. You definitely know how to get the good stuff and the results really show. The bots I got sound very similar to what you got which is encouraging. Many of mine were very beat up and I used a tile saw to even them out some. Even then many have deep cracks but a few of them look like they will come out well eventually. I put some of the less problematic ones in first, will have to do some prep work on others. Even the ones that had a nice, divot-free shape were always going to take a while. Look at how beat up the exterior is on the one on the left.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 13:16:20 GMT -5
Wow those are some amazing rocks. I love the shine and the colors. #8 is my favorite. I've dropped rocks before also, always stinks when that happens, because of course they break.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jun 19, 2017 14:24:02 GMT -5
I'm going with a Corian® slab for the background. OK, here's the scoop on the background. I wanted to try something I could recommend to other people to use as a background. I get that question from time to time. It had to be something that everyone has access to. Soooo.......
Viola! Backdrop by American Standard.
aDave , sorry this doesn't come in grey. I'll get to work on that one too.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 19:44:30 GMT -5
I'm going with a Corian® slab for the background. OK, here's the scoop on the background. I wanted to try something I could recommend to other people to use as a background. I get that question from time to time. It had to be something that everyone has access to. Soooo.......
Viola! Backdrop by American Standard.
aDave , sorry this doesn't come in grey. I'll get to work on that one too.
Problem with "The American Standard" background is white fools the meters. Most cameras will underexpose. You use a light meter?
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Post by aDave on Jun 19, 2017 20:06:26 GMT -5
OK, here's the scoop on the background. I wanted to try something I could recommend to other people to use as a background. I get that question from time to time. It had to be something that everyone has access to. Soooo.......
Viola! Backdrop by American Standard.
aDave , sorry this doesn't come in grey. I'll get to work on that one too.
Problem with "The American Standard" background is white fools the meters. Most cameras will underexpose. You use a light meter? Unless you're playing with specific camera settings, that's true in the general sense. That's why I am looking for something grey. In my last batch of photos, if rocks (against a white background) were predominantly dark, and those rocks consumed a large part of the field, exposure was not an issue. As soon as I went to quartz or something light, underexposure was an issue (against a white background). I have a new camera. Haven't played enough to figure out when I should either bracket or compensate for exposure. I'm hoping grey will offset that issue, and I also have to explore how the camera picks up exposure...point vs an averaged exposure for the entire field. Dave
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jun 19, 2017 20:22:51 GMT -5
OK, here's the scoop on the background. I wanted to try something I could recommend to other people to use as a background. I get that question from time to time. It had to be something that everyone has access to. Soooo.......
Viola! Backdrop by American Standard.
aDave , sorry this doesn't come in grey. I'll get to work on that one too.
Problem with "The American Standard" background is white fools the meters. Most cameras will underexpose. You use a light meter? I don't use the meters in camera, or an external meter. I set the camera manually based on prior experience. I use a very consistent light source, a strobe flash. Depending on how far away from the flash, how close the lens is to the subject and the tone of the rock being photographed, I adjust aperture and shutter speed. After a dialing it in the first time, there are only minor adjustments when one of those variables changes. It's just working the puzzle in your head, or plenty of trial shots, or both. Still, can be done quicker than metering for each rock. All my exposures are either 1/320 or 1/250 sec. and between f/9 and f/13. Try three exposures and move on, pick the best later. If using a tripod, set the camera to bracket, as Dave suggested.
If using existing light and/or auto exposure mode on the camera, you can adjust the exposure compensation to overexpose a stop or two. Same as in snow. aDave
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 20:35:24 GMT -5
For the large percentage of folks using less than what the three of us have, as in phones and point and shoot... it is a little tougher.
When I shot film a hundred years ago I needed 3.5 stops in snow in daylight.
Luckily we are shooting digital. Take a pic. Delete, adjust, take another. I love that!
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Post by napoleonrags on Jun 19, 2017 20:41:01 GMT -5
Awesomesauce. 19 and 20 bacon and eggs not respectively.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jun 19, 2017 20:46:18 GMT -5
Awesomesauce. 19 and 20 bacon and eggs not respectively. Sunny side up!
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Post by napoleonrags on Jun 19, 2017 20:48:52 GMT -5
Awesomesauce. 19 and 20 bacon and eggs not respectively. Sunny side up! I like em runny.
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Post by Garage Rocker on Jun 19, 2017 21:03:18 GMT -5
For the large percentage of folks using less than what the three of us have, as in phones and point and shoot... it is a little tougher. When I shot film a hundred years ago I needed 3.5 stops in snow in daylight. Luckily we are shooting digital. Take a pic. Delete, adjust, take another. I love that! That's the great thing about photography, for sure. I don't have a fancy camera phone, but the majority of point and shoot cameras have the ability to bracket exposures, if not exposure compensation.
Does take a little knowledge of your camera, which isn't a bad thing.
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Post by aDave on Jun 19, 2017 21:05:29 GMT -5
Great stuff @shotgunner Scott (conehead) and Randy Garage Rocker . I still have to play with my camera. Looking for a background that is not too extreme in the event I miss the exposure compensation. Grey seems to be a natural move. Dark fields help with not being under exposed. I may also have the ability to spot meter and not use an average in TTL metering. Just haven't played with it enough yet to figure it out.
Dave
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 21:12:31 GMT -5
For the large percentage of folks using less than what the three of us have, as in phones and point and shoot... it is a little tougher. When I shot film a hundred years ago I needed 3.5 stops in snow in daylight. Luckily we are shooting digital. Take a pic. Delete, adjust, take another. I love that! That's the great thing about photography, for sure. I don't have a fancy camera phone, but the majority of point and shoot cameras have the ability to bracket exposures, if not exposure compensation.
Does take a little knowledge of your camera, which isn't a bad thing.
No. It's definitely a good thing! And you encouraging them and no doubt will to help out with technical questions will benefit all. I can help too. I added an app called "open camera" to my android. Allows exposure control like "Manual" on a pro camera. The best part is it's FREE!
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