deskthority

Posted: **05 Jul 2013, 01:36**

Will do.

Posted: **09 Aug 2013, 00:25**

I'm sure we don't need another Victor/Sirius header, but I just thought I'd test my camera:

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Beam spring controller:

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Posted: **11 Aug 2013, 14:42**

one more banner

Posted: **11 Aug 2013, 15:22**

Nice - and the key is right under Login / Logout.

Posted: **11 Aug 2013, 18:29**

Nice work!

Here are some choice crops from my mystery Honeywell:

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: Hall Effect 2.jpg (59.8 KiB) Viewed 7876 times

These two work pretty well.

But now for the troublesome bunch:

: Honeywell Mounts.jpg (53.24 KiB) Viewed 7876 times

There's a natural gradient to this one, thanks to the lighting. Which way around looks best? Hmm … apparently neither! I need something non-white behind the site logo.

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: Honeywell Caps.jpg (45.19 KiB) Viewed 7876 times

Bugger!

: Tall Sphericals.jpg (35.56 KiB) Viewed 7876 times

Or this?

: Tall Sphericals 2.jpg (37.37 KiB) Viewed 7872 times

Blast!

So I'm still learning how to turn pretty pictures into passable banners. Bear with me! Anyone got a template so I can preview these effects as a layer in Photoshop?

I can only aspire to reach 7bit's high standards! (And win him over to my Honeywell colour scheme for his next group buy!)

Posted: **11 Aug 2013, 19:01**

Muirium wrote:Here are some choice crops from my mystery Honeywell:

Those Honeywell switch shots are awesome.

Posted: **11 Aug 2013, 19:32**

Thanks. That's soft natural daylight and a good bit of creeping around with a macro lens on show! It's all about reflections and narrow depth of field.

Posted: **11 Aug 2013, 20:56**

Muirium wrote: But now for the troublesome bunch:
Honeywell Mounts.jpg

Like this one the most...but also all others looking great!

Posted: **11 Aug 2013, 21:15**

Pleased that you like them. But try clicking on one: the site header loads it in as a preview. The switch pictures work quite well but the white DT logo gets ugly / unreadable when on a bright background. I need to darken those pearly white caps a bit. Needs more pictures!

Posted: **11 Aug 2013, 21:25**

The first hall effect one is amazing Muirium, reminds me of something from Pink Floyds "The Wall".

Posted: **11 Aug 2013, 22:26**

Muirium wrote:Pleased that you like them. But try clicking on one: the site header loads it in as a preview. The switch pictures work quite well but the white DT logo gets ugly / unreadable when on a bright background. I need to darken those pearly white caps a bit. Needs more pictures!

Yes, would be better when the black caps would be on the left side.

You could make a layer and than but a gradient over it (blending options) - from left to right, from black to 100% transparent (and maybe some adjusting of the 100% transparent point to the middle)

Posted: **12 Aug 2013, 05:52**

test.

Posted: **12 Aug 2013, 07:48**

tinlong117 wrote:test.

nice pics

especially that bottom one

Posted: **12 Aug 2013, 12:22**

Indeed. Reflections are pretty. Especially on the coiled cable.

Don't mind me. Just iterating…

: D to J.jpg (52.6 KiB) Viewed 7725 times

: D to J.jpg (49.26 KiB) Viewed 7724 times

: D to N.jpg (47.4 KiB) Viewed 7722 times

: 4 to 7.jpg (50.82 KiB) Viewed 7721 times

: Clear G.jpg (50.28 KiB) Viewed 7720 times

: Shif T.jpg (38.88 KiB) Viewed 7718 times

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Posted: **12 Aug 2013, 16:25**

I vote for "Clear G" and "Shif T".

Posted: **12 Aug 2013, 16:27**

They're the ones I'm happy with. Constant fiddling is usually a bad sign…

Posted: **12 Aug 2013, 18:28**

Code: Select all

if test $(djpeg $IMAGE | pnmcut 0 24 440 128  | ppmtopgm | pgmtopbm | pgmhist | sed -n -e '/^0\t/s/^[^%]* \([0-9]\+\)\.\?[0-9]\?%.*/\1/p') -gt 50
then
    # use white logo
else
    # use black logo
fi

In practice you'd want to precompute light or dark for each image.

Posted: **12 Aug 2013, 19:48**

Smart logo colour would be nice, but there's always ways to screw it up. A picture with a lot of high contrast black and white patterns on the left would beat a simple black / white decal.

There's something to be said for keeping it consistent and letting logo submitters like us do the work against a known limit instead.

A logo with a semitransparent black outline would work better. But Internet explorer 6, right?

Posted: **14 Aug 2013, 16:14**

Muirium wrote:Thanks. That's soft natural daylight and a good bit of creeping around with a macro lens on show! It's all about reflections and narrow depth of field.

I tried creeping around with a magnifying glass:

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Posted: **14 Aug 2013, 16:18**

Nice chromatic halo! (The rainbow fringes are caused by unbalanced optics. A lot of the glass in camera lenses is there to quell this and other flaws. But it can look nice, too.)

Whatever it is…

Posted: **14 Aug 2013, 16:25**

It's a Kaypro II keyboard.

I had about 5 different shots of weird magnifying distortions and was going to post them above, but then I realized that I deleted them all yesterday.

Posted: **14 Aug 2013, 16:29**

This is why we have terabyte hard drives and multi gig flash cards: all the better to procrastinate over what to do with all the bloody pictures. Deleting reminds me of my first digital, with a 32 and 16 MEGABYTE card to juggle. I bought it on my way to Italy, and caved just outside the Vatican, to splurge on a 128 meg Smart Media card. You can't fit Rome in 48 megs, no matter how you try.

Posted: **14 Aug 2013, 16:35**

Yeah, I know - but I'm still stuck in the space-saving mentality. I'm not a fan of clutter. I did save 8 totally useless and nearly identical pictures of lava lamp flows though... and a picture of a squirrel sitting on my fence.

Posted: **04 Sep 2013, 20:51**

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Posted: **04 Sep 2013, 20:53**

Extreme closeup award!

Posted: **04 Sep 2013, 21:01**

mr_a500 wrote:... and a picture of a squirrel sitting on my fence.

Squirrels are keyboard related and can be used as DT header images!

The Selectric ball should go more to the left, with a small gap to DESKTHORITY (a little bit higher up than I did, so the links below don't cover the box of the Selectric ball).

The MXGREEN-closeup is not contrasty enough!

Posted: **04 Sep 2013, 22:00**

Muirium wrote:Extreme closeup award!

Yeah, that MX green one is nice. Now we know who should be illustrating the MX switches on the wiki, or just switches in general

Posted: **04 Sep 2013, 22:03**

I wonder what lens that was shot with. I don't know if my 60 mm macro can match that. It wasn't one of the really big macros, was it? Uh oh, I'm outgunned…

Nice Selectric, 7bit. But we really want more balls.

Posted: **05 Sep 2013, 08:14**

Muirium wrote:I wonder what lens that was shot with. I don't know if my 60 mm macro can match that. It wasn't one of the really big macros, was it? Uh oh, I'm outgunned…

Camera:	Canon 7D
Resolution:	5184 × 3456
Lens:	Canon EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM
Extension Tube:	Canon EF 12 II
Focal Length:	75mm ( equivalent‎ to 120mm on ×1.6 crop sensor body )
Exposure:	2.5 sec f/18 ISO 100 Evaluative metering
Light:	Rosewill RLDL-11001

More Contrast for 7bit

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Posted: **05 Sep 2013, 09:04**

7bit wrote:
mr_a500 wrote:... and a picture of a squirrel sitting on my fence.
Squirrels are keyboard related and can be used as DT header images!

Collector ogling my SGI Granite:

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(not a submission)

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