Flower Photography

Today, I took some photos of flowers.

Here are some of them:

These are two Icelandic Poppies.

These are some geraniums.

Lastly, this is a type of Scaevola.

Flower Photography!

 Today we did some flower photography from some flowers I've grown in my garden. The picture above is an edited photo (hue and saturation changed), of an Icelandic poppy, sweet peas, and some geraniums.

More hue and saturation edited sweet peas and geraniums.

And this is coastal pigs face. (Not sure why its called that).

Car Maintenance and Cushion Quilting

 

 

Today R helped Dad change the brake pads and oil on the car. 

Meanwhile L and I spent some time making a quilted cushion.

 

Microscope Photography

 Today for my photography lesson, I was tasked to take three pictures using a 300x magnification digital microscope, and have people guess what they are. Answers are below.

Answer:

This pendant!!

Next:

The answer is...

These check tickets.

Finally,

This, which is...

A pin.

Microscope Photography

 

Today we did some photography with my new digital microscope which can magnify up to 300x which I won from a Minecraft competition through the WA Maratime museum. We had to guess the 3 pictures.

I challenge you to guess what the 3 pictures are. Answers will be at the bottom (no cheating!)

Bit strange?!

You should be able to guess that!

Okay answers: No. 1 picture is a carpet sample!

No.2 picture is my mousemat!

And the No.3 picture is a bit of chain!

Just to show you some scale, that is all 3 items on the mousemat! Not very big...

Fruit Splash Photography!

 

'Threshold' inverted colour.

A little while ago we did some photography involving fruit, water, and a whole lot of getting wet! The setup consisted of a piece of white cardboard as the background with a flashgun aimed at it. The camera was on a tripod, and the shutter was triggered by the remote control. It was quite difficult because you had to press the button at just the right time or (A. the splash hadn't happened yet or (B. the splash was gone. We had to do trial and error to get just the right time so you get the splash.

 I have edited a single photograph, and changed it into 3 different photos!

An inverted colour version.

This is the origional photograph. (Below)

Ancient Rome at the Maritime Museum

 

Recently L won a prize in an "Ask the scientist" competition with the WA Maritime Museum. Today we went along to collect the prize and to have a look at the Ancient Rome: Epic Innovators and Engineers temporary exhibition. 

The exhibition is pretty cool and has many working models of Roman machines. The first section showed machines used to build the Colosseum, aqueducts and other structures. 

Waterwheel

Crane

Gears

Water clock

There were lots of uniforms that Roman soldiers would have worn.

There were several types of catapults and battering rams.

This model showed how lions and gladiators were raised up to the floor of the Colosseum arena in a lift using pulleys, gears and trapdoors.

This is the front of a ship with an attachment that could be lowered to board an enemy vessel. The big spike on the end tore into the deck and held the ships together whilst soldiers poured onboard.

Splash Photography

 Today, I did some splash photography for my lesson. It involved putting the camera on a tripod, filling a glass with water, and taking a photo at the exact time that a small mandarin lands in the glass. It was quite complex, and we had to use a special remote to trigger the camera, and have a backdrop. The setup also had a flash, which was out of the shot.

This is the base photo:

And these are two edited photos!

Comment which one you like best! Mine is the one on the right.