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Published: 2007-06-10 14:08:13 +0000 UTC; Views: 192; Favourites: 5; Downloads: 16
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Description Trust me to find a pine cone on Sellicks beach. Really.
So it was a choice between an 80th birthday party for my grandmother or take my terrible camera and walk across the road to the beach. Tough call. Not that I dislike my grandmother, she is pretty cool for an octogenarian.

Well, in trying to get the best out of my terrible camera (I'll get back to why it is as such) I was experimenting with reflections and flash an the ocean and so on. Of around 30 shots, this was the best. I had to use the timer so that it wouldn't be blurred at the relatively low shutter speed of 1/25.
It was pretty hard to get the timing in; something like:
-put camera on rock
-set timer
-take photo just as wash hits pine cone
-remove camera from rock before the wash it but not before the photo was taken.
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Comments: 7

jerianna [2008-07-04 22:46:30 +0000 UTC]

Yeah when I saw the thumbnail the pinecone was like BAM.

Really pretty shot though.

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LightController In reply to jerianna [2008-07-05 02:54:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks..

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jerianna In reply to LightController [2008-07-05 03:19:23 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome. The reason I said that is because the pinecone looks ungodly huge.

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LightController In reply to jerianna [2008-07-05 05:47:54 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, that's what I figured you meant. As much as I love SLRs, there are somethings that just work better with a small camera..

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jerianna In reply to LightController [2008-07-05 06:07:59 +0000 UTC]

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Ulysses-31 [2007-11-07 02:04:30 +0000 UTC]

It must be some kind of optical illusion or something, but that pine-cone looks impossibly large.

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LightController In reply to Ulysses-31 [2007-11-07 02:48:13 +0000 UTC]

Perspective. The camera was only about 40cm from the pine cone. Also, it has a very small lens, thus adding to the perceived scale.
Other than that, it was just a regular pine cone of about the diameter of a tennis ball.

Thanks for the comment.

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