For this exercise, I wanted to experiment with the brightness of the image, resulting in the shutter speed settings. For this I used exposure bracketing, which allowed me to set a range of shutter speed settings and to take three consecutive photos, each being at different settings with out having to manually change the settings in between shootings. The first image had an average exposure (0), and was in alignment with the aperture settings: The […]
In this exercise, I experimented with the white balance features of the camera. After completing this exercise, it became pretty clear that the Auto setting on the camera is probably the most terrible mode you can use to capture good images, even though the definition for the Auto setting is: “Completely automatic photography; the camera analyzes the scene and tries to choose settings to produce the best results”. In the first photo, I set my camera […]
Last semester, I fell in love with digital fabrication. Most of the projects I did revolved around subtracting material (CNC router, laser cutter, lathe, etc.). This semester, I’m stoked to learn about techniques involving more, I guess, addition, which at ITP revolves primarily around 3D printing. I don’t know too much about 3D just yet, but when I explain it to my mom, I make sure she knows that: I’m not printing holograms The printer doesn’t look […]
In the previous post, I mentioned having a printed worksheet to accompany the online upload process for book reviews. This week, I would like to present what I have put together and what my thoughts are for moving forward with this idea. Here’s a look at the layout I designed: The entire worksheet is an 11 x 17 page, printed and folded along dotted lines. I think it’s important to keep the format a size that […]
Now that we’ve become familiar with the wooden lathe, it’s time to get to know the metal lathe. Apparently, this is the most dangerous machine in the shop, yikes! The material we are stating with is aluminium. In order to spin material on the lathe, we first have to cut a small piece off the long aluminium rod. The material needs to be secured 1000% in the lathe. Once it’s secured, it’s safe to […]
If you would have shown me this picture and told me a month ago, actually, even a week ago, that I would make that, I would have never believed you. I kind of still can’t believe I was able to make a real bowl on the lathe, but I can say for a fact that I had the best time and also discovered that I have the bug for this machine. This is where the […]
This week we were given an awesome assignment to make foosball players on the lathe. I (stubbornly) wanted to try something a little different and also experiment with lathe, so I decided to try and make an ice cream player. This “turned” out to be a very long trial-and-error session — it took six spins to get this right! My initial attempt was to make a cone shape and half a sphere separately, and to […]
A few weeks ago we were introduced to the lathe. This is a completely new tool to me, and honestly, when Ben first demonstrated how it works, I was a bit terrified. What the lathe does is spin material (wood in our case) at a very high speed, while the crafter removes material away with tools very carefully. Here’s what it looks like. Our assignment was to build a handle based on measurements. Here’s the sketch […]
This week we were asked to map the closest cities and amphiteaters to Rome according to expenses in our dataset. I started working on this, and understand everything up to the point I’m up to. In other words, I understand that in order to create a map of this specific data I need to subset information from the larger dataset, however, it’s not very clear to me how to make the actual map. Here’s a […]
This week I tried playing around with the igraph package in R. This package helps “connect the dots” between nodes and edges — or in other words, a specific point and a path connecting between two points. I have to admit that I did not enjoy using this package as it is not intuitive or documented very well. With the help of the Stack Overflow forum, I was able to create the plot above . […]