Re: Ye want to get a picture of yourself throwing sparks the safe way? Here's how!

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Original poster: "S.Gaeta by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <sgtporky-at-prodigy-dot-net>

Garry and Chris,

This is great advice!
Any person who calls him/herself a Geek certainly has a digital camera! The
software that comes with mine makes this type of work a real breeze. I have
an Olympus C2020 and have used this technique with the Camedia Software that
came free with the camera. You can also do it with Paint and Photo Editor
which is included with most Windows Packages. If you have Adobe Photoshop
you can really play god ;-) , but the others I mentioned are more simple and
easier to use (most discouraging to a geek! :-)).
I have used this technique to create "Rad radio G" in my photo collection
at:
http://sparky.vires-dot-org
"Oh my God, is she really touching that primary"- Absolutely not!!!!
Isn't modern technology wonderful? (sometimes!)

Cheers,
Sue
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Sent: Monday, July 02, 2001 8:30 PM
Subject: Ye want to get a picture of yourself throwing sparks the safe way?
Here's how!


> Original poster: "Garry Freemyer by way of Terry Fritz
<twftesla-at-qwest-dot-net>" <garry-at-ndfc-dot-com>
>
> This is the only safe way I can think to obtain such a picture.
>
> Take a picture of the coil tossing out a spark from a wire sticking out of
> the right side of the toriod.
>
> Then with the coil turned off, place your finger where the wire end is and
> you standing on the left side of the wire. Take pictures from a tripod so
> you don't move the camera.
>
> If you do it right, you should have two pictures that you can cut down the
> middle and line them up so that you have one picture that looks like you
are
> throwing the streamers instead of the wire. Scan that picture back into
your
> computer and viola! You got a real conversation piece. For extra laughs,
put
> your nose, chin or stick out youer tongue there instead of your finger
when
> you take the second pic!
>
> Now you got a picture of you doing this, without undue risk to yourself,
and
> if you refer to it as "Trick Photography" which it is, it will minimize
the
> chances of someone trying it at home.
>
> If everything is done on a totally uniform background, you could just
place
> the spark where you want, have it coming out several places.
>
> I think there is probably some software you can also use to just edit it
up
> and avoid the manual lining up.
>
>
>