1 00:00:00,910 --> 00:00:06,950 And finally, to end this piece of the tutorial, 2 00:00:06,950 --> 00:00:10,710 I'd like to encourage you to use your imagination. 3 00:00:10,710 --> 00:00:13,545 Think of lighting that's not necessarily in the textbooks. 4 00:00:16,375 --> 00:00:18,000 LOOK AT THIS FOR EXAMPLE: It's a device 5 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,870 that you'll be seeing a great deal 6 00:00:19,870 --> 00:00:23,920 of in our virtual tool of lighting, 7 00:00:23,920 --> 00:00:25,590 which you'll get to later. 8 00:00:25,590 --> 00:00:28,400 I did not place it on the lightbox; 9 00:00:28,400 --> 00:00:32,189 I used the lightbox as a light source 10 00:00:32,189 --> 00:00:33,950 as you see in this image. 11 00:00:33,950 --> 00:00:36,480 Because of its transparency and -- 12 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:40,220 its actually quite beautiful just as something itself -- 13 00:00:40,220 --> 00:00:43,120 I put it on my flatbed scanner. 14 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:45,200 But, this is not a scanned image. 15 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:49,590 I'm actually using the light from the flatbed scanner, 16 00:00:49,590 --> 00:00:51,670 as you can see in this image. 17 00:00:51,670 --> 00:00:54,800 Sometimes it could work if you get light 18 00:00:54,800 --> 00:00:58,370 from the side in this case. 19 00:00:58,370 --> 00:01:01,070 And another idea that perhaps you haven't thought about 20 00:01:01,070 --> 00:01:03,750 is to use a small L-E-D flashlight 21 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:07,980 if you want to image a very small area of your device. 22 00:01:07,980 --> 00:01:11,210 Here we're just photographing the spiral, 23 00:01:11,210 --> 00:01:14,560 which measures about 2 and a half centimeters across. 24 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:19,190 All I did was shined and L-E-D flashlight onto that area. 25 00:01:19,190 --> 00:01:22,770 Around the area, we get lighting fall-off, 26 00:01:22,770 --> 00:01:29,900 so we decided to only image this particular piece in the device. 27 00:01:29,900 --> 00:01:33,180 This is the image I started making from a material called 28 00:01:33,180 --> 00:01:34,410 Ferrofluid. 29 00:01:34,410 --> 00:01:36,570 And what you're seeing, actually, 30 00:01:36,570 --> 00:01:40,400 is a close shot of this material. 31 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,280 It is oil that has suspended in it iron filings. 32 00:01:44,280 --> 00:01:46,160 I put it in a glass slide. 33 00:01:46,160 --> 00:01:49,000 Under the glass slide is a yellow post-it, 34 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:52,789 and under the yellow post-it are 7 circular magnets. 35 00:01:52,789 --> 00:01:55,880 And you're seeing the small iron particles 36 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:57,979 respond to the magnets. 37 00:01:57,979 --> 00:02:03,070 It's basically too tight a shot to see anything of value. 38 00:02:03,070 --> 00:02:06,380 In this image, I pulled away a bit, 39 00:02:06,380 --> 00:02:09,620 and I see a little a little more of what's going on, 40 00:02:09,620 --> 00:02:12,940 but basically the window panes become 41 00:02:12,940 --> 00:02:17,600 maybe too much of a distraction and it's not quite right. 42 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:20,840 And so I decided, seeing how reflective 43 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:25,480 the whole image could be, to put a green card above it. 44 00:02:25,480 --> 00:02:29,260 So now we're seeing a little bit of green reflecting off 45 00:02:29,260 --> 00:02:30,210 of the material. 46 00:02:30,210 --> 00:02:32,760 It is just purely an aesthetic decision; 47 00:02:32,760 --> 00:02:34,750 it's not clarifying anything. 48 00:02:34,750 --> 00:02:36,650 But I'm starting to think that I might 49 00:02:36,650 --> 00:02:38,990 have an interesting image here. 50 00:02:38,990 --> 00:02:42,440 And, eventually, I did wind up with this final image: 51 00:02:42,440 --> 00:02:46,870 With the window pane; with the green card reflecting; 52 00:02:46,870 --> 00:02:49,310 and, if you really look carefully, 53 00:02:49,310 --> 00:02:52,770 you see the mistake of a bad photographer, 54 00:02:52,770 --> 00:02:55,190 because you see me. 55 00:02:55,190 --> 00:02:58,910 Although, it's fun to play with the children 56 00:02:58,910 --> 00:03:02,070 and asking them to "Find Felice." 57 00:03:02,070 --> 00:03:05,300 But this is an image that got a lot of notice 58 00:03:05,300 --> 00:03:06,880 when I made it a while ago. 59 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:10,130 And I was using my imagination in terms 60 00:03:10,130 --> 00:03:14,090 of trying to find a-a way of using light 61 00:03:14,090 --> 00:03:16,780 in perhaps a different way.