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Using Coloured Filters in Black and White Photography Black and white filters let you control how colours are converted to shades of grey. Use them to get the right contrast and mood in your photos. A common problem in black and white photography is that certain colours look very similar when converted into greyscale. For example, some shades of red, green, and blue look completely different in colour, but almost identical in black and white. This can cause objects in a black and white image to blend into one another, leaving you with a photo which is flat and lifeless, and lacking in contrast and definition. Coloured lens filters offer a solution to this problem because they affect the way colours are "converted" to black and white. Black and White Filter Basics There are 5 filter colours that are commonly used in black and white photography - red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. The result is that colours matching the filter colour appear brighter in the final image, while other colours appear darker. Using Black and White Filters
25 Amazing Electron Microscope Images All the common objects are kinda boring when you look at them, but the situation changes when an awesome Electron Microscope comes in the scene. I mean, take a look at the Salt and pepper image. Isn’t it cool? Is like you’re eating massive stones and pieces of wood. Next, check out the 50x zoom of human eyelash hairs image. Computer hard disk read/write head Magnification: x20 at 6x7cm size. Salt and pepper 20.000x zoom-in on a CD The larva of a bluebottle fly Picture: EYE OF SCIENCE / SPL / BARCROFT MEDIA 1000x zoom-in on a vinyl disc The eye of a needle, threaded with red cotton. Magnification: x16 at 35mm size; x32 at 5x7cm size. Mascara brush Magnification: x4 at 5x7cm size. Coloured scanning electron micrograph of a cat flea Refined and raw sugar crystals Magnification x85 at 10cm wide. Guitar string Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of “superwound” guitar string (piano wire design). Common housefly Picture: EYE OF SCIENCE/SPL/BARCROFT MEDIA Toothbrush bristles Velcro Used dental floss
Residential Organizing The Top 75 ‘Pictures of the Day' for 2012 *Update: The Top 100 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2012 have just been published. Click here to check out the most up-to-date post! After the positive reception from last year’s “Top 50 ‘Pictures of the Day’ for 2011“, the Sifter promised to highlight the top 25 ‘Pictures of the Day‘ at the end of every quarter, eventually culminating in an epic Top 100 for 2012. It’s hard to believe we’re already into the final quarter of 2012. With that, here are the Sifter’s Top 75 ‘Pictures of the Day‘ for this year. If any image really intrigues you, be sure to click the title link or picture itself. *Please note the photographs themselves were not necessarily taken in 2012, they just happened to be featured as a ‘Picture of the Day’ this year. Enjoy!
Free Microsoft Excel Templates and Spreadsheets Excel templates are a great way to increase your productivity. They allow you to do awesome things with Excel even if you only have a basic understanding of spreadsheets. You can use templates created by Microsoft by opening Excel and going to File > New. You can also download 100's of templates professionally designed by Jon Wittwer and his team at Vertex42.com. This page lists our most popular spreadsheet templates. Advertisement Featured Excel Templates A very good alternative to Microsoft Project if you need a simple project schedule. Analyze fixed-rate and adjustable-rate mortgages, print an amortization schedule, include extra payments. The ultimate money management spreadsheet! Other Places to Find Free Excel Templates and Other Spreadsheet Templates Related Content
Making the Princess Fort The princess fort is a central hub of activity in our house. Every night, the three of us crawl in to cuddle (we don't have much of a choice in there) and read bedtime stories before Sadie goes to bed. It's a prime "hide-and-seek" location, and Sadie has even spent the night under there on her pillow mattress. The basic ingredients are: - Kura Bed - Curtain - Curtain Rod (we used a shower curtain tension rod) - Comfyness (pillow mattress, pillows, blankets, etc.) - Bookshelves (or toys) - String lights Pennants (just added) = fabric from Joanne. (Use the slats - the ceiling of the princess fort is valuable real estate!) The little lacy ruffly things that you see in the pillow fort is the bottom of the canopy! So there you have it...I think the underneath of the Kura bed has awesome potential.
How to Make Proper Barbecue Chicken There's a lot of misconception when it comes to "barbecue." The problem is the word itself. It's used as a synonym for grilling, refers to the grill itself, or to the meat being grilled; it also has a sauce named after it; and sometimes it's just the word for the party itself held outdoors in somebody's backyard. What, actually, is "barbecue"? American purists see things a little differently. Which brings us to barbecue chicken, a staple of the summer grill. The sad fact is that often times the answer is no. The problem, and the result, is charred all over the place, a crapshoot for succulence, often dry and sad. I believe good barbecue chicken is low and slow followed by fast and hot; that's the easiest way to achieve fantastic results. This way is a vast improvement over most methods, and won't take all afternoon. the dry rub keeping half the grill hot and half of it cooler, i.e. For the rub, I turned to a famous thing "magic dust" invented by barbecue god Mike Mills. (makes 2 cups)
Senate committee votes to end warrantless e-mail searches (Updated) Update (April 25): The Leahy-Lee bill was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday. The original story on this initiative appears below. If the police want to read copies of a snail-mail letter you've received, they generally need to get a warrant. But the situation is different for e-mail. Under the terms of the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, e-mail older than six months is considered abandoned. When Congress established this rule, modern cloud e-mail services were still far in the future. The need for reform has been obvious for years, but recent events have created a greater sense of urgency. Ars talked to Chris Calabrese, an attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union, about the privacy proposals Congress is considering. The legislation under consideration in the Senate was proposed by Patrick Leahy (D-VT), the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and Mike Lee (R-UT), a senator with strong ties to the Tea Party.
40 websites that will make you cleverer right now The indexed web contains an incredible 14 billion pages. But only a tiny fraction help you improve your brain power. Here are 40 of the best. whizzpast.com – Learn about our awe inspiring past all in one wonderful place. khanacademy.org – Watch thousands of micro-lectures on topics ranging from history and medicine to chemistry and computer science. freerice.com – Help end world hunger by correctly answering multiple-choice quizzes on a wide variety of subjects. artofmanliness.com – Blog/site dedicated to all things manly, great for learning life skills and good insights. unplugthetv.com – Randomly selects an educational video for you to watch. coursera.org – An educational site that works with universities to get their courses on the Internet, free for you to use. mentalfloss.com – Interesting articles guaranteed to make you smile and get you thinking. feelgoodwardrobe.com – Find out how the world of fashion really works and what you can do to combat it. lifehacker.com – Learn to hack life!
#1 Voice-Over Marketplace for Voice-Over Talent typing lessons This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. It can improve any individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides. This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it. So at any time, you will by typing the letters you are least familiar with. This is the text board. ? ? ? ? ?
Beautiful Abandoned Places and Ghost Towns Abandoned places and things of the past fascinate me. Here are a selection of my favourite ghost towns and disused buildings/theme parks. Please feel free to share yours in the comments or with us on twitter @pixel_clouds! An unfinished hotel haunts a Spanish coastline This abandoned water park in Russia was never completed Japan’s Abandoned Amusement Park Częstochowa, Poland’s abandoned train depot 1984 Winter Olympics bobsleigh track in Sarajevo El Hotel del Salto in Colombia Merle Spurrier Gymnasium Pool – University of Rochester (Chris Seward) Disused Cooling Tower of a Power Plant, Belgium Taipingshan National Forest in Taiwan Broken Wooden Bridge, Pittsburgh Little Belt Railway – Paris, France Abandoned amusement park, Dunaújváros, Hungary Six Flags Amusement park, New Orleans Hubei province, China Dadipark, Dadizele, Belgium Taken by the tides Kadykchan, Russia Kowloon Walled City Hashima Island, Japan Sanzhi UFO houses, Taiwan A short film about post-apocalyptic hell-hole, the Salton Sea