By Scott David Plumlee
Popular jewellery clothier and teacher Scott David Plumlee exhibits readers easy methods to create 24 intricate-looking rings, bracelets, and necklaces at domestic with a brand new speedy and simple soldering technique.
An cutting edge new fabric is popping conventional soldering the wrong way up. Scott David Plumlee, writer of Handcrafting Chain and Bead Jewelry, teaches jewellery makers tips to use a progressive new soldering paste and a small hand held butane torch to create a number probably advanced yet simply attainable chain and bead designs at their kitchen table--no difficult, pricey studio required. Scott's creative equipment, transparent guide, and encouraging designs will supply any aspiring jewellery maker the arrogance to grasp this previously intimidating method.
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A live LCD preview lets you keep the camera a few inches from your face, or even at arm’s length, and still see what will be captured. Point-and-shoot digital cameras sometimes put the LCD on a swiveling mount so you can use it for framing with the camera held at waist level, overhead, or even facing you for a self portrait. Digital SLRs (except for a model from Olympus) don’t have this kind of swivel LCD because they don’t have the live preview that would make the capability useful. Infrared imagery up to your imagination Infrared photos call for a filter that blocks visible light.
So much is in focus with a non-SLR digital camera that, in practice, you have very little control over depth-of-field except when shooting close-up pictures from very short distances. ) Although the focus is on the building block in the middle, all the blocks are fairly sharp. 6 shows how control over depth-of-field can be used creatively to isolate a subject (see Figure 1-6). Only the middle left red block is in sharp focus, whereas the others are blurred. In Chapter 6, I explain depth-of-field in more detail.
If they want to take a lot of photos indoors or of architecture outdoors, they might need cameras with the equivalent of a film camera’s 24mm wide-angle lens, which is still fairly rare among non-dSLR models. ) Or, perhaps a photographer wants to shoot sports and would like a lens that’s the equivalent of a 400mm lens on a film camera. Those are available, too, although not, generally, with cameras that also have wide-angle capabilities. Digital SLR camera owners have fewer limitations. I own a 12–24mm zoom that’s the equivalent of an 18mm to 36mm wide-angle lens.