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Hi, I'm Doug McKinlay and

you'rewatching AdoramaTV.

Now for today's episode we're

in the garden shed!

now you might be

asking why is he taking pictures

in the man cave?

Well my garden shed is less mancave,

and more dumping ground for everything

from old furniture, to broken toys, to

refrigerators and to tools.

Now even though it's a big mess and

indeed one day it should be the man cave..

and will be the man cave..

there are items here

that we can we can gather,

and we can make some interesting

photographs and I'm thinking a little bit of

art photography here.

I think places like this are often

overlooked when it comes to pictures.

With a little imagination there's

photography gold here. Worn and

distressed items tell a story.

Perfect for the imaginative

still life photographer.

When I look through the

doors of the shed on the weekend to grab

my lawnmower to cut the grass, the

haphazard look at the place really

intrigues me, now because I've been

working on the house for the last couple

of years, the shed has become a de-facto

dumping ground for everything, but still

that look I like it, and I've never

photographed it, or it's contents, so

that's what we're hoping to do now. But it's

not just the overall look of the

shed we are trying to get. It's all the

little bits and bobs that are lying

around in there, we want to collect

different combinations of things,

different kinds of tools, different kinds of

broken toys etc.. and put them in

different combinations, hoping to get

nice black and whites or manipulate

colored pictures.

It should be a lot of fun!

Well here we are in amongst all

the detritus of my shed, so I'm just

going to grab a few things to

photograph outside, we're going to use the

picnic bench outside to start with, and I

think I'll start with a few tools. With

this chisel, these vise grips, these allen

keys, they might work, well that's a bit

dark I think, so maybe I'll get rid of

that one and we'll pick up this spanner.

I think those three, the silver might

actually work together, however I'm going to

grab three others. I think this old

clawhammer, the little garden implement

here, and because they're quite dark, I

might grab those allen keys as well.

So there you have it I'm just going to

change my lens, do some arranging, and

we'll see what we get.

I think I'm gonna go for the

24-70mm just to give me that little

extra bit of versatility with the zoom.

Shove that on there, close that up, I

think we'll just get rid of the bag. It's

just going to get in the way. Not sure if I'm

going to use a pod yet, so we'll just keep

it on top. Now what I'm thinking here is

start with this sort of a triptych so

we're going to just arrange, we've chosen

the silver tools, we're just going to spin

them around, arrange them on the, on the

table here. I quite like the the patina

of this old picnic table, that just been

lying out here for about four years now,

and over that time it's created this,

it's gained this kind of weathered look

and I'm hoping that will help with the

pictures, when we finally get them in the

darkroom, in a digital darkroom. So

because I'm not using the pod I'm going

to set it at 400 ISO just to start with, and

if I get a really great shot, I might

switch to the tripod, and go to a lower ISO

Now I'm shooting at around f/8 at about one sorry,

f5, 6.3 at 100 that's just really pushing it.

It's not bad, it's not bad, I think once I

get in a dark room I can really make it

stand out. Now I'm going to switch from the

silver stuff to the darker stuff.

I think the exposure should be pretty

similar actually. I know that the silver

stuff might throw a little more light

off this, the dark stuff sucks light up

again, but I'm not sure it's going to change

much. Well I've gone from f 6.3

down to f5.6.

Now that's just one backdrop, you can use

any backdrop you want. Now we've got

old bits of plank in there

around the side of the shed, we've got

some drywall, some MDF, any of that stuff

will work well for a backdrop. For your

pictures, it's totally up to you as a

photographer to choose whatever you want.

You're only limited by your own

imagination. Now we are limited for time

here, so we can't do a lot at the moment

but I am going to grab the dart board out

of the shed there, and I'm going to switch

lenses again to a 50mm 1.4

because I want to see what I can get

with a really limited depth of field. So

I'll do that right now.

So this is my little boys dart board, but

he often can never hit, he hit's the shed

when he hits the board, but we're going

to use it to to look at an image with a

really shallow depth of field. Using a 50

mm lens making sure you focus and

set your aperture, is correct so down to

1.4 and that'll give us, shutter, pretty

shutter speed, because where it said it

ISO 400. I might bring that down, just

bring it down to 200 okay. So I'm going

sit down and do this, what I'm trying to

do, is really limit the depth of field

between these two darts. We'll just

rearrange them a little bit, and also

hopefully bring that color up, so that

focus is razor thin. But it does work

it's really nice I like the effect. I'm

just going to set these off in a bit of an angle.

Yep, straight on this time from above, the

best way to do this, is just play around

what you've got, until you get what you

like. Yes, now that's the one, that's the

one I like. Fill the frame lots of color

narrow depth of field, it almost looks like

it's in 3D. It's so good, so cool. So

that's it you just have to use your

imagination and use what you can find,

it's fantastic.

Ideally we're trying to avoid pictures

that look like we're trying to sell

garden sheds! What we want are images

that are more in line with art

photography. And this requires looking at the shed and its contents in a different way.

What do I mean by this? Basically we have

to imagine the finished images, and that

means conceptualizing the pictures as they

to go through the digital darkroom

process. The darkroom is a symbiotic

cousin to photography, both now in the

digital world, as well as during the film

days. So when I'm putting all these

pictures together, using all these items

in the shed I'm also thinking of all the

processes I can use them in the computer

to make them look great.

Primarily I use Photoshop Lightroom and

the 2 Nik software plugins, with Silver

Efex Pro and Colour Efex. I know

with this array of tools, that I can make

some really fantastic pictures, and I'm

only limited by my imagination. So that's

it for me, in front of the garden shed.

I'm Doug McKinlay for AdoramaTV, don't

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Tesla Model S 90D: Rated Range Degradation 45000 Miles 82 Weeks Ownership W/Chart - Duration: 4:01.

good evening everybody tonight will be the 45 thousand dollar range update just

got car back from tussle service had them address a bunch of warranty issues

also gave them that my stack of documentation on my loss of range which

is not getting any better over the last forty five thousand miles outside

temperature is currently 79 degrees Fahrenheit when we first plugged in up a

supercharger it was in the 90s current range two hundred and sixty-seven rated

miles and the car would not charge to 100% let's take a look over here at my

little spy I spy with my Tesla spy packed capacity after I got it back from

Tesla and they let it sit with about three miles in the pack for about four

days while they were waiting for parts 78 point four kilowatt hour is what the

car calculates as my pack capacity lifetime discharge twenty thousand 144

kilowatt hours or that would be twenty point one four four megawatt lifetime

charge twenty one point six six nine megawatt current balance of the pack 11

millivolts which is not good it's actually pretty bad it probably has to

do with them with my car not being plugged in for like four days or five

days and because I arrived at the service center with a pretty low battery

it had like thirty miles in it when I dropped it off and the car will not

charge as you can see charge complete

slider is all the way at 100% and won't charge and I've restarted it a couple

times now it won't recharge past about 98.5 percent probably Intel because a

couple cells over here zoomin and we're going above 4.2 volts during charge

which is considered full so it couldn't bleed off the power from those cells

fast enough to keep charging this is the least balanced my packs been in quite a

while right now the hottest cells in the pack are 105 point five degrees

Fahrenheit with a low of 103.1 tomorrow's forecast partly cloudy and

that is it for the 200 their own 45 thousand mile rain update now Tesla's

response they ran the Diagnostics on my pack pack is fine and then they said

they can be they compared my Barry against the tesla fleet according to

that that's mini of course according to that my pack is is comparable to the

rest of the tesla fleet I'm sorry I got a call bullshit on that but I still got

six and a half years of battery pack and drive unit warranty left even though my

bumper burger will be over soon adios