Conkshell???!?!?!?!?!

nephiliim · Post by **nephiliim** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 4:54 pm

Hey folks,

Found this beauty near my work today. A shame though is that I may not take it home with me, it is forbidden to take them off the island.

Simple set-up: A chair, 2 black t-shirts, a shell and me & my trusty camera.

Konica minolta Dimage G600
SS: 1/1000 sec
F 4,7
focal length: 8 mm
Iso 200

Hope you like it.

All the best,

Tom B

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:24 pm

You know TomB, you're turning out some really nice images here, especially the first. I really like the way the design of the shell is displayed there.

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:36 pm

Yes, #1 has a wonderful nature pattern. I love the black tee shirt, works super. I wish I worked near the ocean

nephiliim · Post by **nephiliim** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:39 am

Thank you both for the comments. Number 1 is my personal favourite to.
The shell is about 20-25 cm long (point to point) and about 10-15 cm in width.

All the best,

Tom B

jorgemotalmeida · Post by **jorgemotalmeida** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:39 am

very beautiful.

SUGGESTION: try to use sand as background. (try with different kind of sands to realize which fits better to this shell.)

Carl_Constantine · Post by **Carl_Constantine** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:07 am

I have to agree, the artistic nature of that first shot is wonderful. Well done my friend.

nephiliim · Post by **nephiliim** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:02 pm

Thank you all for the comments, does anyone have a transparent overlay (digital) of a golden ratio spiral? I wanna check if that theory goes up here to.

Al the best,

Tom B

rjlittlefield · Post by **rjlittlefield** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 8:38 pm

nephiliim wrote:Thank you all for the comments, does anyone have a transparent overlay (digital) of a golden ratio spiral? I wanna check if that theory goes up here to.

You can make one yourself from the public domain images at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio.

But I doubt that you'll bother with the overlay after taking a glance at the images.

This spiral is much too "flat" to be golden ratio -- it's only increasing in radius by 20% per turn, where golden ratio would be more like 7 times.

Interesting to note that it's not completely symmetric, either. The outer coils have around 9 lumps per turn, then some in the middle have more like 8, and the inner coils look like they go back to around 9.

--Rik

PS. Beautiful picture, BTW.