What bemused you today?

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It's been a week now, since I posted my iMac question and still no answer. I decided to run my own username and discovered since getting the Mac, I have posted about 8 queries on issues I'd had. 4 of the 8 have never been replied to. I'm wondering if I bought a Jinxed machine. 

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2nd thing that has bemused me today, seeing all the posted flower and insect photos. It's still all gray and brown here. Right now ( almost 10 am.) it's a thick overcast to the point I have to have lights on instead of enjoying sunshine.

[ABERS]

It's payback time with a vengeance. Just read that PR man and sometime PM man Cameron has ennobled some 117 people in the past year. He shouldn't have made all those silly off the cuff promises on his climb up the greasy pole, because apparently this has made the House of Lords a somewhat overcrowded and a difficult place to work in. The queue to register expenses is becoming quite rowdy and unmanageable and spaces to doze off on the benches are at a premium.

They're not all 'yes men' as is usually the case, he's been looking out for NO men in the run up to the AV referendum!

[Beryl]

This did
Hope it works





It doesn't So will have to work on it. Sorry
Wll it does work it's an animation but it won't work in the post

[Oldboy]

Isn',t this just poetic Justice
PERTH - An SAS trooper collecting toys for children was stabbed when he helped
stop a suspected shoplifter in east Perth .

The 'Toys-R-Us' Store Manager told 'The West Australian' that a man was seen on
surveillance cameras last Friday putting a laptop under his jacket at the store.

When confronted, the man became irate, knocked down an employee, pulled a knife
and ran toward the door.
Outside were four SAS Troopers collecting toys for the "Toys For Tots" program.

Smith said the Troopers stopped the man, but he stabbed one of them, in the back.
The cut did not appear to be severe.

The suspect was transported by ambulance to the Royal Perth Hospital with two
broken arms, a broken leg, possible broken ribs, multiple contusions and assorted
lacerations including a broken nose and jaw...

Injuries he apparently sustained when he tripped whilst trying to run after the stabbing.

One of the Troopers said, "He was a clumsy B A S T A R D."

[Jonathan]

PhotoRadar sent me a "VIP" email.

It leads with a lovely image advertising their tutorials for aspiring wedding pros.

For the life of me I can't figure out what the reflector is doing.  I must need one of their courses.

[skellum]

He is trying to hide his shirt with it...

[Beaux Reflets]

Perhaps it's a spot the unusual shadows compelation   

[nickt]

To me, it looks like he's throwing light back into the shadows/faces. Should he therefore be further to the right and have a bigger reflector?

[Oldboy]

Perhaps he reflecting black light! 

[Jonathan]

To me, it looks like he's throwing light back into the shadows/faces. Should he therefore be further to the right and have a bigger reflector?

But there is no extra light in the faces......

Reflectors work like stationary tennis rackets.  Light comes in, hits them and bounces off at the opposite angle it came in at.  They also throw back (far) less than 100% of the light that hits them.

The reflector is pretty much perpendicular to the light (you can see the sun pretty clearly from the shadows) which means it will skip off and vanish to picture right.  And there really won't be much of it.  Considerably less light will be hitting it than the back of the "groom's" head and only a portion will get reflected in the wrong direction.  If it were working, you'd see a shimmery light on their faces.

There's a theory on Twitter that this is part of an article about bouncing a flash into a reflector which is something I've done many times but.....

1. There's no flash or trigger on either of the cameras
2. You can roughly see where it would throw the light from the reflector shadow (caused by the BTS guy's on camera flash).  That's mainly into the pillar (this could vary a bit depending on striking angle.  But not enough )

It's a nicely set up shot that some muppet has put a guy in an ugly shirt with a reflector in.  It annoys me that this will be used to teach people about "using a reflector to add catchlights" when that's total nonsense.

[Graham]

 That shirt would create one hell of a colour cast!
                   Graham.

[Hinfrance]

Aside from Dave's astute observation about shirt concealment the reflector could also be:
1. To give the assistant a sense of self worth by getting him to do something he thinks is helpful or
2. Give the bride a reflection so that she can fine tune her pout or
3. He is actually nothing to do with the photographer and the face of the disk he is holding is covered in velcro so that he can catch the tennis ball being throw at him by the other player just out of shot.

[Beaux Reflets]

Or perhaps it's a 

[Beryl]

I think he's singing ' Hey Mr Tambourine man. I have lost my wedding bells '