I shouldn't be allowed out on my own.

Dragonsreach

Dragonsreach

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Staff member
OK :-- I'm gonna hold up my hands and admit to being a complete fekin ijeet!

Back in 2007 Fran bought me a Nikon D300, Macro Lens and Nikon SS-MS1 Macro flashgun set as a Christmas present. BOOYAH!

However since then I've struggled to get a consistent set of photographs of my figures, until last weekend.
Those Photographs resulted in this thread: http://www.coolminiornot.com/forums/showthread.php?52331-Six-Years-On-Can-An-Old-Man-Still-Compete

Today being cold and snowy and having tidied up the mancave 'slightly' I decided to do some more pictures of figures with which I've gained Finalist places with over the years.

Part way through this morning I start to see a major drop off in the light from one of the flash guns. "Hmmn Puzzling says I" (among other things)
I look at it, swap battery, same thing.
Then I look at the diffuser on the front of the flash gun, it has a small "U" shaped indent in the connecting frame, I looks at Flash gun and for the first time in how many years notice that theres a sensor on the top of the flash gun.

I look at the diffuser, I look at the flash gun.
I look at the diffuser, I look at the flash gun.
I look at the diffuser, I look at the flash gun.
And then the penny drops...........

O.F.F.S!

All this time I've been putting the feckin diffuser on upside down and blocking the sensor!
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So ask who is an IT Specialist, with MCSE qualifications!
Who has Teaching Qualifications!
Who used to Teach Photography and Judge Photography competitions in the north east 25 years ago.
That'd be me!


Pictures are coming out nice now!


Really I shouldn't be let out on my own.
You have my permission to point and laugh, very loudly.
 
Avelorn

Avelorn

Sven Jonsson
:)

So I work part time with sound in movies (short films and some commercial work). Got a weird problem a couple of years back with sound only reaching one of the speakers. I checked all the connections, even re-installed the drivers I think. Totally puzzled for a day or two. Until I noticed that the little panning thing on the Winamp player was set to one side.

Yeah.
 
In Chigh P.I.

In Chigh P.I.

New member
Hehehe, dont know if mine is more embarrassing but a few weeks ago i only realised i could switch my phone to and from silent mode with a single, long-click (the little crossed-out loudspeaker icon thingy on one of the keys) Bought it last april and all this time i was taking the long route via menu-settings etc. Fairly sure there was no mention of this in the manual (its a dirt-cheap, no-frills phone i use at work) but i guess knowing things like that are taken as granted in this cruel, heartless modern age of technology :p
 
Pictish Mini Painting

Pictish Mini Painting

I'm actually a man!
Its the camera version of leaving the kill switch on the motorbike and not realising why it wont start....

you always feel a bit daft at the time.
 
Einion

Einion

New member
No you really shouldn't Mike!

On the positive side at least you did notice for yourself... imagine how dumb you'd feel if someone else had spotted it :doh:

Einion
 
gohkm

gohkm

Active member
Happens to us all, mate. My wife has had an iPad for the past 3 years or so, and she has only just (about 3 weeks back) figured out that you can switch languages on the iPad.
 
K

Kretcher

Active member
Thanks for sharing, give me a smile, also the comments are nice :)

Now I feel better. This is a good place.

/Kretcher
 
skraaal

skraaal

New member
So I was having a cup of tea one day and decided to tip the mug to my lips and drink...it was only when the hot liquid hit my lap did I realize that the mug was about 2 inches from my face when i started to pour. We all do silly things at some point or another :)
 
me_in_japan

me_in_japan

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I just about cut the end off my thumb when I was throwing some bits of tomato in the bin. The really stupid part? I managed to cut my right thumb (right at the tip. Took some of the nail off) whilst holding the knife in my right hand, while said hand was being held out for balance as I leaned over to chuck the offending tomato out with my left hand. How is that even physically possible?
 
10 ball

10 ball

New member
Well I have told this story before but here goes again (last time I could hear the laughing down the line)

Well ladies and gentlemen I've got a tale of epic dumbass.
My dad and I changed the oil and filter in my car. He says
"we best run the car around the block to see it's ok"
I say
"I haven't got much petrol, let's go in your car"
so we both drive around the block in his car!!!!!
omg we got half way round before one if us said something Lol, lol :doh:
 
Talion

Talion

New member
I always love it when the realization of what you are doing strikes mid doing it.

I've so many times had one thing in one hand to be placed in one place and something in the other to go somewhere else.

Example: TV remote and Carton of milk. Leaving the milk in the living room, as I'm placing the remote control in the fridge......suddenly realizing and say out load WTF am I doing.
 
RuneBrush

RuneBrush

New member
Talion said:
I always love it when the realization of what you are doing strikes mid doing it.

I've so many times had one thing in one hand to be placed in one place and something in the other to go somewhere else.

Example: TV remote and Carton of milk. Leaving the milk in the living room, as I'm placing the remote control in the fridge......suddenly realizing and say out load WTF am I doing.
Click to expand...

Opening the fridge to fill up the kettle from the water filter and picking up the milk instead is the common one in my house...
 
wiccanpony

wiccanpony

Official Freak Bar Witch
Go have a lie down in the CoffinDodgers Lounge Mike, I'll have one of the barmaids bring you a cuppa and a warm blanket
 
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