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Ferrofluid Photo -- Method?

Ferrofluid Magnet under glass

Hi Greg(ory). Would you mind describing how you achieved the conditions seen in this shot, e.g. ferrofluid type, use of the iron rod, and so on?

I'm hoping to shoot some video footage of ferrofluid structures. Thanks for any and all help. 24.63.72.194 05:59, 13 January 2013 (UTC)

IIRC it was pretty straight forward— ferrofluid on glass, on a strong rare earth magnet. 100mm macro lens up close, separate background and foreground illumination. I think the background was just a set of florescents and the foreground was photostrobes positioned to get the highlights in locations that maximized the apparent depth), so I could control. FG/BG brightness balance controlled by setting the shutter duration. Sadly, I do not recall the fluid specifications.--Gmaxwell (talk) 23:32, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

Template:Im Reiche des Geistes (Faulmann)

I would like to ask you to unprotect this template that you have protected in 2008. I don't think that vandalism is a real problem in a template like this. Once the template in unprotected, I would like to update the language tagging and add a license template for the United States. -- Robert Weemeyer (talk) 08:51, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

It's not protected due to active vandalism but because it was used on a very large number of images and frequent editing had large disruption and technical issue perspective. If you have changes ready to commit for it I can unprotected it temporarily or move an updated version into place for you. --Gmaxwell (talk) 11:16, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Please replace {{PD-old}} with {{PD-old-100-1923}}. -- Robert Weemeyer (talk) 14:01, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Template:Lucians Werke

As you don't seem to read the discussion pages of templates that you have protected, in my opinion it would be better to unprotect them. Please replace {{PD-old}} in Template:Lucians Werke with {{PD-old-100}} or, even better, {{PD-old-100-1923}}. -- Robert Weemeyer (talk) 07:31, 30 May 2013 (UTC)

Philly

In a hole

Chinatown? Photo? Please? Evrik (talk) 20:00, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

• After wikimania, I went back and looked. Can you tell me where you posted them to? Evrik (talk) 16:14, 18 March 2013 (UTC)

Geocode fixing

How good are you at correcting the Geocodes on images? Because this one is about a block west of it's actual location. Granted I've seen worse, but it's nice to know these there's a way to correct errors in geocoding. --DanTD (talk) 17:22, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

CU

Dear Gmaxwell. While we have a number of CUs (8), some do not seem available to help the community any longer. While your work in the past is certainly appreciated, maybe you would consider dropping the CU tool now to allow the community to elect new - and active - community members to assist the current CheckUsers. Regards, Trijnstel_talk 22:09, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

Alternatively, I'd be glad to help out more (and have intermittently as people have asked me to). Would you care to point me at areas where checkuser help is most needed and going under serviced? (Obviously I'm already aware of the RFCU page, but it seldom has pending requests when I've checked) --Gmaxwell (talk) 22:15, 11 June 2013 (UTC)

You are a CU for over six years now... You should be able to see the work yourself imho. (And there is even more work since Herby quit.) Trijnstel_talk 13:38, 12 June 2013 (UTC)