Pic of the Day #558
Periodically, I get asked to take pictures of some of the various products that the company produces.
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This is what is called an anti-2-block unit, a device for preventing the two ‘blocks’ of a crane assembly from contacting during normal operation. If for whatever reason the blocks were to contact, it could severely damage the crane, and most crane operators want to prevent that from happening. Hence, this little unit.
The slightly lifted plate there is deliberate — this is one of a series of photos showing how to maintain the unit in the field. Behind the lifted plate is the battery compartment.
Anyhow, I had to run around the office all morning trying to find a sufficiently white background on which to take photos; once I had that, Colin took the unit apart, and I took pictures at each stage of it. I really liked how this image turned out, in spite of the high ISO I had to use. It was a fairly simple image to edit, especially since I had been using my 50 mm lens, and only really needed a mild exposure boost and some highlight reduction, in addition to the noise reduction one would expect for a high ISO image.
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