Where there's Muck, there's Brass Setup

A few nice the make money spot images I found:

Where there’s Muck, there’s Brass Setup

Image by nickwheeleroz
Strobist Information:

I had been thinking about this assignment for a few days and had not come up with any real workable ideas when I was fetching something from the garage and spotted the green tin in the picture. It was originally a novelty plant pot and as soon as I saw it the idea for the picture popped into my head. If the light had to do double duty, then why not the topic?

The first problem I had was how to get the recycle symbol onto the tin. This turned out to be the hardest part of the whole project and ended up taking me two days! My first idea was to create a template and draw it on with a magic marker. I downloaded the recycle symbol from the internet and printed it out to the size I wanted. I then taped the paper to a sheet of sticky back plastic (the sort school children use to cover there exercise books) and then taped this to a sheet of cardboard. I carefully cut out the shape with a box cutter and popped out the individual pieces. I was left with a nice neat template that I could stick directly to the tin. With this in place, I filled in the holes with the magic marker and left it a couple of minutes to dry. Feeling pretty pleased with myself for coming up with such an ingenious solution I carefully peeled off the plastic to revel a complete mess! The magic marker had seeped under the plastic and left an unusable feathery mess on the tin. Oh dear, not quite what I had planned. Luckily, I still had the other side of the tin I could use, but I would have no more second chances, what ever I tried next would have to work.

I still had the template and wondered if I could draw the symbol by hand. I traced the outline using a pencil and was just about to start drawing when I thought better of it and decided to have a practice on the ruined side. Good job I did, as my attempts to draw the symbol by hand were a little disastrous to say the least. Time for another idea.

I thought about the problem for a while and then remembered I had some iron on t-shirt transfer inkjet paper. I wondered if this might work on the tin. I printed the symbol (reversed) onto a sheet of the special paper and fired up the iron. Again, I decided to try things out on the by now rather shabby looking side of the tin and again it was a good job I did. The transfers work great on cotton, on tin, not so well. The resultant sticky mess was not at all pleasing to the eye.

I was starting to run out of ideas, but then decided to try printing directly onto the sticky back plastic. I cut a sheet out to A4 size and feed it into the printer. Within seconds it was plainly obvious that this was a stupid idea as big globs of ink ran down the plastic all over my desk, my hands, my carpet and anything else within ten feet of the printer. I gave up and went to bed.

The next day I went to the local K-mart to see if I could find some sort of transfer paper that would work on the tin. No luck, but what I did find was a roll of black shiny sticky back plastic. Perfect! I took a roll home and created another template, this time keeping the parts I cut out and discarding the outline. I then stuck the individual pieces to the tin and what do you know, one very passable recycle symbol.

With the props sorted out it was time to put the picture together. First I filled the tin with crumpled up paper and then raided the piggy bank for every coin we had. I piled these up on top of the paper to make it look like the tin was full to overflowing.

Next I started building the set up. I knew I wanted the light to light the front of the tin, the coins on top and the background. The first thing to do was to raise the tin off the ground. I used my PW boxes to support a sheet of glass from a picture frame and put the tin on top of this. There was now enough room underneath it to start splitting up the light from the SB-28.

I placed the flash on its side just slightly in front of the tin pointing towards the background. I then put a small mirror at a 45 degree angle right up against the flash so that it split the flash head in half. I taped a purple gel to the bottom of the mirror so that it hung in front of the bottom half of the flash. This would be the light for the background.

The 45 degree mirror fired light upwards across the front of the tin but left the money in the top in the dark. To get some light on this, I clamped a mirror tile into a reflector holder and placed it above the tin just in front of it and angled back towards it slightly. I worked out the exact placement to get maximum light by replacing the flash with a small LED torch. I could see from this exactly where the light was going to fall.

The last step was to place the background. I used a large sheet of white card and hung it from a wooden rod clamped into a super clamp on a light stand. I hung the card so that the bottom rested on the table and allowed me to bend it slightly to give a nice graduation to the background colour.

With everything roughly in place I started taking pictures and made a few slight adjustments to tweak the lighting. I initially had the flash on full power thinking that splitting the light would cause it to loose a lot of power, but it was pretty obvious that half power was plenty for this shot.

The final setup ended up looking like an experiment in a particle physics lab and having two more SB-28’s in my camera bag next to me made all the adjustments to get the background, foreground and top lighting right seem like a lot of work, but it was very satisfying when the final shot came together!

Picture here: Where there’s Muck, there’s Brass

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Exchange Money Conversion to Foreign Currency

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Free picture about a huge sum of money for exchange conversions in international currency markets and digital forex trading. This paper money picture was created for you by the non-profit friend epSos.de and it can be used for free, if you link epSos.de as the original author of this image.

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Money is a specific product, which has the universal equivalent value to other goods or services. Usually, money is a product with high liquidity, that is the product that is most easily exchanged for another product (for example, often such product was cattle ). In addition to measures of value for other goods, money is a medium of exchange (mediator in the exchange ). Furthermore, the role of money can perform different things , other property rights, obligations and liabilities as proprietary systems.

Tool for treasures . If in a natural money to maintain the balance between cash and marketable weight needed to reduce the amount of money in circulation, they began to be deposited in the form of treasure . Treasures are different from savings that savings are a form of accumulation of funds for a specific purpose, at the desired size, or at the right time they spent. Treasures do without a specific purpose. The main reason for their formation – the inability (or unwillingness) of the effective use of all cash. Treasures are beginning to spend when the need of the economy in the money supply increases. In modern conditions, the role of money symbolic treasures in the regulation of the money supply is low.

Credit money – is the right to claim in the future with regard to natural or legal persons, specially designed debt, usually in the form of transferred securities that can be used to purchase goods (services) or to pay their own debts. Payment on such debt is usually done at a certain time, though there are options when the payment is made ​​at any time upon request. Lending money to bear the risk of default requirements.

Money market is a system of economic relations on the provision of funds for up to one year. The system of economic relations on the provision of funds for a period exceeding one year is called the capital market. Money market, along with the capital market is part of a general financial categories – financial market.

Participants in the money market is the one part of the person providing the money ( creditors ), and on the other hand – people borrowing money for certain conditions ( borrowers ). One of the categories of market participants are financial intermediaries . Provision of funds possible without financial intermediaries.

Interests of the participants in the money market are receiving income from transactions with various financial instruments of the money market. Lenders receive income in the form of interest on the transferred amount. Borrowers receive income in the form of additional profits derived from the use of the borrowed funds. Financial intermediaries receive income in the form of commission or interest-rate attraction and accommodation facilities.

International Finance – a concept characterized by a set of international financial resources in their movement. Globalization – the growth of world trade, the scale and specialization of production, the development of the international flow of capital , cross-border movement of goods , services and people – led to the development of international finance, the emergence of global financial markets , international financial corporations, the complexity of intergovernmental fiscal relations and other aspects of international finance.

International finance reflect the state and development of the ever-changing international monetary system, the state and changes in the balance of payments of individual countries, international financial markets, international financial corporations The main participants are the world’s financial system: banks, multinational corporations , portfolio investors and international official borrowers. Global financial operations have become a dynamic force that have a significant impact on the financial systems of individual countries, and in concert with the global economic environment – a powerful tool for integration of economic and financial markets, countries and regions. They also contribute to the international spread of the crisis.

Foreign Exchange Market ( English. Foreign exchange Market, currency Market ) – is a system of stable economic and institutional relationships that arise in operations on purchase and / or sale of foreign currency , payment documents in foreign currencies, as well as operations on the movement of capital of foreign investors.

In the foreign exchange market is coordinating the interests of investors, buyers and sellers of currency values ​​. Western economists have characterized the foreign exchange market with the organizational and technical point of view as a total network of modern means of communication between the national and foreign banks and brokerage firms.

Authorized banks may buy or sell foreign currency concluding the transactions of its sales to the establishment of the delivery of these transactions no later than the second business banking day from the date of detention. This type of transaction is called a spot (cash) currency transaction and ongoing operations are performed on it on a "spot" with the calculation by the spot price . Called "spot foreign exchange transactions" combined three types of transactions on purchase and sale of foreign currency, require delivery of funds.

Puerto Banús (II)

Image by . SantiMB .
Marbella, Málaga (Spain).

ENGLISH

Puerto José Banús, more commonly known as Puerto Banús is a marina in Marbella, Spain on the Costa del Sol. It was built in 1970 by José Banús, a local property developer, as a luxury marina and shopping complex for the jet-set and the super rich.

The lavish opening of the complex in May 1970 was attended by, amongst others, the Aga Khan, film director Roman Polanski, Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, Dr. Christian Barnard (pioneer of the heart transplant), and Prince Rainier and Princess Grace of Monaco. A youthful Julio Iglesias was contracted to sing for the guests for the enormous sum of 125,000 pesetas. An army of 300 waiters from Seville served 50 pounds of Beluga caviar to the 1,700 guests.

The focal point of Puerto Banus is the marina. It has berths for 915 boats, including those of the King of Saudi Arabia and several of the world’s wealthiest individuals. Behind the harbour lie streets filled with bars, boutiques and nightclubs. Behind the main square is a vast El Corte Inglés department store.

The marina has 915 slips for boats and ships from 8 to 50 meters. Its surface area is 15 hectares, and its depth ranges from 3 to 6 meters within the marina, with 7.5 meters at its entrance. There is beach on each side of the marina. Many of the yachts moored within can enjoy an unobstructed view of La Concha mountain, one of the coast’s landmarks.

José Banús himself was a developer with real estate holdings all along the coast. He was an intimate of Francisco Franco’s and was called el constructor del régimen ("the regime’s builder").

Although the superstars have moved to more private destinations, visitors to ‘The Port’ (as it is known by locals) tend to be extremely wealthy tourists from northern Europe (especially UK and Germany) as well as holiday-making Spaniards. Moreover, the city continues to be a hot destination for Europe’s biggest "jetsetters." Recent personages spotted in "el puerto" have included multiple Saudi princes, as well as a famed healthcare economist and a great Taoist philosopher.

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Ban%c3%bas

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CASTELLANO

Puerto José Banús es un puerto deportivo de lujo, situado en la zona denominada Nueva Andalucía, al oeste de Marbella, en España, cerca de otro núcleo de población de Marbella denominado San Pedro de Alcántara.

Este enclave turístico se ha convertido, desde que fue concebido hace 40 años, en el mayor centro de entretenimiento de la Costa del Sol.

Su excepcional localización geográfica y la visita de numerosos personajes populares la convierten en un atractivo destino veraniego, especialmente nocturno.

José Banús fue el promotor más importante de complejos de turismo residencial de la Costa del Sol. Amigo íntimo de Francisco Franco fue llamado «el constructor del Régimen».

Fuente: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Ban%c3%bas

Where there's Muck, there's Brass Setup