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Stock Image Fails Show What Happens When Photographers Don’t Know What They’re Doing
When done correctly, stock images can help to enhance, educate, inspire and illuminate. When done incorrectly however, they can lead to unexpected trips to the emergency room.
Take these pictures below for example. See anything strange about them? They look innocent enough…right? Wrong! Because as those of you who know even a little about soldering will probably have noticed, the models, so studiously engaged in their circuit boards, are holding the soldering irons in a rather unusual fashion. And by rather unusual I mean REALLY DANGEROUS, because the rod that they’re gripping just happens to be the part that gets hot. Really hot. Hot enough to melt solder in fact.
We can only assume that the soldering irons aren’t plugged in. Well, either that or these models have superhuman abilities to withstand agonizing heat. Whatever the truth, these pictures serve to remind us that even when we’re instructed how to do something, it never hurts to ask questions.
(h/t: PetaPixel)
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GibberintDark 9 years ago
Not to mention that the models are trying to solder the WRONG SIDE OF THE CIRCUIT BOARD...!!
MO'Connell 9 years ago
Ummm, welcome to the 21st Century! In the land of surface-mount soldering 'component side' really just means the front and 'solder side' really just means the back. It has nothing to do with where things are soldered.
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SembeiNorimaki 9 years ago
Don't worry. Their eyes are strongly safe behind glasses. You know, "jumpers" are very dangerous if jump! :D
DariaB 9 years ago
If that's what dr. Slump says, I know my mind can be in peace. ☻
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ChristopherJay 9 years ago
It's funny that in the top photo she appears to be in a chemistry or biology lab... you know cause science.
MikeChua 9 years ago
She must be repairing one of the lab machine's mainboard LoL
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PeggyWestmoreland 9 years ago
Seriously? The irons were plugged in for a simple photo shoot? Where's the smoke from burning flesh and plastic, as that would have made the photos a little more interesting.
AndrewAnthony 9 years ago
The circuit board in the photos is a mainboard (motherboard) of a computer and I can't think of any reason you would be manually soldering anything to this type of board. The solder joints are on the bottom of the board.
MO'Connell 9 years ago
Incorrect, there are solder joints on both sides of the board, welcome to modern surface-mount soldering. There are probably 5 times as many joints on the 'component side' as there are on the 'solder side' nowadays.
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KennyWayne 9 years ago
Very keen workers who aced Solder Stupidly 101 "Cold Solder Joints" and "Innovative Digit Heat Sinks."
get in 9 years ago
I'd venture to guess NONE of these people have EVER worked on a circuit board in their life. I worked at Cray Supercomputers for many years and repair work CAN be done on both sides. The smaller the components are the less human interaction there is, usually done by robotics. I'd also add that no one seems to be grounded and that isn't a CLEAN ROOM environment.
GibberintDark 9 years ago
Not to mention that the models are trying to solder the WRONG SIDE OF THE CIRCUIT BOARD...!!
MO'Connell 9 years ago
Ummm, welcome to the 21st Century! In the land of surface-mount soldering 'component side' really just means the front and 'solder side' really just means the back. It has nothing to do with where things are soldered.
Load More Replies... SembeiNorimaki 9 years ago
Don't worry. Their eyes are strongly safe behind glasses. You know, "jumpers" are very dangerous if jump! :D
DariaB 9 years ago
If that's what dr. Slump says, I know my mind can be in peace. ☻
Load More Replies... ChristopherJay 9 years ago
It's funny that in the top photo she appears to be in a chemistry or biology lab... you know cause science.
MikeChua 9 years ago
She must be repairing one of the lab machine's mainboard LoL
Load More Replies... PeggyWestmoreland 9 years ago
Seriously? The irons were plugged in for a simple photo shoot? Where's the smoke from burning flesh and plastic, as that would have made the photos a little more interesting.
AndrewAnthony 9 years ago
The circuit board in the photos is a mainboard (motherboard) of a computer and I can't think of any reason you would be manually soldering anything to this type of board. The solder joints are on the bottom of the board.
MO'Connell 9 years ago
Incorrect, there are solder joints on both sides of the board, welcome to modern surface-mount soldering. There are probably 5 times as many joints on the 'component side' as there are on the 'solder side' nowadays.
Load More Replies... KennyWayne 9 years ago
Very keen workers who aced Solder Stupidly 101 "Cold Solder Joints" and "Innovative Digit Heat Sinks."
get in 9 years ago
I'd venture to guess NONE of these people have EVER worked on a circuit board in their life. I worked at Cray Supercomputers for many years and repair work CAN be done on both sides. The smaller the components are the less human interaction there is, usually done by robotics. I'd also add that no one seems to be grounded and that isn't a CLEAN ROOM environment.
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