Playing around with the $10 studio
Trying to play around a little with the cheapo studio i built a week or so ago. The following image was taken with a single light obviously from the left side. I found some black posterboard at the grocery store to use for a background, but it’s not very black. I need to work in photoshop to make that black without hurting the rest of the image. Wonder if Rancilio is needing any product photographers. Not too shabby, if I say so myself.
In class last week, Gayle (the instructor) showed us an image of an holy man that was taken by using a long exposure, and some sort of zoom lens. I’ll see if I can find the photo and post it later. However, since there aren’t any holy men in my apartment, I just used the tamper from the above image, and played a little. Guess there were several effects I might have been able to do with this. Maybe I can play a little more tonight, we’ll see. Hopefully with something more interesting. Wonder if our cat Daphne is available (Just Kidding, L)?
Self Portraits are Hard
taking a self portrait at F1.4, it’s quite hard to focus on your own eyes, and hard to sit still long enough for the timer to go off.
Maybe I should get a wireless remote trigger? Anyways, I was just playing with the new lights I scored from Home Depot.
Learned a little about a German photographer named Loretta Lux the other day in class. Creepy photos of little kids with little or no emotion or facial expressions.
She takes photos of these kids, and inserts them into strange backgrounds. I thought the photos were great, but were kind of hard to look at after a while.
Strobist Photo Studio
So, I built this “photo studio” based on the “design” posted on the Strobist blog site (www.strobist.com). Took these pictures, and now I’m just playing around with the whole thing. Seems to give me basically what I want. And yes, I am aware that either my lens or my sensor was filthy when I took these. I’m working on it.
First Post, let’s give it a whirl.
My wonderful fiancee
