On my way to the dumpster with the days deposit of cat droppings at just after 5am, I noticed something odd. I had the iPhone on me, but its low-light capability is somewhat lacking, plus, my ability to handhold 1 second shutter speeds is rather limited. So I came inside, fetched the tripod, remote shutter, …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
365.185 Abstraktes Bild
On the back of the camera, this looked like Captain America somehow. In the computer, it looked fairly dull, at first, but then began to transform: a discotheque; a growth of some foreign mold or crystal; superman’s skin, even; there were others. In the end, it just became an abstraction, and I’m fine with that. …
365.184 Anytime is the Right Time
I wrote a whole rant about some advice a couple of professional photographers gave on their video podcast a couple of months go (and that I’m only getting around to watching just now), but I realized that 1) their advice was aimed at people who want to be professional photographers (i.e., not me); 2) their …
365.183 Killer 2:40-3:02
Open a new tab and go find a way to listen to Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Killer, especially the little section from 2:40-3:02. (This would be the version on theSamdhi album from 2011, the one you can find a youtube of with relative ease, or could as of 4:50pm Central Time today…) That rather manic bit of sound is …
365.182 Knee 4
Quite frankly, I think this should be printed up at around 40×60″ and hanging in a gallery. I don’t have much to say about it beyond that, though it’s amazing what one can do with some cheap LED torches, an off camera flash, and a CTO gel… D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Zomb-E Series. ISO100, 1/10th …
365.181 Tricolore, maybe
Three colors of light… 1) Tungsten, from a mini maglite. 2) Cold Blue LED, from a cheap flashlight. 3) Fuorescent/Window Green, from the plastic filter that came with the SB700. I have some things I want to do with this setup, and this shot wasn’t the one I intended to use (though the one I …
365.180 a quick bit of light play
And this is just what the title suggests… In keeping with recent 365 photos, this is me mixing light sources and playing with color: on the left, a minimaglite; on the right an LED Lightbar thing; all around tungsten-balanced cfl and afternoon diffused sunlight. Pretty! D7000. Nikkor 50mm f/1.8G, reversed. ISO100, 1/5th (AP mode), f/5.6 …