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 …
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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 …
365.179 pretty nothing
Other pictures from today’s shoot had a stronger suggestion of narrative than this one, but none caught my eye the way this one does. And others were lined up better, with the camera more closely aligned with the pins than this one, but no others had the color variation or intensity of this one. So …
365.178 oolala oo-laalalala oolala oo-laalalala laaa
Believe it or not, this wasn’t manipulated much. Sure, I pushed the saturation and blacks a bit, but most of the color here comes thanks to some man-made and in-camera trickery. Lighting provided by overhead incandescent, hard led, and diffused sunlight, which led to the orange in the left half, the hard white and blue …
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