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 (AP Mode), f/8 (iirc), -1EV. SB700, zoomed to 80mm, and @1/16th from hard left; two LED light bars, one lighting the front, the other bringing up the rear. Minimal processing in Aperture, just enough to get back to the jpeg preview…

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 thought would work didn’t turn out the way I expected it to), but the one that screamed “It’s ME” at me when I scrolled through the library, and I might have to do multiple exposures with multiple focus points to get the shot that I wanted.

That’s the way it goes sometimes.

D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Zomb-E Series. ISO100, 1/15th (AP Mode), f/11, -1EV. Moderate processing in Aperture to bring out detail and texture and to add some subtlety.

By the way, I hope the title of this doesn’t read as sacrilege. If it does, please accept my deepest apologies, and offer another title if you would, as I’m a bit flat today.

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 or f/8 (not really sure…). Minimal processing in Aperture.

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 this is it, I guess. Just a pretty picture with nothing really going on, and with a couple of warts to sort of distract from otherwise regular flow.

Like yesterday’s shot, the color in this was achieved by mixing light sources: a blue led light bar, bounced off of the red metal handle of its twin forming the key light, and a mini maglite shining straight down as a sort of fill, in a ratio of roughly 4:1.

I find the intensity of color that these two light sources spit out quite fascinating.

D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Zomb-E Series, extended by 100mm. ISO100, 1/15, f/4. Minimal processing in Aperture.

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 in the right third, and the green along the bottom.

And three in-camera exposures, each with slightly different focus points added the softness and lovely bokeh (though the Zomb-E series is no slouch in that department…).

And the title? Well, I’ll give you a hint: it’s the brilliantly tongue-in-cheek backing track to a cheerful, orchestrated, and repetitively saccharine Rolling Stones song from 1967, though I’m not quite sure I spelled it properly…

D7000. Nikon 75-150mm f/3.5 Zomb-E Series, extended by 100mm. In-camera triple exposure, each at ISO100, 1.3 seconds, f/4, with slightly different focus points for each. Moderate post-processing in Aperture.

365.177 like a Pipsta

Pip is a happy little pug who really doesn’t much like these particular biscuits, but she’s not about to let Puck have it, and so she carries it around for awhile and only eats it to spite Puck…

I think Pip looks quite gangster, here. Sort of a Pugsy Siegel, perhaps, though that’s a bit too punny even for me. But definitely like a Godfather like character, with whom you wouldn’t want to mess.

In reality, she’s quite sweet, if a bit insistent.

A neighbor buddy brought her by, thinking I might like to make a picture or two, and she was right! So thanks go to Erika, for sure!

D7000. Sigma 30mm f/1.4. ISO100, 1/160th (AP mode), f/1.4, -2EV. Minimal processing in Aperture.

365.176 some kind of spinning away

This is much more garish on the interwebs than it appears in Aperture. Apologies.

I may have mentioned this before, but I spend quite a bit of time on Google Street View at work, verifying business existence (at the time the GSV passed, at the very least), and keeping an eye out for interesting sights.

Like this.

I’m not quite sure what was going on with the cameras here, but it sure was groovy looking, like Warp Speed Mr. Sulu, or something. But whatever it is, the traffic is taking off!

And I’m glad it was, because I’m running a bit behind today, so it’s good that I made this picture earlier, since I’m whipped and really don’t feel up to shooting this evening.

I used 645Pro so I could get a tiff file with as much information as possible, and then played around in Topaz Labs DeNoise and Adjust 5, and Aperture, of course.

GSV and iPhone 4 with Jag.gr 645 PRO, on Night Mode. ISO100, 1/15th, f/2.8 (all picked by the app, of course). Absolutely crushed in post, and titled after, yes, Brian Eno and John Cale’s Spinning Away.