Final photos from the past few days can be found here:http://eaupositivephotography.weebly.com/dry-ice.html
This project - lighting glass, adding effects doing some still life has been a blast. I had never worked with dry ice before and I found all kinds of things that I could try. I didn't think I would ever find myself needing or wanting studio lighting setups but... gotta say - it would have been a whole lot easier. Anyhow... experiment have fun when you can't get outdoors on a regular basis (that's not to say you should purposely stay indoors). enjoy. jt
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It's really amazing what you can make the camera see. It was very difficult (on a budget) making all the light sources the same colour temperature. You can see from the previous shots, there was a definite mixture of light colours. Anyhow - a bit of fooling around with tints and exposures etc... presto. Oh yeah, and a trip to the dry-ice store. Lots of fun to play with. Amazing stuff. Anyhow. Still playing around (making a bit of a mess). ...till next time. Step 2 - amazing what light and glass can do when put together. I set the martini class on a light box with a strategically located hole that let just the right amount of light through... then mixed a drink.... while shooting as fast as I could. I think I can get the flash to work at higher speed too... Stay tuned - what more mysterious effects can I add to a drink? Note: - no alcohol was harmed in the creation of this photo. more tomorrow I hope. Step 1, Once upon a time I read a book called "Light Science and Magic". If you want to understand how light works, and how to light just about anything - get yourself a copy of this book. After I had read it, I thought to myself that it would be a good idea to try some of these techniques - just so that I could practice some of these techniques. Today - I came across a project that gave me inspiration to try some of the lighting stuff. So - how to make the edges of a class object actuall show up (since glass is basically transparent)? Ahh - you'll have to read the book to figure that out. This is step one in the project - to figure out how to set up the lights (and non-lights, hint-hint). Tomorrow - step two - maybe some kind of colorful liquid in the glass :) stay tuned.... I just received my new camera a few days ago, after selling (sadly) my Canon 40D. I loved that camera - I had finally taught it how to see what I was seeing in the viewfinder :-). It had so many features - so many - that there were still a number of these that I still hadn't gotten around to using. But when Canon introduced its new 70D model with twice the mega-pixels, I did some investigation and was hooked. Not only could I now submit larger format photos often asked for, but the low-light performance was better, and the focusing was faster. Very nice - so... I saved and scrounged and sold my beloved 40D. Honestly - the 70D has many more surprisingly amazing features - so much more than I had expected. I'm hooked. I will be the first to admit though, that it may take me years before I get through trying all these wonderful new features. I'll be exploring new photo-ops soon and teaching my new rig how to see what I see. |
John T."Photographs capture my viewpoint - based on my place on this planet, where I've been and who I am. If you 'get it' then you've been there too, either in mind, body, heart or soul." Also see the "EauPositivePhotography" pages for other stuff
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