To all ye who want to paint with light ...

I should have started this blog many moons ago as I started experiencing the joys of rediscovering the art of photography. But as the saying goes - it's better late, than never!
So, here I am, in the hopes of recording what I learn as I progress from ignorance to enlightenment; about what my eyes can see that my camera can capture; and, what my mind imagines and my camera paints with its capabilities.

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Day 312 - Adding a Bit of Colour

After a couple of days of being quite unwell and skipping the shot of the day, I decided to try something really quick and easy - a subject isolated on a white background.  I had tried this a few days ago, and because I had been lazy, I had completely omitted the background flash.  i wanted to try this again this evening because I didn't really have anything else thought out.

I used two flashes on either side of the subject - the flash to the left of camera was bounced off the ceiling at a 60 deg angle, powered down to 1/4 and zoomed out to the widest at 24 mm to enable the light to wrap around the subject.

The one to the right was pointed directly at the background and I pushed down the head as much as it would go, so the cereal outside the bowl would get some of the bounced light as well.

I didn't really play around too much with different compositions, as I'm still pretty low on energy, but I did want to keep going on with the 365, so I can just get this over with.

I think the image was a tad overexposed at the sides of the bowl where I've lost a little bit of detail.  Oh well!

Bowl of Cereal

3 comments:

  1. Hope you are feeling better now. And now got a craving for Fruit Loops

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  2. Thanks, Cathy! Feeling much better! I'm sorry I made you think of Fruit Loops :( Looking at them is making me want some as well ...

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  3. Toni, Toni..you definitely beat me this time. LOL...The fruit loops!!!

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