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227/365 # Argumentative
Somedays I can fall out with my own shadow . . .
. . . and today was one of those days.
OK it's a bit obvious, but you should've seen the shite I was going to upload. Luckily I had enough decency to set up again and re-shoot.
I'm really starting to struggle for ideas now, and 90% of my 365 shots these days just happen - I set up with no idea what I'm going to do, take a load of shots and hope something good happens.
Sometimes an idea presents itself, like it did today, while I'm shooting, but the last time I set up with a specific idea in mind was nearly a week ago. This bugs me. I don't want to piss away the last 100 days or so of my 365 shooting the same shots over and over.
But enough about that.
The only thing that's photoshopped in this shot is the overlaid textures, and a lot of careful dodging to remove the texture that covered me on the left. I'm standing in the corner of my bedroom here, which is why there's a line down the middle of the shot - it's where the two walls join. I did Photoshop the line out but it looked fake without it. And I thought it accentuted the idea of the divide between me and my shadow.
Strobist info: SB600 at 1/32 power to camera left fired directly at subject to create the very defined shadow. The warm tone was created in Lightroom, I didn't use a gel for this shot (it didn't occur to me at the time and I stumbled on the Lightroom preset I used).
227/365 # Argumentative
Somedays I can fall out with my own shadow . . .
. . . and today was one of those days.
OK it's a bit obvious, but you should've seen the shite I was going to upload. Luckily I had enough decency to set up again and re-shoot.
I'm really starting to struggle for ideas now, and 90% of my 365 shots these days just happen - I set up with no idea what I'm going to do, take a load of shots and hope something good happens.
Sometimes an idea presents itself, like it did today, while I'm shooting, but the last time I set up with a specific idea in mind was nearly a week ago. This bugs me. I don't want to piss away the last 100 days or so of my 365 shooting the same shots over and over.
But enough about that.
The only thing that's photoshopped in this shot is the overlaid textures, and a lot of careful dodging to remove the texture that covered me on the left. I'm standing in the corner of my bedroom here, which is why there's a line down the middle of the shot - it's where the two walls join. I did Photoshop the line out but it looked fake without it. And I thought it accentuted the idea of the divide between me and my shadow.
Strobist info: SB600 at 1/32 power to camera left fired directly at subject to create the very defined shadow. The warm tone was created in Lightroom, I didn't use a gel for this shot (it didn't occur to me at the time and I stumbled on the Lightroom preset I used).