Jedi5150
Whodunnit
When I think of a murder mystery, I always picture a revolver, along with a dagger, a candlestick, and a rope. Even though pistols have replaced revolvers in media, and actual use, the revolver will always have an old-fashioned aura that newer guns just can't match.
For these two shots I used a single light source, taken at night, in the living room so there would be no other ambient light. I like this type of lighting for a darker mood. At first I tried using the 70-200 lens but the lighting was just too low. I wanted to stay with an ISO at 200 or below, to keep the detail, but the tricky part was the balance between shutter speed and depth of field. Given that the camera and lens (24-105) were so close to the subject, I wanted to use a wide DoF, so that more of the gun would be in focus, but that made the shutter speeds so slow that even on the tripod, it was tough to keep it from blurring with the 2 second-plus shutter speeds.
Much better when viewed large.
Whodunnit
When I think of a murder mystery, I always picture a revolver, along with a dagger, a candlestick, and a rope. Even though pistols have replaced revolvers in media, and actual use, the revolver will always have an old-fashioned aura that newer guns just can't match.
For these two shots I used a single light source, taken at night, in the living room so there would be no other ambient light. I like this type of lighting for a darker mood. At first I tried using the 70-200 lens but the lighting was just too low. I wanted to stay with an ISO at 200 or below, to keep the detail, but the tricky part was the balance between shutter speed and depth of field. Given that the camera and lens (24-105) were so close to the subject, I wanted to use a wide DoF, so that more of the gun would be in focus, but that made the shutter speeds so slow that even on the tripod, it was tough to keep it from blurring with the 2 second-plus shutter speeds.
Much better when viewed large.