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I Love Lamp
I usually don't double up on submissions for different groups, but it was a busy weekend and I didn't really get to work on things. So I'm going for a two-fer: Minimalism for Active Assignments Weekly and Lamp for Macro Mondays.
A simple, and unoriginal, idea that I've been meaning to try. First I got my exposure as dark as I could (with limitations of flash photography), only wanting the glowing filament. Stopped my lens waaaay down (f22) to as far as I'll go before diffraction softens things up too much, dropped the ISO to my camera's minimum, and sped the shutter all the way up to sync speed. Then I blasted some white panels on each side of the bulb with flash for the speculars. Reflector underneath to lighten up the threading. There was a surprising amount of dust on the inside of the bulb was rather visable so I set the levels heavy on the contrast and did a bit of touchup in Photoshop. Idea and technique blatantly stolen from David Hobby at www.strobist.blogspot.com/.
I Love Lamp
I usually don't double up on submissions for different groups, but it was a busy weekend and I didn't really get to work on things. So I'm going for a two-fer: Minimalism for Active Assignments Weekly and Lamp for Macro Mondays.
A simple, and unoriginal, idea that I've been meaning to try. First I got my exposure as dark as I could (with limitations of flash photography), only wanting the glowing filament. Stopped my lens waaaay down (f22) to as far as I'll go before diffraction softens things up too much, dropped the ISO to my camera's minimum, and sped the shutter all the way up to sync speed. Then I blasted some white panels on each side of the bulb with flash for the speculars. Reflector underneath to lighten up the threading. There was a surprising amount of dust on the inside of the bulb was rather visable so I set the levels heavy on the contrast and did a bit of touchup in Photoshop. Idea and technique blatantly stolen from David Hobby at www.strobist.blogspot.com/.