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Chalk Up!
Day 186 of 365
"Chalk Up!"
Anyone who knows me is aware that I am an avid pool player. In the days before children, my team actually made it to the nationals in Las Vegas a few times. Those were much simpler times. I digest. Anyway, I was playing last night, and an image came to me. My friend dropped a talc bag, and it made a lovely cloud when it hit the floor. Though I don't own a talc bag, I knew that I could get a similar image with chalk. My key light here is a strip bank, directly at camera-left. I used a strip bank because it is slim and vertical.....like my pool cue. I added a piece of white foam core on the camera-right side, just to fill in the shadows. A large light like a strip bank produces a beautiful quality of light, but it drops off quickly, leaving the camera-right side of the cue in the dark. The old Inverse Square Law at work! Lastly, I snooted a speedlight, and stuck it directly above the cue tip, looking straight down. This would guarantee that the chalk would be frozen when I snapped the shutter. While my shutter speed was only 1/125th of a second, it is the strobe that freezes the motion. I placed a small pile of chalk on the tip, blew on it as I snapped the camera remote, and came up with this. I believe I took ten exposures, and this was my favorite. Hindsight, I would have shot wider in order to capture the entire cloud of chalk. However, I also wanted to really go macro to show the detail in the chalk. Here is a happy compromise. Thanks for following my post!
#pool #billiards #poolcue #cue #chalk #poolchalk #tip #ferrule #sports #poolhall #canon5dmarkIII #macro #canon100macro #pocketwizard #mcdermott #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #stripbank
Chalk Up!
Day 186 of 365
"Chalk Up!"
Anyone who knows me is aware that I am an avid pool player. In the days before children, my team actually made it to the nationals in Las Vegas a few times. Those were much simpler times. I digest. Anyway, I was playing last night, and an image came to me. My friend dropped a talc bag, and it made a lovely cloud when it hit the floor. Though I don't own a talc bag, I knew that I could get a similar image with chalk. My key light here is a strip bank, directly at camera-left. I used a strip bank because it is slim and vertical.....like my pool cue. I added a piece of white foam core on the camera-right side, just to fill in the shadows. A large light like a strip bank produces a beautiful quality of light, but it drops off quickly, leaving the camera-right side of the cue in the dark. The old Inverse Square Law at work! Lastly, I snooted a speedlight, and stuck it directly above the cue tip, looking straight down. This would guarantee that the chalk would be frozen when I snapped the shutter. While my shutter speed was only 1/125th of a second, it is the strobe that freezes the motion. I placed a small pile of chalk on the tip, blew on it as I snapped the camera remote, and came up with this. I believe I took ten exposures, and this was my favorite. Hindsight, I would have shot wider in order to capture the entire cloud of chalk. However, I also wanted to really go macro to show the detail in the chalk. Here is a happy compromise. Thanks for following my post!
#pool #billiards #poolcue #cue #chalk #poolchalk #tip #ferrule #sports #poolhall #canon5dmarkIII #macro #canon100macro #pocketwizard #mcdermott #paulcbuffinc #paulcbuffeinstein #stripbank