Day One Hundred Sixty Two

162/365. This place is a prison ~ Postal Service

 

A few things... (deep breath)...

 

I was featured in an interview for Strobist.com. Thank you David Hobby — I am infitnitly honored.

 

This shot was taken after one of those longer kindof work days. This photo mostly explains it.

 

Now to talk about a few geeky things (this is where normal folks stop reading).

 

I thought a lot about the similarities between new age web design (I'm not calling it web 2.0) and location photography. It nearly mirrors a quote Doug Bowman mentioned on Twitter — "the challenge of designing around user-customization is the new 'designing around dynamic content'".

 

In the world of location & strobist photography, our dynamic content is each and every location. But as time goes on, we shoot similar locations, and they can become somewhat predictable. However the customizations that happen on-spot, is wind. It's always hard to tell what weather is going to do — but we use precaution...

 

Here are some precautions I take.

 

1) setup lights first (attach gels, pocketwizards) "without" umbrellas, softboxes, octaboxes, etc.

 

2) Secure stands with weight

 

3) Setup camera, adjust exposure appropriately.

 

4) attach light modifiers (umbrellas etc) — then raise lightstands to appropriate height.

 

5) shoot quickly, then immediately tear down.

 

all this stuff said, setup junkys read on...

 

setup, camera, strobist info: see here

Done