Mark J P
Game changer
his is a photo for this week's photo assignment, themed Anachronistic.
As a small child I used to play with dominoes for hours but I can't imagine many children spend hours playing dominoes these days. I see lots of children attached to their handheld video game devices and I wonder if I would have chosen dominoes given the choice. :)
WIT
I have these old dominoes and thought they would be perfect for setting a slightly vintage scene. Initially I was going to use the screen of the handheld device as a large domino attached to the end of line but after taking a number of shots I decided that there may be a better composition. So I placed a small arrangement of dominoes in the foreground and set the handheld device in the background out of focus.
I initially planned to use a flash head and softbox but in practice the flash spoiled the light being emitted from the screens. So in the end I manually set the white balance using a grey card and in post processing desaturated the colour a little and fine tuned the levels.
Game changer
his is a photo for this week's photo assignment, themed Anachronistic.
As a small child I used to play with dominoes for hours but I can't imagine many children spend hours playing dominoes these days. I see lots of children attached to their handheld video game devices and I wonder if I would have chosen dominoes given the choice. :)
WIT
I have these old dominoes and thought they would be perfect for setting a slightly vintage scene. Initially I was going to use the screen of the handheld device as a large domino attached to the end of line but after taking a number of shots I decided that there may be a better composition. So I placed a small arrangement of dominoes in the foreground and set the handheld device in the background out of focus.
I initially planned to use a flash head and softbox but in practice the flash spoiled the light being emitted from the screens. So in the end I manually set the white balance using a grey card and in post processing desaturated the colour a little and fine tuned the levels.