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It's been almost a month since I replaced my Time Manager personal management system with the Midori traveller's notebook.
The Midori is much more compact than the TMI binder. There are inserts where I slot in my passport and boarding cards. My receipts are safely stored in the sealable plastic envelope insert. I'm pleased I made the move to Midori.
Preparing for a meeting in Paris and realised I'd forgotten to get some Euro's. Managed to find some left over from my last trip abroad.
Tonights Project365 photo is another laneway in Ballarat.
This is Hancock Lane which is between Lydiard and Armstrong Street.
I took several shots here in drizzling rain, but this was the one that had the least amount of lens flare from the drops on the lens.
First one in a collection of military watches as advertised on TV. A copy of a 1970's US infantry watch. It has a quartz movement and a rather nasty woven plastic strap but at £3.99 you can't really complain. I won't be buying the whole collection at £9.99 each for 80 watches!
Project365 photo for 24 feb, 2009. Went to Cracker Barrel with my wife for breakfast. This was in a shadow box/display case next to our table. The box reads: "De Luxe/ Two Speed/ Electric Vibrator/ Both Medium and High/ Satisfying all members of the family".
It's week-end and next week is also winter holiday week in Denmark, so it’s time to hit the sofa, light the fire, open a bottle of red wine and find a good book that will offer you a bit of well deserved escapism.
The book was placed on black paper a lit with a SB-600 flash reflected from a white piece of carton right over the book so it is only the two pages that are lit.
In PS the photo was converted to monochrome and various layers and dodging (the heart) was applied to achieve the "old book" look.
I've always wanted to try a levitation photo, but I hadn't appreciated how much masking was required when you have overlapping people! Anyway, I'll try and do some more before the year is out.
- what's that ?
- hmmm ... grass, I think
- really ?
- ... yeah
- but it look so ...
- ... green ?
- yeah ... it's so much ...
- ... greener ?
- yeah
Ok, maybe not THAT old. This was, quite obiously, done with A LOT of post-processing. That is why I'm posting this one today instead of yesterday, as I should have. Well, those things happen, but I did take it on the correct day! I have a problem, however, and that is the fact that I should be on day 6 but already took day 7's photo... Well, I don't know what to do. I think I'm gonna just leave this one and do another one tomorrow. It seems better to correct the timeline error caused by my eagerness right now. I kinda feel stupid saying it, but I must say that this weird mistake was just me counting wrongly. God, this Coffee-free day is killing me. Anyay, saturday makes one week. Small milestone, but a milestone still.
Lighting Setup:
As the catchlights give away, I used the "beauty shot" type setup; the diference is I used two Softboxes instead of Two beauty dishes. The beauty setup consists of one light from above and another one directly below the first one, both in the same angle of the camera. (Seriously, watch the catchlights in my eyes. They can explain it better than I can :P). Anyway, the bottom Softbox was gelled with a 1/2 CTO gel and the top one was bare. Why? Mostly, lazyness. It's also because I decided that the light combination gave the image a nice warm tint without getting to the "etremely warm/faint orange" look. So, that' pretty much that.
Ha ha lets just settle on not then!
I did this shot for the FGR group and the challenge today was a Hot or Not shot, with the emphasis on not. So, after coming out of the shower I decided that this was not hot!
I waited for this little guy for an hour, and each time he came by I had diverted my attention to my vodka tonic.
I did manage to get one shot.
God Damn why did I even buy so many cards. Decided to whip some out for tomorrow's ,hopefully, epic yugioh card battle in the honor of Nerd Day. Had good times playing this game though.
There is this shaft right outside our apartment in the hallway, I've always wondered what it's for. It's the size of an elevator shaft, doesn't really let much light in, at the bottom it doesn't lead to anywhere. It's like a forgotten part of the building, every time I look down it gives me the feeling of a strange infinitely extended claustrophobic room.
A little homage to Ernest Hemingway's short poem. I was simply blown away when I first heard it. It's extremely powerful, it's bare six words. It was like a kick to the groin when you didn't expect it, like a sucker punch to the face or the gut. Painful in a way it's hard to describe, so, here is my attempt at a photography homage.
Lighting Info:
TT-660 at 1/128th power to the left and slightly up, around a 90º angle. I used a 1/8th of an inch Honeycomb to restrict the light.