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Week 9 – Shadows
This week was a fairly quick and easy photo to create. I had an idea of what I wanted; so as usual, I made my poor, long-suffering husband endure severe hardship by languishing outside in the rain. Actually, the one time I wanted rain, it wasn't raining for once, so I made him hose down the patio to make it look like it had been.
I set the camera up on a tripod, turning all the settings to manual (including focus) so that the exposure would be the same for each of the pictures. I focussed on his shoes and took a few pictures, making sure he created a decent shadow on the wet patio.
I then took a spare pair of shoes out to him, and held on to his trainers while he took them off and changed into the others to make sure the original shoes didn't move. Of course we had to do the laces up again too, which is not as easy when they are just sitting on the ground. I took a few further photos with just the shoes standing on the patio.
In the RAW conversion in Photoshop, synchronised the two images so that any editing would remains the same.
Using the picture with David as the Background, I added the one with just the shoes as a layer above. Even though I had kept the camera in one place on a tripod for the two shots, they were still ever so slightly out, so I used Auto Align Layers to get them spot on.
Adding a Layer Mask to the photo with just the shoes, I used the Brush Tool to remove the foreground, revealing the shadow on the ground in front.
Using Curves and the Dodge and Burn Brushes, I created a stronger contrast for the shadow.
In the Nik Colour Efex Pro I adjusted the Tonal Contrasts and added a slight vignette to the whole image. Isolating the shoes with a Quick Mask, I used the Details Extractor to make them more punchy, then selected inverse and lowered the saturation for the patio to make the shoes stand out even more.
19 weeks and just starting to show
I've been feeling like bubbles in my belly for a few weeks but felt the first actual, feel it on the outside movement, this week.
meaningful week
saw the true colors of some people
had a blast with my lovely lisa
4th of july was amazing.
went to reedley with lisa&chris
had some fun w/ mr. justin
i love all his friends
switched summer school classes
i hate my new class with a passion
but i have to stick it out
if i drop i have to take it during school year
noooooo way thats gonna happen
im very excited for the week to come
the summer isnt so lonely anymore!
There will be a time when my little girl will care about her hair, there will be a time when my little girl will care about her body in a photo, there will be a time when a photo like this will not be able to be created. I cherish this time.
My daughter (Mattie-Moo) and I planned to collaborate, but first the dog ate the dried flowers we were going to use earlier in the week. Then today she decided she needed to catch-up on sleep more than take pictures with me. So, this is all I came up with.
I travel from point A to B...piggyback. This week (4/17) the Shuttle Discovery, after many years in service, 39 missions and 365 days in space, made its last flight to become part of the Smithsonian's permanent collection. I covered the event, and got this great capture of the Discovery atop its 747 carrier as it was about to land.
It was hard to pick a favorite shot of the fly by for the challenge this week.
Nikon D3S, Nikkor 200-400mm f/4.0 (lens rented from LPTG!)
Kumbaya Sugar Plum Fairy - Parents are Tangaloor Firestorm (Sebastian) x Kumbaya Sandy Beach (Sandy)
photo shop, lighting, blankets and the human figure
I placed the subjects in different positions to represent isolation and used different lighting with a flashlight in a dark room to give defined shadows and bring out 2d art
11x17
Last week was English Week in the Secondary School with lots of creative English activities taking place. Throughout the week students were challenged with daily quizzes on language, literature and lateral thinking. On Thursday the school hosted its first ever Poetry Festival - a celebration of the written and spoken word - with students and staff taking to the stage to share their poems. On Friday we celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as our favourite book characters. To round up the week, the English department provided a 99-question quiz on all things language and literature for students to enjoy during tutor time. There was some stiff competition but Year 10 outshone all others by securing the first, second and third places! Well done and thank you to everyone who got involved.
Week #17 Openings - A great hiding spot. I don't think anything has been living in this tree, but it looks like it could make a great nest or hiding spot.
Week 22 - Stranger
This week's theme is stranger and there are strangers all around me, everywhere I go. Here's one doing his thing behind a bar. I find that environment and uniform helps tell the story of a stranger whom you know nothing about.
The Coffee
Week 12 of my 50 Weeks Project
Strobist info: The main strobe was set at 1/32 power and it’s widest setting, I used shoot-through umbrella camera left, just outside the frame. Second light was at 1/16 power with a grid and 3 orange gels. I put it on a shelf behind me pointing almost directly down.
Well that's it, 52 self portraits in 52 weeks.
This one probably took more takes than any other as in most attempts I either had my eyes closed or there was a card in front of my face or one of the flashes didn't go off, but I was quite happy with the end result.
Thank you everyone who has viewed and commented on the photos over the past year.
My aim for the year was to use the 52 Weeks group as motivation to try out and learn new techniques mainly with off camera flash and I think it has definitely been worth it. My set up times are certainly quicker at the least.
I'm going to do 52 Weeks of Pets in 2010 but I may be back here in the future, who knows.
Strobist: 520exii camera left as master on hotshoe cable, 420ex camera right through umbrella, 1:4 ratio.
Sustainability Week is a Switzerland-wide initiative, which is the brainchild of VSFN, the Swiss Association of Student Organizations for Sustainability. In joining VSFN, Les Roches has scored a number of firsts: it is the first private school, the first hospitality school and the first school in Valais to become part of this fast-growing movement.
“This is our first Sustainability Week and our goal is to raise students’ awareness of the need to behave more responsibly towards our environment,” Says Paulo Macarrao, Sustainability Officer at Les Roches.
Valais Sustainability Week included a clothes swap, lectures, panel discussions and workshops with guest speakers such as Katie Jepson, from the UK’s National Union of Students, and Johannah Bernstein, who has advised national governments, international NGOs, and UN organizations on a wide range of global sustainability issues within the United Nations system of multilateral diplomacy.
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For this weeks project I took my wife's favorite glasses out of the cabinet and had some fun with the speedlight and a white reflector board. I put the camera on the table in front of the subjects, used the builtin 10 second timer and then ran to the back and held up a red blanket for the background, which of course you do not see here, but I will share the monochrome version of this one later...