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Doing the strobist assignment at the beach
Strobist Info:
- 1 bare flash on model right
- gold reflector below
For this assignment I decided to go with colour instead of B&W since I wanted to incorporate gels into the equation. I thought the red adds that element of impending action about to take place...
Another light or a reflector could've helped to improved background separation. Next time...
Strobist: sb-24 snooted with gobo blinds and gobo of person silhouette 1/16 power hard left of camera with red gel; sb-80dx 1/32 power with grid spot, camera right and high.
Assignment: PCA117 – Contre-jour
Date: August 8 – August 22, 2010
From Lea and Luna (Lea)
Description: Contre-jour, French for “against daylight’, refers to photographs taken when the camera is pointing toward the source of light. An alternative term is backlighting. Contre-jour produces backlighting of the subject. This effect usually hides details, causes a stronger contrast between light and dark, creates silhouettes and emphases lines and shapes. The sun, or other light source, is often seen as either a bright spot or as a strong glare behind the subject. Fill light may be used to illuminate the side of the subject facing toward the camera. Silhouetting occurs when there is a lighting ratio of 16:1 or more; at lower ratios such as 8:1 the result is instead called low-key lighting.
What It Took
This was taken indoors with three lights under it. Three thin slices were cut from the centers of cherry tomatoes to get the pattern of the seeds. I actually had a difficult time deciding on whether to post this one (out of a choice of four others), but ended up liking that the back light emphasized the shapes of the tiny seeds of the tomatoes and that it brought out the yellow and red colors.
EXIF
18mm-55mm lens on macro
Metering: Center
Shutter: 1/8
Aperature: f22
Aperature mode
Exp: +1.7
Focal length: 48mm
White Balance: Auto
ISO 200
No flash
Assignment Star Stealers, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal T2281, 1970 PBO
Cover art by Robert McGinnis
#30 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Cover art was not credited anywhere in this book; confirmed as McGinnis in "The Paperback Covers of Robert McGinnis" by Art Scott & Dr. Wallace Maynard
Assignment, make a friend with a classmate, find something out about them and create an interesting portrait. Myles was named after Miles Davis.
For this series of images, I was with my friends working on a car. The first image shows my point of view, or a "straight-on" POV. The image in the middle shows a bug's POV because it was taken low to the ground, and shows a pile of bolts. The last image shows a bird's POV.
Title: Assignment - Helene.
Author: Edward S. Aarons.
Publisher: Gold Medal Books.
Date: 1959.
Artist: Barye Phillips.
Our current (last week of Jan '12) assignment is for photos that are atmospheric; show mood. I fooled around with this photo of a crowded Green Line streetcar in all kinds of way, but rejected it. Someone doesn't like her picture taken and I don't blame her. I don't mind; really I just don't care- if you can see me I'm fair game. You will see few people on my photostream.
On a related note a woman got on at Park as this lot got off. An attractive, tall young woman, she wore low LL Bean duck boots with no socks- preppy galore! Now I am no foot fetishist by any means- I find feet disgusting- walking barefoot in the grass is an embarrassment, not a joy. Shoes, however are interesting from design, style and craft points of view. I looked at her and she glared at me like the pervert I protest I'm not- no way was I going to say a word to her.
But dammit I wanted that shot! At Haymarket someone got on and stood between us. The streetcar lurched, he leaned forward and I took my shot ...
And it was terrible. Not too blurry but her skin came out the same tone as the leather. Not good enough for me. You'll just have to imagine duck boots and no socks.
Wandered around downtown Fort Lauderdale with a new lens (and my first prime). I'm enjoying the 33mm 1.4 but it'll take some time to get used to..
Assignment Karachi, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal R2331, undated reprint
Cover art uncredited
#16 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment - Angelina, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal 749, 1958 PBO
Cover art by Gerry Powell
#6 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Assignment Lili Lamaris, by Edward S. Aarons
Fawcett Gold Medal R2209, undated reprint
Cover art by Baryé Phillips
#10 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Strobist Lighting102 Assignment: Cooking. With a chrome nutcracker, I placed on a pink plastic cutting board, and then used a green plastic cuttingboard as a reflector.
1 Flash, bounced off white ceiling, 1/2 power, radio trigger on a stand, camera right. 1/250 @ f/5.6
Product Lighting/Custom Color Printing joint assignment:
using fruits and/or vegtables of your choosing created two 8x10 color prints, one demonstrating saturated colors, and one demonstrating desaturated color(s).
This is my saturated image.
taken with: Mamiya C220 on Kodak Portra 160NC.
scanned full frame on an Imacrom mulit-format drum film scanner.
Assignment - Helene, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal d1660, 1966
Cover art uncredited
#9 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
Active Assignment Weekly: June 27 - July 4: Body Parts
Your assignment is to photograph body parts. Keep the props, or clothing to a minimum and really focus in on a body part. With that said PLEASE remember the group rules and keep it clean.
Dare: Make it abstract or hard to tell what part of the body you have chosen (please refrain from the cliche arm or leg crack made to look like a butt)
Restriction: No full face or full body shots, and as stated before no naughty areas.
WIT: Struggled with this one really. Finally lassoed a willing model, and as I was taking photos of the back of his neck, I saw this shot. We were both amazed at how freckled his fingers are as shown in the shot. Taken outside in evening cloudy light. Desaturated reds and added an inverted highpass filter with soft light blending after contrast and brightness adjustments. No cropping. I know it's grainy, but so is the owner of this fist.
Chico State #22 Justin Vigil elevates for a jumper during the Wildcats’ game against Cal State East Bay on Saturday, January 7, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
This week's assignment: "Film Noir", French for "black film". This will probably be a more difficult assignment that will require much more preparation because mood as well as lighting are important aspects as well as creating a story.
Here is Wikipedia's definition:
"Film noir is a cinematic term used primarily to describe stylish Hollywood crime dramas, particularly those that emphasize cynical attitudes and sexual motivations. Hollywood's classic film noir period is generally regarded as stretching from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Film noir of this era is associated with a low-key black-and-white visual style that has roots in German Expressionist cinematography. Many of the prototypical stories and much of the attitude of classic noir derive from the hardboiled school of crime fiction that emerged in the United States during the Depression."
Think of old movies, such as The Maltese Falcon" or relatively new ones like "Sin City".
Chico State’s #10 Jiana Creswell fires a three pointer during the Wildcats’ game against Cal State Dominguez Hills on Thursday, January 5, 2023 in Chico, Calif.
(Matt Bates/University Photographer/Chico State)
For this assignment, I volunteered to photograph the support staff and volunteers at my son’s elementary school for the year book. This is Brenda, the crossing guard helping two students cross the street on Halloween. Over the next month or so I have 30 more to do.
Strobist info:
SB800 camera left, at full power, iso=200, f10, 1/180
Assignment - Stella Marni, by Edward S. Aarons
Gold Medal 906, 1959 reprint
Cover art by Robert Abbett
#4 in the Sam Durell "Assignment" series
The main photo I used for this assignment was the picture of my closet. I manipulated it by putting the map, arrows, stars background and text to show why I thought this could be used to represent globalization. Although it seems like a fairly standard and inconsequential photo of the contents of my closet, the idea that all these clothes came from all around the world show how globalization is part of our everyday lives. The fact that such an ordinary photo can represent globalization shows how permeated it is in our lives - even just in our own homes. Almost everything we own comes from a different country; looking into any room we could probably make an image similar to this tracing all the objects in it back to where it was originally made and see that it is actually from thousands of miles away.
original images: wakpaper.com/large/Political_wallpapers_159.gif (map), dhs.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/whole_network... (background)
The setup on this shot is as follows:
A single flash, to camera right from a distance of about 15 inches from the egg separator. Shot through a "gel" (Ok not really a gel, but a bottle of Dawn dish detergent about 1 inch off the flash face) on each side of the utensil, and just over are sheets of white copy paper (so, three in all) to catch the white light that escaped around the "gel" and reflect back on the separator.
I tried to give the illusion of a multi-light setup using a single flash.
Assignment: PCA03 - Isolated Subject
Deadline: October 1st, 2007
Mission:
Show us an isolated subject. Razor sharp focus on the subject, and completely blurred to annihilation backgrounds. This can be accomplished by using a wide aperture and having a distant background. If using a less sophisticated camera, try using the portrait mode or macro mode. If you cannot get the background out of focus, then choose a featureless background.
I took a lot of pictures for this assignment and I think I liked the ones of this fence the least, but it is the only one where one subject is in razor sharp focus. All my others ones suffer from soft or blurry edges on the main subject. I did some post-processing work on this photo: cropping and trying to dodge out the bright white spot in the middle of the photo. It sort of worked. I still think it is too bright in comparison to the rest of the background, but any darker and it started to look strange.