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Tabletop shot
Technique:
Focus stack, 9 images, merged in Helicon Focus 6 software.
Strobist:
Softbox 50x50cm with YN560III (1/2) on top;
Large diffusion panel between the softbox and the subject (this helps with gradient light, on glossy subjects);
Small silver plates to bounce light at the bottom and edge of a subject.
Background:
Silver, reflective plexi plate.
Fun ghetto studio idea Rob had that was fun as hell to execute. Set up a YN-560 in a deep umbrella to trigger as the sole light source and vaped into the shot. Made for some crazy dramatic looks!
So a local vape shop asked me to do product photography for one of its flavor
I decided to go with Smoke and real fruits around it
Bit of dark field this evening with my Sub tank as the model.
Black cardboard background, underneath, above and each side of the lens. White paper parallel with the front edge of the tank.
Flash fired via yongnuo radio triggers on 1/8 power about 10 inches behind the backing cardboard fired towards the subject.
Into lightroom and had a bit of a tinker with the tones, dropped the shadows and bumped the highlights.
This is number 138 of my 365.
My current vape setup.
Lens: Voigtlander 40mm F1.4 Nokton @ F4 Stacked from 4 differently focused shots of all four subjects.
... is the one you didn't have to make.
Every year, for more than a decade, I joined millions of others around the world who resolved to quit smoking. I had asthma. Smoking made me deathly sick. But I smoked anyway, first Djarum Black cloves and later Camel Crush.
Last March, I was standing in the snow in Memphis, Tennessee when I decided to quit smoking. I had pneumonia. It was miserably cold. My hands were shaking so badly that I could barely hold my cigarette. I was coughing, wheezing, and trying not to die. It would have been comical if it wasn't so pathetic.
I remember walking upstairs, kneeling down by my hotel bed, and asking God for help. The answer came clearly. Try those e-cigarette things again. Maybe they had improved since the time I tried them five years ago.
The next morning, I drove through the snow to a convenience store and bought a Blu e-cig. It wasn't bad. It wasn't wonderful, but it was doable. I smoked my last cigarette on March 11, 2017, and I never looked back.
Within a week, I had stopped coughing and wheezing. Within two weeks, I was forgetting to take the three asthma medications I took daily. Within three weeks, I was forgetting to carry my rescue inhaler. And now, as I look toward my one year anniversary, I wonder why I ever smoked.
Purists will say I just traded one bad habit for another, and they are correct. I quickly traded the Blu for a Halo G6, grabbed a few bottles of Vanilla Custard and Frosted Oatmeal Cookie e-liquid from Tasty Vapor, and embraced my new habit.
But the difference is this: I no longer have to have it. When I wake up, it's not the first, second, or even 10th thing I think about. I don't panic when my batteries die or I forget to bring my e-cigarette with me. Smoking no longer controls my life. I don't miss smelling or tasting like smoke. I don't miss the money I used to spend. And I definitely don't miss feeling like death every single day.
Cold turkey might have been better, but it never worked for me. This did, and while some might disagree, my lungs are grateful.
And so am I.
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Eletronic cigarette batteries for the Halo G6 e-cigarette are pictured in a row, January 5, 2018, in Coden, Alabama. Quitting smoking is a popular New Year’s resolution for many people, with some saying that smoking e-cigarettes, or vaping, has helped them give up traditional cigarettes. E-cigarettes are available with and without nicotine but do not have the tar and additional chemicals found in traditional cigarettes. (Photo by Carmen K. Sisson/Cloudybright)
Bit of an amalgamation of some previous shots. Bit of backlighting, bokeh and smoke.
Flash on stand behind my head on lowest power at 128mm. Exhale of vape before the shutter opened with the fibre optic lp brush in the foreground. Took quite a number of similar shots with different points of focus. This one was my fave with everything out of focus. Bit of a tinker in lightroom et voila.
This is number 106 of my 365.