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Side light from the late afternoon sun caught this drooping Valentine's Day tulip.
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© Melissa Post 2019
he stands. the light comes from behind, it burns his shirt white. he holds the machine. the saw. dust rises, caught in the light. like smoke. or steam. he is cutting the stone. the ground is broken. it is just work. a simple, hard fact.
somewhere in a quiet corner of pollenca in winter 2025, the sun cuts a sharp triangle into the alley, like a spotlight that forgot the stage and landed on the street instead. iâm waiting, watching the shadow slowly crawl across the stones, when he suddenly bursts out from the dark doorway â hair on fire with light, legs stretched, as if heâs trying to outrun the afternoon..
the light finds her in the corner. it is warm, like old gold. it illuminates her face, the ocher of her dress. the rest is shadow. the wall is rough. she holds the bag. her gaze is steady. a painting, made of light and a moment.
I have many shots of this type. Endless blue sea and clear sky mixed with another colour and toned by the hard sunlight. I find it relaxing and mind-cleaning. I don't know how these cactus fruits are called in english (somebody help me!), but they 're very common in Peloponese, especially in the South. I find this view charming: something wild and beutiful surviving the sea salt and the strong winds.
For the Macro Mondays challenge "Hard Light" (February 18th 2019)
Playing with the lighting to give different effects is great fun. One of my favourites is what I call 'dramatic light' which I hope is the same as the 'Hard light' of the challenge. Using a small torch and very low ambient light it gives lovely long, dark shadows.
Happy Macro Monday! ;o)
2019 Macro Mondays here
Crystal ball, prism and marbles set: Here
All the previous years of the challenge:
morning in munich. cold light, hard shadows. a cyclist moves through the streets, baskets full, shoulders heavy. the stone facade, lined with time, each crack a memory. in the window, a reflection—someone else, somewhere else.
glass and stone. movement and silence. a moment caught between past and present.
the late sun fell through the leaves, a chaotic pattern on the stone. he walked through it, unaware, his world a small rectangle of light held in his hand. behind him, his shadow became a different creature, elongated and distorted by the wall. there are two worlds: the one we look at, and the one we cast behind us. the wall saw both.
he didn’t look back. maybe there was nothing to see. maybe everything was waiting ahead, swallowed by the white. the hallway echoed his steps like a half-forgotten memory – long, metallic, empty. but the shadow on the wall whispered something else: that even when we walk away, a part of us stays behind, watching.
For the Macro Mondays Theme:
Hard Light.
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(bottles are 2 inch)
Happy Macro Mondays
October 09, 2017
Macro Mondays Theme: Sidelit
Subject: glass tea filled with coffee.
Size: 1.5" across and cropped at almost 1.5" in height.
Placed the light source (led) at the right side i.e., right angle to my camera.
Processed in Photoshop to cropped to meet the size requirements of the group. Adjust the contrast using curve tools.
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As a recognition of my longevity at my current employment, I was gifted with this bobblehead likeness of myself (there is another matching one in a cabinet hanging on the wall at HQ). I thought it was a pretty cool idea at the time, until I brought mine home to show my family and they couldn't stop commenting about how creepy it was. My kids kept throwing stuff on top of it because it was freaking them out. I thought that I'd make it even creepier by applying some harsh uplighting (on-axis w/snoot & grid). HMM!
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These are tiny letterpress metal print stamps (9pt). I tried a few approaches this week with varied effect, turns out all I needed to do was put fresh batteries in my LED torch!
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Hard Light
It's been a while, but I think I'm resuming my birthday self-portraits. I've been feeling very old lately, so I tried something else very old -- and with a little inspiration from Yusuf Karsh and hard light, here it is.
Three Godox AD600 Pros, 20" beauty dish high and nearly on-axis with camera, a 7" reflector behind on camera right, and a 12"x36" gridded strip behind on camera left.
The Church Of St. Giles at Calke Abbey. On a mostly overcast day, a welcome break in the clouds brought out all the details in the stone bricks.
5cl bottle (3.5" in height - about 2" showing in the photo) of a cognac using a single speedlight as the light source. HMM!
Neuer und viel besserer Titel, inspiriert von Dieters, wagner-wiewerwas Kommentar. Herzlichen Dank, Dieter.
Sonnenstrahlen auf Wellblech. Der Sonnenbrand ist Absicht.
Sunbeams on corrugated metal. The sunburn is intentional.