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He follows me everywhere I go. Most days I don't notice him, but when I am shooting with a fisheye lens he always tries to get in the way.
Mark ‘Spoonman’ Petrakis and I are developing a shadow puppet show we call ‘Ubu’s Dreams’.
This short series of sketches stars Père Ubu, the hero of french poet Alfred Jarry’s surreal plays. In this show, Ubu is constantly dreaming, playing with archetypal characters from our collective unconscious.
For this project, we are creating a variety of wooden figures with a laser cutter: big faces, music notes, dancers, trees and graveyards, to name but a few. We then tape our puppets on wooden sticks, and wave them across the stage to bring them to life, with a projector over our heads.
We plan to continue this experiment through the summer and perform a first puppet show during our Dada exhibit at the Canessa Gallery in North Beach, from Nov. 3 to 12, 2016.
I also plan to use some of these techniques with our lower and middle school students, for the Maker Art courses I will be teaching this fall.
From shadow puppets to poetic robots, these interactive storytelling experiments have the potential to engage us at a deeper level and help us learn more about ourselves.
View more pictures of this Magic Theater project on Flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/fabola/albums/72157664637863884
Learn more about Ubu’s Dreams:
Learn more about the Magic Theater project (originally called Théâtre Mécanique):
I was sitting at my computer at work and I happened to look up and I saw Rudy's shadow on the wall in front me. He's looking out the window from his cat tree
Frames taken from an iPhone 8+ video with Video 2 Photo and put together with PicFrame on an iPad Air.
Surrounded by shadows this guy in Chinatown enjoys the first sunlight of the day.
Taken with my Rollei AFM35 in 2016
Lighting Essentials Workshop.
Shot in full sun, which was giving f/16 @ 1/200 (the f/16 rule). The speedlights were set to give an exposure of f/22 to overpower the sun and I synch'd at 1/160 with Cactus triggers. Three lights: one in front of the model, illuminating her face, one to camera left and one to camera right.
Photoshop: I opened this image in ACR and "yikes!" all the shadows were clipped to black. So I set about bringing up the exposure...then it dawned on me: we deliberately set this shot up to drop out the background. So I left the exposure alone and let the background fall out. Contrast adjustment with curves, some skin smoothing and blemish removal. Light sharpening.
Model: Kirsten (Model Mayhem #635766)
MUA: Markita Marie (Model Mayhem #455400)
This was a very difficult look for me to get overall, but I'm very pleased with the outcome. Going for a "Sin City" graphic novel look.
Get the full effect on black.
Strobist: 2 shoot through umbrellas behind subject, one left and one right w/ a 430 ex and 580 ex both at 1/16. Fill with a canon 420 ez in an Orbis ring flash.