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72/365 - In The Colors - Ben Harper
Tough start of a new week. Bad results in several stupid tests at school lately and a lot of work to finish before intense days of practice tests next week. You see what I'm talking about ?
So after courses me and Loic had to made a new shot for the school project we've been working on all the weekend. The theme is "Do it as..." a (famous or not so) photographer.
The original feelings we had with this work were very great, we found we had to understand the style of a photographer and shot new pictures with this particular style. We also have to redact about this photographer, define his style and explain his pictures.
In fact, that's basically less interesting, we have to purely copy two pictures of a photographer like a xerox and describe "technically" the original pictures.
Whatever, it's been several weeks that I wanted to make a tribute to Dustin Diaz with this theme, cause he has been inspiring for me. But in the end, I was really unmotivated to just copy his work.
Don't think that's the better way to learn something...
I've been working on learning how Dustin does his pictures for few months to inspire my own ones and be able to shoot something decent for this theme.
Finally I decided to change and try some new things, I wanted to make fashion pictures outdoor with the spring feeling, I found great fashion pictures by Ted Grambeau, but that was not really what I wanted to do. I've shot some pics as Ted Grambeau this Sunday with Emmeline, but finally we ended with the Dustin like picture in the subway that I really liked.
With no fashion photographer name found, I decided to get back on my first idea, that's why we had to shot another one this Monday with Loic.
First we went to a lake outside Toulouse with Melissa and Florent where Loic wanted to shoot his theme picture. Found the place interesting and decided to go for a fashion shoot with Melissa for today's shot. After that, we went back to my place to pack the rest of the things we needed for my DD shot and we went to the center to find the right spot.
A lot of hard work. Hope you'll enjoy it cause we don't have that much sleep theese days...
Love to read your comments. Take care, see ya tomorrow.
Link to In The Colors - Ben Harper live music video.
Light :
- 1 flash Canon speedlite 540EZ through 24" square softbox 35mm on the left of Melissa
- 1 flash Canon speedlite 540EZ backlighting
Fired by Cactus V4.
Canon EOS 7D - EF 50mm f/1.4 USM
Sébastien Huruguen
Large butterfly... this one was drawn to a table of rotting fruit in the Gibraltar Botanical Gardens.
Tuesday, 8 December 2020: our temperature at 1:00 pm is PLUS 12C (windchill PLUS 9C). Sunrise is at 8:27 am and sunset is at 4:29 pm. An overcast day, with ridiculously mild temperature. If only winter was like this till next spring! Unfortunately, more snow is expected tonight, and back to MINUS temperatures.
Seeing that our world was about to turn white again, I decided to make the most of the beautiful, mild weather yesterday, 7 December 2020. My plan was to drive SE of the city and call in at the Saskatoon Farm for a late breakfast. There are always photo opportunities to be found here, together with a warm welcome and smiling faces. One of my absolute favourite places to be.
This interesting place is maybe a 20-minute drive SE from the southern edge of Calgary. You can collect your own Saskatoon berries in season, look around their outside green houses, and their inside gift shop full of unusual things, and buy special baking, jams, teas, soups, pies, and so on. They also have a restaurant that offers great food.
Another reason for spending time away from home for a few hours was to keep me off my computer. A return to an extremely painful right shoulder, due to inflammation of the rotator cuff, is made even more painful when I type and keep clicking the mouse. This affects my whole arm, making it almost impossible to do everything, including things like putting on my winter layers. Oh well, I guess it balances out with my very painful left knee : ) For a few hours yesterday, I was reminded harshly that driving does not help things either. Still, so thankful that I am at least able to get out and take photos!
From the Farm, I drove a few familiar roads to see if there was a Snowy Owl anywhere to be seen. The answer to that was - no.
I know wrong time of year, right? But I just had to post this pic cause it's just too darn cute..... lol
"Don’t see photographs as an end result, rather as a source."
– Anouk Kruithof
“The river, we wanna see the river!” they said.
“Don’t you want to go to the movies, instead?” I asked. “Shopping center, museum? Look, it’s raining!”
“Movies are for kids. We are photos, buddy”. “Museum? That sucks!”. “Who cares about the rain?” “We want the river! We want the river! We want the river!”
I understood their wish. Lisbon would have not been settled if the Tagus river had chosen another place to meet the Atlantic ocean. My street photos would have not been taken if Lisbon had not been settled. So, the Tagus river is like a grandparent to them.
OK, the river, let’s go visit grand-dad, in spite of the rain and the damn wind.
They looked so proud inside their smart new frames! They insisted on being photographed in Cais da Matinha, where two steamships are being repaired. Under and above an old abandoned wharf, enjoying a brief moment of shining sun. At night, with the lights of Vasco da Gama Bridge at their backs. I even took a candid of them whilst they were contemplating the sunset at Poço do Bispo dock.
The nasty weather didn’t allow us the typical touristic photos near the Cais das Colunas, the Torre de Belém, or the Padrão dos Descobrimentos. I told them that after the birth of their future siblings, we will go all together to visit those places, but on a sunny day, without wind.
I’ve written “after the birth of their future siblings” because all these photos belong to a project (S & R – 105) that hasn’t finished yet. Here it is my contribution to it until now (all 26 photos you can see portrayed here). BTW, this 12 by 12 instruction is a nice pretext to thank the adms, mods, instructors, gallerists, commentators, fellow photographers, and everybody who contributes to S & R – 105. Thank you!!