I'm in the pub with my wife. Priorities folks, priorities.
Monday, 29 March 2010
Sunday, 28 March 2010
Day 87 - Annabelle portraits
Annabelle is turning into quite a good model a the moment. She's very happy to sit still while I pull faces and hand her toys. I'll try to make the most of this before she gets mobile.
This was taken using the a shoot through umbrella with the YN 460-II as the main light and two other flahes to light the background.
Another smiley colour portrait appears after the click.
Another smiley colour portrait appears after the click.
Day 86 - Falling apple
This one was achieved with some post work. I usually prefer in-camera / flash cleverness, but I thought I could do use the practice.
The apple was actually stuck on some cocktail sticks to throw a shadow underneath. This was better than shooting it flat on the surface and adding a shadow as the reflection in the bottom of the apple would have been a give away. In hindsight, positioning the light to throw a shadow directly under the apple might have looked better for this effect, but it wouldn't have lit the apple as nicely.
Day 85 - on the floor
Here's a picture of Jessica lying on the floor. I've no idea what she was up to, but I do know it was taken with just window light.
Day 83 - I have the power!
This shot is an attempt to show the control that can be achieved with manual off camera flash.
To get this look I needed to bring the ambient exposure, including the bulb, right down low with a combination of exposure time and aperture. Now, as I want to light my arm using the flash, I'd rather get the exposure time down low so I don't have to use a tiny aperture and nuke my arm with full power flash. Using a flash, the fastest exposure I can get is limited by the sync speed of the camera. This is quoted as 1/250s for the D50, but, as this fine piece of machinery has an electronic shutter, we can work a bit quicker than that, even with a wireless flash trigger slowing things down. Having set this down to 1/320s (I have got faster than 1/500s on other occasions), I stopped down the aperture to get the bulb looking right then bumped the flash up to give the correct exposure on my arm.
To get this look I needed to bring the ambient exposure, including the bulb, right down low with a combination of exposure time and aperture. Now, as I want to light my arm using the flash, I'd rather get the exposure time down low so I don't have to use a tiny aperture and nuke my arm with full power flash. Using a flash, the fastest exposure I can get is limited by the sync speed of the camera. This is quoted as 1/250s for the D50, but, as this fine piece of machinery has an electronic shutter, we can work a bit quicker than that, even with a wireless flash trigger slowing things down. Having set this down to 1/320s (I have got faster than 1/500s on other occasions), I stopped down the aperture to get the bulb looking right then bumped the flash up to give the correct exposure on my arm.
Day 82 - Syrup
A bit of dripping syrup today...
I would have liked to make the spoon look shiny, but didn't have an extra white board to reflect in it had to be dark instead.
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