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Still playing with my new flash and loving having so much control over what is and isn't lit. Don't get me wrong, I still have a very healthy appreciation for my cheap old halogen lights but their problem is that they have a tendency to light EVERYTHING in sight. That and they only have 2 power settings - on and off. So lets just say that I am on a high of possibilities, and I haven't even started using extra lighting modifiers yet :D
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Flash details (before I forget what the heck I did here):
Lumopro LP180 about 1m away from subject directly overhead @ 1/8th power and 24mm zoom triggered via sync chord.
Much love,
D.
Tuesday, August 6, 2013
217/365 Spot-lit
Monday, August 5, 2013
216/365 The harbour bridge in two parts
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When I was in primary school we used to make this string thing and we all called it "the harbour bridge". Turns out, it looks nothing like the real thing.
Much love,
D.
2. Flash DoF testing
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Did you know that light has a DoF? Neither did I. Then I learnt that that is just another fancy way of talking about the inverse square law which being a high school physics nerd made sooooo much more sense to me :)
Anyway, this is another in the strobist 102 exercises that I am hoping will get me out of the whole "oh shit I don't know what to do with this" mind space and more into the "I know the basics so I can feel free to experiment" mind space.
Basically the idea behind this exercise was to turn a white/light background black/dark. I kind of half achieved the aim but I'm happy with the learning curve :)
In both pictures the flash is set to 1/8th power on a light stand to the left of camera, shutter 1/160th and I am apron 1m away from the wall. The only differences are that in the picture on the left, the flash is about 1m from my face and the aperture f/11, whilst in the picture on the right the flash is about 3m away from my face and aperture f/2.8.
What did I learn most of all? That all of my fudging f-stops and not bothering to learn the standard ratios etc because my camera will tell me all I need to know and I have spare memory to play with is coming back to bite me in the arse. I have some serious math-ing to catch up on :S
Much love,
D
215/365 learning my flash part 2
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Not my prettiest portrait but that wasn't the point. The point was to experiment with light DoF... it was interesting. For me at least.
Much love,
D.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
214/365 Studying hard
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This was the day that I discovered that you are actually allowed to bring and eat food in the library on levels 3, 4 and 5. This may prove to be a problem as there are days when the only reason I leave is to eat lunch... :S
That is all.
Much love,
D.
213/365 Reflecting
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Gah! Woman why oh why did you not move that damned stick?!
For once this photo barely has any processing done to it. I thought I was going to hate the photo but when it went up on the screen I liked it so - yeah.
Not much more to say. Very brain dead from my usual Sunday galavanting and thinking about the long week ahead makes me want to curl up in a ball and not leave the safety of my bedsheets for a month. :S
Much love,
D.
212/365 Melissa boots! :)
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Sorry, I just had to. Well no I didn't have to but I got distracted during the time period allocated during the day for photo taking. Sadly it wasn't a good distraction :(
Anyway, meet the latest in the booties line up. They are Melissa boots which for those of you who aren't up with the bran means that they are made out of a waterproof poly-plastic type substance only they smell like bubblegum! :D (Which I love and mum detests) This particular pair look and feel like suede. So they are like mini gum boots only better!
Stop shaking your heads at me.
Much love,
D.
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