Day One Hundred Eighty Seven
July 6th, 2009 | 73 Comments| [permalink]
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187/365. To hell with responsibility — forget reality
Today's shot wasn't exactly fun. It involved climing up to Noe Valley, combating wind, saving falling softboxes, and jumping off a brick wall several times over.
By the time I got home, at the least, my beautiful wife had dinner ready :)
Anyhow, this particular shot was meant to have an old school film + HDR look. It is of course, best viewed large, and looks.... not so great at this 500px size.
I continued on with the video series for the info, although, it's a bit lacking in detail because I couldn't find a proper place to mount the lightstand without it falling over, so I stuck it in some bushes. If anything, it's worth checking out for a good laugh at how lame things were put together.
One final thing to note, this was an HDR taken with a single raw file by simply duplicating the file with different exposures (for anyone that wondered how to get action HDR shots with one image).
setup, camera, strobist info: see here
{edit note}: this is very different from my usual work. by no means am i an HDR expert, or even an enthusiast. But this is what 365's are for. I am bound to churn out some weird crap in hopes to learn a few things along the way.
Day One Hundred Fourteen
April 24th, 2009 | 104 Comments| [permalink]
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114/365. Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy? ~ Queen (Bohemian Rhapsody)
Well, it doesn't get any more official than being on TechCrunch. At least it is featuring a photo taken by me. It's like I get to do my own promo shots avoiding the press altogether.
Anyhow, I know what you're actually thinking... we've had enough of the nighttime strobist bokeh. This may have run to an end for the interim; but good news is that I have a week vacation! Look forward to some "possible" --NATURAL LIGHT-- (and that's a tiny possible 'maybe'). On the other hand, Erin just had the roll of seemless (photo backdrop) shipped in, so I'm sure we'll be taking advantage of that for some (actual) studio portraiture. This will help save a few trips out into the wild for a bit.
Lastly, I need to give Angela and Lindsey some credit for helping out with the lighting and shutter-pressing for this photo.
setup, camera, and strobist info: see here
