Monday, February 22, 2010

Secret of the Ooze

Day 53 of my Project 365 rolls around, and I am sitting on a big pile of green, red and blue ice cubes. I can't help play around with them.

I wanted to see what they would look light heavily backlit, so I rigged up a clear plastic berry dish on some of my daughter's Megabloks (high tech all the way here) and used that to place my 580EX II underneath, triggered with my Pocket Wizards. Killed the lights, set up a black screen around it to keep out any ambient, and shot from above:

Secret of the Ooze

ISO 100, f/10, 1/60th shutter. I can't help it. Every time I see this, I think of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies. I have some other ideas for these cubes, so hope you don't mind a new shot with them every now and then. They are fun to play with.

On a more serious note, I am very, very close to registering a small business and trying my hand at some simple part-time portraiture work. Some of the people I have done shots for are prepared to give me referrals and it would help to finance some new equipment if I could write off purchases against that income. It's not an unreasonable idea... I hope.

3 comments:

  1. I've been lurking and looking at your last posts on this 365 project.

    I'd say YES go with the part-time portraiture work! I loved the photos of your children.

    I love taking photos too but am VERY much an amateur ...

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  2. lovely photo - good luck with your venture

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  3. Thanks Dancing and Lavender. It's really just the start up costs that I have to worry about. An XSi with a 60mm macro lens isn't going to cut it for even semi-pro portraiture.

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