Sunday, January 30, 2011

Sweet red...

This weekend, my wife and I broke out one of our new Xmas gifts, a nice little fondue set from my parents.

We had a few leftovers, and as such, the camera came out.

Sweet Red

This was just a simple shot; macro lens, on-camera flash with an omnibounce diffuser.

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Week 1. No, really!

Littlest Pet Splash

Thar she blows, my picture for week #1, posted at the last possible minute. An illustrious start :)

My daughter is an avid collector of 'Littlest Pet Shop' toys, and some of them are nicely decorated with style of scrolling linework. They can actually be quite attractive, so I thought I'd put this little fishy to work in a splash picture. I figure when you need to get your creative juices flowing again, go with what you know and what you like, and I like splash shots :)

Taken with my 60mm Macro at f/6.3 with a three-light setup (left and right through the softbox walls, and background lit from above), triggered remotely. I had two other ideas that I shot today, and neither worked but I like this one. It's simple, but the colours are good and the focus is not bad.

The eye is slightly out of focus unfortunately, and it's exacerbated by the fact that the paint is a bit blotchy on the toy. Still, perfect focus when dropping a buoyant toy into water with razor-thin depth of field is going to be really hard to achieve. At least the fins and bubbles are all nice and sharp.

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

A new project...

So despite earlier protestations that I would be posting more, clearly I haven't. It's time for a little more motivation.

Another Project 365 is in my future, but not this year with a one year old in the house. So, it's going to be a Project 52 instead, starting next week.

If I can't manage a Project 52, then I'm really in trouble!