Shot with the camera on a tripod and a single gooseneck desk lamp with a 40w incandescent bulb. Setup time maybe 5 minutes. The original aim was to recreate an advert from UK TV but with mild adaptations. The original voiceover was "du pain, du vin, du boursin" which means "the bread, the wine, the cheese".
This was shot at a candle-lit wedding and looked far better converted to B&W. It's a fun shot - probably the best of the whole series that I took. That was a shoot and burn wedding which I did as a freebie.
Ah - the famous wedding band. I could have done the geeky version where the light shines on a ring in the middle of a book, forming a heart shape. I just chose to try out my macro filter on my lens to see what kind of result I got. It's not too bad. Just not a filter that was ever worth buying.
Not quite what I had in mind originally. I'd originally had in mind a book with bullet holes and blood oozing out. It turned out that shooting books (I tried shooting a telephone directory) is harder than it looks. I shot a few bullet holes into a telephone directory with .357 magnum and found what a wonderful bullet-stopper a phone book is. I need to revisit this photo with some sand and so on. The book survives uninjured. I even tried reading it and found it so self-conflicting that it was to all intents and purposes unreadable.
Ages ago I bought a pocket watch. Then I decided to try taking a photo of it. I used a simple piece of white vinyl as the background and photographed this in daylight with a white reflector to the right and a window to the left. I can see the spackled ceiling reflecting in the glass. It's a good attempt - not perfect but I'm not really interested in perfection nor in photoshopping everything to death. I just like something that looks good and this looks pretty good.
This was a very simple shot to set up. My Jade dragon came from a witchcraft stall at a fleamarket. I'd originally wanted a jade Buddah but the jade buddhas were so expensive I opted for a dragon and I love my little dragon. It lives on my desk beside Yorrich (my styrofoam human head). I put black card behind the dragon and stood him on a black box then fired a flash from behind and below the dragon. It seems to have worked quite well. I tinkered a bit with the exposure in Aperture but not that much. I'm happy with the result even if people don't recognise it as a dragon.
This is the B&W version of the photograph that's at the top of the page. I think that I prefer the color version now though I like the B&W version too. My one gripe about this is that the bread looks out of focus. I'm wondering whether there's a soft spot on the lens as I have noticed this on a couple of photos.
The famous sleaze photo. I tried to take the sleaziest photo I possibly could. I don't think somehow that this is quite sleazy enough. I thought torn-up stockings, booze and red fingernails might have worked well but they didn't and even in sepia it's not as good as I'd have liked. I must revisit this idea one day.
Yorrich (Hamlet) is one of my most uncomplaining photo subjects. His features used to be pristine but sadly his nose got mildly damaged during a season of lying low incarcerated in a storage unit while seriously deranged shenanigans were going on in the outside world. This was shot very simply - a desklamp with a 40w bulb on the right, the head was sitting on my black fabric swivel chair and a sheet of black construction paper was rested behind against the back of the chair. The camera was an 8 year old Canon S1 IS - perfectly adequate for online display. I just didn't see the point of dragging out a digital SLR for something this quick and simple. Indeed, I'm seeing ever less point to digital SLRs. The quality over the new Interchangeable Lens Compacts is negligible and zero at 100ISO (which is all I shoot at).
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