It's Good To Be Back

I decided today I have to start using my little studio space. I love going out and not being sure what I am going to come home with. I also enjoy picking something to photograph and figuring out how to set it up and light it taking control of the whole situation. Here is a first attempt, keeping things simple. They were set upon a translucent plastic sheet. I lit from underneath and above/behind. I think I'll have to get back into this a little more. There's a lot to learn here.

 The lens used was a 50mm macro  15sec at f22. iso 100. I had a flash underneath the plastic sheet with Lumiquest ltp  and another flash up and behind through an umbrella. The 15 sec exposure is not a typo. Either there was something wrong with my camera or it is some quirk of the Sony SLT a55. Too complicated to try and explain on here. Plus I got the shot. That's what counts.

More Or Less

When I first took this photo I was aiming for colour. While working on it I thought I would see how it looked black and white. For me it was a "Wow!" moment. Sometimes when you make it less, like take away the colour, it becomes so much more. Dar and I often go to the same place again and again. Sometimes I have wondered if we're getting stuck doing the same old thing. When I look at photos like this I know that isn't the case. I wouldn't have taken this photo in a trip past and will things entirely different in a future trip.  I am pretty sure Dar would agree with these sentiments judging by what she was taking this day. 
Our next trip will be to a different locale altogether. I look forward to that because there will be so many new photos for us to take there. I also look forward to sometime coming to this same old place so we can do things different, yet again!

 

 Taken with the 16-80 at 16mm. 3 exposures 1/40th, 1/60th, and 1/100th sec at f22.

Another Good Day

Dar and I got to go out for a photo day today. It was an easy day, we didn't work too hard at it. We did make some plans but never got to the places we intended. One place we always seem to end up lately is Chinatown. We also seem to end up in the same parking lot in the same parking spot. Of course we always have to lean out and see what there is to take pictures of before we go anywhere. I saw this van turning the corner and thought I had better get some shots of it as it raced by. I can be so funny, a VW van racing by. 

 I used the 16-80 at 50mm 1/13th sec at f22 iso 400