David's Project 365

[davidc]

Spent a couple of hours at the Sensational Butterflies attraction at the Natural History Museum - good fun but very, very hot. And people saw my camera, assumed I knew what I was doing and got me to take dozens of snapshots for families enjoying the butterflies!

Very flattering though


Clipper Butterfly - 126/365 by cedarsphoto, on Flickr

[davidc]

I also added Day 115 on page 32 of the thread. Now I just have last Friday's to fix up in photoshop and I've caught up

[davidc]

Day 123 added, above, and today's shot -

I went for a walk after work - I just got out at a random tram stop and decided to explore. Sadly, despite the glorious sunset, there was nothing out there that caught my eye and even a landscape shot of said sunset was out of the question - too many ugly houses.

So I decided to get more lighting practice, trying to feather and soften the light to bring out the texture of this nearly-ready-for-the-bin peach.


A Rotten Old Peach - 127/365 by cedarsphoto, on Flickr

[Mike Farley]

The British Museum & it's architecture is like a magnet for photographers, especially the view of the main library. I wanted to try something different so focused instead on the stairs and waited (and waited!) for a sunny day to get some interesting shadows.

Pretty pleased with the result and getting a different view of the British Museum


British Museum - 122/365 by cedarsphoto, on Flickr

You did well to get the shadows and NO people. The place is usually teeming whenever I am there.

[Mike Farley]

This is my shot for May the Fourth.

Love the result but it's been the most stressful so far and I finished at 23.59

Strobist - complicated

I was holding two 1m long pieces of white plumbing pipe wrapped in EL wire but they weren't bright enough (hence lightsabers added completely in post)

Two YN560II's, one right/left and each gelled red/green on 1/2 power through umbrella.
YN460 in front of me adding backlight.

But that wasn't enough so after I'd nailed the side shots I reshot my head using both YN560's side on at head height, ungelled, to light my hood, then blended the two shots in photoshop.


Light & Dark - 124/365 by cedarsphoto, on Flickr

It's Darth Candlish!

[Mike Farley]

Day 123 added, above, and today's shot -

I went for a walk after work - I just got out at a random tram stop and decided to explore. Sadly, despite the glorious sunset, there was nothing out there that caught my eye and even a landscape shot of said sunset was out of the question - too many ugly houses.

So I decided to get more lighting practice, trying to feather and soften the light to bring out the texture of this nearly-ready-for-the-bin peach.


A Rotten Old Peach - 127/365 by cedarsphoto, on Flickr

You have brought out the textures in peach and the wood very well.

[davidc]

The British Museum & it's architecture is like a magnet for photographers, especially the view of the main library. I wanted to try something different so focused instead on the stairs and waited (and waited!) for a sunny day to get some interesting shadows.

Pretty pleased with the result and getting a different view of the British Museum


British Museum - 122/365 by cedarsphoto, on Flickr

You did well to get the shadows and NO people. The place is usually teeming whenever I am there.

Thanks - it took ages standing around waiting, eliciting funny looks from people and museum staff wondering why I was just standing there.

[davidc]

Not 100% happy with this but I still tried to concentrate on the lighting side even though I'm getting a bit bored of taking flower shots (I've done loads recently, want to do something different!)

Anyway, here it is -

Apparently it's an iris I've since learned!

Lighting the background yellow was an absolute pain, I needed to use multiple gels overlapping to get it so it wasn't eye wateringly lemon yellow!

Lit from above by a YN560II on 1/16th through an umbrella, from underneath by a YN460 on 1/64th and the background lit by a YN560II on 1/16th with too many gels to mention


Purple Flower - 128/365 by cedarsphoto, on Flickr

[davidc]

I've been trying to get good monochrome shots this week for a variety of reasons and not done particularly well I feel so gave it one last shot tonight. A simmering pan of water is the subject and although it doesn't really work in mono I still quite like it - it's a beast with a thousand eyes. Or bubblewrap, depending on your imagination

Used a flash to freeze the motion.


Boiling Point - 129/365 by cedarsphoto, on Flickr

[davidc]

Sorry for not posting lately, had a busy weekend and have been suffering from a lack of inspiration lately. Should be able to catch up tonight I hope.