#27 Candle Light Please!!!

Hey girls and boy,
Yea,  it's late night Saturday and here I am foolin' around with cameras and candles. It was a good assignment Mark. I am really enjoying these weekly tasks.  Learning something each time.  I set the f stop high to get depth of field so my shutter speed was slower. After reviewing these I think I should have gotten away from that wall and shot out in the open with no background on some.

6 sec f/16 Iso 200  

6 sec f/16 iso 200  

4 sec f/16 iso 200  

4 sec f/16 iso 200  

4 sec f/16 iso 200

# 26 HOT BEVERAGES (Sheldon--Big Bang)

Hi guys,
     It's been a busy week and it's Sunday morning and Oh sh___!  I need some pics.   I tried a cup of hot coffee and I couldn't see the steam.  I need a light source and dark background.  Sorry but this is gonna take some time.  I hear it's not easy.
     We're heading out this morning so I'm kinda bowing out this week.  Here's a study in still life.  I liked the BLUE theme throughout the setup.
      I actually had a few minutes to try different flash applications.  I have a popup flash on my camera and I did one open shot.  It was too bright and left shadows. Then I covered the flash with paper towel one layer and then two.  One layer diffused the light in this one shot real well and gave a nice even light everywhere. 
Gotta run so I'm publishing early.
Sorry,
Burr

Everything you need for a hot beverage

 

#25 FACES ON INANIMATE OBJECTS

Hi guys,
It's like on the news where the lady saw Elvis's face in her bowl of  Oatmeal!!
  This was a little harder than I thought it would be.  I see something with a face in it then take a picture of it and it doesn't look the same.  It really makes you think how we see things differently. We have two eyes and an imagination and the camera has only one eye.  I would say to Ruth "Look at this cool face in this pot" and she says "Where?".  Well if you hold it up here and look for the eyes right here and turn it a little bit-----------------------Huh!!  I learned to watch the lighting and perspective to get you to see what I see.  Hope you all had fun. 

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STOVEBOT    It didn't look right after I took the pic.I tried blurring this like squinting your eyes but it didn't help. Also hard to light.   I put the juicer hat on top.

Sugar canister Robot  This is one I worked on.  After I took the pic it looked like a jar of sugar. That's not what I saw, so I added the red in the handle, swished the sugar to the front, staged some black objects on each side to make the eyes show up, and added black background.  

USB cable snake--another hard to light.  I hand held it and turned it all different ways to get the right lighting for the mouth.

Stone face grin----Pottery work in holder upside down

Happy Coke tab

Cabinet hinge monster

Grumpy dresser drawer

Deadbolt smile

Screaming thermostat--sideways

Cell phone smirk

Sad Remote--- hard to crop just right. Looks better from across the room.   ????

#24 Night Photography

Hey bloggers,
Not much this week.  I have the flu.  Made some shots in the house last night by setting the shutter speed to 30 seconds. This gave me 30 seconds to do something with a light in pitch dark room. This was kinda fun. It took a few to get it right.(10)
Burr

Manual settings-Shutter set for 30 sec exposure f6.7 iso 400 

Press shutter--move in front of the camera and write something facing the camera with the led flashlight. One of the leds was blinking and it showed up in the lines. I had to flip the photo left to right because it was backwards to the camera.

Same settings--covered light with red candy wrapper

 30 sec shutter again---press shutter--walk through the dark and sit on couch-shine light for 3 sec at ceiling-move over and repeat