Pixel Darkroom Photography

Today I wanted to shoot this little bird feeder in sunset light. But since the sun is always gone behind a building by the time it’s about to light this bird feeder, I thought I’d create my own sunset light. The way it works is like this: You set your camera to shoot on manual mode and underexpose the photograph so you can get a rich saturated sky. You do this by closing down the aperture (higher f-stop number) and/or increasing the shutter speed. I shot this somewhere around 1/160 of a second so it could still synchronize with my off camera flash via a radio trigger, called pocket wizard and at f8, or so. The flash had a gel (a colored plastic film on top, to make it orange looking, closer to the color of the setting sun). You have to play a little with the settings until you get the desired balance of light. There it is, day 144, bird feeder in the late afternoon home made sunset light. Read below for settings and check out the setup shot linked below for actual “view”.

Strobist info: 580 EX II at 1/1 105mm with full CTO via Pocket wizard, CR. Drop down the ambient to bring some color back in the sky. Setup shot.

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind”. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself”. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.

Lighter info: zippo lighter painting the star. It took more than 10 tries to get this right. OK, more than 20… a lot more. Bulb mode via Canon RC-1, f/20-22, ISO 100.

New life. Only a few hours old young.

Available light and 400 or 500 ISO, slow shutter, dark sodium vapor lights.

Can’t beat yesterday’s post so I’m not going to try to explain it. I am planning to shoot some still nature and this is one of the shots in this series.

Strobist info: 580 EX II handheld zoomed to 105m @ 128th power via ST-E2.

Today I decided to change the post titles. It was getting way to long to keep typing away those letters when I could just type in 3 numbers.

Here we had the chance to go to White Rock, BC. What you see in the distance is a peninsula of which the south side (left side in the photograph – I am facing West, obviously to those of you who know which way the Earth is turning) belongs to the USA. Look it up on the map. It’s weird. You can only access that part of the USA via water or on land only from Canada. Amazing place. I wonder how it is to have to cross the border on a daily basis, or get the boat out daily to go to your own country.

I shot a few more pictures there which I will add them to other sections of the website. Here goes Day 140 – White Rock, BC.

Little hands… big hands…

Strobist info: 580 EX II CR via on camera 580 EX II. Tweaks in Lightroom.