Pixel Darkroom Photography

I don’t have much to say about this. It follows the same idea with the Jenga tower, and the orange in the wheelbarrow. I just like playing with colors.
Strobist info: 2×580 EX (II) via on camera PW and manually triggered PW CL and CR with obvious gels and handheld LED flashlight above subject. 2 seconds exposure with small aperture.

Strobist info: 580 EX CL with coroplast gridspot via Pocket Wizard.

Today I saw a short film with a man who was comparing the domino effect and the decisions in our life. They are so many and they influence other decisions, other people and so many other things. The key thing was that we take so little time making so many of these decisions and the effect applies so quickly, just like the domino pieces, as they move from one to the other so quickly. It made me think about my decisions.
I thought about building the image below with the empty chair because so many times we are not even “there” as we make decisions. Most of them happen fast, little time goes into making them and we want to move on to the next thing. Then we might end up wondering why our life is the way it is, why our children are the way they are, why our relationships are where they are and many times we are looking for someone else to blame. Just a thought.

Strobist info: 580 EX II CL with snoot and blue gels, CR with snoot and red gels, and CL on the chair in the background with a coroplast (corrugated plastic) grid-spot. Shot at f22 with a diopter filer and flashes anywhere from 1/4 to 1/2 +/- EV.

I know it looks a bit like another photograph of mine shot earlier some morning, except that this is a night exposure of 25 seconds or so and I cooled down the temperature in post production. The city lights gave it a warm color, similar to the one in this shot. I liked the cool version better. The long exposure also made for the clouds to run away. Here goes day night 97.

Moon in the sky and city lights lighting the clouds. Long exposure at night.

The Jenga Tower.

Strobist info: 580 EX II x3 via Pocket Wizards. 1/32 power CL and CR with red gels and blue gels, and the top one (slightly CL with green gel at 1/128 with coroplast snoot and zoomed to 50mm or so, for less power.) Setup shot here.

Time.

Strobist info: 2×580 EX II via infra red trigger in two groups (A+B). One 580 EX II with 3 gels (2 blue gels on one half and one red gel on the other half) and the other 580 EX II bare. Stuck the pages together with magnets and covered the cover with a black foam. I left the setup shot in full color here so you can see that I didn’t tweak anything in Ps. Small dust spots removed in Lr. Shot with +2 diopter filter over a 50 mm prime. In case you didn’t know what this is, it’s a book. A “Tell the Time with Thomas” book by Christopher Awdry.

I saw this beautiful sky this morning and loved it. I realized that many of us see this beauty and go right passed it, either because we drive to work, we commute, we’re running late or something else. And yet there are so many beautiful things out there that are worth at least a few extra seconds of our time and we do not take that time to enjoy it. I’m not trying to get out if it easy today with a sky shot. The thing is, I really liked it and that’s what matters. As I have written before (I think) if I don’t take a shot that I like that day, I cannot take it and post it later . I might not get it some other time.

No strobist info here. Just that big fireball in the sky. By the way, the fireball and the houses dictated the framing; I just tilted my camera to get as much from the sky as I could from my position without getting anything else distracting. Just like you should take the extra few seconds and enjoy the Master’s painting without much else to distract you for a few seconds. Now go share this on Facebook or Twitter or Digg it, or somethin’. Help me out here.