Pixel Darkroom Photography

“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.

I’m just doing my part for the Olympic Games. I’m doing this with a LED flash light, a Zippo lighter and a 70″ exposure. It takes a few tries and some imagination but it has great results. Here you have the olympic circles drawn by a flashlight and the torch drawn by my Zippo lighter for Day 124.

Strobist info: LED pocket flashlight, Zippo lighter and 70″ exposure at ISO 100 f/22. Triggered in bulb mode by Canon RC1 remote control. Blacks brought down in Lr.

This needs no introduction. I have made some other photographs that show the actual location better and to the disappointment of many, a big fence is surrounding the cauldron. People can only take pictures through the holes of the fence or by climbing on objects to get a shot above the tall fence.

Note: if your RSS reader did not grab the image please go to the site and see it. It is probably because I embedded it differently this time. Here goes day 121 – the 2010 Winter Olympic Cauldron.

If it happened today, I need to post it here. I will probably feel bad not to do it. I admit I could have planned it (better), because I actually did not plan it. I knew it was going to move around the city before it stops downtown, but didn’t really think much of it. I certainly did not think it was going to wake me up one morning. So here’s what happened: while still sleeping, this morning around 7:10 I hear loud noises outside. I get up, figure out what’s happening, I go downstairs, I put on a telephoto lens on my camera, take a peak out the window and realize the view is better from upstairs, run back up hoping I would not have missed it. Snap a few shots to tweak with the exposure and hope I would get something decent before the event goes by. I cranked up the sensor sensitivity for low light conditions and there it is. Eight frames later, you see this image. Since it happened today, I thought of journaling it here and there you have it: Day 118, the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games torch going by.

I like cross lighting things. I like coloring things. And I am so afraid of this sprinkler in my house. Imagine that if this thing breaks open, my TV will get wet and break, and I will no longer be able to play Pac Man.
I dare not even touch it, that’s why it’s so dusty. Never mind…

Strobist info: 580 EX (II) x3 CR with blue gel, CL with blue green gel, and below camera with coroplast snoot and red gel, flagged by my hand, via PW. Setup shot here.

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License image here.
Strobist info: 580 EX II via on camera 580 EX II right below candle holder.

Today we went and visited some great friends where we had dinner. Jacob makes an amazing Caesar Salad and while he was preparing it, I was playing with the candles that Claudia arranged on the table and was working on getting today’s shot. When he was done, I put the salad on the table instead, bounced a flash on the ceiling and had this shot by the fourth frame. The “original” shot is somewhere else. It’s interesting how I like the non setup stuff better. I like the mix of colours here – candle light with bounced flash. I’ll talk about color temperature some other time. Suffice it to say that the candle light appears very very warm, while the flash, which is supposed to imitate daylight appears much cooler when combined with candle light in the same frame.
Here goes Caesar Salad à la Jacob. Day 87.

Strobist info: 580 EX bounced into ceiling.