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.

This is a shot I’ve been meaning to take. I should have done it two days ago. Why, because two days ago it would have been exactly 7 years since I have received this plaque. I cannot believe it has been that long. I remember it well. I played Rachmaninov Etude-Tableau in Eb minor at that recital. I think… What an amazing piece! It’s been seven years. Some of you were even there. With the risk of it sounding like a cliché, time is going by fast. Even doing the 365 project gives me a whole new perspective on this concept of time. I have to come up with a photograph every day. Some days it’s hard, and some days it’s harder. A few days it’s easy. I think… A very interesting aspect is that this whole year, I will have something to look at, and I will at least remember the image I made that day. Many things we forget. Some we wished we didn’t, some we wished we’d forget sooner. I hope you have more days of the ones you want to remember. But then again, we live life on earth. Here goes day 117, and 7 more years.

Strobist info: 580 EX CR with grid via ST-E2 in ETTL mode + 1 (or so) of EV. Shot in Av. No vignette in post, just light fall off.

Strobist info: 580 EX II via PW CR with coroplast grid on. Setup shot.

As soon as I saw my wife bringing this device at home, I knew that we had stepped into the past; in the same time I realized what a giant leap forward took place during my lifetime. I looked around online for old photographs and vintage ads to see what the ’80s looked like, and couldn’t find any. I didn’t look for more than 3 minutes, it’s true, so maybe that had something to do with it. I tried to capture this as an add. Notice the open space on the upper left hand side. It’s the perfect spot for “The new Panasonic RQ-V60 Portable Walkman is here!” Instead I put it in the caption bar below the photograph. Oh, by the way, I do believe that women should not have immediate access to the latest technological developments, or any access, for that matter. I do keep my wife locked in the house taking care of the kids and the home. Once a month I take her out in the city for a drive, I keep the doors locked and we can only stop in one place.

Strobist info: 3×580 EX via PW. One into CL softbox with 1/2 CTO, two others CR on one stand, one for hair light, the other with some ’80s green gel on the wall. Aged photo preset in Lr. Setup shot here. Notice the ambient light knocked down by the 1/200 sec exposure. Overhead tungsten light not visible in final shot.

Even though it’s late, it is still the second day. Yesterday for my first post I was tweaking with format (html, blogger, color profiles for web) and what have you, so the post might have shown up as today in some time zones. The point is not the “publishing” them every day, but making them every day.

I just got home from a concert. It’s 23:15 so I’m waiting for the pics to come of my slooow card reader. I could have mailed them to me and it might have been faster. Truth is, at 28 mb a piece, it takes a while. Shot some video as well. That goes on that internet site… what’s it called… youSomething. It’ll be my first. See what happens. I know close friends would love to see those. So here goes day 2.