Pixel Darkroom Photography

This image is “colored” in a special way. For those of you not familiar with using gels and working with the white balance (WB) of the camera, this is an interesting exercise. Tungsten light looks very warm to the camera as well as to the naked eye. Our brain is used to adjusting the information to us but the camera doesn’t. So the camera needs to be told that the image is lit by tungsten light so that it “cools” it off.

However, if the image is not lit by tungsten light, the camera’s white balance cools it so much that it looks blue to our eyes. In order to create the effect below, I set the camera to the tungsten white balance and lit myself with a flash that had a 1/1 CTO (color temperature orange) gel AND a 1/8 CTO gel. The 1/1 CTO gel was to create the tungsten light that I mentioned below, which would have brought yours truly to a neutral light (sort of day light, or white, if you wish) and the other 1/8 CTO gel to warm up, yours truly, (who could have use the warmth) and give it a little bit of skin color. The flash was triggered with Pocket Wizards (radio triggers) and the light shape was modified with a coroplast snoot, which is something to direct the light straight at the subject and prevent it from “spilling” or contaminating anything else. Here’s Day 289.

I can’t explain this photograph. I just asked her to look at me. I guess that by now, posing takes a new meaning and we become more and more comfortable in front of the lens. I only took a couple of shots and after doing some hard post-production on one of them I decided to go with this one lightly “touched”. Here’s Day 242. Where we are in the project, I don’t know. I sort of dropped posting links on Facebook and Twitter. I’m kinda tired of shooting something every day. Thanks for looking. Sorry for the RSS images missing. I actually never got the images to work with Buzz anyway and I don’t know how to make it work on RSS like this. I’ve had images being downloaded from my site and picked them up in different places so I decided to switch from Flickr to Photoshelter. We’ll see how this works.

Up here you’re not allowed to use the mobile phone and drive at the same time anymore. I ended up getting this bluetooth headset. I would have gotten some wired headset because pairing and connecting these things is a pain ad posteriore but it works fine eventually. I have a (made with cell phone) picture from long time ago, when my son was probably only two years old, and he is wearing a headset like this. That was a cute one. This time it’s a cool one. It’s about time, he’s 5.

Strobist info: 580 EX at 64th zoomed to 105mm trough coroplast grid as rim, and 580 EX II at 128th CL both via Pocket Wizards. Tweaks in Lr.