Pixel Darkroom Photography

This is one of my little friends. He’s the one you don’t see in the bedtime picture from two days ago, because he’s a good boy and goes to bed early. He also wakes up early. Waaay to early. And when you take into consideration the time zone he’s coming from, that adds another hour to his “earliness”. He is such a sweet little boy. I have never seen a more humble little person. I cannot describe it. A few times, when he got upset, he just put his head down and had a very humbled countenance. No crying, no fussing. Amazing. Here he is eating… something. I don’t know what he eats, but the manner in which he does is so special. You can see he’s putting the food into his fork, using his other hand and only then he eats it. He is very well brought up and does not eat without silverware. Honestly. Very well mannered. What a joy do have him around!

A bit of fresh fruit dramatically lit on my dinning room table. For this one I had an assistant, my friend Ugur, who held the light straight on top of the nectarine. We used a coroplast snoot to restrain the light from spilling too much on the table. Since the light was so close to the fruit, it was set to 128th power and we knocked down the ambient light by shooting at the highest synch speed available for radio triggers, in this case and for this particular camera 1/160 of a second. The light was an old Canon 580 EX flash. I warmed up the light in Lightroom. Here’s Day 307.

I made this with one rose, one vase, one exposure and two flashes. Read below for info.

Strobist info: 580 EX x2 CL and CR via on camera PW and manually triggered PW on a different channel. The vase and the flower are one item. 3 seconds exposure – first flash fired at the beginning, I moved the vase and triggered the other flash manually via PW then closed the shutter.