Monday, May 5, 2008
How to take a interesting photograph - Example 1
- Find someone who sews a lot.
- Ask him or her for a jar of buttons.
- Pour them on the floor.
- Take a picture.
But if only they were real gold!
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8:00 AM
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1 Comments:
OK, for those of you that actually read the comments on my blog I'll give you a little bonus, that being how the picture was actually made.
All the above steps are true. The only thing I left out was the lighting. In this case I used my favorite lighting equipment for still-life, a flashlight. Flashlights work great for small things like this.
My camera was on a tripod looking straight down. I used a long exposure time of likely 2 or 3 seconds (I don't remember exactly), and painted the buttons with light. The color of a tungsten light source is warmer than daylight, so rather than neutralizing it by setting the white balance on my camera to "tungsten" I wanted to keep the warmer tone to make the fake gold have a nice warm glow. Then, all that is required is moving the flashlight around as fast, and at different angles, to paint the scene within your exposure time and even out the light in the process.
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