Day 96 - Daylilly After Dark

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Lighting Info:
ISO 100 f/25 1/200s 1 SB-26 @ 85 mm 1/16th power snooted camera left 12 inches from subject.

I had another photo planned for tonight, but we had severe storms moving in and I was able to get a shot of the flower between storms.

until tomorrow,
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Botanical Garden [Explored]

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Not a daily photo, but it made it to Explore on flickr

1 SB-26 @ 50mm camera right 4 feet from subject most likely 1/4th power triggered with Pocket Wizard Plus IIs

I don't rember what this one is, and I don't remember the exact light info. Shot this in the middle of a sunny day. I used two 2 stop ND filters to kill the ambient light and lit the flower with off camera flash only

more coming soon!!!

Day 95 - Another Unnamed flowering plant

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IS0 200 f/25 1/200s 1 SB-26 snooted high left.

I had other plans for todays photo, but resorted to photographing one of the many unknown plants in my yard.

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DAY 94 - ONE FUCKING SPEED

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ISO 160 f/2.8 1/30s @ 28mm. 1 SB-26 @35mm 1/4th power above camera shot through umbrella triggered with pocket wizard plus IIs.

The only hobby I love more than photography is cycling. Before photography, I spent most of my disposable income on bicycles and gear. This is a picture of a Gary Fisher Rig that I bought from a friend several years ago. I have been wanting to photograph this bike for sometime, and it was good practice for a shoot with my friends new mountain bike sometime in the near future. It took me a while to settle on shooting location, but I finally decided to hang the bike on the fence of a construction site.

I also shot this using my 50mm, but it didn't give me the look I was going for. I had brought the 28mm f/2.8 lens for this shot because of its close focusing distance of about 9 inches.

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I decided to use a square crop for this photo; because I have a roll of 120 I am hoping to finish this week, and I have been uploading my project photos to instagram.

any fellow instagram users be sure to add me (tylerbrown82).

until tomorrow,
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Day - 93 Killing the Sun

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ISO 200 f/22 1/200s. 1 SB-26 @ 85mm 1/4 power High left on a flash stand held in my left hand triggered with pocket wizard plus IIs.

Went to the Botanical Gardens near my house today; it was hot and sunny, luckily I had two 2 Stop ND filters to kill the ambient sunlight. I took several photos today, but I really like the water lilly best.

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Day - 92 Tick Seed

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ISO 400 300mm f/32 1/200s. 1 SB-800 @ 24mm 1/8th power snooted left and underneath the subject.

I first tried this shot with the flash on the sand in it's lowest postion, but the light looked flat and lack insperation. Then had the idea to lay the flash and stand on the groung very close to the flower. The end of the 12" snoot was 4 inches from the flower. The quality of the light then changed dramatically, giving me a level of texture and detail that I didn't get from a flash directly above.

until tomorrow,
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Day - 91 Wine and Cheese

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ISO 100 f/4 1/200s
SB-800 @17mm 1/32 power in a collapsed umbrella behind subject to create a direct reflection on the knife, and 1 SB-26 @ 24mm 1/32 power camera left with a shoot through umbrella. Triggered with Pocket Wizard Plus IIs.

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Tonight I wanted to take a shot at food photography. I had planned this shot in my head since Christmas when Leela received this beautiful cheese plate with the knife pictured. After reading Light, Science, and Magic, I really wanted to put into practice what I learned about direct reflections and taking photos of metal objects. Because my main light, camera left, is outside my family of angles; all the light hitting the polished metal will be reflected out of the frame and the blade would appear dark grey. The light behind, which was in my family of angels, creates the direct reflection resulting in white reflection seen in this shot. Without the light camera left the cheese board went to a dark grey tone; meaning that the rear light contributes almost exclusively to the exposure of the knife alone. The image here is straight out of the camera for the exception of added whitespace in photoshop; I could not frame this shot without having the edge of the table in my shot, and I need to add more table. At first, I had trouble framing my shot to give me the appropriate reflection in the knife; until I realized I a simply need to adjust my camera position until I saw the umbrella in the knife reflection.

until tomorrow, I have more wine to drink and cheese to eat.
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