Week two: food. Specifically, David Hobby (author of Strobist) says, "photograph a gastronomic subject so well that it will cause me to go off the wagon." Here's how you take photos of food.
First, I started off the day the assignment was announced by taking a photo of my lunch on top of my dresser.
Strobist is a blog about off-camera flash, a technique that gives photographers a lot of flexibility and control. It can be difficult to master because besides the technical side of things, learning the art of lighting just requires a lot of hands-on experience.
Enter Boot Camp Two, a series of assignments to help photographers improve their off-camera flash skills. Week one's assignment was to take a headshot. I've been teaming with my coworker and fellow photo club member Konstantin. This is Konstantin helping me get familiar with my rented camera before I shot the Holley wedding in March.
Labels: headshot, photo, strobist
My photo club at work is having an exposition. That's what it's called when we print up some photos and put them in a conference room for a few hours. The nice thing is that I end up with a print after it's all over.
Tomorrow, I will submit this photo of Guatemala's Lake Atitlan with volcanoes Atitlan, Toliman, and San Pedro (left to right). Today I enhanced the contrast of the volcanoes. For the first time today, I made the connection that the cloud at the top of Toliman might be a lenticular cloud, though it doesn't quite look smooth enough. Here it is, closer in.
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I like stitching photos together. Last fall, I thought I'd try my hand at stitching macro photos together, and I worked the bugs out a little bit taking photos of a leaf. More recently, I tried my hand at a daisy.
This is 26 photos stitched together using Hugin and Enblend. I am unhappy about the background. It is yellow tissue paper, and I had a light behind the paper, and I hoped the texture would come through more. I plan to photograph just the paper and replace the background. With a slightly larger background, this photo will be 50 megapixels. Not bad for a 2.5" flower.
This should look good at 30"x30". I'm thinking of doing a series of these and have some plans in the works.
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Just now I ordered a print of this picture I took on our honeymoon:
This is Third Pond near Blue Hill, Maine in August. The 24-inch print will go on our living room wall. It is a panorama stitched together from 7 images, with the brightness evened out using enfuse. Apparently there is another program that does the same thing called TuFuse, which is written by the same guy who wrote PTAssembler, the panorama stitcher I used to use. I might have to take another look at his program and see what improvements he's made.
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