experiment #4

Bubble popping.

This is the one image that truly holds me captive... a perfectly round bubble, mid-burst.  

Not only is that the best idea ever, but the skill in capturing that shot is legendary.

So far I haven't been able to find the site for this image (this is from G-images) but I really need to know what aperture they use and even how many times the tried before getting the perfect shot. 

This shot was accidental, I was holding the button down just to get a good photo when hey presto! they decided to pop one. If the photo had of worked I wouldn't have been as unhappy about the angle, although this does sort of work. Not for a replica, mind you. For my next try I need to use a faster aperture and maybe an hour or two before that time of day^. That was around 4pm, and the sun kept moving. Also, I need to do my next shoot with less water-fights going on around me =P 

Experiment #4 - out of 10, I'd give it a 6. What number do you give it?

experiment #3

I live and breathe The Lord of the Rings trilogy. 

This still (below) is taken (found on G-images) from a scene in The Fellowship of the Ring and ever since I have had my chain I've wanted to re-shoot it.

I've been the the snow three times in the past two months and every time I forgot to take my chain. Part of me dreaded losing it, I admit. 

Well, we're currently in the middle of Spring and this morning we woke up to 8cm of snow all around us. I got out of bed an hour early just to do this photo shoot. 

Comparing this to the original concept, the theme from the film, it is entirely different save the fact that it's a ring on a chain in the snow, but as a stand alone photo I am so happy with it.

Notes for next time - imitate original closer. Get less chain and more ring. Get more background instead of foreground. Be more patient and less cold. 

experiment #2

I love experimenting. Not always, of course. Sometimes after an experiment I'm ready to create World War III. Failure is something I don't like to accept.
"By failure you learn. By success... not so much." ('meet the robinsons' ;)
It's so true, yet so hard to take on board.

This experiment (take #2. To see take #1 scroll down two posts) was a chore and a half. I'm still in love with the concept, but my take is so, well, lame.

Original^. Using a glass slab, splashed/sprinkled with water, a shaded torch, and a tripod. And actually, I noted after much inspection, a helluva lot of Photoshop. (There's no such thing as a white M&M in a mixed pack, did you know that? For this image they've changed the brown M&M to white. Tricksy...)

So this one of my hundreds of trials. I did this on my kitchen table at night time, so the lighting is dark. And because I had to use glad-wrap it didn't work in daylight because glad-wrap isn't clear. Shhh, don't tell anyone.
I wanted my take-off to be happy and bright like the original but it just wasn't happening, brother. 

So, all in all, Experiment #2 was a failure. Stay tuned. Summer's on its way.