Year In Pictures: 2010/01/25

[plonq]

It's going to be along week when, just after three weeks into this, I am already creatively bankrupt. Here I am taking pictures of water again.

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[kfops.livejournal.com]

That's a very cool photo. Is that natural lighting to get the colour of that liquid?

As far as image ideas, have you considered setting things up so that you could get pictures, too? Like digging a 6 foot trench in the middle of your street and waiting for someone to drive into it? Perhaps adding out-of-context items to normal scenes before photographing?

[atara.livejournal.com]

Well, the city did dig a 6-foot hole in front of our house.

[plonq.livejournal.com]

If it had snowed a bit before they filled the hole with cement we could have spread snow over the dangerous boards and rigged a trap, then hunkered down by the front window with a camera at the ready.

It's a shame we don't think of these things until it's too late.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

Man, it's like an art project that creates itself!

Alas for lost opportunities. We can still dream though, can't we?

[plonq.livejournal.com]

The colour is from the bowl; we have a set of measuring bowls that are a very nice shade of blue. I set the tap to dripping and then used the on-board flash to freeze it in place. From there it was just a matter of stepping down the f-stop until it looked good, and then taking a few pictures until I got one that I liked.

[kfops.livejournal.com]

That's pretty cool... thanks for giving me the scoop on how you made it come together, too. I appreciate when folks share technique.