So I stumbled across “Photographic Impressionism” early this morning, and spent the bulk of the work day with a few things I read about it running through my head. Naturally, I had to try it out, but not on pretty landscapes or flowers, on something mundane and controllable and within the safety of my apartment. …
Author Archives: James Cockroft
365.36 His Nobs
Homage JPB This took a long honking time for a quick after-work shoot. Jeez. I started out just wanting to play with flash some… then I needed a second light (enter the DIY SoftBox-Type-Thingy from several weeks ago)… then I needed a third light (hello bedside lamp)… then I needed to change the setup, bring …
365.35 The Birth of Clouds
The clouds have been rather amazing lately, and today I managed to get around to shooting before they all returned to the sky or banded together to blot out the sun. And I’m patting myself on the back a bit, since I actually left the confines of the apartment complex to shoot! I didn’t go …
365.34 Fully Automatic, Fully Adjusted
This began as three jpegs, shot in full auto -2–0–+2 bracketed, merged to HDR in Photoshop CS5.5 and shipped out with some custom slider settings, sent to Aperture, edited with Topaz Labs Adjust 3 and B/W Effects 5, and presented here for your enjoyment. Apologies, but I had some prior obligations and thus didn’t really …
365.33 Abstraktes Bild
And this time I had some fun! Yesterday, I shot four subjects for 5 hours and ended up just picking a bad picture to share at random. Today, I reshot one of those subjects with an intent to create an HDR image of an object that really didn’t need one. This is the interior of …
365.32 Unmade Landscape
I’m wholly dissatisfied with today’s 365 efforts, but I’ve been at it for 5 hours, and it’s now time to join some neighbors for tea, so here’s my favorite of the 80 awful, uninspired, completely blah photos I shot of 4 different subjects. Needless to say, I find this one rather meh. Sigma 30mm 1.4, …
365.31 The Motherlode
Nikon D7000, Nikkor 50mm 1.8G, deliberately defocused, ISO100, 1/250th sec. @ f/1.8. SB-700 zoomed to 50mm, 1/128th power, on Cactus V5 trigger handheld lower camera right, diffused with a sheet of drawing paper.
