125. Glass - November 1-7, 2015
Don-
I took this vase to school to use their studio. I brought a laser Christmas light that is supposed to light up the outside of the house so one does not have to hang lights. I placed the vase on a table covered in black cloth and hung the laser light from a boom above the table. The wall is
black behind the table. I cropped the picture to give the effect of a Christmas tree. I masked out a bit of the color of the vase because the laser really made the vase glow green.
I used a D810 with a 24 to 70 lens set at 24mm. ISO 100, F stop 7.1 shooting in manual, exposure was 30 seconds and of course no flash.
I took this vase to school to use their studio. I brought a laser Christmas light that is supposed to light up the outside of the house so one does not have to hang lights. I placed the vase on a table covered in black cloth and hung the laser light from a boom above the table. The wall is
black behind the table. I cropped the picture to give the effect of a Christmas tree. I masked out a bit of the color of the vase because the laser really made the vase glow green.
I used a D810 with a 24 to 70 lens set at 24mm. ISO 100, F stop 7.1 shooting in manual, exposure was 30 seconds and of course no flash.
Byron-
I like doing tabletop photos. When this theme came up, I wanted to shoot some sort of glass object on a tabletop. That seems simple. Photographing glassware can be frustrating. The main thing to remember is that you don't directly light the object. The light will pass through the glass except for the reflection of the light source. To get around that you light a panel near the glass and let the object reflect the lit panel. I used a softbox on one side and a white umbrella on the other side. I would have used 2 softboxes but I only own 1. I put the camera in between the 2 light sources. I lined up the 3 glasses and shot the picture. It was OK but it needed something more. I went to my closet and pulled out a trusty Vivitar 285 flash with an optical slave attached. I placed it behind the white background. Now the glass looked good but some color would add the missing element. Erl mixed up some pomegranate flavored sugar free Crystal Light and put it in an empty wine bottle. She poured it in the glass in the back and I took the picture. An unintended effect is how the liquid is in focus but the bottle it comes from is out of focus.
ISO 200, 44mm, f11, 1/60 sec. the 2 main flashes set to TTL, Vivtar set to auto mode- the purple setting.
I like doing tabletop photos. When this theme came up, I wanted to shoot some sort of glass object on a tabletop. That seems simple. Photographing glassware can be frustrating. The main thing to remember is that you don't directly light the object. The light will pass through the glass except for the reflection of the light source. To get around that you light a panel near the glass and let the object reflect the lit panel. I used a softbox on one side and a white umbrella on the other side. I would have used 2 softboxes but I only own 1. I put the camera in between the 2 light sources. I lined up the 3 glasses and shot the picture. It was OK but it needed something more. I went to my closet and pulled out a trusty Vivitar 285 flash with an optical slave attached. I placed it behind the white background. Now the glass looked good but some color would add the missing element. Erl mixed up some pomegranate flavored sugar free Crystal Light and put it in an empty wine bottle. She poured it in the glass in the back and I took the picture. An unintended effect is how the liquid is in focus but the bottle it comes from is out of focus.
ISO 200, 44mm, f11, 1/60 sec. the 2 main flashes set to TTL, Vivtar set to auto mode- the purple setting.
Deron-
Sorry. I emailed this one in.
I went over to the Mission Inn to shoot this stained glass window, but there is a different vantage point where you can shoot through an arched window at the end of a long dark, stone hallway. It's, seemingly, tucked away from all human beings... I'm not sure anyone knows about this vantage point. So I go up there, passing four 'Guests only beyond this point' signs, I turn the corner to see this dramatic scene and there some dude sitting at a card table, by himself, right in front of my subject! I think it was a book signing. WHAT! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
Since I don't have a glass eye, I just shot this stained glass from a different angle. BLAH!
Sorry. I emailed this one in.
I went over to the Mission Inn to shoot this stained glass window, but there is a different vantage point where you can shoot through an arched window at the end of a long dark, stone hallway. It's, seemingly, tucked away from all human beings... I'm not sure anyone knows about this vantage point. So I go up there, passing four 'Guests only beyond this point' signs, I turn the corner to see this dramatic scene and there some dude sitting at a card table, by himself, right in front of my subject! I think it was a book signing. WHAT! ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
Since I don't have a glass eye, I just shot this stained glass from a different angle. BLAH!
Kevin-
I propose a toast to Glass!
For this week!s theme I attempted to photograph wine Glasses, made of Glass of course, sitting on a Glass surface (well plexiglass actually). But wine glasses just sitting there seemed boring. So I wanted them to be toasting each other. Okay in truth I wanted them to collide so hard that they shattered, with the light from a Nikon flash unit freezing the colliding, braking glass pieces and liquid. How to make two glasses filled with wine collide, without resorting to things we don’t do in the WPOTM exercises, which is use an application like Photoshop to position the pieces, or retouch out stings pulling the glasses into each other? Air power I thought! So I hauled a bunch of stuff (stands, background, etc) to my garage where I have a very large air compressor, cranked that baby up to it’s 125 psi maximum force and blew the red wine glass into the white wine glass. The force was enough to propel the glasses, but not fast enough for them to shatter. (Actually they did finally shatter when they rolled off of the plexiglass surface and onto the floor, but by then they were far out of the frame). So instead they are simply two wine glasses that just clinked together in a toast.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted, 105mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor lens, one Nikon SB-910 flash unit - set to 1/16th power to keep the flash duration very short - positioned directly above the glasses. ISO 1600, 1/250th of a second (flash sync) at f/8.
And no, I didn’t realize the glasses still had dust specks on them, in spite of my cleaning efforts, them until I viewed the images on the computer after I tore everything down. Sigh.
I propose a toast to Glass!
For this week!s theme I attempted to photograph wine Glasses, made of Glass of course, sitting on a Glass surface (well plexiglass actually). But wine glasses just sitting there seemed boring. So I wanted them to be toasting each other. Okay in truth I wanted them to collide so hard that they shattered, with the light from a Nikon flash unit freezing the colliding, braking glass pieces and liquid. How to make two glasses filled with wine collide, without resorting to things we don’t do in the WPOTM exercises, which is use an application like Photoshop to position the pieces, or retouch out stings pulling the glasses into each other? Air power I thought! So I hauled a bunch of stuff (stands, background, etc) to my garage where I have a very large air compressor, cranked that baby up to it’s 125 psi maximum force and blew the red wine glass into the white wine glass. The force was enough to propel the glasses, but not fast enough for them to shatter. (Actually they did finally shatter when they rolled off of the plexiglass surface and onto the floor, but by then they were far out of the frame). So instead they are simply two wine glasses that just clinked together in a toast.
Nikon D4s, tripod mounted, 105mm f/2.8 Micro Nikkor lens, one Nikon SB-910 flash unit - set to 1/16th power to keep the flash duration very short - positioned directly above the glasses. ISO 1600, 1/250th of a second (flash sync) at f/8.
And no, I didn’t realize the glasses still had dust specks on them, in spite of my cleaning efforts, them until I viewed the images on the computer after I tore everything down. Sigh.
Paul-
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekhov
The moment I saw the theme “Glass,” I wanted to do something that featured windows (no, not the software). I know…this is pretty predictable as far as a subject, but I decided to challenge myself a bit and see if I could submit a picture portraying a window in a somewhat unexpected or unusual way. (And I can say with complete assurance I succeeded. Or didn't.)
So, off we go.
There are a number of timeworn, neglected, and structurally questionable buildings just off the downtown area, so I opted for walking around on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. As you’d expect with any “big” city—and cut me some slack here, Lincoln’s really growing—you see the lovely stain of gentrification slowly advancing on blocks of old, underdeveloped, and rundown buildings. (Sometimes, however, I'd like to think the latter stubbornly pushes back against the former.) But there’s still lots of alleys; nooks and crannies; places that look like they harbor sub-standard dwellings; and aging buildings that are squat and ugly and begging for a purpose again. Structural decay: I love places like these. I hoped I’d capture an image I liked.
This week, I also went to Louisville, KY on business. While there I took a “buncha” (official PSA term for numerous images captured) pictures that I think represented the theme as well. I used my cell phone, not the D5200.
In keeping with a some-time WPOTM approach, the file is the photograph I am submitting is for this week’s theme. The montage (this is French for "zipper") below I also wanted to display for the theme. Of course, your comments are welcome on any of these as well.
About the picture: While “glass” is a prominent feature in some of the pictures in the montage; it isn’t that way in all of them. Nor is it in the picture I selected. I suppose I wanted to try something different this week and—while keeping to the theme—make everything else in the image just as important. Perhaps even more so. So, you see very little glass in the picture. But it’s there in the two (very different) windows. And they are there not quite as an afterthought: Do you see the plants making an appearance in the first window? Do you wonder who lives there—in what was not originally intended to be an apartment? I found everything else in the picture surrounding the glass just as wonderful. Contrasting angles, materials, colors, function. Organic and inorganic elements. A dreamlike azure sky and a shattered, half boarded up window. Finally, it was a close call between selecting this picture and the last one you see in the montage (which was taken in Louisville).
Our story so far: Shot at 1/4000 sec.; f/4.5; ISO 400; 18-55mm lens set at 35mm; aperture priority; center-weighted; hand held.
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” – Anton Chekhov
The moment I saw the theme “Glass,” I wanted to do something that featured windows (no, not the software). I know…this is pretty predictable as far as a subject, but I decided to challenge myself a bit and see if I could submit a picture portraying a window in a somewhat unexpected or unusual way. (And I can say with complete assurance I succeeded. Or didn't.)
So, off we go.
There are a number of timeworn, neglected, and structurally questionable buildings just off the downtown area, so I opted for walking around on a beautiful Sunday afternoon. As you’d expect with any “big” city—and cut me some slack here, Lincoln’s really growing—you see the lovely stain of gentrification slowly advancing on blocks of old, underdeveloped, and rundown buildings. (Sometimes, however, I'd like to think the latter stubbornly pushes back against the former.) But there’s still lots of alleys; nooks and crannies; places that look like they harbor sub-standard dwellings; and aging buildings that are squat and ugly and begging for a purpose again. Structural decay: I love places like these. I hoped I’d capture an image I liked.
This week, I also went to Louisville, KY on business. While there I took a “buncha” (official PSA term for numerous images captured) pictures that I think represented the theme as well. I used my cell phone, not the D5200.
In keeping with a some-time WPOTM approach, the file is the photograph I am submitting is for this week’s theme. The montage (this is French for "zipper") below I also wanted to display for the theme. Of course, your comments are welcome on any of these as well.
About the picture: While “glass” is a prominent feature in some of the pictures in the montage; it isn’t that way in all of them. Nor is it in the picture I selected. I suppose I wanted to try something different this week and—while keeping to the theme—make everything else in the image just as important. Perhaps even more so. So, you see very little glass in the picture. But it’s there in the two (very different) windows. And they are there not quite as an afterthought: Do you see the plants making an appearance in the first window? Do you wonder who lives there—in what was not originally intended to be an apartment? I found everything else in the picture surrounding the glass just as wonderful. Contrasting angles, materials, colors, function. Organic and inorganic elements. A dreamlike azure sky and a shattered, half boarded up window. Finally, it was a close call between selecting this picture and the last one you see in the montage (which was taken in Louisville).
Our story so far: Shot at 1/4000 sec.; f/4.5; ISO 400; 18-55mm lens set at 35mm; aperture priority; center-weighted; hand held.
Jerry-
My first idea was to photograph the round glass paper weight right next to the keyboard. Tried it in a MC Escher-esque set up with a reflecting puddle filled with leaves ("Three Worlds"). Then I thought of the glass in a bunch of old camera lenses and put them on a small light table/slide viewing box.
Next I took my favorite shot glass, put some flat root beer in it, added a couple of dice, lit it from the side with an old Lowel V-Light (500 watt halogen lamp) and produced my selection for this week. Photo was taken with the D750, 24-70 at 70mm, f22 @ 1/125 at ISO 1600.
My first idea was to photograph the round glass paper weight right next to the keyboard. Tried it in a MC Escher-esque set up with a reflecting puddle filled with leaves ("Three Worlds"). Then I thought of the glass in a bunch of old camera lenses and put them on a small light table/slide viewing box.
Next I took my favorite shot glass, put some flat root beer in it, added a couple of dice, lit it from the side with an old Lowel V-Light (500 watt halogen lamp) and produced my selection for this week. Photo was taken with the D750, 24-70 at 70mm, f22 @ 1/125 at ISO 1600.