179. Fridge - November 13-19, 2016
Paul-
Among my many poor habits is staying up too late…or too early depending how you want to frame this. I started doing this on weekends when I was 13 because: 1) My parents usually called it an early night; 2) Why should they care how late I stay up as long as I’m home and the doors are locked?; and 3) I discovered our local channels (four of them) often ran really awful science fiction movies then. At that time I didn’t know what low-budget, B movies were and I didn’t care. You could only take so much of “The Wonderful World of Disney” or “The Honeymooners” before your early adolescent self began craving something else. Anything else. But preferably something with buildings exploding or huge rubber-suited monsters or, one could hope, a combination of the two.
Midnight television hardly ever let me down. Come on, I was a kid and I was sick of “Petticoat Junction.”
The habit of staying up late (or early) stuck with me as I became a young man and demanded a better quality of huge monsters and exploding buildings. As I grew older, I discovered there were some pretty good reasons to stay up late (ditto), and they had nothing to do with television at all. Another story for another time.
Poor sleep hygiene aside, one of risks a career night owl faces is late night snacking. It’s generally not good for you and is a fast-track way for putting on weight. Also (specific to this theme), you run the risk up devouring the goodies in the fridge other family members assume will be there for them enjoy the next day.
So this week’s picture captures a threat my family has made if I don’t stop stealing into the fridge in the wee hours and inhaling whatever tastes good. The ice cream container’s contents, have been inhaled by me days earlier, contains frozen water to ensure the carton retains its form. [Disclaimer: This is not the fridge in our kitchen. It’s a much small one downstairs near my office—but a fridge is a fridge.]
Let’s be cool about this, okay guys?: 18-55mm lens set at 35mm; ISO 1600; 1/10sec. at f/6.7; aperture priority; pattern metering, I used on on-board flash and dialed it down to -2.0 until I got the level of illumination I wanted, EV-1. The camera was hand-held.
Among my many poor habits is staying up too late…or too early depending how you want to frame this. I started doing this on weekends when I was 13 because: 1) My parents usually called it an early night; 2) Why should they care how late I stay up as long as I’m home and the doors are locked?; and 3) I discovered our local channels (four of them) often ran really awful science fiction movies then. At that time I didn’t know what low-budget, B movies were and I didn’t care. You could only take so much of “The Wonderful World of Disney” or “The Honeymooners” before your early adolescent self began craving something else. Anything else. But preferably something with buildings exploding or huge rubber-suited monsters or, one could hope, a combination of the two.
Midnight television hardly ever let me down. Come on, I was a kid and I was sick of “Petticoat Junction.”
The habit of staying up late (or early) stuck with me as I became a young man and demanded a better quality of huge monsters and exploding buildings. As I grew older, I discovered there were some pretty good reasons to stay up late (ditto), and they had nothing to do with television at all. Another story for another time.
Poor sleep hygiene aside, one of risks a career night owl faces is late night snacking. It’s generally not good for you and is a fast-track way for putting on weight. Also (specific to this theme), you run the risk up devouring the goodies in the fridge other family members assume will be there for them enjoy the next day.
So this week’s picture captures a threat my family has made if I don’t stop stealing into the fridge in the wee hours and inhaling whatever tastes good. The ice cream container’s contents, have been inhaled by me days earlier, contains frozen water to ensure the carton retains its form. [Disclaimer: This is not the fridge in our kitchen. It’s a much small one downstairs near my office—but a fridge is a fridge.]
Let’s be cool about this, okay guys?: 18-55mm lens set at 35mm; ISO 1600; 1/10sec. at f/6.7; aperture priority; pattern metering, I used on on-board flash and dialed it down to -2.0 until I got the level of illumination I wanted, EV-1. The camera was hand-held.
Jerry-
I decided to populate my fridge with an Argus C (original model circa 1939, C2 and C3 to come later) - I had earlier put in a pair of airsoft pistols and then the "skull" into the freezer portion. It seemed best to keep it light hearted.
Sony A6300 with 16-50mm set to 24mm, F8 @ 1/100, ISO 1600.
I decided to populate my fridge with an Argus C (original model circa 1939, C2 and C3 to come later) - I had earlier put in a pair of airsoft pistols and then the "skull" into the freezer portion. It seemed best to keep it light hearted.
Sony A6300 with 16-50mm set to 24mm, F8 @ 1/100, ISO 1600.
Don-
Oh what a toughie. For me anyway. I pondered all week on
this. I am working on a 5 picture portfolio for school and
A friend and I went out to search for 3 Turkey Ruins to photograph.
This search became an all day event with my GPS lying to me.
So, until this morning when a thought struck and this is my
product for Fridge. The focal was a 24 to 70 mm lens set at
34 mm. Exposure was f6.3; 1/250 shutter; ISO at 100; Manual setting;
off camera flash SB910 and the camera on the Arcatech ball-head
with my trusty D810 all on a couple of tripods and remote Vello triggers.
Oh what a toughie. For me anyway. I pondered all week on
this. I am working on a 5 picture portfolio for school and
A friend and I went out to search for 3 Turkey Ruins to photograph.
This search became an all day event with my GPS lying to me.
So, until this morning when a thought struck and this is my
product for Fridge. The focal was a 24 to 70 mm lens set at
34 mm. Exposure was f6.3; 1/250 shutter; ISO at 100; Manual setting;
off camera flash SB910 and the camera on the Arcatech ball-head
with my trusty D810 all on a couple of tripods and remote Vello triggers.
Byron-
I was wondering what a translucent stainless steel refrigerator door would look like. I took 2 photos of the refrigerator. Door closed and door open. With the help of photoshop I stacked the images and made the top layer about 50% transparent. The light in the Kitchen at that time was a mixture of daylight and 3200K led lamps. I let the camera decide. The photos where taken at f5.6@1/4 second.
I was wondering what a translucent stainless steel refrigerator door would look like. I took 2 photos of the refrigerator. Door closed and door open. With the help of photoshop I stacked the images and made the top layer about 50% transparent. The light in the Kitchen at that time was a mixture of daylight and 3200K led lamps. I let the camera decide. The photos where taken at f5.6@1/4 second.
Kevin-
Well Paul wanted us to take a photograph of the interior a refrigerator (or freezer) populating it with anything we wished and arranging whatever was in the fridge any way that we wanted.
After pondering many possibilities I decided that the most interesting thing to do would be to place the camera inside the fridge, shooting out.
It was a cloudy day, so most of the light in the kitchen outside the fridge came from all of the tungsten kitchen lighting that I turned on, which gave the background a nice warm look compared to the color temperature of the fridge lights.
The question of what to place in the fridge seemed simple. A giant container of Kalamata Olives (thank you Costco) which we use constantly in all sorts of dishes, plus a container of Olive Tapenade (thank you Trader Joe's) which are useful for spreading on mini-bruschetta toasts. And of course Pepsi, my all time favorite liquid as everything tastes better with Pepsi!
The final element was me, looking in wide eyed amazement at the favorite culinary treasures that await.
Nikon D4s triggered with a wireless remote, 14-24mm Nikkor zoom lens set to 14mm, ISO 1600, f/11 at 1/40th of a second.
Well Paul wanted us to take a photograph of the interior a refrigerator (or freezer) populating it with anything we wished and arranging whatever was in the fridge any way that we wanted.
After pondering many possibilities I decided that the most interesting thing to do would be to place the camera inside the fridge, shooting out.
It was a cloudy day, so most of the light in the kitchen outside the fridge came from all of the tungsten kitchen lighting that I turned on, which gave the background a nice warm look compared to the color temperature of the fridge lights.
The question of what to place in the fridge seemed simple. A giant container of Kalamata Olives (thank you Costco) which we use constantly in all sorts of dishes, plus a container of Olive Tapenade (thank you Trader Joe's) which are useful for spreading on mini-bruschetta toasts. And of course Pepsi, my all time favorite liquid as everything tastes better with Pepsi!
The final element was me, looking in wide eyed amazement at the favorite culinary treasures that await.
Nikon D4s triggered with a wireless remote, 14-24mm Nikkor zoom lens set to 14mm, ISO 1600, f/11 at 1/40th of a second.