217. Vulnerable - August 13-19, 2017
Jerry-
I was at the Brookdale library picking up the 4th Season of the Walking Dead when I noticed this vulnerable person in the magazine area. She was simply sitting, in a kind of in a meditative pose, with her backpack and little suitcase. I wondered what was the story here, what adventure was she on, where she was planning on going. I observed her for about 15 minutes while I read the latest "American Rifleman". She had nothing to read and wasn't plugged into a set of headphones listening to music.
When I shared the photo with my wife, she simply said this person was basically a vulnerable adult, probably living in a group home of some sort and had been dropped off at the library to have something to do.
I took the photo with my iPhone 5c.
I was at the Brookdale library picking up the 4th Season of the Walking Dead when I noticed this vulnerable person in the magazine area. She was simply sitting, in a kind of in a meditative pose, with her backpack and little suitcase. I wondered what was the story here, what adventure was she on, where she was planning on going. I observed her for about 15 minutes while I read the latest "American Rifleman". She had nothing to read and wasn't plugged into a set of headphones listening to music.
When I shared the photo with my wife, she simply said this person was basically a vulnerable adult, probably living in a group home of some sort and had been dropped off at the library to have something to do.
I took the photo with my iPhone 5c.
Don-
The desert is a 'vulnerable' ecosystem. That fact seems to mean little to some. As fast as some
clean the trash up others come and dump more. Here you see the appliances. A little farther
the pile of yard waste. Finally you can just make out the graffiti spray painted on the rocks.
Camera is a Nikon D810 with a 24 to 70 mm f/2.8 lens.
Focal length was 62mm
Exposure 1/800 sec; f/9; ISO 200; Aperture Priority and pattern metering.
The desert is a 'vulnerable' ecosystem. That fact seems to mean little to some. As fast as some
clean the trash up others come and dump more. Here you see the appliances. A little farther
the pile of yard waste. Finally you can just make out the graffiti spray painted on the rocks.
Camera is a Nikon D810 with a 24 to 70 mm f/2.8 lens.
Focal length was 62mm
Exposure 1/800 sec; f/9; ISO 200; Aperture Priority and pattern metering.
Byron-
This is a week of firsts for me. The first time I waited until Saturday to shoot my photo, the first photo I shot with my new camera, the first time I used a film simulation built into a camera.
This vulnerable adult is near her wits end, or is she near a nit-wit. Either way, This is shot in available light. I had to wait until the Sun was shining in through the window. I could have taken the shot much earlier but the house next door was eclipsing the Sun. The camera is a Fujifilm X100F. I set it to ISO 800, f4, 1/30 sec. There are film simulations that will make the photo look like it was shot with a variety of Fuji film. I chose Acros, Fuji's B&W film.
This is a week of firsts for me. The first time I waited until Saturday to shoot my photo, the first photo I shot with my new camera, the first time I used a film simulation built into a camera.
This vulnerable adult is near her wits end, or is she near a nit-wit. Either way, This is shot in available light. I had to wait until the Sun was shining in through the window. I could have taken the shot much earlier but the house next door was eclipsing the Sun. The camera is a Fujifilm X100F. I set it to ISO 800, f4, 1/30 sec. There are film simulations that will make the photo look like it was shot with a variety of Fuji film. I chose Acros, Fuji's B&W film.
Darin-
If you are going to leave a pile of cake laying around the house, be warned, that it is vulnerable to the hungry evils that lurk in the shadows.
Not my best work, but sometimes the motivation to even get out of bed just isn't there. I had ideas of a cinder block perched over an egg, but... blah.
Yesterday, at the law firm I go into, they celebrated August birthdays. I took home the leftovers to shoot 'Vulnerable', because I knew something like this would not be safe with Revo around... Or me, for that matter.
If you are going to leave a pile of cake laying around the house, be warned, that it is vulnerable to the hungry evils that lurk in the shadows.
Not my best work, but sometimes the motivation to even get out of bed just isn't there. I had ideas of a cinder block perched over an egg, but... blah.
Yesterday, at the law firm I go into, they celebrated August birthdays. I took home the leftovers to shoot 'Vulnerable', because I knew something like this would not be safe with Revo around... Or me, for that matter.
Kevin-
When the Vulnerable theme was announced my mind immediately went to the concepts behind the shower scene in Psycho. And it would have been an extraordinary challenge to find the perfect shower, ideally with a glass wall, a model to play the the vulnerable and bloodied subject, and a hand outside of the shower holding the blood-covered knife, trying to turn an entire film segment into a single image.
But not knowing people to cast in that concept I needed something simpler, but that still expressed vulnerability. Than I seized on an idea that will hopefully be common to all of us. Aging. Yes aging can be interesting, but it definitely makes one more vulnerable.
So I imagined a subject, nearing the end of his days, living alone, where even walking down the hall to the bathroom seems like an extraordinarily time-consuming trip to take.
My approach for this photo was very much in the way that photographer Joe McNally might do it. First I determined the correct exposure for the glass block window above the shower in the bathroom. Then I opened the door to the room you see on the right, near the bathroom door to confirm that the bit of daylight coming through look different, but wasn't overpowering.
Next, I needed to illuminate the bathroom. The built in lights would have been far too bright, and would have overpowered all the other lights. So I placed one Nikon SB-900 series flash, with a tungsten filter, on the floor of the tub/shower, and another on top of the counter holding the sink. Then I dialed their power levels down so that they balanced in intensity with the daylight elements.
The halogen/tungsten lights on the ceiling of the hallway are on a dimmer. So I turned those down, making them visible, but not overpowering. Then I added the third Nikon SB-900 series flash, again with a tungsten filter, aimed at the back of the subject, but adjusted so that it appeared that the light was coming from the ceiling above.
Nikon D4s mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 14-24mm f/2.8 Nikkor zoom lens set to 14mm, ISO 800, 1/2 second at f/11.
Hopefully it all balanced out and the subject looks vulnerable.
When the Vulnerable theme was announced my mind immediately went to the concepts behind the shower scene in Psycho. And it would have been an extraordinary challenge to find the perfect shower, ideally with a glass wall, a model to play the the vulnerable and bloodied subject, and a hand outside of the shower holding the blood-covered knife, trying to turn an entire film segment into a single image.
But not knowing people to cast in that concept I needed something simpler, but that still expressed vulnerability. Than I seized on an idea that will hopefully be common to all of us. Aging. Yes aging can be interesting, but it definitely makes one more vulnerable.
So I imagined a subject, nearing the end of his days, living alone, where even walking down the hall to the bathroom seems like an extraordinarily time-consuming trip to take.
My approach for this photo was very much in the way that photographer Joe McNally might do it. First I determined the correct exposure for the glass block window above the shower in the bathroom. Then I opened the door to the room you see on the right, near the bathroom door to confirm that the bit of daylight coming through look different, but wasn't overpowering.
Next, I needed to illuminate the bathroom. The built in lights would have been far too bright, and would have overpowered all the other lights. So I placed one Nikon SB-900 series flash, with a tungsten filter, on the floor of the tub/shower, and another on top of the counter holding the sink. Then I dialed their power levels down so that they balanced in intensity with the daylight elements.
The halogen/tungsten lights on the ceiling of the hallway are on a dimmer. So I turned those down, making them visible, but not overpowering. Then I added the third Nikon SB-900 series flash, again with a tungsten filter, aimed at the back of the subject, but adjusted so that it appeared that the light was coming from the ceiling above.
Nikon D4s mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 14-24mm f/2.8 Nikkor zoom lens set to 14mm, ISO 800, 1/2 second at f/11.
Hopefully it all balanced out and the subject looks vulnerable.
Paul-
“How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.” – Russel Brand
A weakness for details: (7:36AM) Motorola MotoXT1066. f/2.4; 4.499mm focal length; ISO 200; 1/115 sec.; Auto WB. Location: Downtown Lincoln, NE.
The image was cropped and converted to B&W in Lightroom 4. Analog Efex Pro 2 used to create a more neutral B&W, grainy, and slightly softened appearance. The watermark was intentionally omitted.
“How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species.” – Russel Brand
A weakness for details: (7:36AM) Motorola MotoXT1066. f/2.4; 4.499mm focal length; ISO 200; 1/115 sec.; Auto WB. Location: Downtown Lincoln, NE.
The image was cropped and converted to B&W in Lightroom 4. Analog Efex Pro 2 used to create a more neutral B&W, grainy, and slightly softened appearance. The watermark was intentionally omitted.