229. Red - November 5-11, 2017
Jerry-
I decided to do red in a playful sense so I took a photo of Jack, the family dog, looking nasty at the camera using the built in flash to get some red eye. Jack's eyes weren't quite red so I jazzed them up in Photoshop.
I used the Sony a6300 with 16-70 zoomed to 63mm, 1/60 @ F8, ISO 1600.
I decided to do red in a playful sense so I took a photo of Jack, the family dog, looking nasty at the camera using the built in flash to get some red eye. Jack's eyes weren't quite red so I jazzed them up in Photoshop.
I used the Sony a6300 with 16-70 zoomed to 63mm, 1/60 @ F8, ISO 1600.
Don-
Well Duh, I spent the week attempting to come up with something. Nothing
made an impression. Yesterday I got ready to ride with a friend to a memorial
unveiling, we would ride our motorcycles. There it was, my red motorcycle.
Focal was using a 24 to 70mm lens set to 31mm and shot from a step stool.
Exposure was 1/60 second; f/9; ISO 100.
Well Duh, I spent the week attempting to come up with something. Nothing
made an impression. Yesterday I got ready to ride with a friend to a memorial
unveiling, we would ride our motorcycles. There it was, my red motorcycle.
Focal was using a 24 to 70mm lens set to 31mm and shot from a step stool.
Exposure was 1/60 second; f/9; ISO 100.
Byron-
I looked at Kevin's submission before sending mine. We came perilously close to submitting near identical photos. I decided on red roses as well but thankfully I took a different approach. I decided to show a red rose popping out from a black background. This photo was somewhat of a Byro-Fest. The background was held up by a Byro-Frame (made of PVC pipe) and the main light had a Byro-Snoot attached to it. The camera was my Fujifilm X100F. The flash mode was set to Commander which means it triggered my 2 Nikon flashes. The second flash was aimed at the white tabletop so that nice soft light would illuminate the rose from underneath. That is a trick Joe McNally recommended using. The exposure was f16 at 1/500 sec.
I looked at Kevin's submission before sending mine. We came perilously close to submitting near identical photos. I decided on red roses as well but thankfully I took a different approach. I decided to show a red rose popping out from a black background. This photo was somewhat of a Byro-Fest. The background was held up by a Byro-Frame (made of PVC pipe) and the main light had a Byro-Snoot attached to it. The camera was my Fujifilm X100F. The flash mode was set to Commander which means it triggered my 2 Nikon flashes. The second flash was aimed at the white tabletop so that nice soft light would illuminate the rose from underneath. That is a trick Joe McNally recommended using. The exposure was f16 at 1/500 sec.
Darin-
Sorry fellas, but I got nothin'.
I wanted to cheat and send you a photo of one of my favorite birds, the Turkey Vulture, with his 'beautiful' red head, keeping watch over Lake Perris, but I didn't shoot it (the photo, not the bird) this week.
.... Then I thought, well, I could send a red rose with cyclists in the background, but I was afraid Columbo Braton would investigate further and find that the cyclists in the photo were not racing this weekend anywhere near Southern California... So that's out!
So I went with this lame-o photo (that I shot about 10 minutes ago).
What you see are 'Gutter Gifts' from today's ride. While pedaling up Duncan Canyon, I look to my right and see a nearly new Philadelphia Phillies cap... Red as red can be! I stopped, kinda folded it up, put it in my back pocket and continued on. Probably a little over a mile later, I see a beer can laying on the side of the road. It still had the '6-pack plastic holder' wrapped around its neck. I thought that was weird, because who is going to drink from a can with a plastic garnishment? I turned around and went back. Lo and behold A FULL, UNOPENED CAN OF COORS LIGHT*! What fin... Wait, I don't drink. Oh well, I grabbed it anyway. Forty-two miles later, when I got back to my car (which was parked at my bike shop), I gifted this gift to my bike mechanic, Johnny O, who promptly cleaned off the drankin' part and cracked it open. I was a hero!
Oh, and then I did some stupid vignette to try to make this photo fancier than it really is.
*The can of Coors Light in this photo is a stand in for the one I gave away, but it is also a Gutter Gift that I keep for when a beer drinking friend comes over to the house... It's been in the fridge for 8 months.
Thank you.
Sorry fellas, but I got nothin'.
I wanted to cheat and send you a photo of one of my favorite birds, the Turkey Vulture, with his 'beautiful' red head, keeping watch over Lake Perris, but I didn't shoot it (the photo, not the bird) this week.
.... Then I thought, well, I could send a red rose with cyclists in the background, but I was afraid Columbo Braton would investigate further and find that the cyclists in the photo were not racing this weekend anywhere near Southern California... So that's out!
So I went with this lame-o photo (that I shot about 10 minutes ago).
What you see are 'Gutter Gifts' from today's ride. While pedaling up Duncan Canyon, I look to my right and see a nearly new Philadelphia Phillies cap... Red as red can be! I stopped, kinda folded it up, put it in my back pocket and continued on. Probably a little over a mile later, I see a beer can laying on the side of the road. It still had the '6-pack plastic holder' wrapped around its neck. I thought that was weird, because who is going to drink from a can with a plastic garnishment? I turned around and went back. Lo and behold A FULL, UNOPENED CAN OF COORS LIGHT*! What fin... Wait, I don't drink. Oh well, I grabbed it anyway. Forty-two miles later, when I got back to my car (which was parked at my bike shop), I gifted this gift to my bike mechanic, Johnny O, who promptly cleaned off the drankin' part and cracked it open. I was a hero!
Oh, and then I did some stupid vignette to try to make this photo fancier than it really is.
*The can of Coors Light in this photo is a stand in for the one I gave away, but it is also a Gutter Gift that I keep for when a beer drinking friend comes over to the house... It's been in the fridge for 8 months.
Thank you.
Kevin-
“After women, flowers are the most divine creations” - Christian Dior
Agreeing with the quote above, when it came to the ”Red” theme I quickly concluded that few things were more red than a rose, and the only thing more sexy are women.
So my task was simple, photograph a single rose, in the sexiest was possible, looking straight down into the petals, in extreme close-up, and add some dew to make certain the appearance would be truly over the top.
Lighting was from a single studio strobe in a small, gridded softbox. And the only colors I wanted were the red of the rose, and the black of the shadows.
Nikon D4s, mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens, ISO 100, f/16 at 1/250th of a second (flash sync).
“After women, flowers are the most divine creations” - Christian Dior
Agreeing with the quote above, when it came to the ”Red” theme I quickly concluded that few things were more red than a rose, and the only thing more sexy are women.
So my task was simple, photograph a single rose, in the sexiest was possible, looking straight down into the petals, in extreme close-up, and add some dew to make certain the appearance would be truly over the top.
Lighting was from a single studio strobe in a small, gridded softbox. And the only colors I wanted were the red of the rose, and the black of the shadows.
Nikon D4s, mounted on a Manfrotto 055CXPRO4 tripod with a Acratech GP ballhead, 105mm f/2.8 Micro-Nikkor lens, ISO 100, f/16 at 1/250th of a second (flash sync).
Paul-
For this week’s theme, I opted to take advantage of the homophonic loophole the word “Red” provided. Red is a homophone (as we all know) because it is pronounced the same way as different word with a different spelling: Read. And, if you’re a librarian—or your garden-variety twitchy bibliophile—this is something you’re going to run with. (The fact that “Read” can also be pronounced two ways makes it a homophone and a homograph.)No wonder foreign exchange students prefer to learn Klingon over English…
Anyway, to be fair to both the spirit and the letter of the theme, you can see a fair amount of red in the picture as well. Some of these red books have been read. I also like to read something within these red books from time to time. There’s one red book I have yet to read. And one red book I have read so often makes it cracked binding fragile as a reed.
I stacked my books in a light tent I cobbled together. As the sole source of illumination, I positioned a spot about 16” above the tent (which was 24” above the top-most book) and titled it slightly to insure the spines were readable. I even added a few red bookmarks, as well as two pins that are particular favorites of mine.
Better Red than Dead: Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 18mm; ISO 1600; 1/25 sec. at f/4.5; center-weighted average metering; WB Auto; the camera was hand-held. Cropping and minor adjustments to shadow, contrast, clarity and sharpness were done in Lightroom. I also decided the reds were a little to vivid for my tastes and “decolored” the resulting image very slightly.
For this week’s theme, I opted to take advantage of the homophonic loophole the word “Red” provided. Red is a homophone (as we all know) because it is pronounced the same way as different word with a different spelling: Read. And, if you’re a librarian—or your garden-variety twitchy bibliophile—this is something you’re going to run with. (The fact that “Read” can also be pronounced two ways makes it a homophone and a homograph.)No wonder foreign exchange students prefer to learn Klingon over English…
Anyway, to be fair to both the spirit and the letter of the theme, you can see a fair amount of red in the picture as well. Some of these red books have been read. I also like to read something within these red books from time to time. There’s one red book I have yet to read. And one red book I have read so often makes it cracked binding fragile as a reed.
I stacked my books in a light tent I cobbled together. As the sole source of illumination, I positioned a spot about 16” above the tent (which was 24” above the top-most book) and titled it slightly to insure the spines were readable. I even added a few red bookmarks, as well as two pins that are particular favorites of mine.
Better Red than Dead: Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 18mm; ISO 1600; 1/25 sec. at f/4.5; center-weighted average metering; WB Auto; the camera was hand-held. Cropping and minor adjustments to shadow, contrast, clarity and sharpness were done in Lightroom. I also decided the reds were a little to vivid for my tastes and “decolored” the resulting image very slightly.