241. Hair - January 28-February 3, 2018
Jerry-
Greetings children of the Nephilim,
My original inspiration for the theme “Hair” was the many young people, mostly female, who color their hair in bright, unnatural colors. But I was much too shy and instead wound up at the primate exhibit at Como Zoo. So here is a very hairy monkey. This was taken with the Sony A6300, 55-210 zoomed to 210, f6.3 @ 1/60, ISO 6400. I had to shoot through glass which probably made it a little less sharp – but breaking into the primate house was out of the question. I did not want a gorilla hall monitor to rip my face off.
Greetings children of the Nephilim,
My original inspiration for the theme “Hair” was the many young people, mostly female, who color their hair in bright, unnatural colors. But I was much too shy and instead wound up at the primate exhibit at Como Zoo. So here is a very hairy monkey. This was taken with the Sony A6300, 55-210 zoomed to 210, f6.3 @ 1/60, ISO 6400. I had to shoot through glass which probably made it a little less sharp – but breaking into the primate house was out of the question. I did not want a gorilla hall monitor to rip my face off.
Don-
I pondered most of the week whether to take this picture with a 24-70mm lens,
a 105mm with 2X tele-extender or shoot it in the studio at school. We were in
the studio this week shooting Hi Key/Low Key. I choose to
shoot at home with the 24-70mm set to 70mm and cranked a close as I could.
It is a hair on the back of my sweater. Sweater was black and the hair is grey.
The exposure was 1/125; f5.6; ISO 100: aperture priority.
I pondered most of the week whether to take this picture with a 24-70mm lens,
a 105mm with 2X tele-extender or shoot it in the studio at school. We were in
the studio this week shooting Hi Key/Low Key. I choose to
shoot at home with the 24-70mm set to 70mm and cranked a close as I could.
It is a hair on the back of my sweater. Sweater was black and the hair is grey.
The exposure was 1/125; f5.6; ISO 100: aperture priority.
Byron-
The Maltese breed of dog has pure white hair. This photo shows Squirt, Kevin & Michele’s dog. The hair on this breed of dog can grow long. It appears that Squirt has an abundance of hair on her back. In reality, Squirt has short hair. What appears to be her body is actually the back of Erleen’s head. They both have white hair.
This photo was a quick snap with my phone. I don’t know what the exposure info is.
The Maltese breed of dog has pure white hair. This photo shows Squirt, Kevin & Michele’s dog. The hair on this breed of dog can grow long. It appears that Squirt has an abundance of hair on her back. In reality, Squirt has short hair. What appears to be her body is actually the back of Erleen’s head. They both have white hair.
This photo was a quick snap with my phone. I don’t know what the exposure info is.
Darin-
My apologies for submitting early, but I had to put my dog down today and am pretty gutted. I'm just not real excited about anything right now and just kind of feel like I want to get this week over with.
I had another idea to shoot today, but that obviously didn't happen. I shot this Wednesday as a back up.
My apologies for submitting early, but I had to put my dog down today and am pretty gutted. I'm just not real excited about anything right now and just kind of feel like I want to get this week over with.
I had another idea to shoot today, but that obviously didn't happen. I shot this Wednesday as a back up.
Kevin-
Made a couple of decisions early in the process. Wanted to use the repeating flash mode with my Nikon strobes. In that mode the strobes fire many times, slowly or quickly. You can vary the frequency at which they fire (Hz) at the number of times they fire. I settled on firing 10 times at 20Hz, which meant an exposure of 1/2 second and ten pops of light in the dark studio. Three Nikon SB-900 series strobes were used. One was essentially the trigger, while the other two, on either side of the subject, actually provided the illumination.
I also decided that I was really just looking for the hair and the feeling of movement, not the subject's face.
Michelle posed for me, and I got some good shots, but in reality her hair is too short to show the kind of wild movement I was looking for. Fortunately her friend Lorna was available and agreed to be the subject.
Nikon D850, mounted on a Manfrotto Carbon One 440 tripod, 85mm f/1.4 Nikkor lens, ISO 64, f/8 at 1/2 second, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, quickly went the strobes during each exposure while Lorna twisted and turned her head.
Made a couple of decisions early in the process. Wanted to use the repeating flash mode with my Nikon strobes. In that mode the strobes fire many times, slowly or quickly. You can vary the frequency at which they fire (Hz) at the number of times they fire. I settled on firing 10 times at 20Hz, which meant an exposure of 1/2 second and ten pops of light in the dark studio. Three Nikon SB-900 series strobes were used. One was essentially the trigger, while the other two, on either side of the subject, actually provided the illumination.
I also decided that I was really just looking for the hair and the feeling of movement, not the subject's face.
Michelle posed for me, and I got some good shots, but in reality her hair is too short to show the kind of wild movement I was looking for. Fortunately her friend Lorna was available and agreed to be the subject.
Nikon D850, mounted on a Manfrotto Carbon One 440 tripod, 85mm f/1.4 Nikkor lens, ISO 64, f/8 at 1/2 second, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, quickly went the strobes during each exposure while Lorna twisted and turned her head.
Paul-
This was the week I decided if Kevin was going periodically hiring a model to hone his already estimable photographic skills (and get a great WPOTM submission out of it to boot), I could, too! Fortunately, we’re coming up on the international fashion show season. CIFF (the Copenhagen International Fashion Fair) ran Jan 31.-Feb.2nd. As it happens, the Nebraska Haute Couture & Permafrost Fishing Daze starts today. It’s only a two-day event, but it brings first-tier fashion designers and top-flight models from as far away as Des Moines.
I was fortunate to be allowed to follow an up and coming star on the Midwest runway scene, and decided her “Hair” shot would be one in which it was being meticulously prepared for her busy day. (A work in progress, so to speak.) Even with the photo credentials that allowed me behind the curtains, squeezing through the crowds of the models make-up artists was daunting. As it turns out, I only got one or two shots off before the young woman had to rush off to slip into the latest creation from French designer Gervaise Clové-Garleek.
The fashion model equivalent of a NDO prevents me from releasing this remarkable young talent’s name, I am convinced this will be her break-out season.
About this young woman in this tress: Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 45mm; ISO 2000; 1/20 sec. at f/5.6; pattern metering; Auto WB. The camera was hand-held and should not have been. In a case of life imitating art, this person was in a rush and not in a mood to have more than one or two pictures taken. And, as I hadn’t thought about using this moment for my submission, I didn’t have much time to consider camera settings or lighting--the subjects hates flash shots, too. I kicked up the ISO (but unfortunately not enough to stop down my blisteringly-slow lens). I also forgot to set my camera to matrix metering. The result was a photo showing both movement blur and a little sharpness here and there. I tweaked the color temperature, and a couple other settings in Lightroom then decided to experiment with NIK Color FX Pro to see if it could bring anything interesting to the picture. I selected a pre-set called “Strong Soft Focus” and applied that. I don’t know if the effect fits the story, but hair you go anyway, folks.
This was the week I decided if Kevin was going periodically hiring a model to hone his already estimable photographic skills (and get a great WPOTM submission out of it to boot), I could, too! Fortunately, we’re coming up on the international fashion show season. CIFF (the Copenhagen International Fashion Fair) ran Jan 31.-Feb.2nd. As it happens, the Nebraska Haute Couture & Permafrost Fishing Daze starts today. It’s only a two-day event, but it brings first-tier fashion designers and top-flight models from as far away as Des Moines.
I was fortunate to be allowed to follow an up and coming star on the Midwest runway scene, and decided her “Hair” shot would be one in which it was being meticulously prepared for her busy day. (A work in progress, so to speak.) Even with the photo credentials that allowed me behind the curtains, squeezing through the crowds of the models make-up artists was daunting. As it turns out, I only got one or two shots off before the young woman had to rush off to slip into the latest creation from French designer Gervaise Clové-Garleek.
The fashion model equivalent of a NDO prevents me from releasing this remarkable young talent’s name, I am convinced this will be her break-out season.
About this young woman in this tress: Nikon D5200; aperture priority; 18-55mm lens focused at 45mm; ISO 2000; 1/20 sec. at f/5.6; pattern metering; Auto WB. The camera was hand-held and should not have been. In a case of life imitating art, this person was in a rush and not in a mood to have more than one or two pictures taken. And, as I hadn’t thought about using this moment for my submission, I didn’t have much time to consider camera settings or lighting--the subjects hates flash shots, too. I kicked up the ISO (but unfortunately not enough to stop down my blisteringly-slow lens). I also forgot to set my camera to matrix metering. The result was a photo showing both movement blur and a little sharpness here and there. I tweaked the color temperature, and a couple other settings in Lightroom then decided to experiment with NIK Color FX Pro to see if it could bring anything interesting to the picture. I selected a pre-set called “Strong Soft Focus” and applied that. I don’t know if the effect fits the story, but hair you go anyway, folks.