50. Roll - May 25-31, 2014
Deron-
Things that just go together; Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls and a glass of milk, a dinner roll stuffed with grandma's leftover ham, California sushi rolls and... and... saki, I guess. For 'ROLL' I combined a couple things that are synonymous with each other: rock 'n roll and billiards. What you have here, chefs, is the #6 solid rolling down the body of my left-handed acoustic Fender guitar.
Things that just go together; Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls and a glass of milk, a dinner roll stuffed with grandma's leftover ham, California sushi rolls and... and... saki, I guess. For 'ROLL' I combined a couple things that are synonymous with each other: rock 'n roll and billiards. What you have here, chefs, is the #6 solid rolling down the body of my left-handed acoustic Fender guitar.
Paul-
For this week’s theme I thought I would snare a photograph of a drum roll.
Our Story So Far… The drug-addled throng of 20,000 hippies thought they were scoring a major groove in a drum solo to end all drum solos as percussionist Randy “Big Bang Boom” Braton of The Kosmik Areola let it all hang out at the “Make Love and S’Mores” Acid Rock Festival outside Trent, New Jersey. But as his sticks danced across the drum heads—showing off his signature wicked-fast paradiddles—and ricocheted across the shimmering Zildjians, one long-hair in the crowd knew differently. He was French agent Emille l’Foote of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure and, despite his disguise of filthy wig and garish Day-Glo scarf covering his ears, he knew what he was hearing was a subtle code being repeated in the beats on the snare drum (which rat-ta-tapped this secret message): “Olympus E500; 14-45mm telephoto lens at 16mm focal length; 1/13 sec. at f3.6; ISO 100.”
For this week’s theme I thought I would snare a photograph of a drum roll.
Our Story So Far… The drug-addled throng of 20,000 hippies thought they were scoring a major groove in a drum solo to end all drum solos as percussionist Randy “Big Bang Boom” Braton of The Kosmik Areola let it all hang out at the “Make Love and S’Mores” Acid Rock Festival outside Trent, New Jersey. But as his sticks danced across the drum heads—showing off his signature wicked-fast paradiddles—and ricocheted across the shimmering Zildjians, one long-hair in the crowd knew differently. He was French agent Emille l’Foote of the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure and, despite his disguise of filthy wig and garish Day-Glo scarf covering his ears, he knew what he was hearing was a subtle code being repeated in the beats on the snare drum (which rat-ta-tapped this secret message): “Olympus E500; 14-45mm telephoto lens at 16mm focal length; 1/13 sec. at f3.6; ISO 100.”
Kevin-
After last weeks frustrating (and frankly lousy) photograph I really wanted to do something better this week for ROLL. Yes I thought about rolling wheels and tires or rolling hula-hoops, a roll down a hill or a roll of cash but decided to go with a more delicious interpretation, cinnamon rolls, ready to go into the oven.
This is a studio shot. Just two strobe lights. One powered a small softbox, positioned above and behind the pan and rolls (because food almost always looks best when the light is coming from behind). The second strobe, with a orange gel over it, was placed below the semi-translucent glass table the baking pan was sitting on.
Exposure was ISO 100, flash sync speed of 1/250th of a second, f/11. My 24-70mm lens was set to 56mm and my Nikon D4s was tripod mounted.
Later of course an oven was used to bake cinnamon rolls so that Michelle and I could enjoy them for breakfast! Yum...
After last weeks frustrating (and frankly lousy) photograph I really wanted to do something better this week for ROLL. Yes I thought about rolling wheels and tires or rolling hula-hoops, a roll down a hill or a roll of cash but decided to go with a more delicious interpretation, cinnamon rolls, ready to go into the oven.
This is a studio shot. Just two strobe lights. One powered a small softbox, positioned above and behind the pan and rolls (because food almost always looks best when the light is coming from behind). The second strobe, with a orange gel over it, was placed below the semi-translucent glass table the baking pan was sitting on.
Exposure was ISO 100, flash sync speed of 1/250th of a second, f/11. My 24-70mm lens was set to 56mm and my Nikon D4s was tripod mounted.
Later of course an oven was used to bake cinnamon rolls so that Michelle and I could enjoy them for breakfast! Yum...
Byron-
I decided to be more abstract this week. The theme is roll so what I thought of was my beloved pinball machine. Without a metal ball rolling around the playing surface the game would be nothing more than a gaudy, not level, end table. I followed the ball around the playing field until I found a background I liked. Then I panned with the ball as it rolled down. I tried to show the furious action that takes place while playing a vintage 1975 Williams pinball machine.
The exposure was 1/4 second at f/11
I decided to be more abstract this week. The theme is roll so what I thought of was my beloved pinball machine. Without a metal ball rolling around the playing surface the game would be nothing more than a gaudy, not level, end table. I followed the ball around the playing field until I found a background I liked. Then I panned with the ball as it rolled down. I tried to show the furious action that takes place while playing a vintage 1975 Williams pinball machine.
The exposure was 1/4 second at f/11