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One photo a day to make the study of subject, composition, and light a part of my daily routine. Along the way, you'll know who I am, what I love, where I am going. Critiques are always welcome. You may contact me at jeremy@winnick.net.
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Jeremy > August 10, 2008; Day 100. One of you did a shot of sunlight filtered through blinds, creating curves through a curtain. Having tried this shot now, I have much greater appreciation for your original. Here I have a somewhat unfortunate background (my air conditioner) but it was much better than the view out my window. The lines of the A/C distract from the sunlit lines. I'll try this again someday. I would have abandoned the idea except that my viewfinder and LCD suggested that there would be serious moiré in this image due to the overlapping fabric. I thought it might be fun to fix it or work around it. Unfortunately, it disappears when I view the image on my PC. Oh well, I’m glued to the TV watching the Olympics anyway. These kids just amaze me. Peter asked whether an adult can learn gymnastics never having done it before. The still rings appeal to him. Me, I daydream of photographing Olympic action! PS: Crop: ~15%
Jeremy > August 9, 2008; Day 99. Light takes on the color of whatever it is reflecting. While preparing for my latest training ride, I noticed that the sun was casting a warm glow onto my tire pump. I reached for the camera. Sadly, the sun immediately went behind a cloud. So I reached for my flash, and pointed it at the cabinet. Same effect, more control. Yes, you inflate road bike tires to 120 PSI. I averted my face for most of the pumping! After this shot, I proceeded to ride NH Route 106 for the first time. It is very fine road for century training; it has a wide shoulder for most of its 35 mile length. In 2 weeks I should be able to ride its entire length and back. Today, I went from Pembroke to Laconia and back, 53 miles in all. That took me 3 hours and 4 minutes, for an average speed of 17.7 miles per hour. Unfortunately, I forgot the sunblock and am a little baked…another good lesson for today! Raw: Color Temperature: Daylight (5500K) Raw: Saturation: +30 PS: Color Balance: +10 Yellow to Blue PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > August 8, 2008; Day 98. My guess is that everyone has done one of these circuit board macros at least once. Today was a really busy day, so it’s my turn. I pulled an old Commodore 128-capable monitor (made by Sears!) up from the basement and removed the cover for the first time, thinking it would be pristine inside. Wrong. With this much patina, I am sorry there weren’t actual tubes in here (besides the picture tube that is). I am holding my strobe at camera left to back-light the little strand of spider web. JPEG from camera, no post processing.
Jeremy > August 7, 2008; Day 97. For the next couple of weeks, my departure from the gym will coincide with dusk. I will be scurrying around finding subjects under random and hopefully ideal skies. Tonight I didn’t scurry far, because lately I have been dreaming of doing a George Fillmore-style series at my gym. I don’t mean stealing his dreamy post processing style; I merely want to learn how to capture people the way he does. My gym is a 24-hour symphony of picturesque moments: muscle failure, exhaustion, sweat, encouragement, laughter, boredom, endorphin highs, body sculpture, stretching, and mirrors. All body types, all ages, all colors are there. And although the lighting is mercury vapor, it’s bright and even. There’s just one problem. I’m too much of a chicken to walk around inside there with my D80. I need to figure out a way to overcome this fear. Even this shot, taken outside with the worst imaginable interior view, was nerve wracking. Raw: Color Temperature: Daylight (5500K) Raw: Fill Light: +100 Raw: Blacks: +50 Raw: Crop: ~10% PS: Saturation: +10 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > August 6, 2008; Day 96. This shot is a light experiment that Oliver pointed out to me from the Strobist site. I’m projecting an image through a second lens onto the surface of my subject. Click here to see how I set up this shot. I would have used a white egg if I had one; that would have allowed me to pull more green from the projection. I selected my 50mm f/1.8 lens to project through because the aperture is so wide. I’ll have to experiment with the effect of stopping down. I’m guessing that the flash will need to pump out more light, but perhaps the focal plane is thicker. I flipped the canvas in Photoshop to correct the mirror image problem in this shot. That’s a cheat that works because there’s no lettering in my subject or background. I’m not sure how to correct it properly. Mirrors? Although this shot needs work, I think I will have a lot of fun trying different things with this technique. Many thanks to those of you who guessed how many times I fired my strobe in yesterday’s shot. The answer is 3: camera left, camera right, and once underneath the car to illuminate the ground there. The lighting on the trees is spillover from the other firings, and the interior lighting is coming mostly from the car’s dome light. In my alternate shot, I pointed the strobe into the trees as well. PS: Flip Canvas Horizontal
Jeremy > August 5, 2008; Day 95. Tonight I took my practice of using a “repeating” strobe outside. I did this inside a couple of weeks ago. In both cases, the same setup applies: I pre-focused the subject using a flashlight, removed as much ambient light as possible, set the shutter speed to bulb, and locked open the shutter with the wired remote. Then I unlocked the car (activating the dome light) and ran around pointing the strobe and firing it using the “flash” button. The strobe is set to manual mode, full power. After I took this shot, I decided that the color temperature difference between the dome light and the strobe was too great. So I re-shot it with a CTO filter on the strobe. The light was much more balanced, but I decided that I much preferred the warmer interior lighting. Can you count the number of times the flash was fired? UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who guessed. The answer is 3: camera left, camera right, and once underneath the car to illuminate the ground. The lighting on the trees is spillover from the other firings, and the interior lighting is coming mostly from the car’s dome light (there's some spillover too). In the alternate shot, I pointed the strobe into the trees as well. JPEG from camera, no post processing.
Jeremy > August 4, 2008; Day 94. Portsmouth has been churning out some nice Monday evening skies lately. I had a choice between this rainbow and this pre-sunset sky, both happening at the same time. Rainbows are so fleeting that I have to act quickly and sometimes forget some compositional rules, like the dullness of taking shots, standing, with the camera at eye-level. A bit more Photoshop tweaking than normal seems to have saved the day. Raw: Exposure: +0.3 Raw: Fill Light: +50 Raw: Saturation: +50 PS: Shadows: 21% PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > August 3, 2008; Day 93. Tonight I am laughing at myself for my foolishness, aware that I am whistling past the graveyard if I don’t heed today’s lesson: don’t take $2000 worth of camera gear a half-mile into the woods without glancing at the radar map. Yesterday’s shot reminded me that I already have a “four seasons” project underway, so my plan for today was to capture “Summer” at the wooden bridge. I arrived, set up the camera roughly where I had it back in May, and started shooting. Almost immediately the sky opened and the deluge started. I aborted the mission after 6 shots and arrived at the car completely soaked. Luckily, my gear was in a Tamrac bag, which although is not waterproof, did protect it. I have until mid-September before I need to worry about the leaves changing colors, so I’ll try this shot again soon…after checking the weather. If you clicked on the alternate shot, you may have noticed that I’ve inserted my new bike into the composition. I like it in the shot, but it obviously got a good soaking too. After watching footage of the Tour de France, I wasn’t worried about it getting wet; besides, the September 20 ride is a rain or shine event. After returning home, the rain continued, so I opted for this shot from my front door as my daily. Yes, the summer has been so wet that I have mushrooms growing wild under this tree. Raw: Color Temperature: Daylight (5500K) Raw: Exposure: +0.7 Raw: Recovery: +100 Raw: Saturation: +15 PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
Jeremy > August 2, 2008; Day 92. Nine of my friends and I climbed Mt. Major today, a smallish 1784-foot mountain. The summit region is mostly bald despite the mountain being easily below the treeline. This is welcome news to first-time climbers who turn around here and take in this view. That is Lake Winnipesauke, New Hampshire’s largest and best-known lake. On a clear day, the White Mountains should rise majestically beyond this lake, which ought to make the entire scene quite breathtaking. In the foreground are my friends John and Al. Al makes a perfect hiker model. If I can talk him into it, I would like to create a “Four Seasons” photo series from this mountain. To get here, however, one must scramble over some rock. Doing that in the winter will require equipment and training. Still, I think it would make a great series, particularly since this vantage point looks north, which should provide both sunrise and sunset lighting opportunities. PS: Thom Hogan’s “Remove Magenta” action: Hue +5, Saturation -5 PS: Exposure: +0.5 PS: Healing Brush to remove two blue blazes in the rock PS: Unsharp Mask: 20-30-0
August 10, 2008; Day 100.

One of you did a shot of sunlight filtered through blinds, creating curves through a curtain. Having tried this shot now, I have much greater appreciation for your original. Here I have a somewhat unfortunate background (my air conditioner) but it was much better than the view out my window. The lines of the A/C distract from the sunlit lines. I'll try this again someday.

I would have abandoned the idea except that my viewfinder and LCD suggested that there would be serious moiré in this image due to the overlapping fabric. I thought it might be fun to fix it or work around it. Unfortunately, it disappears when I view the image on my PC. Oh well, I’m glued to the TV watching the Olympics anyway. These kids just amaze me. Peter asked whether an adult can learn gymnastics never having done it before. The still rings appeal to him. Me, I daydream of photographing Olympic action!

PS: Crop: ~15%
> August 10, 2008; Day 100. One of you did a shot of sunlight filtered through blinds, creating curves through a curtain. Having tried this shot now, I have much greater appreciation for your original. Here I have a somewhat unfortunate background (my air conditioner) but it was much better than the view out my window. The lines of the A/C distract from the sunlit lines. I'll try this again someday. I would have abandoned the idea except that my viewfinder and LCD suggested that there would be serious moiré in this image due to the overlapping fabric. I thought it might be fun to fix it or work around it. Unfortunately, it disappears when I view the image on my PC. Oh well, I’m glued to the TV watching the Olympics anyway. These kids just amaze me. Peter asked whether an adult can learn gymnastics never having done it before. The still rings appeal to him. Me, I daydream of photographing Olympic action! PS: Crop: ~15%
August 10, 2008; Day 100.

One of you did a shot of sunlight filtered through blinds, creating curves through a curtain. Having tried this shot now, I have much greater appreciation for your original. Here I have a somewhat unfortunate background (my air conditioner) but it was much better than the view out my window. The lines of the A/C distract from the sunlit lines. I'll try this again someday.

I would have abandoned the idea except that my viewfinder and LCD suggested that there would be serious moiré in this image due to the overlapping fabric. I thought it might be fun to fix it or work around it. Unfortunately, it disappears when I view the image on my PC. Oh well, I’m glued to the TV watching the Olympics anyway. These kids just amaze me. Peter asked whether an adult can learn gymnastics never having done it before. The still rings appeal to him. Me, I daydream of photographing Olympic action!

PS: Crop: ~15%
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