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Medium format objects
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cunim
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What's any thread without a cat picture?
I am editing this to add a bit of explanation of my process. I enjoy seeing that from others so I should do it myself.
I wanted an urban night prowler, under moonlight. That meant misty shadows in the glass, and some harder shadows to imply structures The background was the challenge here. The cat lit up just fine. Three continuous lights: 2' x 2' panel above; light bar below, projector to create a focused beam on the kitty. Lateral white reflectors for making cat shadows on the inner glass surface, and black to create the side structures. Three image composite. Not really product photography because it is not the actual bowl. It's an interpretation.
I am editing this to add a bit of explanation of my process. I enjoy seeing that from others so I should do it myself.
I wanted an urban night prowler, under moonlight. That meant misty shadows in the glass, and some harder shadows to imply structures The background was the challenge here. The cat lit up just fine. Three continuous lights: 2' x 2' panel above; light bar below, projector to create a focused beam on the kitty. Lateral white reflectors for making cat shadows on the inner glass surface, and black to create the side structures. Three image composite. Not really product photography because it is not the actual bowl. It's an interpretation.
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Water against the light
A few years ago I started to work with water in backlight and created a small series.
In general, I would always photograph liquids in backlight unless they contain turbidity. Water behaves a bit like jewellery or reflecting metallic objects where you basically photograph the space around the actual object, with the difference that water has no immediately visible structure. So you have to shape the space around the water, reflect it and give it a structure. The latter can be done, among other things, by moving the water.
I photographed the water in a special tank that I had built a few years ago. I mirrored the water completely black with a camera position that gives a very slight view of the water line. The slight top view is important to get a nice gradient from dark (black) to light (white) in the backlight and to minimise the reflection of the camera in the image itself. The gradient itself creates a wonderful dimension in the water structure.
Greetings Gerd
A few years ago I started to work with water in backlight and created a small series.
In general, I would always photograph liquids in backlight unless they contain turbidity. Water behaves a bit like jewellery or reflecting metallic objects where you basically photograph the space around the actual object, with the difference that water has no immediately visible structure. So you have to shape the space around the water, reflect it and give it a structure. The latter can be done, among other things, by moving the water.
I photographed the water in a special tank that I had built a few years ago. I mirrored the water completely black with a camera position that gives a very slight view of the water line. The slight top view is important to get a nice gradient from dark (black) to light (white) in the backlight and to minimise the reflection of the camera in the image itself. The gradient itself creates a wonderful dimension in the water structure.
Greetings Gerd
cunim
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Eater. These heavy glass Swedish vases were a thing in the 1990's and, I believe, thousands were made. Now, well.... tastes change I guess. In contrast, everyone loves strawberries, then and now.
Three lights (projection, above, below) with a bit of help from a Lightstream #3 mirror on the strawberry. I have pretty much abandoned strobes for my static subjects, using the IQ4's ES and LED lights instead. I am particularly fond of the Lightstream mirror system, for use with the specular subjects I tend to shoot.
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Three lights (projection, above, below) with a bit of help from a Lightstream #3 mirror on the strawberry. I have pretty much abandoned strobes for my static subjects, using the IQ4's ES and LED lights instead. I am particularly fond of the Lightstream mirror system, for use with the specular subjects I tend to shoot.
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lookbook
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... quite an amazing series Gerd!
I will call it a graphic in its wild form. Black and white with a little gray.
Refreshing the element that has been photographed here - refreshing in the way it has been photographed.
Stimulating and soothing to contemplate.
Great!!!
cunim
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Discards on Satsuma. The plate here is a common thing, but pretty. The chess set is a bit special, with the white pieces in mammoth and the blacks in wood.
Fair bit of tilt, Rodenstock macro 120 at f11, some stacking for the plate level but tops of pieces left to blur for depth.
Fair bit of tilt, Rodenstock macro 120 at f11, some stacking for the plate level but tops of pieces left to blur for depth.
cunim
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Do stone owls dream of fossil fish? Top image is a visual pun about this. Bottom image is more documentary. Owl is by Inuit artist Manasie Akapaliapik. Fish is a Jurassic fossil of lycoptera from China.
Playing about with a new lens on the monolith. Top image: tilted, swung, no stacks, f8. Lightstream mirrors at front right and upper front left. Minor contribution from panel above. Bottom image with additional mirror, no panel, f7.1, a dozen images stacked around the beak..
Playing about with a new lens on the monolith. Top image: tilted, swung, no stacks, f8. Lightstream mirrors at front right and upper front left. Minor contribution from panel above. Bottom image with additional mirror, no panel, f7.1, a dozen images stacked around the beak..
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cunim
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Legal's mate. Sometimes the whole world really is against you.
Chess folks will wonder why the queen is male. The theme is Roman emperors of the Antonine period. The big guy staring at the knight is Antoninus Pius and his queen is Marcus Aurelius - examples of competent rule in a long period of decline. The bishops are Claudius. I guess the reviews are mixed about him.
IQ4 150, Rodenstock, swung. Note, this is not the original posted image. I changed the crop to 5:7 and the aperture to f6.5. The original post was at 1:1 and f11.
Chess folks will wonder why the queen is male. The theme is Roman emperors of the Antonine period. The big guy staring at the knight is Antoninus Pius and his queen is Marcus Aurelius - examples of competent rule in a long period of decline. The bishops are Claudius. I guess the reviews are mixed about him.
IQ4 150, Rodenstock, swung. Note, this is not the original posted image. I changed the crop to 5:7 and the aperture to f6.5. The original post was at 1:1 and f11.
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cunim
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In the middle to late 19th century, microscopes represented the cutting edge of technology and advancements were rapid. Many people owned a microscope, not because they were interested in science but as a tool to help see the world around them. In these ways, the old scopes were like the personal computers of today. However, unlike PCs, these brass and glass objects were beautiful. This large binocular was made by Ross, in London, about 1890.
IQ180, stacked, can't remember the lens
IQ180, stacked, can't remember the lens
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cunim
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And now for something completely different. The local mountain bikers put this thing together on a grassy area. I think it is called a "pump track" and is used to train kids to enjoy dipsy doodles. Woops, the bikers call it "crushing the humps". Showing my age. Not sure why I put this here except the trees seem sublimely indifferent to the hump crushers. I mean no offence to any mountain bikers here. Used to do road bikes myself. IQ4, 40HR
