Day 59

Wow I'm tired today! I read an article in a photo magazine on arty kind of shots using old electrical stuff and so thought why the heck not.
Lighting was awkward in the extreme I ended up using a high powered LED torch to light from the back. I was using deodorant as a fog type thing but ended up sneezing far too much and so ended up Photoshopping a fair amount to add atmosphere the the photo and hints of light beams through the photo.
It was an interesting experiment and one which i will tackle again I need a bit more experimentation as to which lens to use, I think my 50mm would have been ideal but will see another day.

Day 58

Bright colours for a dull day, during the usual walk with the dogs it struck me that the fence at the local school is really bright and interesting. I moved to such an angle to hide the individual bars to give a block colour effect. A few tweaks of levels to give a quite powerful photo.

Day 57

It's just an observational photo today nothing much to say just it's a lovely moment.

Day 56

In my quest for things to do macro seems to be fun. I found a small feather on the ground today and thought it would be cool to do a bit of a macro job on it.
I reversed a 105mm on to a 75-150 mm zoom, I would have liked to use the 50mm but it is out on loan at the moment. I then took 14 shots using my macro rail and then stacked them in Photoshop. If you look at this at 100% you can see the focus stack so I think I need to work on this a bit more!!

Day 55

I love having a small light box as there's not mushroom it it!! Oh the joy it's a good job I'm a Fun Guy!!!
On a serious note though I really like macro work and you really need to control the light. So my DIY light box is coming into it's own and opening up a whole avenue of photographs to take. I think in the next week or do I might build a bigger one for slightly larger items.
The ability to set the lighting up to create a feel is so much better than "Fixing in Post".

Day 54

After yesterdays master thought 7300 photos is really too many to fulfill my 365 day challenge! I thought a bit about the photo for today.
Now I really enjoy macro work and love a nice flower so I built a nice Light-box out of a cereal box, using white card and silver foil as reflectors and backgrounds. I'm thinking about building a kind of mini studio thing out of cardboard with slot in backgrounds etc. I think that might be quite cool.
I digress I built this light-box so I could control the lighting for this photo. I did consider cleaning up the dust and other bits but life isn't perfect!

Day 53

Wow I almost cracked today and posted a photo from yesterday!! I managed to take some photos and looked at them but some of yesterdays were better to be honest but as this is a photo a day challenge I'm going to stick with it.
I think the moral of this story is I'm actually taking too many photos in one day and then forgetting what I'm posting. For example yesterday I took 75 pictures around Norwich of which I'd be happy to use 15-20 pictures!! Great hit rate but when you think I have to post one a day that's going to be 7300 photos at that rate!! I need to slow this down and concentrate on one shot!!

Here's the photo from yesterday I like this enough to post it too!!