Shadowy Figure
2011-07-14 I went to the Annenberg tonight to see Andrew Southam speak about his career in photographing beautiful women. It was pretty interesting, and I'm eager to go back and see the entire Beauty Culture exhibition. I took this shot of someone coming down the escalator - the light coming from behind them is the reflection of the afternoon sun off of another building at just the right angle. [last year]
![<span id="date">_10/24/10_</span> <span id="title">Brass Weights</span>
These four cup-type things are brass weights that all fit inside each other in a larger brass container, babushka-style. I used the same setup as yesterday where I put them on a black cloth in a dark bathroom and used a small flashlight to paint the light during a long shutter speed. I feel like I could have placed these a little more creatively, but it's late and I'm tired with a touch of sick. Hopefully tomorrow I will wake up rested so I can get back to my day job as a... um... person who manually weights things?
Yeah, I don't really know what these are for.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#691523103_SSUBi">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Black-and-white/i-rhts5Hm/2/56a84538/Ti/2010-10-24%20Brass%20Weights-Ti.jpg)
![<span id="date">__01/09/11__</span> <span id="title">Sphere</span>
<em>Water Drops, Day 2</em>
My second attempt at water droplet photography. Today I used off-camera flash and a bigger bowl than <a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/11272102_ACXDJ#1150062728_VAfLo">Friday's photo</a>. Embarassingly, I had my off-camera flash set up on Friday but I forgot to turn it on. I was so focused on the timing of the drops that I didn't notice the only light was coming from on-camera.
I added quite a bit of contrast for definition and noise reduction for smoothing. I would have done a setup photo but it's a little late, sorry! I'll do one eventually.
I'm still a bit in shock about yesterday's attack. I learned that in addition to the man who was 2 years ahead of me in my high school, Giffords herself attended, and the deceased includes a member of my parents church. Tragedies like this affect so many people.
Read my <a href="http://blog.jawsnap.net/2011/02/water-droplet-photography-lessons-learned/">blog post on water droplet photography</a>!
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year2/7157835_BfJPF#761209124_uyWRg">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Black-and-white/i-TbxLv2z/2/c33e29aa/Ti/2011-01-09%20Sphere-Ti.jpg)
![2011-07-20
I came across this chair today, it seemed sad. It's definitely seen better days.
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/11272102_ACXDJ#942054546_tV9DM">[last year]</a>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Black-and-white/i-kbPp5bD/1/de7e7c01/Ti/2011-07-20%20Slanted-Ti.jpg)
![2011-07-24
This is my wife, riding an escalator in a store. You might notice there is some weirdness going on. That's because it's actually 10 photos stitched together using AutoStitch. I waited about 6 steps after my wife and just started taking a bunch of photos at different angles. The app is looking for common elements to make a panorama, but in this case it was just a blob of photos with the only commonality being my wife and the escalator itself. Fun stuff.
Speaking of AutoStitch, I have a blog post that's 80% done about my experience with various iPhone panorama apps. Stay tuned for that!
<a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Daily/year3/11272102_ACXDJ#946317093_ye6Pb">[last year]</a> <em>hey, it's Rusty...</em>](https://photos.smugmug.com/Other/Black-and-white/i-zddqn6F/1/26903408/Ti/2011-07-24%20Messy%20Escalator-Ti.jpg)
John Bennett
on July 15, 2011Nicely seen and executed