Disc Brakes & Spokes
10/26/08
Today was going to be a desperation shot, but I ended up spending quite a bit of time with the angle and lighting of this. You're looking at a shot of disc brakes on my fiance's mountain bike. I have disc brakes on my bike, too, but these are way more interesting. I only have one flash unit, which was positioned just on the other side of the tire. I really wish I'd had another one so I could have lit the front of the disc a little better, but I had to settle for the D80's built-in flash. I do like how the wear lines from the brakes showed up.
Thanks to everyone who guessed on yesterday's daily! It is indeed a hand - the hand on a crosswalk sign. I was holding the camera below the actual sign, and the lights are behind a deep grill, which is why the top of the hand kind of disappears. Hopefully that makes sense...
![<span id="date">_03/30/10_</span> <span id="title">Fat Koala Waits for the Bus</span>
Um... yeah. The title pretty much sums it up.
I decided to walk home from work today (4 miles) and happened upon this. I took a photo, kept walking...
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![<span id="date">_11/19/10_</span> <span id="title">Rotunda</span>
Here's my first super wide angle daily, using the Tokina 11-16 I rented. I had promised another for yesterday, but I did my entry for <a href="http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=183504">DSS #64</a> instead.
This is the rotunda in Powell Library at UCLA. It's pretty vast, so it's a good subject for an ultra wide lens. I shot a few other places on campus that I thought might benefit from this lens, but conditions were pretty bad.
This is the last SLR daily photo for a week - tomorrow we fly to Hawaii! Thanks for all the well wishes. I'll try to keep posting daily photos via iPhone during the trip.
Cheers!
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![<span id="date">_08/25/10_</span> <span id="title">Tea Strainer</span>
Water flowing over/through a tea strainer. See the <a href="http://www.jawsnap.net/Utility/Setups/8246339_SpVpq#982954794_43Nxc">setup</a>.
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![<span id="date">_06/07/10_</span> <span id="title">iPad Portrait</span>
My work got an iPad, and I'm putting it through it's paces. This photo took forever to get framed right. I think it turned out well in B&W.
Any of you have an iPad? What do you do with it?
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![<span id="date">_09/02/10_</span> <span id="title">Hearty Pages</span>
Get it? The pages look like a heart. It's very clever. I am sure I am the first person to have thought of it.
Sarcasm aside, it does look cool and I wanted to give it a try myself. Turns out the pages don't align themselves very well when you do so many, although that might be due to the super-thin pages of this Bible that I used for the shot. I actually kind of like the irregularity.
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![<span id="date">_11/18/10_</span> <span id="title">Coworker Mashup</span>
This is my entry for <a href="http://dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=183504">DSS #64</a> - Nine. Check out <a href="http://challenges.smugmug.com/Other/DSS-64-Nine/14676359_FvfAp">this gallery</a> to see how others are interpreting the theme. I've always wanted to participate in the dgrin contests but somehow I just never had.
I work with or near all these folks, and they were all kind enough to pose for the project. We have quite a range of ages and ethnic backgrounds going on, so that's pretty cool. I used my 50mm lens at f/9 and got close to fill the frame. I used red eye reduction on the flash to make sure the pupils weren't too big. Then I spent a long time tediously cutting each of these squares from each person's portrait and put it all into a Photoshop document using Smart Objects so I could easily swap out nose/eye/mouth to get the best balance. Finally the B&W conversion gave an overall sense of much-needed continuity.
HUGE thank you to my models - Alicia, Ayumi, Dayna, Ivette, Judith, Juan, Kelli, Melina, Russell, Sayan and Teresa - and my apologies to those whose lovely faces I didn't use in the final draft.
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sbarge
on October 27, 2008Cool capture and I like the lighting!
306887Verbeast
on October 27, 2008Pretty cool shot!
ljn335
on October 27, 2008Very, very nice!
agilitypics
on October 27, 2008Cool picture, love the details.
banjon
on October 27, 2008Nice lines
irishmurr
on October 27, 2008Wonderful b&w!
John (300m)
on October 27, 2008Cool shot. I like the angle and the lighting.
pacvjwv
on October 27, 2008Very nice picture--great angle.
Andrea Kaus (ChaosGraphics)
on October 27, 2008Very cool -- industrial design.
219352dedmanshootn
on October 27, 2008cool idea for yesterday's pic. i like this