The 27th photo in my Daily Photography Project.
Tag: Flower
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Daily Photo Project: Reflections #1
Now that I’ve been working at this nearly two weeks, I thought it might be useful to pause and think: What have I learned?
#210323a Mostly technique. Getting a sense of how flash works, how light falls off, how far I can angle a flash/soft box from the subject and still get reasonable light. I’ve gained some useful sense of how different surfaces reflect (or not) light. I’ve gained a sense of how much power I need to light the subject but not the table or the wall behind it. I’ve gained some sense of how to get a black background or a white one (though I don’t really like the bright white backgrounds, not as much as the darker background).
I should say: I’ve taken all the photos on my dining room table with the lights on and no background. So I’ve also begun to gain some idea about how to balance flash with ambient light (the cool kids might say, I’ve learned how to control light, but that’s too sophisticated for what I do, which is closer to plead with light to cooperate).
I should also say that I’ve come to realize that these daily photography projects get in the way of my taking photos. I find that I am too fixated on taking the photograph for the project and, consequently, I don’t take as many photographs when I am out and about. And taking a photograph every night tires me. It is a labor that is not particularly fun.
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Daily Photo Project: Still Life 1
I admire the people who have the fortitude to commit to a “daily 365 photography challenge.” I am not one of them. I might be able to complete the Michael Beirut “100 Day Project” if I chose a very clearly defined project, e.g., take a photograph of my left hand every day for 100 days (and assuming I didn’t get bored of it). But maybe a month. I think I can sustain a daily project for a month (actually, just four weeks). So that’s what I’m committing to do:
Take one photograph a day each day for a month, organized by the theme “Still Life.” Each photograph posted here.
I chose still life as the type of photography because I want to improve my skills using flash. I tell myself I can produce 28 photographs (in addition to any other photos I might take). And I tell myself this will be a good exercise in developing my photographic skills. I tell myself this will be long enough to be useful without being so long as to be a burden. But I tell myself lots of things that turn out not to be true.
In any event, here is the first photograph:
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