Shadow Shot Sunday (Saturday in North America)

Flash flood warnings abound so the only shadows to be had are inside. I played with my homemade light box today.

I learned some subtlety with shadows today. Instead of the shadow being the subject of the picture, here I used shadow to compliment the subject.

I have seen several do your own light boxes but not one like mine. Others are cheaper but I like mine. I used 4 2' x 2' pieces of light diffusers like your standard fluorescent lights in an office. You can buy them at Lowes Home Improvement store (called Metalux troffer replacement lens). I drilled 1/8" holes in them as follows.

Then I just used zip ties to loosely connect them together at the red holes. I can fold it up flat into one 2' x 2' piece for storage. When I'm ready to use it, I just zip tie the yellow holes and it holds a cube shape.

Throw in a few pieces of colored poster board and a daylight CFL lamp or two and you're in business.

Trevor the Kid

Man, I really have to get back to playing around with studio lighting and portraiture.

Saturday Sunrise

After thoroughly enjoying a migraine and staying in bed most of the day yesterday, I woke up wide awake at 5am this morning. So I decided to get out and take some photographs.

Taken from Rocky Pointe before dawn. I took about 25 shots just like this, all full of color just dripping out of the sky.
I saw so many things looking at this tree. An alligator's mouth, maybe a sideways capital A, and many more images came to mind.
Taken from the public boat ramp near Concorde.
Little Orphan Annie was right....the sun DID come out tomorrow.
While the sun rose on one side, this was the view behind me, a full moon still hung with care in the sky.
It's been a great day so far and it's only 8am.

Under The Lights

I took maybe 100 action shots of Trevor's football game this weekend. Running, blocking, passing, and tackling shots. It was amazing how they looked like little MEN to me. But my favorite picture was this one.

I was shooting the next game when I looked up to the West in the late afternoon and saw Trevor and his friends at the top of the stadium looking over the railing. I loved how this perspective made them look like BOYS again:)