Archive for December, 2008
Slaying the dragon
One of the assignments we have to do for school is a still life image. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now and after hours of trying and testing I’m still not quite there yet, but the results aren’t that bad either. So I thought I’d post a few for your entertainment 
The pictures seem to tell a story but I’m not quite sure how it goes yet. I might elaborate on this and shoot the missing scenes. If anyone feels like making up a little story around this I’m open to suggestions…
After the beast is slain the noble warrior claims his prize…
Enjoy!
Palette
School assignment on patterns.
This is my wife’s newest addition for her make-up trunk. I love all the flashy colors on it.
Technical
2 bare speedlights camera left and right at 1/16 and 1/32 power.
Triggered with poverty wizards.
Flow
One from the archives.
When I did the smoke shot a while back I got like 400 shots but only managed to salvage a few of those as being fairly usefull. This is one of those few. Hope you like it..
Same setup as before:
Snooted Canon speedlight to camera right at 1/8 power
Smoke created with essence stick
Making the web work for you
Earlier this year Chase Jarvis, David Hobby (Strobist) and David Nightingale (Chromasia) held a seminar in Dubai about how you can make the web work for you and your business as a photographer. Since the current explosion of blogs out there in the blogosphere it’s highly unusual if you don’t have a website. These 3 artists talk about how you can make it work for you too.
Now I must warn you that it’s a rather lengthy video that has NOTHING of the usual appeal you would expect of a Chase Jarvis video. In fact it’s just a recording of the seminar itself where you can hear them talk for about an hour about the how and why of their sites.
This is quite interesting if you’re just starting out on the web or if you are wondering why your site gets so little attention. So I won’t keep you waiting much longer, here’s the link to the post on Chase’s blog: http://blog.chasejarvis.com/blog/2008/11/chase-jarvis-current-making-web-work.html
