Tuesday, 4 January 2011

Day 1. January 4th 2011

Another reason for this blog was for me to practice my writing. I've always been bad at it. I wasn't diagnosed with Dyslexia till I was 21 so i've spent quite a large part of my life avoiding writing. I'm not too sure how much detail I should be writing in this blog as I don't want to bore people with technical rubbish as this isn't ment to be a how to type of thing. But who knows what the future holds.

So, for my first picture I decided on a still life. And with quite a bit of work on at the moment, I decided to set myself something simple. So I set up my little £15 product cube which i usually use to photo Laura's larger art works and I looked around the flat for something to photo. I saw a new glass. I remember people saying that glass is difficult to photo against a black background so like a masochist I put up the black backdrop in the product cube.

I put a wireless flash outside the cube at various angles until I felt I was getting the right about of light on the glass. I then upped the contrast in photoshop and added a little bit of diffusion.


So there it is... to be honest I want to take pictures with more thought behind the images, but I surpose you have to start somewhere.

Until next time,
G
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4 comments:

  1. Anonymous5 January 2011 at 03:16

    Nice shot, I think the wording of the blog is perfect esp for people like me, I've been lucky enough to borrow my brothers canon 450d for I need all the help I can get haha. Keep up the great work on the blog though.

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  2. Ciara Fitz x5 January 2011 at 05:45

    Love it, I'd buy that! The picture...not the glass!!! lol

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  3. Unknown5 January 2011 at 06:27

    Well that glass was very cheap :)
    But Mr Burns, you've made it look like the a diamond. Well done, looking forwards to more pics. x

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  4. Gordon C Burns5 January 2011 at 08:00

    Thanks for all the positive feedback so far. It's nice to know people are reading this and getting something from it. Today's picture will be a cat portrate. So keep tuned for an update tonight.

    G

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