Sunday, June 14, 2009

Flame


One candle (and one LED - I cheated, to give it a specular high light)
I'm not sure, if I'm done with the candle experiment, as I like the self illumination of the wax of the candle.
This is shot with the 50mm, and I experimented with the various aperture settings to get the right depth of field.
1.8 was way to shallow and basically nothing was in focus. Too much Bokeh can be a bad thing.
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Caustic


This was the hardest, and least satifying Mr Wooden so far.
I wanted to capture light bouncing off rippling water - how hard can that be (don't answer).
Well instead of being your friends, time and light are your enemies here.
You'll need a long exposure if you don't have a ton of light, and that of course will mess up the caustics, as time smears them all over the place. If you have a ton of light, you need to control it, otherwise it blows out the caustics, on the backdrop.
In the end, I should've brought out the 1500W light, but I was lazy.
I opened it up as much as the 50mm prime would go, dialed up the ISO, and 80 shots later, only had this to show for it :(
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