Playing around with Photoshop

I tried the Photohop "Theshold" adjustment, and got these interesting results. In order of my preference.


My second choice would be,



And my final choice, of the three would be.



These are fun, as in the darkroom days we would have copied the image to Litho film, or made a paper negative and gone numerous generations to bump up the contrast. All time & materials.

Darrell

 

2011 Work

Pentax *ist D, smc Pentax-M 85mm f:2 manual focus lens. Single Bowens Bo-lite studio flash with honeycomb & grid to creat the spotlight effect, self-portrait. I liked the negative space and the tight crop.

So I laid a Fibonacci spiral on the image and noticed that the right eye (viewer's left) fit into the spiral. As seen here.

 

 

 



Divine Composition With Fibonacci’s Ratio (The Rule of Thirds on Steroids)

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here's a high level summary of its overall blog health:



The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Fresher than ever.

Crunchy numbers

 

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 2,400 times in 2010. That's about 6 full 747s.

 

In 2010, there were 39 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 140 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 28mb. That's about 3 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was February 20th with 53 views. The most popular post that day was Sky Fire.

 

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were darrelllarose.ca, networkedblogs.com, digg.com, facebook.com, and slashingtongue.com.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for darell larose, darrell larose, stieglitz clouds, alfred stieglitz clouds, and darrelllarose.wordpress.com.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

1

Sky Fire February 2010
1 comment

2

Human Form February 2010
5 comments

3

The Eyes Have It February 2010

4

Final Camera Club Slide Competition of 2009-2010 April 2010
1 comment

5

First Visit to Mud Lake May 2010
3 comments

Season's Greetings

Here I am as Santa... Best of the Season.

Still More Self-Portraits

I am fine-tuning the lighting in the series. Digital B&W has a different "feel" to it over film. Here are my most recent efforts. Shot in PEF RAW mode, converted with PhotoShop CS2.



Two Bowens Bo-Lite heads, main light with 18" softbox at 45° to subject 45° angle to create the triangle of light on the left eye. 36" square silver reflector fill. Second head with silver honeycomb/barndoors as a keylight. Self-Portrait. Pentax *istD SMC FA-Pentax 50mm f:1.4. 1/60 sec @ f:16.

A similar shot, different angle.


Two Bowens Bo-Lite heads, main light with 18" softbox at 45° to subject 45° angle to create the triangle of light on the left eye. 36" square silver reflector fill. Second head with silver honeycomb/barndoors as a keylight. Self-Portrait. Pentax *istD SMC FA-Pentax 50mm f:1.4. 1/60 sec @ f:16.

Some tweaking to B&W.



Two Bowens Bo-Lite heads, main light with 18" softbox at 45° to subject 45° angle to create the triangle of light on the left eye. 36" square silver reflector fill. Second head with silver honeycomb/barndoors as a keylight. Self-Portrait. Pentax *istD SMC FA-Pentax 50mm f:1.4. 1/60 sec @ f:16.


Finally, this time around.

Self-Portrait revisited

A bored afternoon, I set up my studio strobes and parked myself in the lights.

Single  Bowens Bo-Lites, both with silver honeycomb & barndoors. Mainlight at Rembrandt (45° and 45°)  feathered towards the camera. Shadow fill with a 36"
Pentax *istD dSLR, SMC Pentax-M 85mm f:2 lens.
1/60 sec @ f:16

Two Bowens Bo-Lites, both with silver honeycomb & barndoors. Mainlight at Rembrandt (45° and 45°) keylight over my right shoulder feathered towards the camera. Shadow fill with a 36" square silver reflector from the left.
Pentax *istD dSLR, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f:1.4 lens.
1/60 sec @ f:16

Two Bowens Bo-Lites, both with silver honeycomb & barndoors. Mainlight at Rembrandt (45° and 45°) keylight over my right shoulder feathered towards the camera. Shadow fill with a 36" square silver reflector from the left.
Pentax *istD dSLR, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f:1.4 lens.
1/60 sec @ f:16

Two Bowens Bo-Lites, both with silver honeycomb & barndoors. Mainlight at Rembrandt (45° and 45°) background light behind me .
Pentax *istD dSLR, SMC Pentax-M 85mm f:2 lens.
1/60 sec @ f:11

Two Bowens Bo-Lites, both with silver honeycomb & barndoors. Mainlight at Rembrandt (45° and 45°) background light behind me .
Pentax *istD dSLR, SMC Pentax-M 85mm f:2 lens.
1/60 sec @ f:11

Two Bowens Bo-Lite heads, main light with 18" softbox at 45° to subject 45° angle to create the triangle of light on the left eye. 36" square silver reflector fill. Second head with silver honeycomb/barndoors as a keylight. Self-Portrait.

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