My Little Photo Studio Friends
It has now been a while that I wanted to introduce my little photo studio friends. I ought to introduce them, since they now for some years have been very helpful indeed, always available and never moaning about late and long working hours. So this is what this blog entry will be about, that of introducing my little photo studio friends.
Here you have them all, lined up at year’s end.
You may wonder in which way they could possibly be helpful to me. Well, the answer is straightforward. They help me in meeting the Photo-a-Day challenge, which I with Inge’s support have met every single day during a couple of years now. Participating in this challenge is supposed to hone my photographic skills. Now, to avoid that you mistakenly should regard me as a real hero with a will of steel, I should confess that I am a playboy participant in this challenge. Inge does all the image processing – I only do the shooting.
But without shooting these images, there will be none to process and upload to the album on PBASE. So I have to shoot every day.
Knowing this now, you easily can understand that it is particularly during weekends that they come to my rescue. Very often we do not go places outside the trodden paths where I feel that I have already exploited all inspirational sources for landing an interesting image – and before bedtime I realize that I haven’t shot a single scene all day!
That is when I scramble my little friends. Together we build up compositions we think could lead to an image that would attract other users of PBASE, in particular those who also do the Photo-a-Day thing. Since we have to do the shooting before midnight you can easily imagine that we often feel a bit stressed while setting the scene and determining backdrops and the way light and camera should interact. Once this is settled, though, we relax a trifle and concentrate on the choreography and accessories.
As the subsequent shooting progresses relaxation gradually finds its way back to us.
To better understand what I’m talking about here and what our joint efforts can lead to, I kindly invite you check out the following images:
The images above are all extracted from my Photo-A-Day album on PBASE. There you find many more examples on how my patient and helpful little friends cooperate.
April 19th, 2009 at 3:59 am
I just returned from the International Quilt Show in Chicago and was so happy to see so many of your quilts! I especially loved the one with the eye and you photographing it. So special. ALl of them. What a pleasure to get such a close up look!