When trying to study light what better subject than an old lightbulb. I'm studying the use of a softbox and an umbrella (diffuser) to effectively light a subject. I'm trying to gain complete control over what is lit and what remains in total darkness. Interestingly I used part of an...
Read MoreI decided to try a few additional photographs of the old 8mm cine camera. Shooting with a 100mm macro lens both in full and macro mode I decided to shoot in full manual and slightly under expose the shots in an attempt to attain richer depth and colour. Captured at f2.8...
Read MoreThere isn't perhaps much colour variety offered when shooting photos of coffee beans. I decided to use a macro lens and a really tight depth of field to shoot a range of coffee beans piled in two different coffee cups. To make life easy I packed each cup with some paper...
Read MoreOne of my favourite twentieth century photographers has to be Wols (Albert Otto Wolfgang Schulze (1913-1951). Limited by the technology of this and still able to produce stunning still life photographs of everything from screws, sugar cubes and famously lightbulbs. At the fastest shutter speed it was possible to capture the...
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