Light 03/01 - 03/07 (Pere)

So there was this picture that I wanted to take for a while, the corridor leading to my desk in HDR and today for a number of reasons, partly for not liking what I took over the weekend, partly because I felt rush to submit something, I decided to go ahead and take it.

I like how the corridor shows the artificial light coming from the ceiling mixed with the natural light coming through the offices windows and hitting the opposite wall...



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Light 03/01 - 03/07 (Scott)

I told Pere that I would try and not challenge his brain with my picture this week - however I think I have failed miserably with that task.

I wanted to capture shades in my light picture - so I setup on a bowl of cream + cocoa powder and snapped away as it was whisked. The texture of the smooth cream mixing with the grainy cocoa intrigued my eye, as did the blurryness of the picture I choose. The solid black at the bottom provides a jumping board into the rest of the shot, with the brightest patch just off vertical center, offset by the rightmost shadows. I thought that the slightly blurry aspect helped keep my eye moving and take in the entire shot, vs being stuck an specific element. No post-processing this week - the orange glow came from a slight under-exposure.

Light 03/01 - 03/07 (Mel)

I went to Shanghai this weekend and only took my point and shoot because I thought I was not planning to take any pictures but then I went to the top of the Oriental Pearl tower at night and regretted it.

Let there be light...



and fireworks..



Here is another photo that did not make it to the blog but I think is also good

Light 03/01 - 03/07 (Jeff)

Light is a very exciting subject. For this week's choice, I decided to capture this streetlight at dusk. I like the shine of the yellow-orange light that stands out against the blue sky. I also like the trees moving into the focus against the chaos of lines in the background.

I have a second submission from earlier, just one that I wanted to share. This was taken outside of a restaurant in Solomon Island, MD. This was easily the best picture I have taken with an iPhone:

No post processing this week kids! Went raw this time!

Light 03/01 - 03/07 (Jaime)

So i decided to use a model this time and little Jaime graciously accepted. I thought he was not going to be able to sit still during this (see caffeine topic), but he actually was great while we were doing this.

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I just had him sit down on the couch, then I grabbed a floor light and put it between him and the book to give the impression that the book was illuminating him. All the post processing i did was to bring down the yellows.

Here are a few others from our photo session.

Light 03/01 - 03/07 (Josh)

I am a huge Muse fan. Crazy enough that I went to both the DC show at the Patriot Center on 03/01 and the Baltimore show at the 1st Mariner Arena on 03/03. A big bonus was that Silversun Pickups, whom I had been introduced to through Rockband and now I was also a big fan of were opening for Muse. Seemed like space and time collided perfectly!

Ok, enough of that. As you now, concerts are a pain in the butt to take pictures at. Flickering lights, lights in your face, no lights, it's all there. Therefore, I picked out two pictures from the Baltimore show at the 1st Mariner Arena that I really liked. Because I was able to get into the show with my nice camera (just tell the security guard it's a simple point a shoot), I made it a challenge at the concert to take a bunch of pics and be able to pick two to post without editing. I loved these two pictures that I captured, one with very minimal lighting, and one with an over abundance of light. Enjoy.

Nikki Monninger, bass and vocals for the Silversun Pickups



Christopher Wolstenholme, bass and backing vocals for MUSE


To check out all of the pics that I took there, go to:

http://holybucket.smugmug.com/Concerts/2010-03-03-Silversun-Pickups/

Light 03/01 - 03/07 (Sara)

Kicking off the week early! I've been wanting to do a bokeh mask for some time now, but was too lazy to attempt it. I finally set the 24-70 aside, pulled my 50mm out of storage, and meticulously cut out little shapes and made some bokeh masks.


A couple of my favorites:
Hearts, because they're cute:

Post processing involved changing the temperature to make the color of the lights pink instead of yellow.


And a baby bat signal! This one I used the light outside Jeff's house.


The rest are here.


How I did it:
I needed a source of light that had a lot of little lights that aren't toooo bright -- the street lights outside Jeff's house are too far apart, and too bright (I used light across the street for the batsignal one because in front of jeff's house was too bright). After brainstorming, I realized christmas lights would work perfectly!


Then, I had to cut little itsy bitsy shapes out of black cardstock (I tried a yellow post it note, and it made my pics have a yellowish tint.. very displeasing). This was probably the hardest part, because it's very hard to cut little tiny shapes. A paper cutting stamp might have worked better: