Tonight's dinner and company at the Brick Farm Tavern was excellent as usual.
Sometime in the last few months, I subscribed to the Analog.Cafe newsletter. Analog.Cafe is a weekly film photography blog with essays on art, travel, and culture, analogue cameras, film, history, and photography techniques. The photographs in a recent article by Stefano Fristachi, an Italian photojournalist who lives in Barcelona, reminded of the British West Indies.
These are hobbyist photographers, often with an unrelated day job, but would always seek opportunities to go out and take pictures. They may not be taking photos professionally but many of them are actually more passionate about the craft than most.
I think I fit that description.
Tonight's dinner and company at the Brick Farm Tavern was excellent as usual.
My dinner is 5 "local 130" U12 scallops, fried green tomatoes, summer squash, roasted tomato emulsion, lavender cucumber salad with Troon Brewing's "A Cashless Economy", a Kettle-soured ale brewed with lactose, refermented with raspberry and cherry, and conditioned on maple, cinnamon, coconut granola.
UPDATE: After completing the course, and with the wisdom of hindsight, I have realised that beverage photography is challenging and it was naive of me to expect "instantly good" results. Throughout the course, the instructor remained patient and helpful.
On my lunch break today, I continued working on photographing a bottle of Apothic Red wine. Yesterday, I was frustrated in my attempts because although I knew that it was not working, I didn't understand why. I found an article, Shooting a “Papo Seco” Wine Bottle, on Diy Photography which was very helpful. They included images of the studio setup that helped me in how to place my diffusers. Today, I am using pool noddles in the rafters, clothespins, and twine to hang my diffusers from the basement rafters. It's not ideal. Any movement in the room causes air movement and the diffusers move around. I am learning the art of patiently waiting for everything to become still.
The new problem is that while both sides of the bottle seem evenly lit, the centre of the bottle has a dark shadow. I handheld one of the reflectors off to one side of the camera to reflect some light back onto the bottle. It works but only for the side with the reflector. I have resorted to using photoshop to combine images of two images, each one with the reflector on the left and right.
But of course, now I can see the reflector reflected off the bottle. One step forward, two steps back and I have forgotten where I was headed.
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