Tag: lighting

Lakefront Brewery Extended Play

I used a small desk lamp placed behind a cut-out of a beer bottle I drew on piece of white cardboard. The white background produced too much glare behind the bottle when the light from the desk lamp shone through as well as a holo around the bottle. I taped a black sheet of 8x10 paper to the back of the cut-out to reduce the glare and eliminate the halo.

I lit the front of the bottle with a floor lamp. All light sources are fluorescent.

I must admit this was a lot of work. I have new found respect for food photographers. I assume they spend hours getting the lighting just right. I used some tips I learned from an article by photographer Phillip McCordall.

Painteresque

I recently discovered the Painteresque app while read a blog post on PhotoJojo's iPhoneography web site. The web site had a listing of that site's Top 3 Artistic Photo Filter apps for Android. The app had one feature; a filter then renders any image into a painting.

This filter is based on a model of the eye developed to enable an artificial intelligence to see. We asked it to show us what it sees, and this is what came out. There is nothing to tweak--just select or snap a photo for Painteresque to revisualize, and a few seconds later the resulting image is ready to save.

For my first image I chose this photo I took just this weekend at the Clinton Station Diner. Not a great photo given the limited lighting in the diner and the fact that I had already had four cups of coffee that afternoon.

Painteresque is $1.99 in the App Store and $2 in the Android Market.

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Fresh Coffee brewed every 20 minutes

This is the same photo after processing in Painteresque.

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This is the same photo after processing in Paintereque.

January 29th, 2011 - Lighting techniques with Frank Veronsky

I spent my morning with a number of other photographers learning lighting techniques at Frank Veronsky's carriage house studio in Belle Meade. Frank spend two hours ( maybe more ) teaching us how to make the best of available light and the proper use of reflectors. Frank has been a photographer for over 24 years and is an excellent teacher.

One of the photographers brought his daughters with him. They were gracious and patient, posing for our eager cameras. This is the one I chose as the best of the set of 100 or so. You can see some of the others in my image gallery here.

Natural lighting from the window on subjects right side with reflected light from the white wall to the subject lefts. Hot light from above with most of the leaves closed to focus light onto a narrow strip on the subjects face.