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Isolation Photo Project, Day 122

Posted on 22nd July 2020

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. A thunderstorm rolled in tonight, precluding any possibility of safe outdoor photography. No barns, bridges and building hunting tonight. Fortunately, some of the photography equipment I ordered on Amazon.com was delivered yesterday and this afternoon. The order includes a 6 ft…

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Isolation Photo Project, Day 118: Wine Bottle Final Attempt

Posted on 18th July 2020
Bottle of Apothic Red Wine

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. If you've followed along the last two days, you've seen my frustrating attempts to light and photograph a wine bottle properly. On Thursday, I was able to get the outline of the bottle nearly correctly lit, but I still had more…

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Isolation Photo Project, Day 117: Wine Bottle Photography

Posted on 17th July 2020

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…

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Isolation Photo Project, Day 116

Posted on 16th July 2020

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. I am taking a remote learning course on beverage photography, and I've hit the point where I know that this sort of learning does not work for me. It really doesn't. It really really doesn't. When taking a course, I learn…

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The Contact Sheet

Posted on 21st February 2017
WE35, Contact Sheet, Photography

This month's #WE35 expedition is ‘The Contact Sheet’. Apparently back in the day[^1], film photographers would make a print of all the images they had shot on a roll of film. The images would be printed, thumbnail size, on a single sheet of photographic paper. The photographer could then review the images and pick the one or more images she wanted to print. I have never created a contact sheet. #WE35 is a global visual survey and creative research project…

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