Lines that are perfect except for that one perfectly pefect imperfection...
I
love capturing organic lines when they reveal their organic-ness...
their potential for disorder... for something, just one thing, to get
'out of line'...
And when it happens it just makes the line so much more interesting...
It can happen at the back of the line...
I love the contrast of everyone else
looking dead straight forward and him in the back looking very intently
and in a line perfectly 90 degrees off the rest of them...
It can happen at the front of the line...
It can happen in the middle of the line...
It can be a simple tilt...
It can be just a set of two and two - where one of the two of the two just decides to have a little fun...
And then there is this line - which is perfectly in
line but still a favorite because the standout in it is the amazing kid
right in the center...
I love the framing of the face in this one but also
that each instrument of the three you can really see is at a slightly
different angle...
And then there is 'line of sight'... "Twofer" on this one...
But of course there has to be a break in this line of
examples to prove my premise by contradiction - some nice conforming
lines to be the standout in my examples of non-conforming lines......
The band in a line - beautifully (IMHO)
bokeh'd, the line of the turf, the blue line, the lines in the football
seams... okay - I give you that the white stripe on the football does
not complete the loop, but it is straight (in a consistent curve) and
ends perfectly at two seams with one in center.
For those of you who read my blog on "The FIXER", here are some shots my son let me setup with him of Ignatius... The goal for these shots was dark/harsh light, hard contrast - moody... And I dropped an led (some shots white and some shots red gel'd) in the camera to get the light coming from it... I put a small strip box to his left (camera right) with a grid to really focus the light but along his full height... And black v-flatz to his right (camera left) to eliminate any light bouncing back from that size... and a pop-up black backdrop behind him... And I pushed the contrast and clarity to get the hard/sharp edges of texture and light I was looking for in post... I'll drop a photo of the basic setup at the bottom of this post... Remember, don't make eye contact! ;) In my mind, this is the photo of Ignatius Scardino Onofrio - the guy you do NOT want to make eye contact with - I.S.O. - - - The other shots are James doing cozplay of Ignatius - Hence, Ignati
So I was doing some photos and video for a project and decided to shoot some extra images for myself... Of FIRE... and SMOKE! Well, just a bit-o-fire and a bit-o-smoke... And, did I mention, I had to set things on FIRE! Okay, it was just candles... Small space... Daylight... Ya' know - my usual... So first I wanted the fire - the color, the texture, the symmetry (of my candle holder thingiemajiggie)... A little depth-of-field playing aroundness... Again, my usual... But then, as I was photographing the fire, I realized there was SMOKE! Oooooh - COOL! Yes, I am easily entertained... And my lighting was already setup to make the most of said smoke! Light arranged in relation to smoke to shine through it. Extra COOL! Yep - me, easily entertained... again. First shot - pretty much straight on from above... Next, some angles to see how much I can do with perspective... this impacting not only the depth of field but also how the candle holder did or did not reflect the candle light - w
So a friend asked for some advice... She had been trying to get some photos of her daughter playing high school basketball and facing the eternal challenges of photography in a school gymnasium... She brought her camera and lenses over and explained that she had spent SOOOO much time on YouTube watching videos and finding that none of the tips she gleaned from them seemed to help... I decided that instead of walking her though what would likely have been her 4,738th lecture on the 'exposure triangle', I would try to distill down the relevant pieces of information she would need, and only those pieces, into something easy to remember but solid enough of a base that it could be built upon going forward... So, I decided to create a character. In my head I called him Ignatius Scardino Onofrio - I.S.O.... FYI - Scardino and Onofrio are family names from my lineage... Ignatius is just a fun name... ;) Before introducing her to Ignatius I gave her some core relevant bits on
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