We all have full lives and busy days. With family and work commitments it is hard to always be at one's most creative. I know I can find inspiration at all most any time of the day but for me my most creative time seems to fall late in the evening. I guess this maybe that most of the time this is when my mind frees up from the chores of daily life and I can let myself explore.
On that thought I find that I will look at objects I have handy and find a way to make them interesting. I try to attempt to do things different each time and experiment. Some of these photo's from the past few days are an example of this process.
January 20. I took a few of the shells I have in my collection and was examining them when I noticed that this scallop shell had some translucent properties. I took one of my Alien Bees and attached a small Chimera Soft Box on it. I put it on a small stand and pointed it straight up this creating a light table with a stronger intensity.
After photographing the scallop shell I tried the Starfish and added a reflector to kick back some light on to the surface.
I then tried this Sand Dollar and like how it had two levels of translucence which created a wonderful shot.
January 21. Another macro image using a couple of special editions of Canadian quarters. A little side light from the softbox helped to bring out the texture of the design.
January 22. Tonight I was teaching Low Key lighting styles to my class at SAIT. I brought Cool and Luke in to model and a few props for them to use. I waited till after my student's had finished and then had my boy's strike this pose.
Our other subject was Mary who we were using a more dramatic style of lighting using grid spots. As I observed and instructed the students I formulated an idea and then before we put the equipment away I posed her and climbed on a chair to capture this portrait of her.
January 23. Last week I resumed teaching a group of seniors at the Greater Forest Lawn Seniors Centre. One of the nice things is that I still have the same small group of students that I had last fall. One thing I felt was that for this session of 10 classes I wanted to get them to use their cameras more when we are together so I can observe where they may need specific help. Today was our first day and we walked around the facility looking at different things. I spotted this plant with large leaves with one leaf up against the window. The sun was shining through illuminating the veins and I created these two photo's.
In another area of the centre I found this snowman suck in a dark corner and liked the light that was falling on it. After downloading the file I decided to uploaded back on to my iPhone where I could use Snapseed to do the final post processing.
This final image is from Cool's recital where he was singing late this afternoon. I captured this shot while he was rehearsing feeling I captured his enjoyment of singing the song "When Can I See You Again" by Owl City. If you want to check out his performance here is a link to the YouTube video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGQwZNHPZrA
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