Posted in experimental, lighting, Photography on May 22nd, 2011
My attempt at light-painting…. Nikon D3 on tripod, WB set to 5880K, ISO 100, 35mm f/2.8 MF lens, manual exposure set to 1/8 sec at f/22 in a semi darkened room, used a normal flashlight [with a tight beam] to selectively light-paint the pieces in a horizontal motion with the light; and then a quick circular [...]
Posted in experimental, lighting, Natraj, Photography on May 26th, 2009
Experimenting with a cool white-balance and warm light source to simulate evening sunlight at a really slow shutter speed to help blur and burn-in the background ambient light. Worked pretty well. Would like to do some portraits [real people] with a similar lighting setup and even move and shake the camera a bit more than [...]
Posted in Bangkok, lighting, Mannat, Portrait on Oct 17th, 2007
Home-work time. For Mannat, that is. Both photographs shot at a very slow shutter speed and an off-camera flash at low power, to capture the ambient light on the background and the flash only to light Mannat. Not sure which image I like better, so am posting both!
Posted in Black and White, Dhaka, lighting, Mannat, Music, Piano, Portrait on Oct 10th, 2007
For us both actually. Mannat practicing piano, and me the flasher practicing lighting. The room was darkened, except for the light from a few low lamps. I wanted to light just her face and the white piano keys and let the background go dark in the photo…. The original color version worked fine, but it [...]
Posted in Jyoti, lighting, Photography, Portrait, Strobist, Wireless on Aug 23rd, 2007
The “final” image from an assignment.
Posted in Dhaka, Jyoti, lighting, Photography, Portrait, Wireless on Aug 15th, 2007
…and got Jyoti to sit for a photograph, at last!