Start of a 31 day personal challenge

paigew · Oct 2, 2013

This is awesome Ron!! I am on day 48 of my 365 and totally stressing over today's shot lol. I love your first photo! Can't wait to see what you get!

PixelRabbit · Oct 2, 2013

Very cool! Nice first shot, very much looking forward to 30 more days!

minicoop1985 · Oct 2, 2013

Very nice. 31 days of seeing a new photo like that is more than fine with me.

DarkShadow · Oct 2, 2013

Off to a good start ron and I am looking forward to seeing more.

ronlane · Oct 2, 2013

As I stated, Day 2 was tough. I think this one may be a fail. But I got the theme Old school vs New school when I set my iPhone on top of my journal with my fountain pen on it.

minicoop1985 · Oct 2, 2013

You may not think much of that, but it's miles beyond what I can do. I like it actually, mainly because of the juxtaposition of the REAL old school (fountain pen) vs what looks like an iPhone 5 or 5s/c, one of the newest of the new school.

ronlane · Oct 2, 2013

minicoop1985 said:
You may not think much of that, but it's miles beyond what I can do. I like it actually, mainly because of the juxtaposition of the REAL old school (fountain pen) vs what looks like an iPhone 5 or 5s/c, one of the newest of the new school.

Thank you for your comments. It is just an iPhone 4s but I get what you are saying.

ronlane · Oct 3, 2013

For today's challenge, I thought I would try to get a good photo of the sticker on my Jeep. To do this, I used my OCF and a reflector. It will probably be uninteresting to most but I think that I accomplished the goal of lighting it well. I set the speedlight through an umbrella at a 45 degree camera left and 45 degree above. I see a little bit of a hot spot on middle e's.

cynicaster · Oct 4, 2013

Cool project.

For that last one, you'd probably get the best result by lighting the logo with diffused sunlight. Maybe put your camera on a tripod, set lens to sweet spot, set 10 second timer, and hold the diffusion panel of your reflector between the sun and the logo. Unless you actually want shadows or texture, the OCF is making this photo a lot more challenging than it needs to be.

ronlane · Oct 4, 2013

cynicaster said:
Cool project.

For that last one, you'd probably get the best result by lighting the logo with diffused sunlight. Maybe put your camera on a tripod, set lens to sweet spot, set 10 second timer, and hold the diffusion panel of your reflector between the sun and the logo. Unless you actually want shadows or texture, the OCF is making this photo a lot more challenging than it needs to be.

Thanks Cynicaster. I shot this in the garage with no other lights on with the OCF through and umbrella, camera on a tripod and I was holding a reflector on the opposite side of the flash and remote fired the camera. I will set it back up and try to use the diffuser on the reflector as well to see if I can soften it more.

sashbar · Oct 4, 2013

Yes, nice idea, but you could make it look more fun if you work on it: open the pen so we could see the blade, the nib, put some light on it so it would be a focal point. Open a "notebook" app on your phone as if you are going to write something down, but you are at a loss, because the pen looks incompatible with the notebook... juxtapore the sharp end of the blade with the screen as if you could try to scratch the screen in an attempt to write something... as if you are an alien trying to put two things together.. something along these lines would be fun. :thumbup::thumbup:

ronlane · Oct 4, 2013

Day 4 ended up being long exposures. I forgot how much fun it is doing L.E.'s. I went out because there are some storms moving in and I thought that the soccer fields would make a cool foreground. Here's my favorite of the group.

Here is my second favorite from the evening. It is underexposed, I wished that I would have bumped up the ISO to 400.

Which is your favorite?

squirrels · Oct 5, 2013

If wanting your soccer night shot to have one of you little ones in soccer gear composited in a la Joel Grimes is wrong, I don't want to be right! :mrgreen:

I really like them both!

ETA: Day 5 over the top "edgy lighting"??

ronlane · Oct 5, 2013

squirrels said:
If wanting your soccer night shot to have one of you little ones in soccer gear composited in a la Joel Grimes is wrong, I don't want to be right! :mrgreen:

I really like them both!

ETA: Day 5 over the top "edgy lighting"??

Thanks squirrels. I'm not sure what day 5 will bring. I signed up for the worldwide photowalk this afternoon so, I should be able to get something different from that. Also, it looks like we are going to be overcast today, which will be great for photography.

squirrels · Oct 5, 2013

ronlane said:
squirrels said:

If wanting your soccer night shot to have one of you little ones in soccer gear composited in a la Joel Grimes is wrong, I don't want to be right! :mrgreen:

I really like them both!

ETA: Day 5 over the top "edgy lighting"??

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Thanks squirrels. I'm not sure what day 5 will bring. I signed up for the worldwide photowalk this afternoon so, I should be able to get something different from that. Also, it looks like we are going to be overcast today, which will be great for photography.