La Moue, A Visual Story of Creative Transition (Part Three) Davis - All Rights Reserved - permission is hereby granted to share or publish but only in it’s entirety, to include this copyright notice Please let me know if you like this format of sharing quick little projects with you so I can get a feel if it’s something I might continue doing.Īs always, if you have any questions or comments please feel free to post them to this blog or email them to me at Michael D. The final step was adding a complimentary boarder which came from Smart Photo Editor Studio Editionįrom the time the pepper was picked it took me maybe an hour to complete this fun little project to share with you. It was then imported into Adobe Photoshop and a black and white file was created using a Nik Collection Silver Efex Pro 2 custom filter. The original digital file was copied to a DNG format and initially post processed through Adobe Lightroom. If you’re interested in the tech spec’s here’s the lowdown on the equipment, settings and software used:Ĭamera: Nikon D7200 ISO 100, 1.7 second exposure I just created a miniature one for this task with the main light being the window, high and to the right of the subject, (or your viewing left), a round mirror to the left of the subject and a piece of white poster board placed close enough and angled properly to create some specular highlights in the shine and reflection off of the pepper. Lighting was simple and easy to control, which is the whole idea behind a studio. It was sufficiently bendable to create a seamless background when propped up against a cardboard display board that I had left over from another project. My background was a piece of red crafter’s foam like you find at Hobby Lobby or Michael’s. Fortunately I love a worthy challenge and set to scavenging for the needed materials to pull this pop up portrait opportunity together. So, with visions of the works of Edward Weston and Karl Blossfeldt dancing in my head I set to work putting my own spin on nature’s bounty.Įquipped with plenty of capable camera gear my only problem was the fact that working from home and not my fully equipped studio meant I had to create a makeshift daylight table top studio in order to properly capture the nuances of the subject. While harvesting some this week I came across this interestingly shaped specimen and decided it was a worthy and willing subject. Among our edible delectable harvest are green bell peppers which have been producing extremely well. In spite of the awful smoke from Northwest Fires burning around us and the excessive heat wave we’ve been experiencing for the past month we’ve been able to grow a pretty decent vegetable garden this year. In case you are wondering what one of those things was that I was doing way back when, here’s a little visual clue. My images have become my visual diary and I hope you don’t mind me sharing some of these things with you here as I move through this project of a lifetime. Today I am scanning some of those slides and reliving how blessed I have been. I joined the US Army and it took us places and allowed us to do things we never would otherwise have imagined being or doing. She would become my wife, and much to my delight, still is. Somewhere along 1975 my attention was diverted by thoughts of what I was to do with the rest of my life. Life is too rich with other things to keep my attention I’m delighted to say. I used to watch way too much football back then. For those of you who are football fans you may be interested in knowing that the 1972 Orange Bowl was won by Nebraska over Alabama that year, 38 to 6, and that Stanford squeaked by Michigan 13 to 12 in the Rose Bowl. In fact I began doing this in 1972 at the start of my High School years and I’m happy to say that I still have those journals. And this isn’t counting the hundreds of thousands of images that are already digital that I’ve made in the past twenty alone! It’s a visual chronicle of my life thus far and I’m looking forward to documenting my impressions and feelings as I bring these images that I’ve had stored away for so long to the forefront of my memory once more.įor even longer I used to keep a written journal. Suffice it to say that it’s been more than just a few. God only knows how many slides and negatives, both color and black and white, I’ve actually created since I pressed the shutter some half century ago. After nearly fifty years behind the lens of a camera it’s time to play some catch up.
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