50/50 Day 36. Headshot for Gram.

My Grandmother has relatively current head shots of all her Grandchildren on display in her home. I’m in one of those pictures, but it’s anything but current. It’s circa 2001. She’s been asking for a new picture since 2003 or so, so I decided to shoot one for her. I hope she will be happy with it.

50/50 Day 35. Fire wood.

This evening I decided to make a few pictures of fire wood. We heat mainly with wood during the colder months, so it’s a pretty available subject for me.

50/50 Day 34. Water drops again.

I’ve been revisiting some of my older shots, applying new techniques I’ve learned and ideas I’ve came up with. Sometimes these work, other times they don’t. This time they didn’t work. Instead of bouncing my flash off a reflector at 45 degrees above the water drops,

50/50 Day 33. 50/50.

I had fun doing the painting with light last night so I did it again tonight. I wanted to try and write 50/50, but was having a hard time doing it all in one shot and making it readable. This is a composite of 2 shots. One is the 50/ and the other is the second 50.

50/50 Day 32. Painting with light.

Painting with light is a long exposure technique. The uses and options are endless, but the most common are drawing as I’ve done here, or painting a scene with light to make it look as if it were light naturally or to light selective parts.