Tight Rope
Jan, 2015Views
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Location
This photo was taken in a basement of a friends home, where my wife and I were spending the evening babysitting their two adorable little girls.Time
This shot was taken late evening, probably around 9:30PM, during the Golden Globes awards show. Probably right around the time The Grand Budapest Hotel won best picture... and deservingly so!Lighting
This picture was taken in a fairly somber basement with halogen spotlights on the ceiling giving an ominous glow to everything underneath. Felt like a perfect setting for shooting an inanimate object such as this one with lots of texture and details.Equipment
Funny enough, this picture was taken with a Nikon D60. I'm in transition between a D7100, which I just sold 3 days ago, and purchasing a used D600 tomorrow. So in the mean time, I'm shooting my Project 365 using my 1st DSLR camera, which I was pleasantly surprised of the results under the right conditions! The picture was taken handheld, no flash and no filters. The mounted optics was the sharp and versatile 35mm F1.8 Nikkor lens.Inspiration
I started a Project 365 on January 1st, which I post through my alias BeyondThePrism_365. This shot was Day 11. The project is allowing me to shoot different and random settings while giving me total artistic freedom to get inspired by anything and everything in my surroundings every day. My friends wife, where we were babysitting this evening, is an amazing interior decorator, so the amount of decorations and random (but fitting) objects they have lying around their house is simply perfect for choosing an interesting subject to shoot. I noticed this rather large 12" diameter ball of rope sitting on their entertainment unit and thought of taking a few shots as a tester for still life photography.Editing
Surprisingly, little post processing was done. I boosted the clarity using Lightroom, along with tweaking the shadows and highlights, then using a gradient map in Photoshop I adjusted the colours to get the right colour tone, I felt did the rope justice, then added a slight gradient shadow to the right hand side of the picture.In my camera bag
I lug around less and less equipment, as the years go by. Lately during my photowalks, I stick to only lugging around my DSLR with the lens I feel like shooting that particular day. Be it a 35mm fixed lens, 105mm macro, or 70-300mm.Feedback
The only advice I have, and that which I've read many times before, is to shoot as much as you can, and do it in manual mode. Also, to really stretch your creative side, explore a lot of pictures. Shooting a lot will get you the hang of your camera and its settings, and will stretch your creative side because you'll always want to shoot something different or the same thing with a different perspective. Looking at a lot of pictures will also give you inspiration. Not only will it give you ideas of things to shoot, but will also give you the urge to explore and find the beautiful things out there that are worth capturing.
