How about a flash light.

Hackbone · January 27, 2011

Don't have strobes.....how about a flash light. This is a video by David Ziser, Master Photographer.

http://www.viddler.com/explore/ziser/videos/55/909.111/

NeilL · January 27, 2011

Thanks for this link Charles. I've become a fan of this guy, he really is able to connect with the issues photographers, especially working photographers, meet in the everyday real world and give practical and easy solutions in plain language. Also, he is always exploring for new ideas, new looks, and new techniques, and he generously hands these on to us. Nice guy, good photographer!

Neil

briandelion · January 27, 2011

Very cool. Finally something within my budget!

Ed911 · January 27, 2011

I've been reading his book...Captured By the Light...good book. He talks about the Z-Ray technique and a lot of other stuff...like not using L glass to shoot a lot of his wedding images. He does use L glass, but not for everything. Interesting choice of lenses...especially for a high-end wedding photographer.

adbsgicom · January 28, 2011

Got to hear him speak at Imaging this year. Worthwhile time. He talks about the images so you can really learn as he walks through the idea, the complications, the solution. The class had a lot of redundancies to the Captured by the Light Book in terms of images, but listening to the process was very good. My favorite 'hack' from the book was turning the camera upside down and shooting with the flash at 1/400s and not caring that the flash wouldn't illuminate the top half of the final image (the bottom of the frame as taken).

jdryan3 · January 28, 2011

adbsgicom wrote: »

My favorite 'hack' from the book was turning the camera upside down and shooting with the flash at 1/400s and not caring that the flash wouldn't illuminate the top half of the final image (the bottom of the frame as taken).

I've done that! Really surreal effect sometimes that you can't jsut put your finger on. I'll have to get his book.

Macushla · January 28, 2011

Wow, thanks so much for posting this. What a great idea. The Brinkmann flashlight is on Amazon for $22.50 - so why not?

Qarik · January 29, 2011

interesting use of lighting..frankly though... I don't really care for the look it gives.

TenThirteen · January 29, 2011

I think it's interesting, but I am with Quarik on the look it gives...

I think it would be worth it to buy and play around, and maybe see what different settings you can use to create different types of images though...

Hackbone · January 29, 2011

I'm susprised he did not warm them up. I too think they are too cool and somewhat unatural. But personal likes are just that, personal likes.

Surfdog · January 30, 2011

Thanks for posting the video. I ordered one today, and am anxious to play around with it.

NeilL · January 30, 2011

Hackbone wrote: »

I'm susprised he did not warm them up. I too think they are too cool and somewhat unatural. But personal likes are just that, personal likes.

There is a bird in Australia called the satin bower bird and the male spends most of his time and effort building and decorating a pavilion or gazebo into which he hopes to entice a female and mate with her. He has a very strong preference for anything coloured blue in the way of such decorations, and a humorous example is of one trying to pick off patches of blue colour from clothes drying on the line. He will kill other animals, eg blue insects, solely for their colour for decoration, a behaviour which we share.

Colour preference seems to be common in animals and possibly has a genetic connection, and the genetic-physiological basis of colour vision is different in males and females, including the human species.

Personally, I have such a strong and automatic sympathy for blue it feels instinctual. It's possibly the case that while we can't tolerate some colour casts, such as green, we can enjoy other colour casts such as blue and red. Colour vision serves the purpose of enhancing discrimination of objects, and since a lot of objects are green in a green background (or were in our more natural past), perception of green is not of as much use as blue and red in discriminating objects from a background, so this might be why preferences are for cool and warm colour casts over green (sunsets and twilight).

Neil

TenThirteen · January 30, 2011

Surfdog wrote: »

Thanks for posting the video. I ordered one today, and am anxious to play around with it.

Can't wait to see some examples! I am very much thinking about ordering one just because it's so cheap.

reyvee61 · February 1, 2011

I'm not really turned off at all by the blue hues but rather the shadows produced....I'm not liking it.

reyvee61 · February 1, 2011

Qarik wrote: »

interesting use of lighting..frankly though... I don't really care for the look it gives.

As in the shadows or hues?

Qarik · February 1, 2011

reyvee61 wrote: »

As in the shadows or hues?

more the hues but the shadows to some degree. I don't mind direct harsh light when it fits.

reyvee61 · February 2, 2011

I don't mind direct harsh light when it's part of the shooting conditions :-)

jpl_1020 · February 2, 2011

Nice idea right there, not bad for a $29 equipment.

r3t1awr3yd · February 3, 2011

reyvee61 wrote: »

I'm not really turned off at all by the blue hues but rather the shadows produced....I'm not liking it.

Tape and umbrella to the flashlight

How about a flash light.

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