Cleaning with alcohol is way more fun than just regular cleaning. As it turns out, shooting with alcohol is a bit more fun as well. We'll get to that in a second. First, we will start out with yesterday's little fun shot.
Day 18's shot was a type of self portrait shot. My old roommate Pat told me to, and I am quoting here, "you should do one of those emo mirror self portraits and photoshop yourself out of the mirror so you could be like a vampire." It was an interesting idea. As I realized however, I didn't quite effectively pull off the shot. Perhaps I should have kept the razor in the mirror, but it just didn't seem quite right, (regardless, the way the razor was shown in the mirror was not great.)
That being said, some of the feedback was wondering why I was shooting background in the mirror--so I sort of feel like I was doing something correct. Then again, it isn't super apparent that the camera angle would have to shoot through me. Oh well.
Back to today's photograph, today I decided to play with light while drinking. Everything's better while drinking, right? Yes and No. I have decided that I am in a huge need of an actual light stand with a boom. I made this shot, by setting up my camera on a tripod, setting it to wireless shutter release, and redirecting my flash to trigger my slaved unit.
Speaking of the slaved unit, can you guess where it was for this shot? If you guess above the bottles, you would be 100% correct. In order to do this, I took my monopod out, used some hook and loop cable ties to tie my flash onto there. As it turns out, after holding onto the monopod with flash on, and firing an external wireless shutter release, is sort of a pain in the behind.
Oh well. Of the 50 something pictures I took, this was the one I enjoyed the most. Did some minor editing in Lightroom and Nik Software.
Exposure Information
1/60 sec, f/2.8, 35mm, ISO 100.
Original file can be found here.
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