Collective Isolation
I have a strip of 75mm film I use for a bookmark and recently I was admiring just how damn cool it was. And then I was walking past these windows that look out upon the Mississippi River levee. In a way, this section of windows, framed by the support poles, reminded me of that 75mm film strip.
People, for the most part, tend to mind their own business. It's why we can go out to a restaurant with a loved one and pretend that we're not in a big room with dozens of other couples also pretending that no one else is around. When I set up my camera to take these pictures I decided to capture little frames of people minding their own business. So, no, I didn't want to "Shoot a Frame Within a Frame" using shadows or doorways; I wanted to use the entire wall of windows as a frame to separate interactions, use the lower section of windows to frame individuals going about their business while ignoring others, the upper part of the windows to frame birds flying together in batches, frame all the windows with the support poles on both sides, and finally frame all of that within the context of 75mm mounting guides.
This was shot on a Ricoh GRiii and I knew I would have to extend this scene out in post to make a really big picture to illustrate the story. The final image was about 12000 pixels long which I had to scale down for the web but you can see the whole image on my Flickr page: https://www.flickr.com/photos/whoisjaylamm/
A video explanation of the process can be found on my Instagram account: www.instagram.com/WhoIsJayLamm
Out of all the pictures I was able to catch one interaction between two strangers. Try and find it. It's of a man handing a Bible to a woman he randomly decided to talk to.
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Let's take a little look at how some of the Wizards in the Harry Potter universe are absolute jerks. Of course, this is all in good fun, but I want to take a look at the behavior and piggishness that Wizards have in this Potterverse. I mean, if they existed along with us here, they'd have a lot of explaining to do.
Creative 52, Week 29: Shoot a Very High-Key Image
High-key photography, damn near blowing out your image with copious amounts of light. Make your subject look like a pretty angel coming through heaven’s gate or something.
For this image I wanted to do a slight combination of high-key with low-key elements. By that, I mean, I wanted to put some form of viking face paint on the upper part of my face so I could later overlay an image of stars, the galaxy, or something of that nature. I wasn’t quite sure what yet. My girlfriend helped me with the makeup and even did an initial splatter spray of white on my forehead for texture and added pizzazz.
I wanted to wear a suit for this because you usually don’t see vikings in suits and I wanted to be a Work Viking…Assistant to the Regional Viking.
To make the blown out effect I hung up a white sheet in a doorway. Behind that sheet I put two softboxes with two 100 watt bulbs each to the side. I put two large LED worklights down a bit lower. ...
Creative 52, Week 28: Shoot a Very Low-Key Image
10/14/2021
Low-key in photography doesn’t mean relaxed, chilled out, and soft spoken. Low-key simply means that the emphasis is on the shadows, on the darks. Whereas high-key is all bright and damn near blown out, low-key has crushed blacks and is all mysterious. Perfect for getting close to Halloween, right?
Well, Gina was shooting a video for an upcoming belly dance gathering and was dressed like a witchy crone named Cailleach, a divine hag and Queen of Winter. She had a cool twiggy head band and some matching make-up; plus, we just finished watching this movie, Censor, which had this cool lighting theme all throughout. So, we decided to shoot this low-key image and video using only colored video lights…no strobes. The lighting was inspired by Censor and another movie called Mandy. Both movies are worth checking out.
This whole thing was a challenge because I really wanted to utilize the sharpness and look that I get with my ...
This week's challenge asked to use either a Lensbaby or tilt-shift lens...two things I don't have. "But, Jay. You can just rent one." Well, you know what, I've never rented a lens and I don't really feel like hunting it down, waiting a week for it to arrive, figuring out how to use it, then packaging it up to send it back. Nurts to that. So, I decided to fake the look of it. Basically, the look I was going for was the selective focus of the Lensbaby-type lens. I've never used them before but from the examples I've seen it has this main area of concentrated focus and the rest has this specific type of blur. That blur might be a radial blur, or a zoom blur, etc., you get the idea. The purpose, however, is to draw your attention to a specific area of the frame.
Basically, after editing the picture the way I liked it, I added a radial blur onto a stamp visible copy. Instead of just applying the radial blur, I added a mask and painted in the areas I wanted blurred with the radial ...
