Sunday, January 6, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
One Bottle of Wine, One Light Tent and Two Elinchrom D-lite-it 4's.
A very simple set-up to photograph the bottle of Pomerol wine shown above:
The two Elinchrom 65x65cm soft-boxes fired through the sides of the light tent make for beautifully soft light. Next time I will add a few black flags inside the light tent to subtract strips of light in some areas of the bottle to add a bit more interest. As it is I think it turned out quite well.
Now for the best part, savouring the wine! (Where did I put the cheese and crackers?)
Nikon D300s, Manual Mode, f11.0, ISO200, 1/250s, Hand held, Nikkor 40mm f/2.8G AF-S DX Micro, 80x80cm light tent, 2xElinchrom D-Lite-it 4's shot through their softboxes on either side of the tent.
Thursday, January 3, 2013
The Memory Keeper
I've been scrabbling about in the back of kitchen cupboards today in search of jars. Not a case of efficient forward planning for marmalade making or potential jammy goodness or even the perfect pickle, but in search of just one suitable jar for a new project. I eventually came across a jar that has been decorated by either my mother or my sister - as well as the butterfly, a dragonfly and a bee are flying round its periphery. I'm not sure yet whether this jar will be big enough but I am hoping to use it to collect a year's worth of written reminders of what has made me feel happy - not necessarily big events but the little everyday happenings, that make you smile at the time. The idea comes from a friend who empties her jar out at the end of the year and reflects on all the positive things that have happened even in bleak years. I've already got one or two snippets to put in - a rainbow on New Year's Day, two robins feeding together at the bird feeding station again on the same day, as well as the fact that yesterday afternoon I solved the identity of whodunit in Susan Hill's latest book 'A Question Of Identity', a hundred pages or so before the end! Time now to find some paper to jot these down before they slip away like dreams into the forgotten zone. How will you be recording 2013?
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Pushing clay to its limits !
These Curvy pots by Tina Vlassopulos are simple yet elegant. Her inspiration comes from movement and dance. Each pot has its own wave like rhythm, a motion in the body and rim that may curve inwards and upwards.
MSGM Spring 2013
“My brand is courageous, versatile and ironic,” says the Italian designer Massimo Giorgetti in a video interview with Marie Claire Italia.
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