day 260 - keeping it simple

played around with cross processing for the setup shot on this one..... cross processing is where you adjust the brightness of each of the red-green-blue channels separately..... so you can get a very tweaked out color look pretty easy. it's not something i'm going to do a lot of, it looks too close to an photoshop action preset for my liking..... i kinda feel that actions are easy, so they're trendy, so they're going to be dated very quickly. and i want my stuff to be more timeless, less trendy.

cross processed setup shot:

day 259 - tako

tako jumped up in my lap, so i took a few shots of us. it felt good to vary up the composition a bit, go for a two shot instead of the usual one-shot.

setup shot:

day 258 - back and forth

still working the zoomed flash into trigrip idea..... this time the flash is camera right, providing a slight bit of pop to the face, and then coming back from camera left warmed up off the trigrip cover.

setup shot:

day 257 - so tall

working a bit closer to the background today, results in a lighter background and higher risk of a weird shadow showing up. i really like the highlight on the left sleeve from the direct flash going past on it's way to the trigrip.

setup shot:

day 256 - big and bounce

yup, it's crazy face tuesday.

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day 255 - one light three sources

one flash, a large umbrella, and two reflectors, one gold/silver, and one just white. i am liking mixing pictures with all these dark areas more and more these days. i don't think it's all that flattering, but it's a different type of mood.

setup shot:

day 254 - long throw reflected

this is doing the long throw thing with a reflector instead of a diffuser. so there's hard light, but with a bit of warm bounce to it, instead of just deep shadows. this could be a solid technique for use outside on a sunny day.

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