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Project 365 & Daily Photos
nidding's first year of shooting - 365 2014
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<blockquote data-quote="nidding" data-source="post: 260479" data-attributes="member: 17555"><p><strong>Re: nidding's first year of shooting</strong></p><p></p><p>Day 36</p><p>I had classes till eight today, so when I finally had come home and had had a little to eat, it was already past ten. And I had zero ideas for a photo. But desperate times calls for desperate means, which means I cheated and changed for the macro lens, though I have promised myself only to use my new 35 for a month. </p><p>But broken promises aside, I picked up a coffee bean from the grinder and played a little with the light. First I tried with the ambient light, which was pretty dim, but none the less gave a dramatic shadow. But then again, who wants dramatic coffee beans? Then I remembered a aquarium light I'm building for my daughters' betta tank. It's a 10 watt high power LED chip in 'neutral white' (around 4500 kelvin). On it's own it didn't work. But bounced off of a white paper dish, it gave a much nicer light, and thus gave me the following photo</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nidding/12331207134/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5516/12331207134_42c2b7451b_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nidding/12331207134/" target="_blank">DSC_2605</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/nidding/" target="_blank">jonas_sandager</a>, on Flickr</p><p>For reference, here is the photo I got with ambient light. Please excuse the difference in WB</p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nidding/12330912233/" target="_blank"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7383/12330912233_097c862299_c.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nidding/12330912233/" target="_blank">DSC_2597</a> by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/people/nidding/" target="_blank">jonas_sandager</a>, on Flickr</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nidding, post: 260479, member: 17555"] [b]Re: nidding's first year of shooting[/b] Day 36 I had classes till eight today, so when I finally had come home and had had a little to eat, it was already past ten. And I had zero ideas for a photo. But desperate times calls for desperate means, which means I cheated and changed for the macro lens, though I have promised myself only to use my new 35 for a month. But broken promises aside, I picked up a coffee bean from the grinder and played a little with the light. First I tried with the ambient light, which was pretty dim, but none the less gave a dramatic shadow. But then again, who wants dramatic coffee beans? Then I remembered a aquarium light I'm building for my daughters' betta tank. It's a 10 watt high power LED chip in 'neutral white' (around 4500 kelvin). On it's own it didn't work. But bounced off of a white paper dish, it gave a much nicer light, and thus gave me the following photo [URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nidding/12331207134/"][IMG]http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5516/12331207134_42c2b7451b_c.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nidding/12331207134/"]DSC_2605[/URL] by [URL="http://www.flickr.com/people/nidding/"]jonas_sandager[/URL], on Flickr For reference, here is the photo I got with ambient light. Please excuse the difference in WB [URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nidding/12330912233/"][IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7383/12330912233_097c862299_c.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nidding/12330912233/"]DSC_2597[/URL] by [URL="http://www.flickr.com/people/nidding/"]jonas_sandager[/URL], on Flickr [/QUOTE]
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