Gotta love strawberries. And gotta love strawberries in cream even more.
Maybe this is why my taste buds had me coming to this picture again and again.
Then again, it might be the technical details of the shot that drew my attention. Getting a nice splash is hard enough but getting strawberry on spoon splash is nearly impossible. Read on for some musings, thoughts and tips.
Mrs. H. should have known better than to push Steve Hermitage (Flickr) into doing the dishes.
What started out as an innocent dish washing exercise ended as a lab for shooting tiny worlds of soap, and revenge taken against a Tia Maria glass.
This is just too good of a project not to share. It is a ton of fun and the setup is very simple as Steve explains in his setup shot (after the jump).
It might be just me, but I love fire. I did a little survey and 5 out of 5 photogs I checked with are little pyros too. Maybe it is part of the requirements of the trade. And maybe we're all still small kids who get a buzz from a little fire.
This is why I decided to create a small startup guide for shooting matches - feel free to add/comment and improve. The more ideas we throw into this, the better this guide will be.
A PJ book? Are we talking about a new Pajamas book? A rising Photo Journalist?
Our friends over at Photojojo lunched the Photojojo book. It is a book loaded with great projects for the DIY addict.
For a long time now, I've been reading the PJ newsletter. It is a great source to get project inspiration and some great ideas to lay with once you are sitting at home wondering what to do with all those great pictures you took.
UPDATE: Hey this is fun, however (as some commenters indicated), it may be risky to young joint if you're spinning to fast. Holding your loved one under the elbow is safer.
This is by far one of the most fun family projects ever featured on DIYP. (Oh yea, I said this on the title).
We all know what kids like best - spinning. The only thing that kids love even more than spinning is sharing the spinning pleasure with a family member spin Dad till he passes out.
Fortunately for us photogs, spinning creates a great panning like effect. But wait how can you spin and take the image, I mean both hands are holding your precious one.
Reader Mr Din has figure out the secret. Learn how to spin and photograph your kid in 5 easy steps.
When I first thought of making a photography project where I work, I thought it would be a good idea to talk about it with THE BOSS.
THE BOSS was really enthusiastic about the idea and was the first to get his portrait taken.
So, here is the tale of how I shot my boss and lived to tell the tale.
This is the point where I am gonna stop calling him THE BOSS and tell you that his name is Yossi.
Yossi is a very calm dude person. He is one of those guys that when everybody is running around to meet a deadline, makes sure we are running at the right direction. And calmness is the main feature that we wanted to show in Yossi's portrait.
Another nice thing about Yossi is his car. In a high-tech world where everybody drives nice fancy big Dollar cars, Yossi is true to his love - a bitten up Citroen BX from the early 90's. When once asked him about tithe told me that "Citroen BX is not a car, it is a way of life". So, the car had to go into the shot.
Lastly I wanted to say that Yossi is a great boss, loved by all and is an example of fine, sharp management. Always bringing results, and gives true guidance. (And it has nothing to do with the fact that I asked for a raise last month, or the fact that I know that you are reading this blog). Click to continue ›
After more then two years of running DIYP, I finally feel comfortable to share the fact that I am living a double life. It took me countless rehearsals in front of the mirror to gather the guts to tell. Here goes:
Aside from my real life as a blogger and a photographer, I also have a secret identity as a software developer. Yes, every morning I step into my secret cave, and trade the camera and flash for laptop and network equipment.
Although my family safety demands that I will not disclose my secret identity's workplace, I can hint that I work for the same company that made the cute Little Professor Calculator - that's the guy on the left (Image by draggin). Yes, I work for The Silicon Masters Texas Instruments.
What do I do there? I can not reveal (Actually I can, but then I'll have to kill you). Let's just say that if you are reading this page via a Comcast or other cable service, you're surfing my code.
For the last year and a half, I've been involved in a challenging development project, creating the next generation of TI's Cable Modem. As the project evolved and deadlines started to come closer and closer, work started to take on more and more time from other aspects of my life. One of the major casualties was my passion - Photography.
It was time to ACT! I went into my secret photo cave and planned my revenge. After ruling out Plan A (storm the offices with a flame-thrower), and Plan B (move the studio into my cubicle), I came up with the ultimate plan.
I will combine (or as managers like to say create synergy) between work and photography. This is when I came up with the Shoot the Team Project. Read more.
This is the second part of the Readers Projects series, my way to show my love and appreciation to DIYP readers.
In this series, I'll be posting some of the great projects DIYP readers brought to life. I learned about those projects either from DIYP flickr group (thanks you all for sharing) or from DIYP readers mails. The first project was the Christmas Tree Ring Light, a cold and snowy project. This project is all about fire - to even the temperature. If you've ever watched the legendary mission impossible show, you'll remember that unforgettable starting frame where a match is being lit from nowhere and this match starts a fuse and eventfully... "This message was self destructed after ten seconds".
Photographer Nick Wheeler recreates the magic of MI in his "How to Light a Match" setup. (Yap, it is the same Nick who invented the Floor Lit Table Top Studio Project.
If you're on the PhotoJoJo mails, you must have gotten that awesome time lapse bit. On that post they recommend the Cannon TC80N3 - a round 100 dollars device that give you the ability to take time lapse images. (It is called Intervalometer, but I can't even say it, let alone write it and feel good about myself).
The good guys at the DIYP Instructables group have done it again. You may remember this group from the Minty Strobe, A Great Way to Build a Ringlight and many more.
Chris Thompson came up with a cheap and fun Time Lapse Photography project. If you build one of those please leave a comment here.
How to take photos like the one you are seeing here. It's a glass of Champaign, being shot with a BB gun. It is the same idea as posted in this gallery. You can use this technique to take picture of exploding things like tomatoes, watter balloons, watermelons, or even you Canon camera as you smash it against a wall for not understanding the menus (Sorry, could not resist...) Click to continue ›
