Photo 101: Day Nine: Warmth & the Quality of Light

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Photo 101: Day Nine: Warmth & the Quality of Light

Photography means “drawing with light,” and when you snap a picture with your camera, you use and record light to create an image. When we’re out and about, we use the sun — our most abundant light source — to capture our scenes.

Today, capture an image of warmth, using the sun as your source. And if the sun is nowhere to be found, don’t worry! You can interpret warmth in a different way.

Today’s Tip: If you’d like to experiment more, consider the direction and quality of light. First, let’s talk about front light and side light.

Today I decided to stay indoors for my photo shoot. Why you ask? Simply because the sun was hiding behind thick and heavy rain clouds and the overall mood was damp and dreary So, the only option was to stay safe and sound indoors. During today’s Midsummer festivities in our company’s office, I had the opportunity to mix business with pleasure. I used artificial light in capturing the reflections of the liquid of the sparkly wine and glasses. Served also were ice cream and strawberries, which I used as props. Adding some Photoshop to the mix, this is the result I came up with. Enjoy!
 
 
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Psychedelic

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Regular Joe

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Two of a Kind

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What’s your poison?

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Sparkling kind9

Lunch anyone? 12

 

Threesome

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Twosome

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Army of wine lovers17b

Getting lighter?

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The famous nine

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End of the party

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Red and sweet

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Photo 101: Day Six: Connect & Tags

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“Connecting people” The artist formerly known as Nokia

Photo 101: Day Six: Connect & Tags

CONNECT:

I have chosen to use the social media options for promoting my blog. I.e. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and Tumblr. Not that I really enjoy spending my time on any of those sites (honestly, well I try not to ;P), but I have found it very useful to get more visibility than relying solely on WordPress.

Judging from the feedback and additional followers, I have managed to get over 3000 hits on my Google+ account and I have over 100 followers on LinkedIn in addition to email followers who do not have WP accounts.

I know the figures may not seem much to established bloggers, but for me, who started from zero four months ago, this is huge!

Summa sumarum: It really pays off to connect!

TAGS:

I used the following tags to describe my today’s objet d’art;

Photography, photo101, footwear, a pair of boots, rain gear, Wellingtons, Nokia, red, colourful, still life, portrait, object, photo shoot, flash, zoom lens, natural light and humour.

A pair of ordinary rain boots, in the colour of red. I experimented a little with the exposure and flash to drag some interest out of the subject matter

Fun fact: The brand name for these boots is actually “Nokia” and used way before the GSM phone was invented.

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Bonus funny shot:

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