Am getting bored…. well really bored is a relative term, after a Superb Sunday getting back to the daily drudgery is pulling me down.
Yesterday I woke up late (by our usual standards) and as soon as Aasim left for his tabla class got into the studio and started the setup for some table top photography – the aim was to take a picture very similar to my earlier Garlic but on a white background. A couple of things immediately became clear – Mirror would not work with a white background, I had to be careful about the light fall off effect to prevent the white from turning excessive grey, the contrast had to be much lower and white needs more negative space to look better…
After Garlic I tried some pictures of Roses which turned out all cliched except one – will put that up later.
Once Aasim was back he wanted me to continue with his logo lessons – I finally told him that he could use shorthand notation and he was thrilled with it 🙂
Lunch was a nice mutton curry with zeera rice and rotis lovingly, efficiently and expertly cooked up by Swati (yeah, the maid bunked) in 50 min flat.
Around 2:30 in the afternoon Vivek called up saying that he was coming over in an hour with a friend who would be willing to be the studio subject (I somehow am now not liking the word “model” for the women I photograph) and that he wanted to try out the lights which I had recently acquired and it was implied that I could use his D70.
From 3:30 to 6:00 we tried three different setups. butterfly lighting, modified butterfly lighting and something of a cross between kicker lights and rim lighting. Nivedita, to say the least is an unconventionally beautiful woman….
The experience for me with no puns intended was “Enlightening”
Hmmm… now that I just re-read the above – I do have a reason to want One more Sunday 🙂
P.S. Verdict on lights useless lights fit only for a useless camera like mine