iPad Light Experiment

RickH — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 14:37:13 +0000

Tuvia Matai Bobalah is one of my favorite subjects to shoot. Last night, spotting him in a completely dark bedroom — you really could barely see him — I got the idea to try to use my iPad as a lighting source. After emailing the example to Bob Marcotte, he responded with news that there was an iPad Softbox app. I didn’t download the one he suggested, but saw a different one I liked. The image here was shot by putting a solid orange pattern on the iPad and positioning it about 2-3 feet to the right. Lens: 24-70 f2.8/L at 70 mm, f2.8, 0.6 sec, handheld. Some Photoshop work using filters to deal with noise.

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The Dolphins Leap Tonight

RickH — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:02:16 +0000

A we got wet, a we got wet.
A we got wet, a we got wet.

In the fountain, the spouting fountain,
The dolphins leap tonight.

There’s no fooling some people. This image was one of the very first night images I attempted after buying photographer Bob Marcotte’s Canon 5D. I laid down on the ground, shooting upwards, to catch the moon in a vain hope that I’d later fool Bunny Chafowitz into thinking that I’d managed to photograph dolphins leaping out of the water over my head. When I showed it to her, she was not impressed. Not even a little bit.

“You cut off most of the fountain,” she said.

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iPad Light Experiment

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