Choose three of the following photography techniques and use them in a single image: Backlighting, Blur, Bokeh, Centered Composition, Deep DOF, High Key, Leading Lines, Light On White, Long Exposure, Low Key, Portrait, Motion Panning, Rule of Thirds, Shallow DOF, Soft Focus, Stop Action, and Tilted Angle.
That was the challenge this weekend.
Playing around with a light bulb and mirrors. I took two mirrors and stood them face to face, not quite parallel, about a foot apart. Above I placed a paper screen as a diffuser and shot a single flash downward through it. I closed one side with a black card and shot with a low angle from the other side. I used a dab of plumber’s putty (feels like a sticky clay) on the bottom of the bulb to keep it standing. The actual bulb is the blurry, partly cut-off one to the left. The one in focus is the first reflection of it in the facing mirror. The next bulb back is a reflection of a reflection of the bulb in the reversed mirror. It goes on and on reflecting each other forever (well I think it does). Keeping the mirrors parallel keeps the reflecting bulbs in a straight line. Skewing a mirror off parallel bends the line of bulbs.
So I shot a portion of a bent line of reflections of a lightbulb standing vertically on a spot of plumbers putty between two mirrors. How useful is that?
A very interesting challenge over at DPC this week. Triptych.
I had already decided on doing a special set of images for Doug and Mary this week and when this challenge came up, I decided to combine my projects and do an image for both. Because Doug and Mary are graphic artists with strengths in typography and logo design I decide to use this theme for my challenge entry also. Unintentionally I stumbled upon an amazing connection.
