Day OneHundredThirtyNine – Xpelair — 26th February 2010

You may have noticed I have taken a break from uploading my 365. This is primarily due to the fact I kept missing days. As a result I decided to pause the project for a month. During this time I still took a number of photos and I will dribble them on to flickr eventually. However, they are not going to be part of the project. Still, a month later I am now committing to take a photo a day for the rest of the project.

This was taken a month ago (just before the break) during a "rehearsal" for a live broadcast I was involved in.

p.s. I know this isn't in the normal 365 rules but this is my 365 so I make the rules.

Day OneHundredThirtyEight – Newton — 26th February 2010

Today I spent quite a while tidying my bedroom. This involved getting rid of things that I haven't touched in the past 5 years. I decided that if I haven't used them in 5 years, chances are I don't really need them around. So out they went.

This is my brothers Newton's cradle, which I sat on a mirror to give the nice reflection. If you look closely on the nearest ball you can just about work me hiding behind my camera.

Strobist: SB600, bare, 1/8th power, camera left. Cactus v4 triggers.

Day OneHundredThirtySeven – Mr Muscle — 24th February 2010

Mr Muscle loves the jobs you hate!

If your following along at home you will notice I missed a day. That is due to me contracting a case of the dreaded Man Flu. I hate getting any kind of flu it really gets in the way of my lifestyle. Anyway this is me jumping in front of the camera and striking a pose.

Strobist: SB600, 1/8th power, Shoot Through umbrella, camera left and high. Cactus v4 trigger.

Day OneHundredThirtyFive – Monday — 22nd February 2010

Monday morning heading into the office looking out of the train window. Monday mornings really are the most depressing time of the week. Hopefully the week will go fast and it will be weekend again before we know it.

Day OneHundredThirtyFour – Fuller's — 21st February 2010

Long day of traveling today. Here is numbered bottle of vintage ale. I really would love to go and drink this after the shoot but shattered from a hectic weekend so heading straight for bed.

Strobist: SB600, camera left, up high; snooted with DIY cardboard snoot; 1/16th power; Cactus v4.

Day OneHundredThirtyTwo – Green — 19th February 2010

This is a bit of cheeky photo as it wasn't technically taken by me. By technically I mean it was taken by Asha, but seeing as it is much better than anything I managed to shoot during the day I am going to claim it as my own.

Day OneHundredThirtyOne – Leaving — 18th February 2010

I am not actually leaving the country. Well not for the next month anyway, but I am going to stay with a friend for a couple of days.

Day OneHundredThirty – Landed — 17th February 2010

There is a small collection of three of these guys sitting in my bedroom. I believe they used to glow in the dark but now they just still in the dust looking pretty. I am enjoying isolating objects using my snoot at the moment. There was no black backdrop being used here, I just had the exposure at a level where you can only see the items illuminated by the strobe.

Day OneHundredTwentyNine – Penny — 16th February 2010

I hate coppers. They take up so much space and are worth next to nothing. I often empty my pockets of coppers in to nearby charity pots when they are around.

Day OneHundredTwentyEight – Wires — 16th February 2010

What a day. Today I spent a number of hours in a server room sorting out networks. The moral of the day is never trust equipment that you aren't sure what it does. This shot is supposed to be a slight idea as to what most of the server room looked like: wires everywhere.

Day OneHundredTwentySeven – Dangle — 14th February 2010

Happy Valentine's Day. These are my lovely girlfriends feet apparently dangling against my bedroom wall. Ok so this shot has been flipped upside down post-production, but I think it looks better this way. When she comes round to my house wearing those socks how am I supposed to not take a photo of them?

Day OneHundredTwentySix – Unlocked — 14th February 2010

My bedroom door. Long day so this was shot just before turning in for the night. There was some strobist light being used in this shot but I can't remember what power it was set to or where exactly it was.

Day OneHundredTwentyFive – Business — 13th February 2010

This photo took lots and lots of attempts. Self portraits are never easy and this one seemed to take a lot more attempts than usual. Half the problem was working in such a small space with props you really have to get back into exactly the same position every time you go to check to see how the shot looks. Too much to the left and you're half out of frame.

Strobist: SB600, 1/16th power, Shoot through umbrella, camera left - high, Cactus v4 triggers.

Day OneHundredTwentyFour – Coke — 11th February 2010

I promised myself today that I wouldn't end up just taking another shot of a random item from around my bedroom. So this is what happens when you leave your house at night armed with coloured gels that you're not afraid of using.

I tried using a number of different colours to light this can, to see what worked best and also, to see the effect of different gels whilst using it as the only light source. My favourite shots were those using a dark pink gel, this was probably influenced by the fact that it just started snowing so it made for some amazing bokeh snow.

Unfortunately it's a lot harder to work out what the exposure is doing when you are using strong coloured gels so all the pink gelled shots came out massively over exposed in some areas. I only realised that this is what was happening when I arrived home and looked at the histograms, otherwise I could have corrected it while I was out shooting.

It was quite a fun outing that taught me a lot about lighting using only 'effect' gels to light an object.

Strobist: SB600, Green Gell, 1/16th power, camera right, Cactus v4 triggers.

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