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Advanced Techniques: Single Flash-BOUNCE!

Jeremy Zhang,8, thinks about his next move against Ed Hollander during the University of Missouri Chess Club new players tournament in Memorial Union on October 19, 2009. Zhang has been playing for over a year and competes in tournaments regularly.

This assignment was difficult difficult lemon difficult. More to come for direct flash.

Painting With Light Lab..a little late.

So, this week I am working on my actual painting with light project. I am really excited to put it all together, it's going to be great! However, thinking about the project made me realize that I didn't put up my painting with light lab photos. As a class, we went to Rock Bridge Park and learned about, you guessed it..painting with light. It's a different concept to think about light as the subject of the photo, rather than a factor that adds to the subject. Here are a few attempts from that evening:

EVE!

I'm excited to have an ounce of free time to try more painting with light!

Advanced Techniques: "And the leaves that are green turned to brown"-Glass Assignment

For this assignment, we were in partners and one had to shoot metal, while the other had to take photos of a glass object. I opted for the challenge of glass. Columbia is truly putting on one beautiful show for the fall season. The trees are painted with a variety of colors and the wind blows the leaves across campus. I used 2 vases and 4 shot glasses to create tree trunks and went exploring in Peace Park for leaves. My select:

The changing colors of the leaves come inside Lee Hills Hall studio on October 11, 2009. Columbia is covered with a blanket of multi-colored leaves falling from the trees. Fall began this year on September 22, and temperatures have been dropping ever since.

I used a bright-field set up for my objects. I used the light table, a large vertical softbox, a strobe with a snoot and orange gel, a white card and a strobe used for bouncing off the white card. I had an A+B combination with C isolated on the 1250x set at -2. Irene Rojas assisted on this photo shoot.

An Outtake:

**The title comes from the song, Leaves That Are Green, by Simon and Garfunkel.