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You can see that the bendy boards are now in place and are strong enough to hold the weight of a lump of a boy. Sheets are fixed to the wall above the curved section but, for now, the heavy duty sheets are just placed in position on the floor. When everything is screwed down we still have to fill the nail / screw holes and the gaps between sheets, sand everything down and finally paint. Getting there though.

Of course, Jack was oblivious to all of this and found a far more fun use for the radius. Flinging a toy car down it as a ramp.

A closer shot of the structure that will hold the bendy boards in place. More supports are made at the bottom of the radius as that is where people are most likely to tread.

Strobist:

430EX, 1/1, 24mm, bounced off ceiling, camera left
430EX, 1/1, 24mm, bounced off ceiling, camera left

The structure of the cyclorama is now in place and ready for the sheets to be fixed to the floor and curve up the wall to the ceiling.

Strobist:

430EX, 1/1, 24mm, bounced off ceiling, rear camera left
430EX, 1/1, 24mm, bounced off ceiling, rear camera right

Yes, I know, I have very pretty feet.

The lurgy has been going round our family in recent weeks and over the last few days I've had my turn to enjoy it. Obviously being male, it has hit me the hardest which gave me the idea for the photo this week. Although I'm feeling pretty much fine again now, tonight was the first chance I've had to devote some time to making the picture.

I set the lights up first and took some test shots of my hand. I wanted the feel of a body in a morgue so I made use of blue and green gels. One blue gelled flash was bounced off the ceiling for a generally cold ambient feel. I then added a rim light to my feet from camera right with a green gelled flash and brought up the exposure on the label / soles of my feet using another green gelled flash from camera left.

I set the camera up on a tripod with a wireless remote and configured the camera to autofocus when the shutter button is depressed (I don't usually have the camera set up this way as I use the AF-ON button to focus). This meant it would auto-focus when I held the remote trigger halfway down. I then set the camera to display the photograph on the display after each shot, which is again something that I don't usually do. I positioned a mirror behind the camera so that I could then see the result of each photograph from where I was sat on the bed. This meant that I could move my feet slightly to where I wanted them in the frame. Well, it kept me amused for a while anyway.

I hope you're all well!

Strobist:

430EXII, 1/2, 24mm, Blue gel, bounced off ceiling
430EX, 1/64, 105mm, Green gel, aimed at the soles of my feet from camera left
430EX, 1/32, 105mm, Green gel, rim light on my toes from camera right

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Well, tidy for now.

Everything is now organised and packed away into the new cupboards.

The next task is to build the cyc wall at the far end of the studio. My parents are coming over tomorrow as my Dad has already made the two foot radius sections that will support the curve at the bottom of the wall. We're having an exciting family trip out to B&Q tomorrow to purchase more materials!

Wish us luck getting the eight by four foot sheets round a tight bend and up the stairs.

Strobist:

2x430EX + 430EXII, 1/2, 24mm, in each alcove to camera left (You can see one of them in the first alcove with the skyport universal hanging down from it)

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