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Orange

I think the title accurately describes the general content of the photo.

Continuing the theme started with Yellow.

Decluttr'd on black.

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Uploaded on Dec 13, 2009

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Only me

I haven't taken any photos of people in ages, so I thought I'd get the lights out, point them at myself and see if they still worked. One SB-800 in a softbox right next to my face, another on the backdrop. 50mm @ f/2.0.

Unfortunately, due to technical stuff, I look a lot less like Johnny Depp than I do in real life. And my hair always disappears in photos.

The more observant may notice my (circa 1982) badge from the esteemed publication "Your Sinclair". I found this again recently and it made me very happy. Sir Clive Sinclair is a hero amongst my generation of programmers, and his ZX Spectrum was the first computer I did any real programming on. There's a close-up of the badge here, just so you can appreciate the rather poor pun. If you get it without Googling, I shall be very impressed.

Another random fact about this photo, it's cropped to a 6x7 ratio, sometimes called the "Ideal Format". I'm kinda liking it at the moment, it gets a bit of the funky from square format, and mixes it with rectangular format. Needs to be investigated further.

Mike out.

P.S. Stromtroopers will return tomorrow. Do not panic.

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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2009

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Imperial Snowstorm

This shot's simplicity belies the amount of time and effort I spent actually making it. Cutting out an Imperial logo (for shaping the bokeh) with a craft knife is quite difficult. And finding the right size knitting needle to make the holes that give the best bokeh takes time. I'm moderately happy with it, though the lighting could be better.

Setup shot here if you're interested.

And of course, it looks better Declutter'd on black

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Uploaded on Dec 12, 2009

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Merry British Christmas

If you were to browse the array of festive cards available, you might be fooled into thinking that we in the UK are greeted with a thick blanket of snow around the end of December every year.

I have witnessed enough Christmases to know that this is not the general case, and present a more representitive meteorological scenario.

Card available on RedBubble here.

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Uploaded on Dec 10, 2009

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Search your feelings

Dark Ladies of the Sith are quite rare, so when Darth Felicity showed up on the Death Star Vader didn't waste any time declaring his intentions.

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Uploaded on Dec 5, 2009

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