The most fun thing about the Twitter Photo Challenge group, is that since each challenge/topic lasts for a week, ideas starts coming when you're "warming up".
This week's topic is "contrasts" and I've been through ideas such as new/old, dead/alive, etc. But today I started thinking about light and dark, and also male and female. Could they be combined? I think they can.
So here's a family photo -- my wife and I as aliens. I always dreamt of seeing an extra terrestrial. Now I at least can pretend to be one :-)
How it's done
This is a photo where everything's wrong, really, and still (in my eyes at least) it works. The background's overexposed a gazillion stops, the foreground's underexposed almost as much; the photo is completely out of focus and the bodies doesn't look at all what they do in real life. Rather like something you'd see in a mirror hall at a fairground or something. But still... I kind of like the effect.
I took this with a 50mm f/1.4. The camera was on manual, set to 1/200 shutter and f/2.8 aperture. The lens was on manual focus, and focused as close as possible (0,45m). My wife and I stood approx three meters from the camera, so we were thrown out of focus A LOT.
We stand in front of a door opening. I had draped a white curtain over the opening, using a lot of gaffer tape to keep it in place.
Behind the curtain I had a light stand with two flashes -- one approx on head level, the second on thigh level. Another flash on camera triggered these two flashes. The entire thing was set up using automatic exposure (ETTL), but told to overexpose by two stops.
I added a hint of a frame using Photoshop.
So here we are -- my wife and I, the E.T.s.
benwmbc, antolo, Valerie Peters, and 11 other people added this photo to their favorites.
vatne 49 months ago | reply
Jeg syns også det funker. Artig!
Maríon 49 months ago | reply
Veldig bra!! Liker alien-følelsen ;-)
sviland [deleted] 49 months ago | reply
morsomt bilde - artig - sann foto glede :)
benwmbc 49 months ago | reply
This really is fantastic, I like it loads. Another great idea and fine photo.
Valerie Peters 49 months ago | reply
clever & creative....
Hjorthefoto 49 months ago | reply
Funker som fasan!
anii579/ Ani (flying back home) 49 months ago | reply
Yeeeey, this is superb work, Jo!!!!! Very interesting and creative! Congrats!
jcoterhals 49 months ago | reply
vatne,
Marion,
sviland,
Hjortefoto: Takk til alle sammen!
benwmbc,
Valerie Peters,
anii579: Thanks to all of you.
A special thanks to those of you that have favorited this photo!
gardleopard 48 months ago | reply
Dette var kreativt! Holdningen til kona di her minner meg om noen skulpturer moren til samboeren min har. Digger poseringa!
josephchan749 48 months ago | reply
great form!
ropro22 47 months ago | reply
oh man, great shot
jcoterhals 47 months ago | reply
ropro22: Thanks. I kind of like it myself too.
kin lush 45 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called !Extremely overexposed!, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
ivancachiolate 40 months ago | reply
awesome. nice work. don`t you try without clothes?
jcoterhals 40 months ago | reply
ivancachiolate: No, we didn't try without clothes. I think the neighbors would have wondered even more than usual what I was doing, if we had.
An Old Barbie Doll 29 months ago | reply
Without clothes would be perfect