COVID Portraits Day 31 – Choosing my Watch of the Day (Why?)
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COVID Self-Portraits Day 30: Not Much Else To Do
COVID self-portraits day 29: A Quick Inspection of the Abandoned Store
COVID self-portraits, day 28 (four weeks): Grooming, but for what?
Here’s today’s portrait.
COVID Isolation Day 27: Scrabble All Day
Day 26…
COVID Self-Portrait day 26: Now What? #covid #quarantine #quarantinelife #photography #photographer #flash #orleans #ottawa
COVID self-portraits, day 25: Killing Time.
More self portraits…
In this days of social isolation, what do you do? Me, I get creative. With flash, of course. And apart from cropping and, in some cases, adjustment to vibrance and presence, it’s straight out of camera (“SOOC”) – it’s what you do once you know flash. Which, incidentally, I teach.
Here’s the most recent days:
I hope you, too, dear reader, are keeping busy with something creative. Regardless of what our governments regards as “essential”, we cannot live on bread alone.
And above all, stay well.
Day 13
The rest of my self portraits are posted elsewhere, but here’s day 13. At some stage I will re-post all of them here. Day 13 is “making do”. Sleep, shower, shave, etc, TV, sleep, repeat. What else is there to do?
For today’s portrait I use a prop. And the camera is set to f/16, 100 IUSO, 1/250 sec. The light is a single speedlight fitted with a Honl Photo 1/4″ speed grid. Took about 30 seconds to do this portrait. Now the rest of the day…
A portrait a day
And I continue to do a COVID-19 period self portrait every day. Here, for example, is yesterday’s:
Rembrandt-type light, using two small flashes. One, in front of me, with a small 8″ Honl Photo Traveler8 softbox; the other right behind me, using a “chocolate” Honl photo gel. Both in manual mode at 1/4 power; both driven by simple (manual-only) pocketwizards.