Don’t you like it when a plan totally works out? I’m so happy inspiration came early this week. I wish I could say images like these hit me when watching a splatter movie or maybe when standing in line at the butcher’s. But I really can’t tell where this one came from. It was just there. Maybe I'm a troubled soul and I need to get in touch with my inner self to figure out what I'm trying to compensate with a picture like this...
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| final image |
Anyway, after being slightly unsatisfied with the results of the past two weeks I went back to familiar ground. Which meant a rather solid lighting setup and (almost) no experiments. The outfit is one of the great advantages of my father-in-law being head of the local drama group. Naturally, being the good son-in-law I am, I'm part of this group, too. You should see one of our humoristic stage plays we do each year around Easter. Great fun. Also a good explanation for having a supply of artificial blood...
See that facial expression? This is exactly the face I made yesterday evening when my PC was suddenly unable to find my hard disk array (2 mirrored 1 TB hard disks). Needless to say it's the one where all my pictures are stored on. After a lot of sweating and a lot more swearing I figured out how to rebuild it. So instead of uploading this week’s picture I spent the evening tinkering with my PC. This morning the process was complete and luckily everything seems to be just fine. And I eagerly hope it stays that way...
Oh and no zucchini was hurt during the making of this picture!
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| hand holding zucchini |
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| hand posture with hatchet and soon-to-be stump |
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| alternate head (replacing my head was nothing I had intended, but I needed the hand posture of one and the facial expression of another picture) |
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| raw meat stock photo |
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| lighting setup (add an umbrella to the front left, just outside of the frame) |
Thanks for the decomposition Marco. Very useful information and a great result.
ReplyDeleteI'm thinking about one of the Synology products http://www.synology.com like the DS211 or DS411 for my photographs as both backup and remote access of them. Trouble is, that kind of money buys some decent photography equipment O_O
Oh, I've spent a lot of thought and investigation on external storage solutions. The major downside of all these solutions is you have to make periodic backups. A process which requires dicipline and a running PC (which is pretty much useless for the time of the backup). That's why i decided to go for a an internal, redundant storage solution. Thus I have high speed access to my data without having to think about backups. The best thing would be to invest in another hard disk to run a Raid 5 array, but a Raid 1 array is as good as it gets by now. And there's no 100% data safety after all.
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