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“One Light” week

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I’m going to try to spend the week taking photos of various things, but I’m going to light them all with a single light source.

Partly because this weeks Tuesday Friday Challenge is all about working within a limitation, and partly because I need a project to focus (arf!) my photography.

I’ve decided that reflectors are allowed, but firing up a second flash, or adding a hot-light is very much not allowed.  I’m going to start off disallowing “ambient light + flash” as that’s two sources – but I may revoke that rule later in the week if the right subject presents itself.

For info, the above was shot with a snooted vivitar 283, level with my face, camera left and a car sunshade reflector camera right.  The background is a white wall, but because the light was controlled by the snoot and doesn’t spill onto the wall, it looks black.

Don’t worry, they won’t all be pictures of my ugly mug!

2 Responses to ““One Light” week”

  1. Colin Morey says:

    Same here, but not because I have a choice. But I do have a fresh suppply of small poseable mirrors, I just need to find the right model.

  2. sweavo says:

    I don’t think your mug’s ugly! But then I also didn’t recognize you in this shot so what do I know about faces.

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