Death of an SD card... (Jan 10-14)

Sometimes when I take pictures for this blog I don't get to processing them until the next day or two.  That's what happened this weekend.  When I sat down on Monday morning to edit, neither the computer nor my camera could read my SD card.  It had bit the dust.  Luckily there weren't too many pictures on it and I wasn't all that excited about them anyway.

These are my replacement pictures for the ones I lost.  Our friend Dan, who is an amazing outdoor/adventure sports photographer, came into town Sunday and Monday.  He gave me a crash course to lighting, which turns out to be just as complicated as I thought it was.  I took the following images in my bathroom, with the bathroom lights as ambient light and one flash in various positions.  This is mostly lighting practice for me with the most willing model I know.

This one is back lit by the flash.  The background didn't come out white completely; I edited out the non-white parts because I felt they were distracting.  But I'm not sure I like it this way either.



Jameson shot glass on the tile on our sink, top lit with the flash and narrow aperture to remove most of the ambient light



Here, the ambient light is behind me to th left and the flash is perilously hanging from the shower curtain rod via gorilla pod (my right) next to the white bathroom door.

I think the flash is pointing up and in front in this picture, I don't remember.  I would love this shot if it weren't my own belly hanging out there.  I still like the composition though.



Flash is overhead on the shower curtain (my left), ambient light in front.