I thought about doing a photo of the day project, but still didn't solve the question of "what should I shoot"?
On a whim...I went to Twitter. I post a tweet for someone to send me a photo topic, anything. I really didn't think anyone would respond. I had posted tweets looking for people to reply and no one did. But you never know until you try. So I put out this tweet at 2 in the morning earlier this week, "need a #random #photo #topic. You tweet me a topic, I go shoot it and post it on my @photoshelter account. let's see what happens #photog"
I get up in the morning and I got one reply..."Okay, how about "air"?"
the wheels immediately start turning, I'm also thinking if I'm going to keep this person's attention, I better post something quick, like in 24 hours. My mind is naturally tuned to sports, and this topic fits right in. I need to find a sporting event. I go to my University's website to see if the basketball or lacrosse team is playing. I look up our local rivals and smaller colleges, nada. I look up the local high schools, again nothing. it was like the local sporting world had taken the day off.
I thought this project was going to go nowhere quick, then I got an email. I had put out a casting call on Model Mayhem, looking for models for another project I have in the works. I got replies from 2 models in the area who are interested. I'm thinking I could have them jumping up and down, or blowing soap bubbles..I already had the images in my head. I email asking if they are available today...still have not heard from them. Strike 2
Finally it's late in the day, I thinking it's late in the day and ready to go to sleep in failure. As I get up I stare at the fridge in my kitchen, it's pushed out a few feet from the wall because the internal fan in the cooling system failed. To keep the fridge working I bought a small electric fan and have it blowing...air...on the coils...THAT'S IT!
An image pops in my head, it's so simple it works. A fan with streamers blowing out of it. I pull a plastic colored grocery bag out of the drawer and cut it up into ribbons. I think fish the ribbons into the fan to they will shoot out then the fan is turned on. I go grab my trusty "studio in a box" kit which I use for small photo shoots and a piece of white seamless paper I cut to fit into it. I set everything up, turn the fan on and start firing away with my camera.
As I'm taking pictures i notice the streamers are showing into the sidewall of the studio box where a seam is. I figure I'm going to have a nightmare of a time cloning the seam out if I keep going. I decide to turn the fan vertical, so the streamers are shooting in the air, much better. I finish and now all I have to do is go into GIMP(my version of photoshop died when I upgraded my mac to snow leopard) and burn out most of the shadows.
Done and in 24 hour like I hoped too. This Project may have legs after all.
As always critics and comments welcome. More posts coming soon.
-D
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