CHAT - TIME - Weekly Comp 29/7 to 4/8 2013

[Hinfrance]

Managed to find some time for Time.

Took a few shots of my watch (funny how you never notice just how scratched the glass is until you look at a macro shot). It's not an expensive watch, but it is my absolute favourite timepiece. I love the transparent rear case and the fact that it keeps near perfect time (gains about 30 seconds every 3 weeks) and will never need a battery.

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For my entry I stuck to my first idea. I managed to find a bit of guitar music in 4/4, which was nice

[DigiDiva]

Was too tipsy last night to remember to put them on charge overnight!

You mean you are a drunkard?

Yes......haha

[DigiDiva]

Was too tipsy last night to remember to put them on charge overnight!

You mean you are a drunkard?

Even if you aren't, I hope you don't drive in the morning!

There was 11 hours between my last glass of wine and me getting into the car......

[DigiDiva]

OK, here's my entry. I have called it The Sunderland Times........

[Jediboy]

Just taken a photo for this and just realised I'm a day too late. Doh!! 
I see that the comps run Monday to Sunday. I'll try to get my self organised for next week.

[Jediboy]

This was my intended entry. Just posting it here to see if it works, its the first photo I've posted to a thread here.

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[Jediboy]

OK, thought it was too easy..................

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[Jediboy]

I copied and pasted the BBcode full size to enter upload the photo. Is that the best way??
Thanks.
Chris

[spikeyjen]

that's really nice Chris, shame you were too late.

[Jediboy]

that's really nice Chris, shame you were too late.

Story of my life!
Thanks though.

[Oldboy]

that's really nice Chris, shame you were too late.

Story of my life!
Thanks though.

No, he's not too late. Entries are allowed until Monday midnight. 

[Jediboy]

that's really nice Chris, shame you were too late.

Story of my life!
Thanks though.

No, he's not too late. Entries are allowed until Monday midnight. 

Yes, but the photo must be taken by 23:59 on Sunday. I took my photo on Monday.

[DigiDiva]

Chris, shame you missed out. Start looking NOW for umbrellas!

[oggalily]

For anyone who's interested, I thought I would give some details about how I came up with my shot. 

I recently saw a tutorial on the Lastolite podcast (which is worth checking out if you're interested in off-camera flash) where ambient light coming through windows was balanced against tungsten light indoors, making the outdoor light go blue.  I wanted to try for this effect so I set the white balance on my camera to Tungsten and used an off camera flash on the left with a CTO (I think it stands for "Colour Temperature Orange") gel over it.  I used CLS (Creative Lighting System) to trigger the flash - this is Nikon's proprietary triggering system which lets you use the pop-up flash on your camera to trigger other Nikon flashes. 

Shooting into glass is a pain - the "trigger" light on the camera created a small reflection which I had to shield, and the light from the flash was too sharp so I used a sheet of A4 to diffuse it.  I was a bit sloppy and rather than search for a clean sheet I grabbed one that my daughter had scribbled on, hence the orange scrawls in the dome of the glass on the left.

In any event I successfully achieved was I was after, which was to have a warmer main subject with a cooler background.     

[spikeyjen]

thanks for sharing this Ogga, the effect is beautiful and the bokeh in the background is really effective. Shame about the scribbled paper but I actually didn't notice it until you said so, I thought it was just a reflection.