These shiny, new looking weights are far from new. I have had them for about 7 years, and they have traveled to and from Hong Kong at least 3 times.. ie from HK to Sydney, then back to HK and back to Sydney. It all sounds silly, but I have moved back and forth on at least 3 occasions, and I have a feeling another bout is to come in the next 2yrs. As my family was still in Sydney for 2 of those moves, I made a trip back to Sydney to see them at least every 8 weeks. This meant I could carry odds and sods to and fro... like 20kg of weights :)
These little fellas helped me thru rehab of a dislocated shoulder I got after being knocked off my motorbike by one of HK's infamous minibuses. I was going to need surgery but decided I would try rehab and physio first, and touch wood, it seems to be ok. But now, 5 years on, I have lost all tone and it is really time to get back into things. So I decided firstly to unbox them, then photograph them in a dramatic light. The idea was sort of like a spotlight in a boxing ring etc. Sort of "meet thine enemy".
Taken with 35mm f/2 at f/8, iso200, 1/250s. One YN 460II in a beer holder snoot with an el-cheapo grid in the end to focus the light. A puff of fog from my little fog machine, then some levels adjustment and silly stuff in PS to make it look a little gritty. Nothing fancy. I made a few silly errors here, eg overlapping the boards on the floor as you can see behind the weights. Not pretty. I could pretend I did it to look like the edge of the boxing ring, but that would only be kidding myself. Another boo-boo is a reflection off the weights on the board down low in the middle. Not sure how I could have avoided that, maybe a better angle or polarizing filter? I do like the star-like specular reflection on the top of the weights on the left though :) No PS there, just blind dumb luck!
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