Yeah. It has been one of those days. Where you feel like a flat tyre but have to appear like everything is just fine and dandy thank you very much...
I actually think my wife has more of these days than me. She somehow manages to raise a kid, do some Lab research for her PhD, work part-time as a vet, look after me, AND look after her parents. Some days you can see little cracks in her amazing resolve, but other times she seems a lot like the yobbo in the photo - some half crazed "yeah baby, all is rockin' here"... hmmmm....
Today was just a long day at work, after I had spent until 2:30am looking through old photos, realising I had deleted a lot of important ones :) AND keeping a LOT of junk. Gotta find an easy way of keeping this under control. I thought LightRoom would help, but sadly it interferes too much with my RAW workflow... maybe Bridge? Never really used it..
Anyway, the yobbo is me (as you know). I seem to do better at stupid poses than "normal" ones. Says a lot about me huh? Softbox at 10 and 2, silver reflective umbrella at 6pm above camera. Bare flash at wall behind me with green gel on front. I seem to be getting to the point I haven't used a light meter to set my flashes since about day 3, so for easy set-ups like this I am just guessing the settings pretty much ok. I learned a lot of this and the basics on how to eyeball your settings by knowing your gear and the logic behind it all from Wizwow. This was shot at f/7.1 with my 35mm f/2 lens. Gotta say I am loving my 35mm and 85mm primes a lot more than I expected to - I reach for them before I even consider my 24-105mm f/4L. Maybe just a passing fad?
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