CushPhlog

Got another call for a conceptual image. This is a guy who helped design a biomass facility that burns potato waste to generate electricity. This is a two-light setup. Main light is firing through a softbox from camera-left, about 5′ off the ground, and a fill card just out of frame on the right. Another flash is zoomed and snooted blasting at the potatoes on the table. I ended up combining two shots in post, in order to get a bit of depth to the exposure.

Most of this is 1/200sec  at f8.0 ISO 160 at 18mm. Darker bits were a stop slower, with only the second flash firing. Combined with some masking in PhotoShop, and a bit of lightroom twiddling.

I got a call first thing in the morning that I was needed to shoot a location portrait that afternoon. Naturally, I’m swamped in other work, nursing a nasty cough & sinus cold, and just wanting to do ANYTHING else. But the show must go on. The engineer and his client were only available this particular day, and the site had a rare stockpile of the material in question (shredded tires). So we packed a van, drove the 45 minutes to the site, met with the plant manager briefly (who had thankfully already been warned), set-up & shot for about 30 minutes, and drove back to the office. Fun times.

This one is 1/100sec at f8.0, ISO 200 at 32mm, with a big blast of flash from camera-left to try to combat the afternoon sun.

This one was 1/100sec at f11, ISO200, at 18mm. A blast of flash from camera-left too, but I’m luvin the lens flare here.

This particular facility recycles tires into various rubber products. The pile we’re standing on is used as a lightweight aggregate fill–a base for road construction in specialized cases. Yup, chunks of shredded tires. These guys used the product in an award-winning engineering project near St. Stephen NB. Cool.

I met these two fine fellows while touring a school in Addis.

1/200sec @ f7.1, 55mm. Converted to B&W in Lightroom.