Daily Photo Design 0013

Location:
I was cooking spare ribs and grilled pumpkin, noticed the beauty of the shape and color in the pumpkin. Little time. Busy busy. Tripod, camera, flash, blue reflector screen (intuition…). Sigma 30/1,4 lens with full aperture to separate background and foreground from the main motive. Busy busy, my wife passes and put the small pumpkin exactly where it is in the photo – Serendipity for sure. Busy busy. Compact Flash card into computer. Photo software. Darken the background – hide the dishwasher and sink. Leaving some details in the background, and most in the foreground to locate the photo. I didn’t want the pumpkins to hover in darkness.

I’m currently thinking (an soon writing) about location in photo/design/art, in relation to everything that happened since the birth of the Internet. With this location / description appended to the photo, no one can mistake it for being an unsuccessful professional studio photo. The location of this photo is elsewhere and the location is built into the photo itself. It’s all about being creative and having fun. Playing with technology, with reality. Share impressions. Learning.

By the way, the water drops are genuine – moisture from pumpkin flesh meeting air… The water drops are instances of serendipity. If this had been a professional studio photo, the photographer probably would have wiped the pumpkin clean and after that added water drops at exactly the right places.

By the way no 2, this is a banana pumkin from our garden. Some say its the tastiest kind of pumpkin, and I find it difficult to disagree. It was delicious!