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I had such odd dreams last night. I'd had an entire other career as a journalist or something like that earlier in my life, and had totally forgotten. I did't have amnesia or anything like that; I'd just forgotten about it. I dunno. Last night before I went to bed I was thinking about how much I'm forgetting things and getting distracted lately, so I guess that was part of it. I hope I start feeling like my brain is my own again once the semester is over.
Before I drive off to school today, I thought I'd share this.
Here's a second. I've never used studio lighting for photography before. I shoot nearly-exclusively with available light outdoors or in places like abandoned buildings, so I've never had the chance. So I had no good idea what I was doing and I moved these around by trial and error.
But I have a (very) basic idea of lighting from my time doing technical theatre, and I think I could have a lot of fun learning about this kind of lighting if I had time and money to spend on it.
From the photo description I wrote:
My manager at the UW-Parkside archives photographed me as I photographed an 1861 map of Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
The archives has a collection of old maps. This one, just donated by someone who found it in their attic, is one of the newest ones to us, though it's also one of our oldest maps.
I borrowed these light stands from the visual services department (conveniently next door) to get some better photos. The map is so wrinkled that it was next to impossible to shoot with the overhead lights without having unreadable patches of glare.
Before I drive off to school today, I thought I'd share this.
Here's a second. I've never used studio lighting for photography before. I shoot nearly-exclusively with available light outdoors or in places like abandoned buildings, so I've never had the chance. So I had no good idea what I was doing and I moved these around by trial and error.
But I have a (very) basic idea of lighting from my time doing technical theatre, and I think I could have a lot of fun learning about this kind of lighting if I had time and money to spend on it.
From the photo description I wrote:
My manager at the UW-Parkside archives photographed me as I photographed an 1861 map of Kenosha County, Wisconsin.
The archives has a collection of old maps. This one, just donated by someone who found it in their attic, is one of the newest ones to us, though it's also one of our oldest maps.
I borrowed these light stands from the visual services department (conveniently next door) to get some better photos. The map is so wrinkled that it was next to impossible to shoot with the overhead lights without having unreadable patches of glare.