Please Let Today Be A Good Day...
dcumminsusa
Shot for the UTATA Photographer 35.
It's been a rough couple of weeks at work. My company as gone through layoffs and now we are in the process of getting to know new people moved into our department. I'm anticipating a long week with lots of long hours. Coffee will be my friend and my comfort food of choice.
I had been doing stuff around the house on Sunday and in the late afternoon finally decided it was about time I shower. I took off my ball cap and headed into the bathroom. When I looked in the mirror at my hair I was immediately reminded, "IP wanted communist hair!" I bounced ideas off the girlfriend and eventually we both settled on this one. I setup the lighting, camera, the beard, and hair. She did the composition and hit the shutter button.
The elements required for this shot:
1. Communist hair
2. A reflective surface
3. Sepia
Strobist Info: Sigma EF-500 DG Super at 1/16 power shot through a 60" Westscott shoot-through umbrella just outside of frame camera right. Triggered via a Pocket Wizard Plus II.
Looks Best Large On Black
The Iron Photographer Challenge
Here are the elements for Iron Photographer 35:
1 - communist hair
2 - a reflective surface
3 - sepia
The first element, communist hair, might need a bit of explaining. It's a term coined by our own Jamelah, who defines it as "wild and unruly and pretty much always fighting some sort of revolution." It doesn't have to be YOUR communist hair. We're not going to check the hair's provenance. It doesn't even have to be human hair. It could even belong to a wig. The important thing is that it looks like it's willing to take to the barricades.
The second element is a reflective surface. That's pretty self explanatory. We don't care what the reflective surface is. A mirror. Water. A window. Nor do we care what's reflected in the surface (with the usual disclaimer about nudes if you want to post the photo in the group pool).
Finally, we want the image to be sepia tinted. I think that's pretty clear.
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