52WoA: Week 40 - Something at Night

I like cuddling, cuddling is my FAVORITE! I had a hard decision this week...I'm still not certain I picked the right one.

Is it creepy that you've now witnessed our bedtime ritual? Oh, well...remember I am always ARMED. I am posting the *reject* on my personal page...check it, YO! Which one would YOU have chosen?!

PS Sara Rae, I am sorry I disobeyed you. I'll make it up to you...

1/10th shutter speed
f/2.8
ISO 500

Self portraits are a strange phenomenon. If you poll photographers, I estimate that 90% of them hate being in front of the camera. I do not hate being photographed, but I definitely do not love it. Plus, I am asian and so my skin tones always photograph a bit…ummm…yellow? 

For this week’s challenge, I wanted to work on my off camera lighting outdoors and specifically with setting ratios for my flashes. I feel like I have subjected my wife and our canine and feline children enough in my images so I resorted to photographing myself. As soon as I saw it, I started critiquing my slouching, my hand placement, my head angle, my…oh, the things that go through a photographer’s mind. 

1/10th shutter speed 

f/4.0

ISO 800 

Canon 600 Flash to camera right @ 1/32nd power 

Canon 580 Flash to camera left @ 1/16th power

As a photographer, sometime you need to work on things outside of your normal purview and this project is going to help us (and you) challenge, grow and creatively develop your photography as a whole. Weekly for the next year, we will be sharing our images with you here!

For those of you interested in participating, PLEASE join us! The more the merrier! You definitely do not need to be a professional photographer, this is something you can easily do with your point and shoot, cell phone, ipad2, etc. You can comment with a link to your image here on our blog or on our La Brisa fan page or you can tag La Brisa Photography in your image on your own FB page or use the hashtag #52WoA on twitter that way we can share your efforts with everyone else! If you are interested in joining our La Brisa Aspiring Photographer Workshop group on FB, please request to join as we will also be sharing our images there too.

Next Thursday, May 10th, Week 41: “Something that gives you the feeling of warmth” will be due. The image must be created between today and May 10th. Good luck!

Let me know if you have any questions!

To all of you aspiring photographers, we are partnering with our awesome friends at Anecdotally Yours (www.anecdotallyyours.com) to offer an Introduction to Portrait Photography class! 100% of profits will be donated to worthy causes! For more information, click on this link - http://labrisaphoto.blogspot.com/2012/04/introduction-to-portrait-photography.html

Here is the full list of 52 Weeks of Awesomeness!

Week 1               Free for All

Week 2               Introduce yourself

Week 3               Show us your home

Week 4               Your Name

Week 5               Sports (anything related, teams, players, equipment, etc,)

Week 6               Guilty Pleasures

Week 7               ONE object shot at 5 different angels/distances

Week 8               One for the road (signs, streets, traffic, etc.)

Week 9               Objects that tell something about you

Week 10             Things that make your life easier

Week 11             Your favorite color

Week 12             Household item

Week 13             Foods

Week 14             Flashed (an image created using artificial light)

Week 15             Sun (sunlight, sunset, sunrise, etc)

Week 16             Emotion

Week 17             Lines

Week 18             What you do outside the world of photography

Week 19             Weather

Week 20             Emotional attachment (heirloom/special gift, etc.)

Week 21             Pets

Week 22             Things you couldn't live without

Week 23             Habits

Week 24             Fire (candle, fireplace, etc.)

Week 25             Hats

Week 26             Textures

Week 27             Hands

Week 28             Shoes

Week 29             Jewelry

Week 30             OOF (Out of Focus)…purposely OOF

Week 31             What I consider dessert

Week 32             Fill the Frame (close ups)

Week 33             A week in our lives

Week 34             Faith (what you believe)

Week 35             Dance (body in motion)

Week 36             Family & Friends

Week 37             SOOC (straight out of the camera)…before & after

Week 38             Patriotic

Week 39             Object: straight up shots and then straight down shots

Week 40             Something at night

Week 41             Something that gives you the feeling of warmth

Week 42             Smell

Week 43             Water

Week 44             Animals

Week 45             Music

Week 46             Reflections/Shadows

Week 47             Flowers

Week 48             Sleep

Week 49             Action Shots

Week 50             Circles

Week 51             Your car

Week 52             Self portrait