Portrait of Maya
28th December 2007
I was playing around with a homemade light diffuser I made out of tracing paper and a frame I cut out of one side of a cardboard box. There was a shaft of light coming in through the window onto Maya’s bed and I showed Dawn what the diffuser would do. Then I thought this would be a great chance to get a picture of her. So I got her onto the bed, Dawn got some treats and held a reflector, and we got this picture. I think it turned out pretty well.
January 23rd, 2008 at 14:13
A beautiful photo. Any updates coming soon?
January 23rd, 2008 at 15:57
Thanks, Julia. I haven’t been posting much to the blog, but I have been posting a lot on my Flickr photostream. I just haven’t been cross-posting to the blog. It’s something I need to work on.
January 23rd, 2008 at 22:48
Hm….how about a photo every other day in February? It’s a short month!
January 24th, 2008 at 7:06
I’ve been taking pictures every day–in fact, I haven’t missed a day since Dec 16th. I had been thinking about setting up a dedicated photoblog site to host them but have been so busy that I barely get time to make the pictures. For February, I’m going to try something that I attempted several years ago but didn’t complete: 28 frames a day (or 29 since this is a leap year) for the month. That doesn’t mean I will have 29 pictures to post every day but it does mean I have to spend more than just 5 minutes with the camera. It will be real practice.
I use the analogy of playing a musical instrument when people ask me about taking photos every day (or why I’m standing around work with a camera looking at the sidewalk in a funny way): you have to practice just to keep your current ability and certainly if you want to improve.
I’ve just been too lazy to document the process.
Thanks for pushing on me. I’ll get something set up by this weekend.
January 25th, 2008 at 1:34
Great!! It’ll be something to look forward to in February.