January 4th: Maya outside my office
4th January 2008
Dawn was still in Calgary. I was still sick. But I was feeling a little better and I was playing around with some of my flashes, inspired by the Strobist blog and group on Flickr. Maya was patient with me as I played around and took a lot of experimental pictures of her.
I liked the graphic simplicity of the desk and wall on the right part of the frame contrasted with Maya’s organic shapes. I should have gotten rid of the clutter under the stairs although the old printer and box did serve to separate Maya’s shape from the background.
Shooting and processing notes
I think I was using a snoot at this point, or maybe I was just blocking some of the light with cardboard since the coverage seems awfully broad for a snoot–though maybe I was just balancing with the ambient light since the exposure was 1/10 sec at f4 and ISO 800. This was, again, with the 17-40 F4.0 L.
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