A Lightbulb Study
Posted on 21. Jul, 2009 by Thomas in Blog, Projects
It has been a while since I played around with my macro lens and it’s also been a while since I took some stock photography so I decided to have an impromptu photoshoot in my sitting room today and see what I could come up with. I had planned on shooting some coffee beans (which I did later on) but while I was setting up I found an old light bulb on the table. It was one of those ones with the complex filament and I thought it might look good close up. And sure enough it did. I took some over all shots of the bulb but I found that picking out the details made far more an interesting subject.
In the end what started out as a stock shoot ended up as an art piece. Here are my three favorites:
The three of these are now printed out A3, Framed and hanging on my wall. Not bad for a mornings work.
In case you were wondering how I got these shots, I didn’t use much in terms of equipment. Most of it was just some home made reflectors and diffusers, some blue tac, a DVD boxed set and a bottle of wine! The light is all natural light which is provided by a large window behind the bulbs. The diffuser is made from foam board and tracing paper, and another piece of foam board is used as a reflector and to control the reflections. As for the wine bottle? Well, it’s holding everything up. Simple, but effective!
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